WEBVTT - #353 Packers Unscripted: Not quite enough again 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:21.079 Hi, everybody, Welcome to Packers Unscripted from Packers dot Com. 0:00:21.120 --> 0:00:24.200 I am Mike Spofford, sitting alongside the one and only 0:00:24.239 --> 0:00:27.320 West hodgkuwits were coming to you here from our studios 0:00:27.320 --> 0:00:30.360 at lambeau Field. Back from a late night flight west 0:00:30.440 --> 0:00:34.720 the return from Massachusetts, and the Packers unfortunately come up 0:00:34.760 --> 0:00:37.960 short once again against one of the league's top teams. 0:00:38.000 --> 0:00:41.920 This time it's thirteen to the New England Patriots. But 0:00:42.680 --> 0:00:46.080 much like a week before against the Los Angeles Rams, 0:00:46.120 --> 0:00:49.640 the Packers went toe to toe with a darn good team, 0:00:49.680 --> 0:00:52.080 and once again it was a fumble that really changed 0:00:52.120 --> 0:00:54.120 the game, not at the end of the game this time, 0:00:54.440 --> 0:00:56.200 but on the first play of the fourth quarter, when 0:00:56.240 --> 0:00:58.880 the Packers were in position to take what would have 0:00:59.000 --> 0:01:01.880 been their only lead of the ball game. Yeah, basically 0:01:01.920 --> 0:01:04.000 it comes down to the fourth quarter again, And as 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:06.240 we talked about last week, Mike, when you're playing teams 0:01:06.240 --> 0:01:09.000 that are of that caliber, you have to play sixty minutes, 0:01:09.040 --> 0:01:10.840 you have to play it right till the end. The 0:01:10.880 --> 0:01:13.240 Packers went toe to toe with them for the first 0:01:13.319 --> 0:01:16.319 three quarters. Actually it looked like they were really making 0:01:16.360 --> 0:01:19.080 a run to finally pull ahead in that game. They 0:01:19.080 --> 0:01:21.640 had back to back catches from Marc Quisvelde scantling to 0:01:21.720 --> 0:01:24.160 end the third quarter for twenty four and twenty six 0:01:24.200 --> 0:01:26.560 yards advanced all the way to the thirty four and 0:01:26.680 --> 0:01:30.000 unfortunately Aaron Jones, who has been so so reliable for 0:01:30.040 --> 0:01:32.080 them out of the backfield for the last year and 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:35.440 a half, a bad time for his first NFL fumble, 0:01:35.560 --> 0:01:38.280 is first on a hundred and fifty three consecutive touches 0:01:38.319 --> 0:01:41.160 to start his career. As he said afterwards, didn't protect 0:01:41.200 --> 0:01:43.959 the ball enough. Lawrence Guy, the former seventh round pick 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:46.600 of the Packers, punches the ball out. The Patriots get 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:49.720 it back, and it just turned into sort of, you know, 0:01:49.760 --> 0:01:51.920 it was the sum of all fears at that point 0:01:52.360 --> 0:01:54.640 because then the defense, which had really played well in 0:01:54.720 --> 0:01:58.680 adverse situations up until that point, then relinquishes some big plays. 0:01:58.720 --> 0:02:01.080 They get got it on a couple of plays. The 0:02:01.120 --> 0:02:03.520 following drive, there's a fifty five yard touchdown pass to 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:06.960 Josh Gordon and the Patriots are able to avert disaster. Yeah, 0:02:07.000 --> 0:02:09.720 I thought the uh. I thought the Packers, we were 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:11.839 right in this game, right where you wanted to be 0:02:12.280 --> 0:02:15.440 a chance. Obviously, that possession the first play of the 0:02:15.480 --> 0:02:18.400 fourth quarter. That's not something that's going to decide the 0:02:18.400 --> 0:02:21.040 game necessarily. If the Packers score there, it's not like 0:02:21.480 --> 0:02:23.280 the game's over and the Packers are gonna win. There's 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:26.280 a whole fourth quarter, an opportunity to go back and forth. 0:02:26.320 --> 0:02:28.799 But I do think if the Packers get some points 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:31.200 on that drive, whether it's a touchdown or a field goal, 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:33.960 I think we are headed for the scenario that we 0:02:34.040 --> 0:02:37.800 all anticipated, which is that whichever quarterback had the ball 0:02:37.919 --> 0:02:40.320 last was going to have a heck of an opportunity 0:02:40.720 --> 0:02:43.400 to win the game. And it didn't happen that way, really, 0:02:43.400 --> 0:02:46.920 and and you said it best West the defense. I 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:49.639 thought the Packers defense really played well enough to win 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:54.480 this game, frankly, but they just kept being asked to 0:02:54.680 --> 0:02:58.280 do so much. I mean, when you go to the 0:02:58.320 --> 0:03:01.680 goal line, stand in the third order, but then the 0:03:01.720 --> 0:03:04.080 offense goes three and out from starting from the one 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:06.280 yard line, so you can't get any first downs. You 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:09.200 can't you know, shift the field position at all. Then 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:11.720 you get a you get a three and out, but 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:14.040 then a roughing the punter and they get another set 0:03:14.040 --> 0:03:16.520 of downs and then the defense stops him again. You 0:03:16.520 --> 0:03:18.760 know how many times can you call on him? And 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:22.239 then after the fumble the trick play, the Patriots get 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:24.400 a touchdown, the offense goes three and out and the 0:03:24.440 --> 0:03:26.960 defense has to go right back on the field. Really 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:29.520 tough position. And the one big play to Josh Gordon 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:31.240 and sudden for the first time in the game. It's 0:03:31.240 --> 0:03:33.840 a two score game. And uh, and the Packers are 0:03:33.840 --> 0:03:35.880 pretty much finished. You know it's tough too, Mike, because 0:03:35.880 --> 0:03:38.560 I think the game plans these last two weeks have 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:42.000 been fantastic. I think the Packers did exactly what they 0:03:42.000 --> 0:03:44.400 needed to do offensively. They had a third team play drive, 0:03:44.440 --> 0:03:47.640 a fourteen play scoring drive, six and a half plus 0:03:47.680 --> 0:03:51.120 minutes on two scoring drives. Unfortunately the one only produced 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:53.840 a field goal, but still the you know, ten points 0:03:54.120 --> 0:03:56.480 when you're holding the ball for almost an entire quarter 0:03:56.600 --> 0:03:58.320 that that's exactly how you want to do it on 0:03:58.360 --> 0:04:00.600 the road against a quarterback like break. Yeah, they won 0:04:00.640 --> 0:04:02.640 the time of possession, they got the amount of offensive 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:04.600 plays they were looking for. They even won the third 0:04:04.680 --> 0:04:08.440 down efficiency battle, which I thought was interesting with what 0:04:08.520 --> 0:04:11.560 their defense was able to do as well against Brady 0:04:11.600 --> 0:04:14.880 in that offense. But the problem was when you really 0:04:14.880 --> 0:04:17.840 break it down and look at this thing, I think defensively. 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:19.840 In addition, you say, you know then being asked to 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:22.839 do a lot, a lot of tough situations to be 0:04:22.880 --> 0:04:25.880 thrown into. Jermine Whitehead, who appeared to be sort of 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:28.480 the counter to James White early on in that hybrid 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:32.440 Nickel package, well he gets ejected, uh for an issue 0:04:32.480 --> 0:04:35.039 there I believe that was with Daniel Andrews. And then 0:04:35.120 --> 0:04:37.520 you have Blake Martinez goes out with an ankle injury, 0:04:37.600 --> 0:04:41.760 Kevin King ends up developing a hamstring injury and leaves Kentroll. Bryce, 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:44.479 in a really bizarre situation, is trying to jump over 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:47.680 play to avoid a late hit penalty and he lands 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:50.159 awkwardly on his knee. So then you have Trumon Williams 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:52.600 and Josh Jones on the back end. The secondary was 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:55.680 asked to do a lot with with really relatively little, 0:04:55.720 --> 0:04:58.000 with Tony Brown also not playing in this game, so 0:04:58.120 --> 0:05:00.000 a lot of moving parts in the back end there 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:03.359 the way the injuries and and obviously the ejection of Whitehead. 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:06.000 But what surprised me is how they actually still played 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:09.080 pretty well. I think Antonio Morrison actually had a pretty 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:11.719 good game for himself. Having to step in in the 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:14.440 instead of having that hybrid nickel package, will they end 0:05:14.520 --> 0:05:17.400 up having to go like a true run nickel with 0:05:17.400 --> 0:05:20.240 with you know, Morrison playing that role next to Martinez. 0:05:20.240 --> 0:05:23.120 Martinez goes out, he takes over the signal caller role 0:05:23.680 --> 0:05:26.200 for the defense, and then Martinez comes back and Morrison 0:05:26.240 --> 0:05:28.600 gets a big third down sack in a situation where 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:30.680 where the defense got the ball back. A lot of 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:33.479 ebbs and flows to this game, but unfortunately, Mike, you 0:05:33.520 --> 0:05:35.720 and I know this. We've covered this team long enough. 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:38.960 When you are in these situations, you need to finish 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:41.400 strong in The Patriots did that. They dialed up a 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:44.320 couple of trick plays. Julian Edelman getting what I guess 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:49.080 technically would be a handoff or pitch passed behind the 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:51.440 line of scrimmage from Tom Brady. Well, then he connects 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:54.200 across the hash marks over to James White, takes it 0:05:54.240 --> 0:05:56.760 for thirty seven yards That sets up to go ahead score, 0:05:57.160 --> 0:06:00.560 and then Josh Gordon, um, you know, getting the fifty 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:03.280 five yard touchdown. Truman Williams, I thought, did an exemplary 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:05.000 job what he was asked to do. On the back end, 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:08.400 Mrs the tackle there once that went back and after 0:06:08.440 --> 0:06:09.880 that it was just a little bit too much for 0:06:09.920 --> 0:06:11.760 them to overcome on the road. Yeah, well, there was 0:06:11.760 --> 0:06:14.360 no question which team was the better one in the 0:06:14.400 --> 0:06:17.800 fourth quarter. And last week against the Rams, I really 0:06:17.839 --> 0:06:20.559 thought the fourth quarter was very much back and forth. 0:06:20.600 --> 0:06:23.479 I thought the Packers and the Rams were very even 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:26.440 in the fourth quarter of a tight game. But uh, 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:28.920 but then the fumble with two minutes to go obviously 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:31.760 changed things. This time, it really was the entire fourth 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:33.560 quarter of the Packers are right where they wanted to 0:06:33.560 --> 0:06:36.240 be after three quarters, but then nothing went right in 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:38.840 that final stands. And when when that quarterback on the 0:06:38.839 --> 0:06:40.680 other side is Tom Brady, he's going to make you 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:43.400 pay and into Aaron Jones credit, he's about to stand 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:45.760 up as an individuals you're gonna find in that locker room, 0:06:45.760 --> 0:06:48.960 in any NFL locker room. Uh. And he took ownership 0:06:49.000 --> 0:06:50.680 for and he said, you know, that was a momentum 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:53.080 changing play when he had the fumble, because the offense 0:06:53.160 --> 0:06:55.359 came back out. They actually did have a chance to 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:57.880 answer the Patriots, but they go three and out and 0:06:57.920 --> 0:07:01.000 have to punt it back. And when you're facing Tom Brady, 0:07:01.000 --> 0:07:02.839 I mean you and I saw it, man, it's amazing. 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:06.680 I give Josh McDaniels a lot of credit. I knew 0:07:06.680 --> 0:07:08.640 they played up tempo. We talked about that in the 0:07:08.680 --> 0:07:09.840 lead up. You're not going to get a lot of 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:12.400 sack opportunities at Brady. They just get out the ball 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:15.200 too quickly. But their ability to go up tempo, that's 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:18.360 as fast as I've ever seen a Patriots offense run 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:21.960 with Tom Brady in twenty years. They are just snap, snap, snap. 0:07:22.080 --> 0:07:23.840 It seemed I don't know if they're always like that 0:07:23.880 --> 0:07:25.400 this year, but it seemed like they did kind of 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:27.480 take a page out of the Rams playbook in that way, 0:07:27.680 --> 0:07:30.160 getting the line of scrimmage, getting the ball snapped, and 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:32.440 letting Brady go to work. Yeah, they started the game 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:34.920 that way. With the up tempo no huddle. The Packers 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:37.280 were definitely on their heels, didn't really have an answer 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:39.960 for James White in the early stages of the game. 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:42.960 The Patriots march right down very very quickly and get 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:45.800 a touchdown, go up seven to nothing. Then the Packers 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:49.560 defense settles in. Then when they went after the fumble, 0:07:49.600 --> 0:07:51.480 when the Patriots go back to the to the no 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:54.240 huddle in the hurry up, Packers again are on their 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:56.320 heels a little bit, and then I mentioned this to us. 0:07:56.400 --> 0:07:59.120 I don't know if there's any team, any offense, any 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:01.800 quarterback in the league that in the midst of no 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:04.960 huddle and hurry up, is going to run a trick play. 0:08:04.760 --> 0:08:07.160 They don't. They don't huddle up and call it and 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:09.680 all this, I mean it was. It's obviously something that's 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:11.920 in their back pocket. They're waiting for the right moment. 0:08:11.960 --> 0:08:14.400 I have to assume the call is Brady's to make. 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:17.680 And you know, I believe it was second down, like 0:08:17.760 --> 0:08:19.640 second and six or something like that, just in the 0:08:19.640 --> 0:08:22.120 midst of all the all the regular hurry up, no 0:08:22.320 --> 0:08:25.080 huddle stuff, and then bang the backwards past to Edelman. 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:27.760 They set up a convoy on the one side of 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:30.000 the field, they throw it back across to James White 0:08:30.320 --> 0:08:33.520 and Brady. I'm sure this wasn't an accident. He caught 0:08:33.559 --> 0:08:37.400 the Packers. They're essentially the defensive front was all rotational 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:40.760 players for that particular play um or at least that 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:43.840 that particular sequence of downs, And I'm sure it's no 0:08:43.920 --> 0:08:46.360 accident that that's when he calls the trick play. You've 0:08:46.400 --> 0:08:49.520 got you've got some of the number two's who are 0:08:49.520 --> 0:08:52.480 in there, a defensive line, outside linebacker and and the 0:08:52.480 --> 0:08:54.520 Packers get caught in the big place, sets up to 0:08:54.559 --> 0:08:57.040 go ahead touchdown. Yeah, And I mean they just executed 0:08:57.080 --> 0:08:59.120 down the stretch when you need to execute the most. 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:01.440 And you know, I actually think the Packers did a 0:09:01.440 --> 0:09:04.520 pretty solid job overall against White. A bulk of his 0:09:04.559 --> 0:09:07.079 production Mike came off of that thirty seven yard completion, 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:09.880 half of his receiving yards, only two point six yards 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:11.880 per carry. Yeah, it was the opening drive and the 0:09:11.920 --> 0:09:14.400 trick play was really James White, and then the rest 0:09:14.480 --> 0:09:16.360 of the game it was it was other guys Cordrell 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:19.040 Patterson and some others who were chipping in for the Patriots. 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:21.280 And they got to chip your Captaic Patterson and and 0:09:21.320 --> 0:09:23.440 the Patriots for how they're using him. It seems like 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:26.880 in that hybrid almost running back role without Sony Michelle, 0:09:26.880 --> 0:09:29.680 it's actually worked out pretty well. Yeah. When White exited 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:31.800 the game for a little bit with some type of injury, 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:34.080 I don't know what it was, Patterson, they fed him 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:35.960 four straight times and got in the end zone with him. 0:09:35.960 --> 0:09:37.960 I mean he finished the game eleven carries for sixty 0:09:37.960 --> 0:09:40.880 one yards. He had he had forty of those yards 0:09:40.960 --> 0:09:45.080 on the four carries that gave the Patriots that second 0:09:45.120 --> 0:09:47.960 quarter touchdown, which also had the fifteen yard personal fall 0:09:48.040 --> 0:09:50.120 on Whitehead mixed in. Yeah. Yeah, So it was just 0:09:50.160 --> 0:09:52.640 one of those days, man, where I think you look, 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:55.760 they were without Rob Gronkowski, they were without Sony Michelle, 0:09:56.120 --> 0:09:58.199 but they found ways to move the football. I thought 0:09:58.280 --> 0:10:00.440 Julian Edelman had a really good productive of game for 0:10:00.440 --> 0:10:02.200 what they asked of him. A lot of total yards 0:10:02.200 --> 0:10:04.760 for him, um, But for the Packers, you have to 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:06.600 find ways to execute down the stretch if you're gonna 0:10:06.600 --> 0:10:08.680 beat a team like that on the rug. Yeah. All right, Well, 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:10.720 before I forget here, West, We've got a little bit 0:10:10.760 --> 0:10:13.840 of new sponsor business on Packers Unscripted. The Green Bay 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:17.520 Packers get ready for game day with the powerful noise 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:21.679 canceling technology of Bo's Quiet Comfort thirty five headphones. To 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:26.600 learn more at www dot bos dot com. Slash Packers 0:10:27.080 --> 0:10:30.439 Bows the official headphones of the Green Bay Packers. Okay, 0:10:30.480 --> 0:10:33.959 we heard from Aaron Rodgers after the game Sunday night, West, 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:38.680 and you know, quite frankly, some of his his frustrations, lamentations, 0:10:38.720 --> 0:10:40.840 whatever you want to call it, a lot of the 0:10:40.880 --> 0:10:44.200 same things we've heard throughout the season. Lack of consistency, 0:10:44.720 --> 0:10:47.600 misthrows here, and they're not being on the same page 0:10:47.600 --> 0:10:51.520 at times, not executing in the clutch we've seen. Obviously, 0:10:51.559 --> 0:10:54.680 the Packers had some great clutch drives to get wins 0:10:54.720 --> 0:10:57.920 over the Bears in the forty niners, but there have 0:10:57.960 --> 0:11:00.560 been these opportunities in this last in the unit was 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:05.120 just another example of of a clutch situation where the 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:08.640 Packers just came up short. Rodgers is getting frustrated, rightfully, 0:11:08.640 --> 0:11:12.960 so he's he's taking his share of the responsibility. Certainly. 0:11:13.000 --> 0:11:17.079 He he really regretted one particular play we talked about, 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:19.920 the three and out right after the Patriots took the lead. 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:23.080 The third down play on that three and out was 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:24.640 a sack which led to the punp but it was 0:11:24.679 --> 0:11:28.319 the second down play that he he was really frustrated 0:11:28.360 --> 0:11:31.920 with himself because that was kind of the classic play 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:35.640 action deep drop boot where you're looking potentially for a 0:11:35.679 --> 0:11:38.600 shot play and the Packers always have one guy running 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:41.319 deep down the middle and another guy running um, I 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:44.040 wouldn't say a shallow cross, but a crossing route as 0:11:44.120 --> 0:11:47.000 kind of the second option, and e q st Brown 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:49.199 flashed open a little bit on that crossing route and 0:11:49.240 --> 0:11:52.200 Rodgers went to him right away, and after the game 0:11:52.280 --> 0:11:55.120 he you know, he really regretted that he didn't just 0:11:55.240 --> 0:11:58.000 hold that ball a tick longer because he thinks he 0:11:58.000 --> 0:12:00.600 would have had Davante Adams one on one and going 0:12:00.640 --> 0:12:03.080 down the middle for for a shot play and a 0:12:03.080 --> 0:12:06.000 potentially big play that could have shifted things back the 0:12:06.040 --> 0:12:08.440 other way. But the throw to e Q ends up 0:12:08.480 --> 0:12:12.319 getting broken up along the sideline and good defensive play incomplete, 0:12:12.360 --> 0:12:15.439 and uh, and the opportunity to Adams was was one 0:12:15.480 --> 0:12:18.000 that Rogers just simply regretted. Yeah, And it's tough because 0:12:18.040 --> 0:12:20.680 I don't usually I'm not the Monday morning quarterback type. 0:12:20.720 --> 0:12:22.080 I don't know what it's like. It's a lot easier 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:23.920 when you're sitting up in that press box and you 0:12:23.920 --> 0:12:25.680 have that advantage point compared to what you're seeing on 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:27.280 the field. But I did say to you on that 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:30.640 play that it looked like Davante Adams had single man 0:12:30.760 --> 0:12:33.280 high and he was getting separation. It looked like if 0:12:33.360 --> 0:12:35.520 Rogers puts that thing on a dime there, it could 0:12:35.520 --> 0:12:39.000 have been that that touchdown type play, much similar to 0:12:39.040 --> 0:12:40.720 some of those forty yard connections they had in the 0:12:40.800 --> 0:12:43.520 Rams game that really helped the offense, propelled them in 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:45.440 the second half. Could have flipped the game back, no 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:47.199 doubt about it. But but you know, could have should have. 0:12:47.240 --> 0:12:49.600 What those are the situations you're in. But I think 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:51.640 that's the tough part about this loss too, is that 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:54.200 it's not like they walked into the Colisseum where they 0:12:54.200 --> 0:12:57.520 went into Julette Stadium and just got just pounded and 0:12:57.559 --> 0:12:59.080 they weren't in the game. They were in both of 0:12:59.120 --> 0:13:02.480 these games. And Clay Matthew said after the game in 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:05.200 l A. It's not like they're five and one. You know, 0:13:05.240 --> 0:13:06.920 at that point there were three three and one. They 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:10.280 need to find victories, and unfortunately for them, they've got 0:13:10.360 --> 0:13:12.920 some big guys stepping up for him. Davante Adams touchdown 0:13:12.920 --> 0:13:15.360 after the game. Veldes Scantling had three catches for a 0:13:15.400 --> 0:13:18.560 hundred and one yards in the third quarter alone, including 0:13:18.559 --> 0:13:20.680 the fifty one yard or to really get the offense 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:23.480 moving the ball early, that explosive play you're looking for. 0:13:24.480 --> 0:13:26.400 Aaron Jones I thought got out of the gate really 0:13:26.440 --> 0:13:28.920 well in this game. Averaged over five yards to carry 0:13:28.960 --> 0:13:32.160 once again. Rodgers made some clutch throws, Jimmy Graham made 0:13:32.240 --> 0:13:34.560 his impact, felt finally got an the end zone. But 0:13:34.679 --> 0:13:37.880 the totality of that is that you have to look 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:39.960 at what the Patriots are doing as well. And when 0:13:39.960 --> 0:13:44.400 you're going up against an offense as is dynamic, explosive, 0:13:44.440 --> 0:13:46.480 as as the Patriots are with Tom Brady, you have 0:13:46.520 --> 0:13:49.120 to be able to match that series after series, play 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:51.520 after play. The Packers got the stops they were looking 0:13:51.520 --> 0:13:53.719 for early on, but down the stretch just weren't able 0:13:53.760 --> 0:13:56.280 to counter it. Yeah, and when you look at when 0:13:56.280 --> 0:13:59.839 you look at the missed opportunities, you know, Rogers talked about, hey, 0:13:59.840 --> 0:14:02.280 he just he's got to find ways to get Davante 0:14:02.280 --> 0:14:04.640 Adams the ball more forty yards even though Adams did 0:14:04.720 --> 0:14:07.560 have a touchdown, But forty yards is is, you know, 0:14:07.880 --> 0:14:11.960 not enough. I'm sure that the touchdown to Jimmy Graham 0:14:12.000 --> 0:14:14.120 to open the third quarter, that was the last ball 0:14:14.200 --> 0:14:16.720 that went Jimmy Graham's way. I'm sure that wasn't Roger's 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:19.440 plan either. I haven't looked at the film, but the 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:21.960 way they were trying to guard Graham with Patrick Chung 0:14:22.160 --> 0:14:24.800 and Graham was making some plays and getting some opportunities. 0:14:24.840 --> 0:14:27.000 One very well could have maybe should have been a 0:14:27.000 --> 0:14:30.080 touchdown if not for the defensive holding call, which actually 0:14:30.120 --> 0:14:33.080 saved the Patriots four points because because the Packers did 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:35.680 end up kicking a field goal. But I'm guessing the 0:14:35.720 --> 0:14:38.920 Patriots made some sort of an adjustment on Graham after 0:14:39.200 --> 0:14:42.120 the touchdown because we just never saw another pass go 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:44.520 his way. You look at the end of the second quarter, West, 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:48.000 the Packers are at midfield, You're down seventeen to ten. 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:49.920 You're getting the ball coming out to start of the 0:14:49.960 --> 0:14:52.520 third quarter, so you'd like to have the opportunity for 0:14:52.560 --> 0:14:54.960 the double up there. You're at midfield, you have third 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:59.440 and one. Rogers calls the uh kind of a naked bootleg, 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:02.040 you know, quarter back keep type of play. To his credit, 0:15:02.080 --> 0:15:05.000 Adrian Claiborne stayed home on that side, didn't bite on 0:15:05.040 --> 0:15:07.760 the play action fake up the middle, and Rodgers isn't 0:15:07.760 --> 0:15:10.640 able to convert on third and one. When you know 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:12.480 you get that first down on third and one, you're 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:14.640 not very far at all from giving Mason Crosby a 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:16.800 chance to give you three points before halftime. So it's 0:15:17.080 --> 0:15:20.800 it's all of those those opportunities, those chances here and 0:15:20.800 --> 0:15:22.840 there that get away from you. And when you're on 0:15:22.880 --> 0:15:25.560 the road and when you're against a guy like Tom Brady, 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:28.440 it's it just becomes a big mountain to climb when 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:31.520 those opportunities keep slipping away. Yeah, and I think that 0:15:31.600 --> 0:15:33.560 was the difference in this ballgame. I do want to 0:15:33.600 --> 0:15:35.200 tip my cap though. I mean, you you have to 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:38.080 credit some of the things New England did offensively, No question, 0:15:38.080 --> 0:15:40.360 thought they were very versatile with how they use their talent. 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:42.560 They are they are who they are for a reason. 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:45.200 And and as I thought, as Truman Williams said, which 0:15:45.200 --> 0:15:47.160 was a really good point in relation to those trick plays, 0:15:47.520 --> 0:15:49.520 they're they're They're not the type of team that's just 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:51.680 gonna leave things on the play sheet. If they feel 0:15:51.720 --> 0:15:54.080 like there's something that they want to utilize in any 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:56.120 game situation, they're going to utilize it if it feels 0:15:56.120 --> 0:15:58.600 like it's going to get them yards and production and points. Uh. 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:01.960 The Packers actually did play they prepared. Tremont Williams said, 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:04.320 they ran the flea flickers in practice, they did some 0:16:04.360 --> 0:16:06.360 of the stuff that they do with Edelman. But when 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:08.880 you get into a game setting, it's different. And another 0:16:08.920 --> 0:16:10.960 thing I want to tip my cap to the Patriots 0:16:10.960 --> 0:16:13.800 about especially looking at their defense. It seems to me 0:16:13.840 --> 0:16:15.480 that while we talked about in the lead up to this, 0:16:15.480 --> 0:16:17.920 there isn't that Chandler Jones. There isn't really that star 0:16:18.360 --> 0:16:20.520 that they've had in the past. But they have a 0:16:20.520 --> 0:16:22.840 lot of really gritty guys that and sometimes have been 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:24.960 some ways have been cast offs from other places. You 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:27.400 look at Clayborne, you look at Lawrence guy when he's 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:30.200 become in this league, and I think that Kyle Vennoy 0:16:30.280 --> 0:16:32.920 another one the guys that sort of develop a chip 0:16:32.920 --> 0:16:36.320 on their shoulder and they play well, they play hard, 0:16:36.360 --> 0:16:38.800 they play as a unit, and you know, for them, 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:42.000 they only had five penalties for thirty yards, Packers doubled 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:44.840 that up in total yardage for penalties. When those type 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:47.560 of things happen, you have a disciplined team that plays hungry. 0:16:48.080 --> 0:16:49.800 That's the reason they're on a six game winning streak 0:16:49.880 --> 0:16:51.680 right now. Yeah. Well, and give credit to stuff on 0:16:51.800 --> 0:16:54.360 Gilmore as well. Is the one who draws Davantae Adams. 0:16:54.400 --> 0:16:56.160 I know Rogers after the game was saying, hey, I 0:16:56.160 --> 0:16:58.000 gotta find a way to get Adams the ball more. 0:16:58.080 --> 0:17:00.480 But Gilmore is no slouch as for as a cover 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:02.840 corner goes in the sleeve. I actually think they schemed 0:17:02.880 --> 0:17:04.960 Adams pretty well in that game. I thought they did 0:17:05.000 --> 0:17:06.960 some good things to get them open in space. Again, 0:17:07.000 --> 0:17:09.600 if you hit that big play right there, that changes 0:17:09.640 --> 0:17:12.800 the dynamic of his box scores. So but yeah, I mean, 0:17:13.160 --> 0:17:15.600 Gilmore did some good things. The safety is playing up 0:17:15.640 --> 0:17:17.840 over him at times. All things they did to take 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:20.520 Adams away. Unfortunately for them, Valdi Scantling took advantage of 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:22.679 some of those. 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The Packers officially at the midway point 0:17:50.960 --> 0:17:54.280 now eight games in three four and one, not where 0:17:54.320 --> 0:17:56.320 Green Bay wanted to be by any stretch of the 0:17:56.359 --> 0:17:59.720 imagination in front of them. The Chicago Bears at five 0:17:59.760 --> 0:18:02.600 and three after about as easy a win as it 0:18:02.640 --> 0:18:05.679 gets in Buffalo because the I don't even know if 0:18:05.720 --> 0:18:07.920 the Bears had three hundred yards, but yet they put 0:18:08.000 --> 0:18:11.760 up forty one points because their defense just completely controlled 0:18:11.760 --> 0:18:13.359 the game got in the end zone a couple of 0:18:13.400 --> 0:18:16.879 times yards in that game. I mean, it's the Bears 0:18:16.920 --> 0:18:19.679 offensively didn't have to do anything and they scored forty points. 0:18:20.200 --> 0:18:23.399 And then the Minnesota Vikings right behind them now at 0:18:23.440 --> 0:18:27.120 five three and one, Bears had a hundred total yards 0:18:27.119 --> 0:18:29.080 off They didn't even have two hundred yards of offense, 0:18:29.080 --> 0:18:30.760