Speaker 1: Hi, everyone, Welcome to Packers Unscripted from Packers dot Com.
Speaker 1: I am Mike Spofford and he is my trusted colleague,
Speaker 1: Wes Hodkowitz. Were coming to you here from our studios
Speaker 1: at lambeau Field and West. Super Bowl weekend is almost
Speaker 1: upon us, and with regards to Super Bowl weekend in Minneapolis,
Speaker 1: the biggest news for Packers fans will occur on Saturday
Speaker 1: evening because we will find out whether or not, at
Speaker 1: long last, if Jerry Kramer will be inducted into the
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame. Those decisions on the Hall of Fame
Speaker 1: class are made the night before the Super Bowl. They'll
Speaker 1: be announced on the NFL Honors Show on Saturday evening.
Speaker 1: The inductions then would take place the following summer. Jerry Kramer,
Speaker 1: for the eleventh time, is a finalist for the Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame, the second time as a Senior Committee nominee.
Speaker 1: And I know you and I share the same opinion
Speaker 1: on this. It's got to happen now. Well, and here's
Speaker 1: the It absolutely has to happen now. I mean, this
Speaker 1: is it. Um. Jerry just turned eighty two years old
Speaker 1: last week, I believe so, uh, this is his final crack,
Speaker 1: probably um. And here's the thing about this, this argument,
Speaker 1: because I've heard it for a number of years, as
Speaker 1: long as I've been covering the Packers, it's really hit
Speaker 1: fever pitch and I don't know what it was like
Speaker 1: the last time he was up as a senior finalist
Speaker 1: and the conversation, what the narrative it was like. But
Speaker 1: here's my argument. I laid it out an Insider inbox
Speaker 1: on Thursday. Jerry Kramer stopped playing football fifty years ago,
Speaker 1: be retired. This is still a topic. This is still
Speaker 1: something from when he was thirty two years old, when
Speaker 1: he was eighty two years old, that remains in the
Speaker 1: public domain. I don't want to get into the minds
Speaker 1: of Hall of Fame voters or why we're at the
Speaker 1: point that we are, But if popular opinion, if overwhelming
Speaker 1: public sentiment has us to this point, why is this
Speaker 1: still a debate? It's an honest question because it's it's like,
Speaker 1: are we doing what is right for the game of football?
Speaker 1: And I think there's a lot of Pro Football Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame voters, and I know several of them that
Speaker 1: feel like everything up to this point has done that.
Speaker 1: But it just seems to me that if this is
Speaker 1: still a topic in two thousand, eighteen, fifty years after
Speaker 1: he retired. Something in the program didn't work. And I
Speaker 1: think that's why, as I said this Saturday night, the
Speaker 1: Pro Football Hall of Fame voters have a chance to
Speaker 1: write one of the game's biggest wrongs. Yeah, and I
Speaker 1: simplify this in a different way, because you're talking about
Speaker 1: that fifty years have gone by a perfectly and I
Speaker 1: like the way you phrase that, a perfectly valid way
Speaker 1: to think about it. I go back to the very
Speaker 1: beginning in the way I simplify this, and that you
Speaker 1: can talk about all the all the noise, and all
Speaker 1: the reasons and all the comparisons and this and that.
Speaker 1: But back in the beginning, essentially nineteen sixty nine, Jerry
Speaker 1: Kramer was one of fifteen players fifteen players in the
Speaker 1: league voted by the Hall of Fame voters onto the
Speaker 1: NFL's fiftieth anniversary team. One of fifteen players. Fourteen of
Speaker 1: those fifteen are in the Hall of Fame. Jerry Kramer
Speaker 1: is the only one who is not. And if you
Speaker 1: want to compare the number of all pros, and there's
Speaker 1: the talk about, oh, there's too many Lombardi Packers in
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame. I mean, I just I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I toss all of it out, because if the guy
Speaker 1: was voted to the NFL's fiftieth anniversary team, why is
Speaker 1: he not in the Hall of Fame. It just to me,
Speaker 1: it absolutely doesn't make sense if he was good enough
Speaker 1: from that the same type of voters. And I realized
Speaker 1: that people on the committee change over the years, but
Speaker 1: if the same essentially the same voting body voted into
Speaker 1: that fiftieth anniversary team, how can you know all these
Speaker 1: these ten times as a finalist later he not get
Speaker 1: the votes to get in. I don't understand it. And
Speaker 1: I think you bring up a good point, Mike, because
Speaker 1: it is the way that I view this thing. I honestly,
Speaker 1: in two thousand and eighteen, I don't view this as
Speaker 1: a referendum on Jerry Kramer, as strange as it sounds,
Speaker 1: because he's the one that's up to be a candidate
Speaker 1: and inducting in the ProFootball of Fame. I honestly, and
Speaker 1: I'll say this to all my friends that are on
Speaker 1: that voting panel, I honestly think this is a referendum
Speaker 1: on the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Itself, because I
Speaker 1: think for too long the conversation about has been about
Speaker 1: why Jerry Kramer doesn't deserve to get in, rather than
Speaker 1: why are we standing in the way of it? And
Speaker 1: I think a part of it is that not enough
Speaker 1: people have gone to bat for him over the years.
Speaker 1: And I commend his daughter, Alicia, I commend his family
Speaker 1: for continuing to push his cause because you know how
Speaker 1: Kramer is. For as much as you know the Instant
Speaker 1: replaybook and things like that, people at times criticized him
Speaker 1: for his outspokenness on certain different avenues. He's really not
Speaker 1: a big self promoter in regards the pro football fame.
Speaker 1: You talk to him earlier this year, he doesn't want
Speaker 1: to talk about absolutes and I need I deserve to
Speaker 1: be in. It's always been about I'm gonna be happy
Speaker 1: at the end of the day if it happens. It happens,
Speaker 1: if it doesn't, it's not going to change the way
Speaker 1: I live. And I'll be honest with you, Mike, I
Speaker 1: just feel like after this amount of time that if
Speaker 1: we're still talking about this western Hockwitz, who wasn't born
Speaker 1: in n Let six is in this conversation, it should
Speaker 1: have ended a long time ago. Yeah, And I commend
Speaker 1: Jerry Kramer frankly for the way he's handled this over
Speaker 1: the years because I've I've had multiple conversations with him
Speaker 1: about it, um for interviews on packers dot Com and whatnot.
Speaker 1: And his his answer up until this latest opportunity now
Speaker 1: to be a finalist again, his answer has always been,
Speaker 1: the NFL has been so good to me and given
Speaker 1: me so much in my life, because it hasn't given
Speaker 1: me this one thing. I'm not going to let that
Speaker 1: ruin everything. I'm not going to let that, you know,
Speaker 1: affect me on a daily basis as as as as
Speaker 1: he goes about it. And as you said, now it's
Speaker 1: been fifty years since he's been retired, it's been twenty
Speaker 1: years since he was last a finalist in via the
Speaker 1: Seniors Committee. Um, you know, I would I I personally
Speaker 1: for him, would hate to see him go through this
Speaker 1: again and not get it. I mean, it would almost
Speaker 1: be better if he's not going to get it. It It
Speaker 1: would almost be better if he had never come up
Speaker 1: as a finalist again. In becomes the last chapter. So
Speaker 1: I'm really hoping on a personal level for Jerry Kramer.
Speaker 1: Referendum on the Pro Football Hall of Fame and all
Speaker 1: that aside, which I agree with. For Jerry on a
Speaker 1: personal level, he's got to get it. There's a human
Speaker 1: being involved with this at the end of the day.
Speaker 1: And I want to point out two more things here
Speaker 1: because I know we're gonna have to get to a
Speaker 1: break Pro Football of Fame is about guys who changed
Speaker 1: the game, right, Yeah, that's that's who is supposed to
Speaker 1: be included in this illustrious group. You can talk about
Speaker 1: the sweep, you can talk about the fact he was
Speaker 1: a place kicker. I mean, there's so many different things
Speaker 1: that you can mention in terms of what his credentials are.
Speaker 1: That the team that you mentioned, the Pro Bowls, the
Speaker 1: All pre Os. The other thing I go back to
Speaker 1: two is that he is one of the greatest ambassadors
Speaker 1: of Green Bay Packers football. Whether it was in the
Speaker 1: sixties or whether it's been in the two thousand's, he
Speaker 1: is the face along with bart Starting a number of
Speaker 1: other people, but he is one of the faces of
Speaker 1: that generation of Packers and I just think that has
Speaker 1: to come for something. Yeah, I think so too. With that,
Speaker 1: we do have to go to a break back with
Speaker 1: more and Packers unscripted. Right after this Welcome Back to
Speaker 1: Packers unscripted, Mike Spofford alongside West, hod Kowitz and West,
Speaker 1: continuing our discussion of the upcoming Hall of Fame announcement.
Speaker 1: To put Jerry Kramer's case aside for a minute. You've
Speaker 1: got fifteen finalists for a maximum of five spots in
Speaker 1: what they call the Modern Era class for the Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame. Kramer is a Senior Committee nominee. His case
Speaker 1: is considered separately, just so people understand. When you look
Speaker 1: at this group of fifteen finalists, maximum of five can
Speaker 1: be chosen to be inducted. To me, this looks like
Speaker 1: a tough class to crack. In the sense of what
Speaker 1: I mean by that is, Brian er, Lacker, Ray Lewis,
Speaker 1: and Randy Moss are all eligible for the first time
Speaker 1: to get into the Hall of Fame. I think all
Speaker 1: three of them are Hall of Famers and have a
Speaker 1: very good chance of getting in. And then you add
Speaker 1: Terrell Owens, who came like one or two votes away
Speaker 1: last year from getting in. That right, there might be
Speaker 1: four of the five in this class. Now, there are
Speaker 1: some voters who don't necessarily always fully support guys the
Speaker 1: first time they come up, they like to consider some
Speaker 1: of the other guys who have been on the list
Speaker 1: longer because they know that those guys who are newly
Speaker 1: eligible basically have twenty five years potentially a twenty five
Speaker 1: year window to get in. But that being said, those
Speaker 1: those guys who are finalists and who are eligible for
Speaker 1: the first time, those three plus Terrell Owens, that might
Speaker 1: be of this Hall of Fame Modern era class, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it very well might be. I mean, I look at
Speaker 1: in my mind, I don't know how you can have
Speaker 1: a Pro Football Hall of Fame class this year that
Speaker 1: definitely doesn't have Ray Lewis and Brian or Lacker, and
Speaker 1: I just think those guys completely changed the game. Randy
Speaker 1: Mossa had just a phenomenal career, and then obviously that
Speaker 1: resurgence with the New England Patriots that I kind of
Speaker 1: like in a little bit to what Charles Woodson had
Speaker 1: with the Packers, where he probably had the credentials to
Speaker 1: begin with, but that just puts it over the top.
Speaker 1: The twenty three touchdowns that one season. I know it
Speaker 1: it ended kind of quietly in two thousand and ten
Speaker 1: and two thousand twelve, but I'm guessing if he didn't
Speaker 1: actually end up coming back with the forty, he'd probably
Speaker 1: be in the Hall of Fame already. Owens is such
Speaker 1: a unique case just because of the ups and downs
Speaker 1: of his career and certainly trying to figure out, you know,
Speaker 1: the balance between his physical athleticism and some of the
Speaker 1: controversy that followed him. Uh. I basically, I'm putting it
Speaker 1: down to this, I'm very curious outside of those top
Speaker 1: three new candidates, who I think are all first ballot
Speaker 1: Hall famers, who potentially fills out the rest of that
Speaker 1: class some really good offensive linemen that deserves consideration. I
Speaker 1: think several of them will eventually get in. Um. I
Speaker 1: mean just it's all over the board right now in
Speaker 1: terms of what they're going to be looking for. I
Speaker 1: know so many times when I talk to these guys,
Speaker 1: they mentioned how they wish it we were voting for
Speaker 1: ten guys. You know that that what you have to
Speaker 1: limit it to is so exclusive that it really makes
Speaker 1: those decisions heart wrenching. Yeah. I think one of the
Speaker 1: one of the cases to follow that's very interesting. I
Speaker 1: was reading a little bit about is a former Dallas
Speaker 1: Cowboys cornerback Everson Wats. He's a finalist. And what makes
Speaker 1: his case really interesting is he's at the end, I believe,
Speaker 1: of the twenty five year win or the twenty five
Speaker 1: years since he retired. This is his last chance to
Speaker 1: get in through the modern era process without having to
Speaker 1: to go the senior route later on. And there's you know,
Speaker 1: him getting to the finalist stage. Now at this point,
Speaker 1: there's been you know, an uptick in the interest in
Speaker 1: revisiting his career and what he did for was Tom
Speaker 1: Landry Cowboys teams and what he did with, you know,
Speaker 1: on a defense that also had some some other Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame players like Randy White and Too Tall Jones
Speaker 1: and and guys like that. I just I think his
Speaker 1: I think his case is interesting. I remember watching him
Speaker 1: play for the Cowboys on television as a kid. I
Speaker 1: don't know, you know, I mean back then. I'm not
Speaker 1: looking at these games thinking about who's going to be
Speaker 1: in the Hall of Fame, but he was definitely an
Speaker 1: upper echelon cornerback and uh. And I'll just be very
Speaker 1: curious to see what happens with his case because this
Speaker 1: is sort of his his last chance by the regular route. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I think the one thing that's really interesting to
Speaker 1: Mike the last few years, it seems like the narrative
Speaker 1: and sort of the argument for defensive backs has changed
Speaker 1: a little bit. Yeah, when you look at not only
Speaker 1: I mean, safeties are a position where have really been
Speaker 1: difficult to gain traction. But to some extent, if you're
Speaker 1: not Dion Sanders, it's been really tough to get the
Speaker 1: cornerbacks in there as well at times, just because you know,
Speaker 1: being able to judge who really was the true, uh
Speaker 1: you know, elite of of those generations. And I'll be
Speaker 1: honest with you, I don't know a whole lot abouts,
Speaker 1: but I do know those defenses he played on in
Speaker 1: Dallas and then obviously the New York Giants. Um, there's
Speaker 1: some talent, some really talented players around him. UM, so
Speaker 1: it will be interesting. This is I think probably the
Speaker 1: most difficult thing for a lot of these these voters
Speaker 1: is that it really you can have that twenty five
Speaker 1: year window, as you said, where it's like, okay, well
Speaker 1: the first time, and he'll have another chance next year.
Speaker 1: But when you get to the end of that, um,
Speaker 1: you really have a decision to make again. He can
Speaker 1: go into Kevin mill lies up, I mean, ty Law
Speaker 1: is up. Edgar and James Joe Jacobe from the Washington
Speaker 1: teams over the years. I think another guy to watch
Speaker 1: too that I'll throw in is is Tony Boselli and
Speaker 1: say that because his career was cut short by injuries,
Speaker 1: he was considered the premier left tackle in the game
Speaker 1: during his time. The fact that that Terrell Davis got
Speaker 1: in with the shorten it opens another door. Now. I
Speaker 1: still think Terrell Davis getting in a lot of that
Speaker 1: had to do with his postseason domin on top of
Speaker 1: what he did in a in a shortened career in
Speaker 1: the regular season, but the fact that he got in
Speaker 1: it changes the perception on a guy like Basselli who
Speaker 1: was at the top of his game and at the
Speaker 1: top of the league but then didn't play as long
Speaker 1: as other guys like a Sterling Sharp people for that
Speaker 1: matter as well. Yeah, I mean the fact that he
Speaker 1: only had really six seasons. He wasn't expansion picked then
Speaker 1: by the Texans, Don Papers Texans. The hope was he'd
Speaker 1: be able to, you know, put everything behind him and
Speaker 1: keep playing. He didn't. Um, So it'll be very interesting
Speaker 1: to see this year and if it happens, you know,
Speaker 1: proceeding on the next year's how people view his career. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: we gotta get to another breakback with more on Packers
Speaker 1: Unscripted right after this. Welcome back to Packers Unscripted. Mike
Speaker 1: Spofford in this chair, Wes Hodkowits in that one, and West.
Speaker 1: Since it is Super Bowl weekend upon us here, we
Speaker 1: should probably talk about the Super Bowl has been a
Speaker 1: lot of time. I'm talking about the Hall of Fame stuff,
Speaker 1: which I think is interesting debate. But Eagles against the Patriots.
Speaker 1: The overarching storyline here I think is really interesting in
Speaker 1: the fact that you have Tom Brady and Bill Belichick
Speaker 1: going for their sixth Super Bowl together against a team
Speaker 1: that is searching for its first Super Bowl championship in
Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Eagles, a team that has not won an
Speaker 1: NFL title since the pre Super Bowl era, that being
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty. They beat Vince Lombardi's Packers at Franklin Field.
Speaker 1: That turned out to be the only postseason loss of
Speaker 1: Vince Lombardi's coaching career, by the way, but six the
Speaker 1: last time the Eagles want a title. They're trying to
Speaker 1: break that drought, and uh and the Patriots trying to
Speaker 1: simply add to an impressive legacy for me, Mike, this
Speaker 1: is one of the most intriguing Super Bowls I think
Speaker 1: in recent memory. And the reason I say that is
Speaker 1: because you have two imperfect teams vying for what I
Speaker 1: think a lot of people refer to as perfection in
Speaker 1: terms of winning the Super Bowl. And I say that
Speaker 1: because you look at this this Patriots team and how
Speaker 1: they've had to sort of pull it together on defense
Speaker 1: a little bit. I think they finished the regular season
Speaker 1: like twenty seven and total defense, but you know the
Speaker 1: way that they've kind of made the pieces fit in
Speaker 1: the playoffs, and you know, you bring in James Harrison,
Speaker 1: he's playing significant snaps after not being on the roster
Speaker 1: a month ago. Kyle van Noy, who was sort of
Speaker 1: a discarded seen as a bus player coming out of Detroit,
Speaker 1: he ends up being there starting outside backer. Uh. And
Speaker 1: then you look at Philadelphia. They lose Carson Wentz, they
Speaker 1: have to turn to a backup the running backs. They've
Speaker 1: had a carousel there throughout the course of the year,
Speaker 1: lost their starting left tack, lost their starting left tackle. Um,
Speaker 1: all those things together, you still have to pull it. Oh,
Speaker 1: you have to be able to find a way. And
Speaker 1: I think both of these teams have done it. To me.
Speaker 1: I think you look at the Atlanta Falcons from a
Speaker 1: year ago, you look at a lot of these teams.
Speaker 1: It's not a guarantee you get back, so when you're there,
Speaker 1: you have to make the most of it. I think
Speaker 1: both of these teams. Whoever comes out on top ultimately
Speaker 1: is the team from this particular season. Yeah. From a
Speaker 1: chess match standpoint, what intrigues me about this game is
Speaker 1: the fact that we saw in the NFC Championship game
Speaker 1: the Eagles change the narrative. They changed the storyline with
Speaker 1: what Nick Foles and that offense was able to do
Speaker 1: against the Minnesota Vikings, the number one defense in the league,
Speaker 1: that game plan with Doug Peterson, Frank Reich, that coaching staff,
Speaker 1: what they put together, and the way it was executed
Speaker 1: by those players to explode for that many points against
Speaker 1: the top defense in the NFL. On the other side,
Speaker 1: the customary procedure, I guess you'd say for a Bill
Speaker 1: Belichick defense, when he's got two weeks to prepare and
Speaker 1: he's been in these super bowls before, is they come
Speaker 1: out with defensive looks that have not been on film
Speaker 1: that the other team cannot be prepared for they haven't
Speaker 1: seen it before, and that offense has to be able
Speaker 1: to adjust on the fly to what the Patriots are doing,
Speaker 1: because they're going to dig deeper in their playbook and
Speaker 1: find some things that haven't been used, and they're going
Speaker 1: to try to surprise the opponent with it and see
Speaker 1: how they react. From a chess match standpoint, that makes
Speaker 1: this really interesting. It does. It's a very compelling matchup.
Speaker 1: I still think, in my opinion, though, that the Patriots
Speaker 1: are the team with the most amount of pressure on
Speaker 1: them because, as the Eagles up said, I mean, they're
Speaker 1: the underdogs. They're gonna ride that all the way through.
Speaker 1: Even though they've been a number one seed in THEFC,
Speaker 1: they've been an underdog every single week. The reason why
Speaker 1: I see the pressures on the Patriots is because Nick
Speaker 1: Foles in that Philadelphia offense that was not supposed to
Speaker 1: do anything against that number one ranked defense in the NFL.
Speaker 1: They surprised a lot of people. They opened up a
Speaker 1: lot of eyes, and as you were seeing in our
Speaker 1: pre production meeting, Doug Peterson, Frank right that the game
Speaker 1: plan that they put together for that contest remarkable. Now,
Speaker 1: the question is can Doug Peterson, the lifelong backup, the
Speaker 1: former high school football coach. Can they do it again
Speaker 1: against one of the game's very best it, I think
Speaker 1: to me, I'm going to be glued to the television
Speaker 1: for all four hours however long that thing goes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And Doug Peterson, the former backup quarterback in Green Bay,
Speaker 1: he's got Brett Farve coming to get us to the
Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles in their final team meeting on Saturday night.
Speaker 1: You know, maybe those little inspirational things, you never know
Speaker 1: how those can go. Yeah, and hopefully that that pre
Speaker 1: whatever meeting actually wraps up at the time kickoff starts
Speaker 1: on Sunday. Who knows how long far we'll talk. Right
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Speaker 1: Packers unscripted Mike Spofford. Here, West, Hodko, It's over there,
Speaker 1: okay West? Quickly before we go Super Bowl fifty two
Speaker 1: Patriots against the Eagles, I want to know who you
Speaker 1: think an X factor in this game is going to be,
Speaker 1: and then I want your prediction on what you think
Speaker 1: is gonna happen. I think the X factor is gonna
Speaker 1: be Rick Lovado, the former Packers long snapper that was
Speaker 1: serving sandwiches two years ago and now the New Jersey
Speaker 1: sub shop. Yeah, he's gonna be snapping in the super Bowl.
Speaker 1: And no credit toil Rick. I really liked him during
Speaker 1: his time. A good dude. I wish him well. But
Speaker 1: to me, I think the biggest X factor honestly is
Speaker 1: going to be Nick Foles. And if Foles can can
Speaker 1: really I don't want to say chop up, but I
Speaker 1: mean he just did everything so darn effectively against Minnesota.
Speaker 1: There were no holes in his game. In that game
Speaker 1: he put that he made the plays that were there
Speaker 1: down field, and he was smart with the football. You
Speaker 1: have to do that against the New England Patriots, I
Speaker 1: think you saw the downfall. Even when Blake Bortles played
Speaker 1: a perfect game for fifty five minutes. When it came
Speaker 1: down to crunch time, the Patriots defense, they had the
Speaker 1: right calls. Bortles wasn't able to make enough plays. That
Speaker 1: was the difference. I think if if Foles is able
Speaker 1: to protect the football, I think that the Philadelphia Eagles
Speaker 1: are going to get their first Super Bowl victory because
Speaker 1: I see even with as you mentioned, all the changes
Speaker 1: that the Patriots are gonna make it, I'm fully with you,
Speaker 1: they're gonna show a lot of unscarted luck. I still
Speaker 1: think this is a They played the best defense in
Speaker 1: the league last week, and if he did that to them,
Speaker 1: if you could find a way to replicate that again
Speaker 1: in these two weeks that they have to prepare for it,
Speaker 1: I think the Philadelphia Eagles call it on top. Yeah.
Speaker 1: For me, the X factor is also with the Eagles,
Speaker 1: and I'm going with running back j A Gi if
Speaker 1: I'm saying correctly, because when you talk about protecting Nick
Speaker 1: Foles protecting the football, I think I think A Gi
Speaker 1: and this running game of the Eagles is what is
Speaker 1: going to be Nick Fole's best friend and his and
Speaker 1: his potential protection against Matt Patricia's blitz is and whatever
Speaker 1: that New England defensive coordinator is gonna throw Adam. As
Speaker 1: far as a prediction, I'll say this, I think when
Speaker 1: the Patriots are in the Super Bowl, it's extremely hard
Speaker 1: to predict what's going to happen because if you look
Speaker 1: at the if you look at Tom Brady's career in
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, He's lost two Super Bowls, the David
Speaker 1: Tyree helmet catch and the Mario Manningham diving sideline bomb catch,
Speaker 1: and he's won two Super Bowls. When the Seattle Seahawks
Speaker 1: decided to throw the ball from the one yard line
Speaker 1: instead of run up with Marshawn Lynch and then last
Speaker 1: year coming back from to three and the Julian Adelman
Speaker 1: bounce all over the place, you know, catch in the
Speaker 1: middle of the field. That was such a huge part
Speaker 1: of that comeback. So prediction wise, I tell you, you know,
Speaker 1: anything can happen. The Super Bowls with the Patriots have
Speaker 1: shown us that. But I'm with you. I think the
Speaker 1: Eagles pull this thing out. Yeah, And I'd like to
Speaker 1: see if their backfield, as you mentioned, can outduel the
Speaker 1: backfield of the Patriots. I think there's a ten or
Speaker 1: eleven running backs playing in this game. They both have
Speaker 1: stacked really use a lot of different looks. If Jay
Speaker 1: and you know, Corey Clement, all those guys can pull
Speaker 1: it together, I think they're gonna come up with a victory.
Speaker 1: All right. With that, we will call it a rap
Speaker 1: on this edition of Packers Unscripted. Be sure to follow
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Speaker 1: We'll see you next time. M hmm.