Speaker 1: Hi, everybody. Welcome to another edition of Packers Unscripted from
Speaker 1: Packers dot Com. I am Mike Spofford, joined as always
Speaker 1: by my trusted colleague West Hodkowitz. We're coming to you
Speaker 1: here from our studios at lambeau Field West. Week one
Speaker 1: in Minnesota did not go as the Packers had hoped
Speaker 1: to seven loss at US Bank Stadium, and for a
Speaker 1: lot of folks watching deja vu in some respects with
Speaker 1: regard to Week one last year when the Packers did
Speaker 1: not perform well um losing big and Week one to
Speaker 1: the New Orleans Saints, I think the biggest difference differences
Speaker 1: I guess I would say for me in this one
Speaker 1: versus Week one last year is this game to me
Speaker 1: came down to two things. One too much justin Jefferson
Speaker 1: and number two missed opportunities. Yeah. I mean, my biggest
Speaker 1: takeaway from this game was last year when they got
Speaker 1: out of Jacksonville and they lost thirty five to three.
Speaker 1: I was like, who that that was a beat down?
Speaker 1: Like that that did not not only did it not
Speaker 1: go the way it you wanted it to go. I
Speaker 1: felt just like, you know, New Orleans beat him in
Speaker 1: every phase of the game. The frustrating thing about this
Speaker 1: game at US Bank Stadium was I still feel like
Speaker 1: if you rewack it, Packers could have easily won that
Speaker 1: game too. And you heard Aaron Rodgers and Matt Fleur
Speaker 1: both talk about it afterwards. You know there were plays
Speaker 1: out there, the opportunities had presented themselves. Green Bay just
Speaker 1: didn't take advantage of it. Looking at the offensive side
Speaker 1: of the ball, I think one of the things that
Speaker 1: really hurt the most, and I wrote about this in
Speaker 1: Insider Inboxes, I love that play call right out of
Speaker 1: the game. You know, people are wondering about Christian Watson.
Speaker 1: There's no preseason film on this kid. They send him
Speaker 1: out deep. He beats Patrick Peterson by a good three
Speaker 1: and a half yards, but then he drops the ball
Speaker 1: and green Bay kind of rallies a little bit. They
Speaker 1: get the running game going a little bit, but just overall,
Speaker 1: they just didn't really capitalize when they needed to. Too
Speaker 1: many sacks at in proromptu times. It was gonna be
Speaker 1: tough sledding. Obviously, getting stuffed on fourth and one, all
Speaker 1: things are going to add up defensively. I don't know
Speaker 1: if I've really covered many games like this because Green
Speaker 1: Bay only gave up twenty three points, which I understand,
Speaker 1: that's still twenty three points. But when you look at
Speaker 1: the first half production that Justin Jefferson had hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty six yards, two touchdowns, four plays of twenty or
Speaker 1: more yards in the first two quarters, you're thinking that,
Speaker 1: you know, Minnesota is just rolling away with this thing.
Speaker 1: It never really got to that point. So when when
Speaker 1: the game ended, certainly you tip your cap to Kevin o'connelly,
Speaker 1: you tip your cap to Minnesota and everything that they
Speaker 1: did to win that game. But for the Green Bay Packers,
Speaker 1: playing without their starting tackles, playing without their number one
Speaker 1: receiver and losing John Runyon, green Bay stayed in this thing.
Speaker 1: But ultimately it's still a loss. Yeah, it is. It's
Speaker 1: and and it's a tough one to swallow because because
Speaker 1: of those missed opportunities. I mean, this game, this league,
Speaker 1: these games, they always just come down to a couple
Speaker 1: of plays here and there, right, And you know, and
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that if Christian Watson Watson catches the
Speaker 1: ball and if A J. Dillon can punch it in
Speaker 1: on fourth and goal from the one, or if as
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers said, he lamented afterward, if he had pulled
Speaker 1: back the handoff, he had to walk in touchdown because
Speaker 1: Zadarius Smith was crashing so hard from the outside. If
Speaker 1: the quarterback takes his own option there, um, they would
Speaker 1: have had no way to stop it. But if those
Speaker 1: two plays go green Bay's way, we're looking at a
Speaker 1: completely different game. Now. Minnesota maybe still wins anyway. But
Speaker 1: even with all of that said, and with as much
Speaker 1: as they had, all kinds of trouble handling Justin Jefferson,
Speaker 1: and I know fans are asking like, why wasn't JayR
Speaker 1: Alexander matched up on him? Etcetera, etcetera. You can watch
Speaker 1: Matt Lfler's press conference from Monday. I wrote about it
Speaker 1: on the website Monday night. The explanation for why the
Speaker 1: Packers did what they did. It didn't war. Nobody's saying
Speaker 1: it worked. Mattal Floor was giving the rationale for why
Speaker 1: they went about it the way they did. We'll see
Speaker 1: what happens fifteen weeks from now when these two teams
Speaker 1: meet again. But for all of the trouble that they had,
Speaker 1: and as you mentioned, the big plays that Justin Jefferson had,
Speaker 1: there was a moment in the second half here where
Speaker 1: this game it's twenty seven and the Packers have a
Speaker 1: first down. I want to say it was somewhere near midfield. Yeah,
Speaker 1: close to midfield, with you know, early fourth quarter. I
Speaker 1: want to say, at that point, with plenty of time
Speaker 1: on the clock, where you're thinking, boy, of everything that's
Speaker 1: gone wrong, if you can put together this drive here
Speaker 1: and get the game to twenty to fourteen, you know,
Speaker 1: you can try to forget about all that other stuff.
Speaker 1: But they still couldn't put it together. It was just
Speaker 1: it was it was a game of fits and starts
Speaker 1: for the Packers offense and for that matter, for the
Speaker 1: Packers defense as well. There were some there were some
Speaker 1: really good moments, but the big explosive plays, particularly with
Speaker 1: with Justin Jefferson, those are just gonna those are just
Speaker 1: gonna kill you in the long haul because they're so
Speaker 1: hard to rebound from there, so hard to come back from.
Speaker 1: And ultimately it was just it was just too much
Speaker 1: for the Packers to overcome. And I think probably the
Speaker 1: maddening thing at the beginning of that fourth quarters, Daniel
Speaker 1: Hunter gets the sack of Rogers, so they're facing second
Speaker 1: and nineteen, but they actually were able to work their
Speaker 1: way through it. There's a coverage breakdown in Minnesota's behalf.
Speaker 1: You basically have Romeo Dab's just standing there waiting for
Speaker 1: a pass. They get that for twenty three yards, one
Speaker 1: of the biggest plays of the day in the in
Speaker 1: the passing game, and and I thought that would have
Speaker 1: been a good opportunity. That's where they got to about
Speaker 1: midfield green base forty eight. I thought that would have
Speaker 1: been a good time to really reset with the running game.
Speaker 1: And again all this stuff is hindsight being but that
Speaker 1: that's seven place, seventy five yard drive that they had
Speaker 1: before that that got them on the board. Finally with
Speaker 1: the two yard A J. Dillon touchdown run, that is
Speaker 1: what reminded me of what this Green Bay Packers offense
Speaker 1: really on paper we thought it was going to be
Speaker 1: and probably will still be at this point. Seventy five
Speaker 1: yards forty six of those come through Aaron Jones and
Speaker 1: AJ Dillon. A G. Dillon mentioned even at that point
Speaker 1: that that Jones breaks off that twenty nine yard run,
Speaker 1: he's pushing through everybody, his guys, there are guys, referees,
Speaker 1: the guy's you know, he's rumbling, stumbling from all the
Speaker 1: way right down the field and Jones and Dylan said
Speaker 1: to him, He's like, you just electrical, you know, jolted
Speaker 1: our entire roster. And the game was different offensively for
Speaker 1: green Bay after that. But Green Bay didn't get back
Speaker 1: to the running game. Jones only carried it five times,
Speaker 1: and that was one of the things that Matt Lafleur
Speaker 1: really lamented. On the other side of the field, Delvin
Speaker 1: Cook wasn't nearly as dynamic, but he was able to
Speaker 1: put them in first down, second down favorable situations and
Speaker 1: then really Kirk Cousins just took it from there. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: the you mentioned you mentioned the running backs, and you
Speaker 1: look at this game. Jones and Dylon combined rushing in
Speaker 1: receiving yards combined hundred and sixty seven yards. They were
Speaker 1: a big part of this Packers offense. But after the game,
Speaker 1: both the head coach and the quarterback were like, they
Speaker 1: weren't a big enough part. They need they needed to
Speaker 1: be a bigger part this and we talked about it
Speaker 1: through the offseason, through training camp. We're really expecting, especially
Speaker 1: in the early going, for more of the offense to
Speaker 1: um to go through Jones and Dylan. Now the way
Speaker 1: the game started with the Vikings marching right down and
Speaker 1: getting a touchdown and then Christian Watson dropping the ball,
Speaker 1: you know, and you're in You're in that crazy dome
Speaker 1: and all the noise and everything, and you're just you're
Speaker 1: trying to find something to to to get things going.
Speaker 1: There was a lot of there's a lot of frustration
Speaker 1: and what not going on there. But the Packers recognize
Speaker 1: that Jones and Dylan are really really dynamic playmakers and
Speaker 1: the more they can get them involved. They combined for
Speaker 1: twenty three touches, and I think, you know, I don't
Speaker 1: want to put a number on on Matt Lafleur here,
Speaker 1: but I think we're going to see a target of
Speaker 1: more towards like thirty or even thirty five potentially in
Speaker 1: some games, depending on how many offensive players you run.
Speaker 1: Because they showed even as much as Minnister Oda was
Speaker 1: in control of the football game, they showed that they
Speaker 1: can churn out the yards and move the chains. And
Speaker 1: I think that's the thing here that that the Packers
Speaker 1: are going to are going to have to hang their
Speaker 1: hat on as this offense finds its footing. Aaron Rodgers,
Speaker 1: you know, talked about a lot of mental mistakes across
Speaker 1: the board, and he was talking about offensive alignement, talking
Speaker 1: about some of the young receivers. Andy you know, took
Speaker 1: the blame for some of his own mistakes, mis throws,
Speaker 1: a bad decision to throw the jump ball to Cob
Speaker 1: that got picked off. So there there were mistakes all
Speaker 1: across the board. The mental mistakes were the most frustrating
Speaker 1: for Rogers. And I think as the Packers work through
Speaker 1: this stuff in the early season, it has to be
Speaker 1: it has to be Jones and Dillon that carry the
Speaker 1: load and to and to just keep everything settled down
Speaker 1: and uh and not get so crazy and desperate, so
Speaker 1: to speak, because that's the way it always feels in
Speaker 1: that stadium. Right when you get behind, things get crazy
Speaker 1: and it feels desperate because the atmosphere in that place
Speaker 1: is unlike any other. And I think in in some respects,
Speaker 1: the Packers got away from really what what this offense
Speaker 1: can do best? Right now, it's a self fulfilling prophecy
Speaker 1: if you allow Minnesota to get momentum. That's not just
Speaker 1: green Bay. That goes for any team that goes into
Speaker 1: US Bank Stadium, because you know, whether it's the noise
Speaker 1: level whether it's the game entertainment stuff they do, whether
Speaker 1: it's the JumboTron putting us Darius Smith on the screen
Speaker 1: every three seconds, They're going to find ways to to
Speaker 1: really get their guys going and keep them motivated. So
Speaker 1: you need to be able to control that early on
Speaker 1: the one part of this and it goes back, you know,
Speaker 1: because people want to make that lazy comparison to last
Speaker 1: year with the Saints. I feel a lot better about
Speaker 1: where Green Bay is at right now coming out of
Speaker 1: this game than honestly I did last year coming out
Speaker 1: of New Orleans because that game you're just wondering what
Speaker 1: happened offensively, defensively, everything in between. Because that was the
Speaker 1: first year coordinator. You weren't sure what was going to
Speaker 1: be going down. I would have been more discouraged in
Speaker 1: this game had had the Packers given thirty thirty five
Speaker 1: touches to Aaron Jones and AJ Dillon and they weren't
Speaker 1: able to have production. But as it turn and out,
Speaker 1: both of those guys together averaging six point two yards
Speaker 1: per carry, you saw what this offense can do with
Speaker 1: them out of the backfield. I mean, I'll tell you
Speaker 1: this right now, Like some of those passes to both
Speaker 1: sides of the field. It shows you that when those
Speaker 1: guys are given the opportunity to be free in space,
Speaker 1: you don't need to be Aaron Jones with his explosiveness
Speaker 1: and and all that stuff. A J. Dillon was very
Speaker 1: successful out there too, with the more power running style.
Speaker 1: That's where I think it's not just about Okay, they
Speaker 1: won or lost, or they whatever hell this went. It
Speaker 1: was about the fact that when Green Bay went to
Speaker 1: those packages, the two back stuff, mixing and matching them,
Speaker 1: it worked. And I think that's probably something they have
Speaker 1: to feel pretty good about now going into this game
Speaker 1: against the Bears. Yeah. I think a couple of other
Speaker 1: positives that are worth pointing out here from this game
Speaker 1: the return of Robert Tunyan to the offense, and we
Speaker 1: saw what on what appeared to be maybe a rep count,
Speaker 1: so to speak, because with him coming back from the
Speaker 1: knee injury because he wasn't out there for all the snaps,
Speaker 1: but even in a limited number of reps, he was impactful.
Speaker 1: He made he made a handful of a very impactful
Speaker 1: place and the other was I thought, until unfortunately he
Speaker 1: left with a shoulder injury, but a very solid debut
Speaker 1: for rookie first round pick Kway Walker in this defense
Speaker 1: sort of went from a good news bad news back
Speaker 1: to a good news thing. And that you know, he
Speaker 1: had eight tackles before he had to leave with a
Speaker 1: shoulder injury. But then we heard from Matt Lafleur it
Speaker 1: doesn't sound like the shoulder injury is anything serious, even
Speaker 1: to the to the point that la Fleur is giving
Speaker 1: Walker a chance to be able to play right away
Speaker 1: again this coming Sunday against the Bears. So, um, those
Speaker 1: were a couple of positives. And also you mentioned losing
Speaker 1: John Runyon on the offensive line. He was h taken
Speaker 1: out of the game to be evaluated for a concussion.
Speaker 1: Zach Tom the rookie fourth round pick from wake Forest,
Speaker 1: went and I thought he played pretty solid for a
Speaker 1: rookie not having been in an NFL game. He's played
Speaker 1: all kinds of positions across the front. He got thrown into, um,
Speaker 1: the left guard spot, cold off the bench and uh
Speaker 1: and held his own just fine. And I have several
Speaker 1: video clips a my what you Might Have Missed piece
Speaker 1: on the website if you want to check out some
Speaker 1: of those with regard to Tom. So there there's some
Speaker 1: there are some little nuggets you can you can pull
Speaker 1: out of this game that that will see exactly, um
Speaker 1: you know, where this goes and how the Packers potentially
Speaker 1: build on some of those things. The maddening part about
Speaker 1: that defense performances justin Jefferson getting way too open, having
Speaker 1: way too much leeway, and being able to hurt the
Speaker 1: Packers after the catch. Right, It wasn't just his where
Speaker 1: he caught the ball, it's what he did with the
Speaker 1: ball when it was in his hands. But conversely, when
Speaker 1: I mentioned the maddening part is a lot of the
Speaker 1: defense was c ball hit ball, ball carrier goes down,
Speaker 1: whether it was quay Walker, you know, working both sidelines,
Speaker 1: whether it was you know, Rasul Douglas, the coverage, you know,
Speaker 1: things you know on breakdowns, not with Sandy Rasul Douglas,
Speaker 1: Keyshawn Nixon on his only defensive snap, getting the ball
Speaker 1: carrier down to force a punting situation the Packers. For
Speaker 1: for all the questions going in about not playing the preseason,
Speaker 1: the Packers tackled pretty well in this game. The major
Speaker 1: point of emphasis I think going into this game against
Speaker 1: the Bears now and the running back won't be nearly
Speaker 1: as dynamic. The weapons won't be as dynamic in this
Speaker 1: matchup as they were at us Bank Stadium. Is on
Speaker 1: early downs. You gotta get the ball here down to
Speaker 1: three yards from the line of scrimmage, and then once
Speaker 1: you know you're in those third and passing situations, making
Speaker 1: sure that your coverages are where they need to be,
Speaker 1: because that's really, in my opinion, the only where, the
Speaker 1: only area where Green Bay really did fall short because
Speaker 1: they got eight hits on Kirk Cousins and the way
Speaker 1: he throws the ball, it's not gonna be easy to
Speaker 1: get him down to the turf. They did a lot
Speaker 1: of things right, but it was the things they did wrong.
Speaker 1: We're a pretty big scale. Yeah, well, you mentioned the
Speaker 1: Bears are coming up here week two. I want to
Speaker 1: get to that um in just a second, but first
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Speaker 1: coming into lambeau Field for a primetime game. I believe
Speaker 1: this is now going to be Is it the seventeen
Speaker 1: consecutive year the Bears? And then I believe it's seventeen
Speaker 1: in a row. Seventeen years in a row the Packers
Speaker 1: and Bears will be playing a primetime game. This one
Speaker 1: will be the home opener for Green Bay lambeau Field
Speaker 1: Sunday Night football, and the Bears are coming in a
Speaker 1: surprising want to know, although I'll say this that when
Speaker 1: I saw what the weather was doing in Chicago on Sunday,
Speaker 1: suddenly I mean that game Bears and forty Niners, it
Speaker 1: was all bets are off because that that field turned
Speaker 1: into a swamp, a quagmire. It you know, game plans
Speaker 1: and everything else just get thrown out the window. It's
Speaker 1: a it's a matter of it's a matter of survival.
Speaker 1: Protect the football, make the plays you can. And at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, the Bears made a heck
Speaker 1: of a lot more on both sides of the ball
Speaker 1: than the forty Niners did. And Chicago's going to come
Speaker 1: to lambeau Field at one and all. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: the Bears just didn't make mistakes and in San Francisco did.
Speaker 1: That's really what this came down to. And in a
Speaker 1: game like that, when you do fall behind and you
Speaker 1: can't really trust the passing game anymore, that's when all
Speaker 1: the you know, the balls kind of get thrown up
Speaker 1: in the air. The one thing I took away from
Speaker 1: this game, like, especially after watching some of the highlights
Speaker 1: of it, because this is going to come off as
Speaker 1: a diss and I don't want it to come off
Speaker 1: that way. The way they ran their offense with justin
Speaker 1: fields reminded me a lot of what Mitchell Trubisky did
Speaker 1: in two thousand eighteen, which is where it's not a
Speaker 1: traditional passing offense. They didn't necessarily have a very good
Speaker 1: day on the ground, but they found ways to move
Speaker 1: the football enough while leaning on their defense to get stopped.
Speaker 1: That in a lot of ways, I think is really
Speaker 1: the recipe here for fields comes. That's how the Bears
Speaker 1: won the NFC North. Exactly what that is, exactly what
Speaker 1: they did that that entire season. Uh. That that formula
Speaker 1: that you just mentioned, Yeah, and in fields, you know,
Speaker 1: wasn't overly dynamic as a runner. But I just felt
Speaker 1: like you saw, just watch any of the clips on
Speaker 1: any of the websites, go to NFL dot com, the
Speaker 1: way guys rallied around him. There was an energy with
Speaker 1: that football team and with those fans that were there
Speaker 1: during that monsoon. So they're gonna come in, as Matt
Speaker 1: Lafleur said, they're gonna be feeling pretty good about themselves
Speaker 1: and feeling like Matt aberflews in the direction they're heading
Speaker 1: is in a good direction. But that being said, we
Speaker 1: need to remember when you look at where these power
Speaker 1: rankings were at the beginning of the season, the fact
Speaker 1: that not a lot of people were standing behind the Bears.
Speaker 1: Here they're still in, my opinion, is a very big
Speaker 1: discrepancy between the two talent levels of this team. Certainly
Speaker 1: from an experienced standpoint. Now you can't rest on that.
Speaker 1: You have to perform. But I think the key for
Speaker 1: Green Bay really was making sure on Monday, Okay, here's
Speaker 1: everything we did wrong, here's everything we need to change
Speaker 1: to be able to get to be the team we want,
Speaker 1: and understanding that you're going to be facing a different
Speaker 1: type of opponent on Sunday night and you're gonna be
Speaker 1: doing it in front of your home opening crowd. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think the Packers, with everything that went wrong in Minnesota,
Speaker 1: I think the Packers are the message this week for
Speaker 1: the Packers. And this is this is as you said,
Speaker 1: it's not a dis against the Bears, but it's where
Speaker 1: the Packers are right now. This game coming up Sunday
Speaker 1: night is not going to be about what the Bears do.
Speaker 1: It's going to be about the Packers getting back to
Speaker 1: doing what they do well. They know they had coverage
Speaker 1: breakdowns and miscommunications and stuff that that aren't that aren't
Speaker 1: acceptable and are very very frustrating. And you know they
Speaker 1: had the mental mental mistakes as well as physical mistakes
Speaker 1: on offense that cost them. The Packers are going to
Speaker 1: go into this week feeling like if they clean up
Speaker 1: their own house, so to speak, and you're playing at
Speaker 1: home in primetime in front of in front of your
Speaker 1: own fans, that u um that they should be able
Speaker 1: to take care of business here and uh. And that's
Speaker 1: that's not a knock against the Bears at all. But
Speaker 1: this this Bears team is going to come into lambeau
Speaker 1: Field fired up, their new their new head coaches want
Speaker 1: to know and he's like, all right, you know, let's
Speaker 1: let's ride this as long as we can. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: that's why you do have to throw out all of
Speaker 1: those power rankings everything, because when you have a guy
Speaker 1: like Fields, that guys are energized about. And let's give
Speaker 1: the young man credit in a game of these young quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: he made plays Trey Lance didn't, yep. And that's why
Speaker 1: the Bears ultimately one. They controlled their own destiny. And
Speaker 1: when you saw when they had that nine point lead
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter, what they were able to do
Speaker 1: with it, how the tempo of the game changed, And realistically,
Speaker 1: I said it from day one, Mike, the first unscripted
Speaker 1: we did, the Bears are gonna go as far as
Speaker 1: this young man takes them. He they really are. And
Speaker 1: and for them to get that win out of the
Speaker 1: gate when I think a lot of people were counting
Speaker 1: them out against the San Francisco team that has huge
Speaker 1: expectations for this season, that's gonna definitely be a feather
Speaker 1: in their cap that's going to give them some swagger
Speaker 1: going into this matchup. Yeah. Well, aside from the quagmire
Speaker 1: at Soldier Field, there was a lot of other wild
Speaker 1: and wacky stuff got quite my Week one. In Week
Speaker 1: one in the NFL, which always happens on the season
Speaker 1: opening weekend every year, we saw UM the Lions lose
Speaker 1: in what turned into a shootout at Ford Field against
Speaker 1: the Eagles, the team that is now very much UM
Speaker 1: the favorite in the NFC East. With with Dak Prescott
Speaker 1: dealing with thumb surgery for the Cowboys, there was the
Speaker 1: overtime kicking craziness in Cincinnati. Where have we seen that before? Right?
Speaker 1: Um and Uh? And also in that game you had
Speaker 1: another a significant injury to UH to t J. Watt
Speaker 1: from the Pittsburgh Steelers, and and the prognosis there with
Speaker 1: the pectoral muscle somewhat up in the air. And then
Speaker 1: on Monday night you had Russell Wilson going back into
Speaker 1: that noisy stadium in Seattle and somehow was unable to
Speaker 1: get a touchdown in the red zone as the Broncos
Speaker 1: just blew chance after chance in close by the goal line.
Speaker 1: And then the game came down to a sixty four
Speaker 1: yard field goal that barely missed from Brandon mcmanison. All
Speaker 1: kinds of controversy over Nathaniel Hacket's decision there and on
Speaker 1: the fourth and five and trying the monster field goal instead. Um,
Speaker 1: but pretty much par for the course for week one
Speaker 1: in the NFL, right, I mean, there's there's These are
Speaker 1: the way the storylines of of seasons begin all the time. Well,
Speaker 1: and let's be honest too, I mean, you never can
Speaker 1: really it's never too early to talk about playoffs, right.
Speaker 1: People love to do that. And from an NFC perspective,
Speaker 1: if you're the Packers, this is the way you wanted
Speaker 1: to see it work out. I mean, Buffalo trounced the
Speaker 1: l A Rams, I mean, Josh Allen just destroyed them.
Speaker 1: And then you look at Cleveland beating Caroline. I mean,
Speaker 1: like Kansas City. We were talking about that match up
Speaker 1: last week against Arizona. Arizona blown out, so in terms
Speaker 1: of it being able to help Green Bay for the
Speaker 1: most part, Uh, the a f C took care of business.
Speaker 1: The biggest thing I thought was very interesting was the
Speaker 1: amount of strange endings to these games. You know, whether
Speaker 1: it was you know even you know Houston and in Indianapolis.
Speaker 1: You know, Indianapolis scores seventeen points in the fourth quarter
Speaker 1: to tie that game. Uh, so many crazy things happened.
Speaker 1: The big comeback by New Orleans against Atlanta too, So
Speaker 1: I believe I believe that was seventeen points in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter by Jamis Winston in the Saints, if I'm
Speaker 1: not mistake, you know, And this is the way it's
Speaker 1: gonna go in Week one, New England. You know, the
Speaker 1: storied history there, Bill Belichick going down to Miami. I mean,
Speaker 1: so many things, uh sort of lined up. But but
Speaker 1: certainly when you look at the I don't want to
Speaker 1: call him the blood rivalries, but I mean like the
Speaker 1: the really heated not even heated, but like the ones
Speaker 1: that got built up to be the big matchups, right,
Speaker 1: they all kind of lived up to the billing with
Speaker 1: with Russell Wilson for whatever happened with Nathaniel Hack at
Speaker 1: the end of that game, Russell Wilson, you know, going
Speaker 1: back to what I will still refer to a century link.
Speaker 1: I know what Luhman Field now or whatever, but it's
Speaker 1: still central linked to me, Darnett. Uh, you know, Cleveland
Speaker 1: and Carolina Baker Mayfield making and interesting at the end,
Speaker 1: I felt like from a pure entertainment standpoint, Week one
Speaker 1: definitely lived up to the height. Yeah, there's no there's
Speaker 1: no question about it. And uh, we will talk more
Speaker 1: about Week two matchups and what's on the dock, and
Speaker 1: more about the Chicago Bears the Packers week to opponent
Speaker 1: on our next show, but for now, we're going to
Speaker 1: call it a wrap on this edition of Packers Unscripted.
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