Speaker 1: Hi, everybody, Welcome to Packers Unscripted from Packers dot Com.
Speaker 1: I am Mike Spofford, sitting alongside the one and only
Speaker 1: West hodgkuwits were coming to you here from our studios
Speaker 1: at lambeau Field. Back from a late night flight west
Speaker 1: the return from Massachusetts, and the Packers unfortunately come up
Speaker 1: short once again against one of the league's top teams.
Speaker 1: This time it's thirteen to the New England Patriots. But
Speaker 1: much like a week before against the Los Angeles Rams,
Speaker 1: the Packers went toe to toe with a darn good team,
Speaker 1: and once again it was a fumble that really changed
Speaker 1: the game, not at the end of the game this time,
Speaker 1: but on the first play of the fourth quarter, when
Speaker 1: the Packers were in position to take what would have
Speaker 1: been their only lead of the ball game. Yeah, basically
Speaker 1: it comes down to the fourth quarter again, And as
Speaker 1: we talked about last week, Mike, when you're playing teams
Speaker 1: that are of that caliber, you have to play sixty minutes,
Speaker 1: you have to play it right till the end. The
Speaker 1: Packers went toe to toe with them for the first
Speaker 1: three quarters. Actually it looked like they were really making
Speaker 1: a run to finally pull ahead in that game. They
Speaker 1: had back to back catches from Marc Quisvelde scantling to
Speaker 1: end the third quarter for twenty four and twenty six
Speaker 1: yards advanced all the way to the thirty four and
Speaker 1: unfortunately Aaron Jones, who has been so so reliable for
Speaker 1: them out of the backfield for the last year and
Speaker 1: a half, a bad time for his first NFL fumble,
Speaker 1: is first on a hundred and fifty three consecutive touches
Speaker 1: to start his career. As he said afterwards, didn't protect
Speaker 1: the ball enough. Lawrence Guy, the former seventh round pick
Speaker 1: of the Packers, punches the ball out. The Patriots get
Speaker 1: it back, and it just turned into sort of, you know,
Speaker 1: it was the sum of all fears at that point
Speaker 1: because then the defense, which had really played well in
Speaker 1: adverse situations up until that point, then relinquishes some big plays.
Speaker 1: They get got it on a couple of plays. The
Speaker 1: following drive, there's a fifty five yard touchdown pass to
Speaker 1: Josh Gordon and the Patriots are able to avert disaster. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I thought the uh. I thought the Packers, we were
Speaker 1: right in this game, right where you wanted to be
Speaker 1: a chance. Obviously, that possession the first play of the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter. That's not something that's going to decide the
Speaker 1: game necessarily. If the Packers score there, it's not like
Speaker 1: the game's over and the Packers are gonna win. There's
Speaker 1: a whole fourth quarter, an opportunity to go back and forth.
Speaker 1: But I do think if the Packers get some points
Speaker 1: on that drive, whether it's a touchdown or a field goal,
Speaker 1: I think we are headed for the scenario that we
Speaker 1: all anticipated, which is that whichever quarterback had the ball
Speaker 1: last was going to have a heck of an opportunity
Speaker 1: to win the game. And it didn't happen that way, really,
Speaker 1: and and you said it best West the defense. I
Speaker 1: thought the Packers defense really played well enough to win
Speaker 1: this game, frankly, but they just kept being asked to
Speaker 1: do so much. I mean, when you go to the
Speaker 1: goal line, stand in the third order, but then the
Speaker 1: offense goes three and out from starting from the one
Speaker 1: yard line, so you can't get any first downs. You
Speaker 1: can't you know, shift the field position at all. Then
Speaker 1: you get a you get a three and out, but
Speaker 1: then a roughing the punter and they get another set
Speaker 1: of downs and then the defense stops him again. You
Speaker 1: know how many times can you call on him? And
Speaker 1: then after the fumble the trick play, the Patriots get
Speaker 1: a touchdown, the offense goes three and out and the
Speaker 1: defense has to go right back on the field. Really
Speaker 1: tough position. And the one big play to Josh Gordon
Speaker 1: and sudden for the first time in the game. It's
Speaker 1: a two score game. And uh, and the Packers are
Speaker 1: pretty much finished. You know it's tough too, Mike, because
Speaker 1: I think the game plans these last two weeks have
Speaker 1: been fantastic. I think the Packers did exactly what they
Speaker 1: needed to do offensively. They had a third team play drive,
Speaker 1: a fourteen play scoring drive, six and a half plus
Speaker 1: minutes on two scoring drives. Unfortunately the one only produced
Speaker 1: a field goal, but still the you know, ten points
Speaker 1: when you're holding the ball for almost an entire quarter
Speaker 1: that that's exactly how you want to do it on
Speaker 1: the road against a quarterback like break. Yeah, they won
Speaker 1: the time of possession, they got the amount of offensive
Speaker 1: plays they were looking for. They even won the third
Speaker 1: down efficiency battle, which I thought was interesting with what
Speaker 1: their defense was able to do as well against Brady
Speaker 1: in that offense. But the problem was when you really
Speaker 1: break it down and look at this thing, I think defensively.
Speaker 1: In addition, you say, you know then being asked to
Speaker 1: do a lot, a lot of tough situations to be
Speaker 1: thrown into. Jermine Whitehead, who appeared to be sort of
Speaker 1: the counter to James White early on in that hybrid
Speaker 1: Nickel package, well he gets ejected, uh for an issue
Speaker 1: there I believe that was with Daniel Andrews. And then
Speaker 1: you have Blake Martinez goes out with an ankle injury,
Speaker 1: Kevin King ends up developing a hamstring injury and leaves Kentroll. Bryce,
Speaker 1: in a really bizarre situation, is trying to jump over
Speaker 1: play to avoid a late hit penalty and he lands
Speaker 1: awkwardly on his knee. So then you have Trumon Williams
Speaker 1: and Josh Jones on the back end. The secondary was
Speaker 1: asked to do a lot with with really relatively little,
Speaker 1: with Tony Brown also not playing in this game, so
Speaker 1: a lot of moving parts in the back end there
Speaker 1: the way the injuries and and obviously the ejection of Whitehead.
Speaker 1: But what surprised me is how they actually still played
Speaker 1: pretty well. I think Antonio Morrison actually had a pretty
Speaker 1: good game for himself. Having to step in in the
Speaker 1: instead of having that hybrid nickel package, will they end
Speaker 1: up having to go like a true run nickel with
Speaker 1: with you know, Morrison playing that role next to Martinez.
Speaker 1: Martinez goes out, he takes over the signal caller role
Speaker 1: for the defense, and then Martinez comes back and Morrison
Speaker 1: gets a big third down sack in a situation where
Speaker 1: where the defense got the ball back. A lot of
Speaker 1: ebbs and flows to this game, but unfortunately, Mike, you
Speaker 1: and I know this. We've covered this team long enough.
Speaker 1: When you are in these situations, you need to finish
Speaker 1: strong in The Patriots did that. They dialed up a
Speaker 1: couple of trick plays. Julian Edelman getting what I guess
Speaker 1: technically would be a handoff or pitch passed behind the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage from Tom Brady. Well, then he connects
Speaker 1: across the hash marks over to James White, takes it
Speaker 1: for thirty seven yards That sets up to go ahead score,
Speaker 1: and then Josh Gordon, um, you know, getting the fifty
Speaker 1: five yard touchdown. Truman Williams, I thought, did an exemplary
Speaker 1: job what he was asked to do. On the back end,
Speaker 1: Mrs the tackle there once that went back and after
Speaker 1: that it was just a little bit too much for
Speaker 1: them to overcome on the road. Yeah, well, there was
Speaker 1: no question which team was the better one in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter. And last week against the Rams, I really
Speaker 1: thought the fourth quarter was very much back and forth.
Speaker 1: I thought the Packers and the Rams were very even
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter of a tight game. But uh,
Speaker 1: but then the fumble with two minutes to go obviously
Speaker 1: changed things. This time, it really was the entire fourth
Speaker 1: quarter of the Packers are right where they wanted to
Speaker 1: be after three quarters, but then nothing went right in
Speaker 1: that final stands. And when when that quarterback on the
Speaker 1: other side is Tom Brady, he's going to make you
Speaker 1: pay and into Aaron Jones credit, he's about to stand
Speaker 1: up as an individuals you're gonna find in that locker room,
Speaker 1: in any NFL locker room. Uh. And he took ownership
Speaker 1: for and he said, you know, that was a momentum
Speaker 1: changing play when he had the fumble, because the offense
Speaker 1: came back out. They actually did have a chance to
Speaker 1: answer the Patriots, but they go three and out and
Speaker 1: have to punt it back. And when you're facing Tom Brady,
Speaker 1: I mean you and I saw it, man, it's amazing.
Speaker 1: I give Josh McDaniels a lot of credit. I knew
Speaker 1: they played up tempo. We talked about that in the
Speaker 1: lead up. You're not going to get a lot of
Speaker 1: sack opportunities at Brady. They just get out the ball
Speaker 1: too quickly. But their ability to go up tempo, that's
Speaker 1: as fast as I've ever seen a Patriots offense run
Speaker 1: with Tom Brady in twenty years. They are just snap, snap, snap.
Speaker 1: It seemed I don't know if they're always like that
Speaker 1: this year, but it seemed like they did kind of
Speaker 1: take a page out of the Rams playbook in that way,
Speaker 1: getting the line of scrimmage, getting the ball snapped, and
Speaker 1: letting Brady go to work. Yeah, they started the game
Speaker 1: that way. With the up tempo no huddle. The Packers
Speaker 1: were definitely on their heels, didn't really have an answer
Speaker 1: for James White in the early stages of the game.
Speaker 1: The Patriots march right down very very quickly and get
Speaker 1: a touchdown, go up seven to nothing. Then the Packers
Speaker 1: defense settles in. Then when they went after the fumble,
Speaker 1: when the Patriots go back to the to the no
Speaker 1: huddle in the hurry up, Packers again are on their
Speaker 1: heels a little bit, and then I mentioned this to us.
Speaker 1: I don't know if there's any team, any offense, any
Speaker 1: quarterback in the league that in the midst of no
Speaker 1: huddle and hurry up, is going to run a trick play.
Speaker 1: They don't. They don't huddle up and call it and
Speaker 1: all this, I mean it was. It's obviously something that's
Speaker 1: in their back pocket. They're waiting for the right moment.
Speaker 1: I have to assume the call is Brady's to make.
Speaker 1: And you know, I believe it was second down, like
Speaker 1: second and six or something like that, just in the
Speaker 1: midst of all the all the regular hurry up, no
Speaker 1: huddle stuff, and then bang the backwards past to Edelman.
Speaker 1: They set up a convoy on the one side of
Speaker 1: the field, they throw it back across to James White
Speaker 1: and Brady. I'm sure this wasn't an accident. He caught
Speaker 1: the Packers. They're essentially the defensive front was all rotational
Speaker 1: players for that particular play um or at least that
Speaker 1: that particular sequence of downs, And I'm sure it's no
Speaker 1: accident that that's when he calls the trick play. You've
Speaker 1: got you've got some of the number two's who are
Speaker 1: in there, a defensive line, outside linebacker and and the
Speaker 1: Packers get caught in the big place, sets up to
Speaker 1: go ahead touchdown. Yeah, And I mean they just executed
Speaker 1: down the stretch when you need to execute the most.
Speaker 1: And you know, I actually think the Packers did a
Speaker 1: pretty solid job overall against White. A bulk of his
Speaker 1: production Mike came off of that thirty seven yard completion,
Speaker 1: half of his receiving yards, only two point six yards
Speaker 1: per carry. Yeah, it was the opening drive and the
Speaker 1: trick play was really James White, and then the rest
Speaker 1: of the game it was it was other guys Cordrell
Speaker 1: Patterson and some others who were chipping in for the Patriots.
Speaker 1: And they got to chip your Captaic Patterson and and
Speaker 1: the Patriots for how they're using him. It seems like
Speaker 1: in that hybrid almost running back role without Sony Michelle,
Speaker 1: it's actually worked out pretty well. Yeah. When White exited
Speaker 1: the game for a little bit with some type of injury,
Speaker 1: I don't know what it was, Patterson, they fed him
Speaker 1: four straight times and got in the end zone with him.
Speaker 1: I mean he finished the game eleven carries for sixty
Speaker 1: one yards. He had he had forty of those yards
Speaker 1: on the four carries that gave the Patriots that second
Speaker 1: quarter touchdown, which also had the fifteen yard personal fall
Speaker 1: on Whitehead mixed in. Yeah. Yeah, So it was just
Speaker 1: one of those days, man, where I think you look,
Speaker 1: they were without Rob Gronkowski, they were without Sony Michelle,
Speaker 1: but they found ways to move the football. I thought
Speaker 1: Julian Edelman had a really good productive of game for
Speaker 1: what they asked of him. A lot of total yards
Speaker 1: for him, um, But for the Packers, you have to
Speaker 1: find ways to execute down the stretch if you're gonna
Speaker 1: beat a team like that on the rug. Yeah. All right, Well,
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Speaker 1: we heard from Aaron Rodgers after the game Sunday night, West,
Speaker 1: and you know, quite frankly, some of his his frustrations, lamentations,
Speaker 1: whatever you want to call it, a lot of the
Speaker 1: same things we've heard throughout the season. Lack of consistency,
Speaker 1: misthrows here, and they're not being on the same page
Speaker 1: at times, not executing in the clutch we've seen. Obviously,
Speaker 1: the Packers had some great clutch drives to get wins
Speaker 1: over the Bears in the forty niners, but there have
Speaker 1: been these opportunities in this last in the unit was
Speaker 1: just another example of of a clutch situation where the
Speaker 1: Packers just came up short. Rodgers is getting frustrated, rightfully,
Speaker 1: so he's he's taking his share of the responsibility. Certainly.
Speaker 1: He he really regretted one particular play we talked about,
Speaker 1: the three and out right after the Patriots took the lead.
Speaker 1: The third down play on that three and out was
Speaker 1: a sack which led to the punp but it was
Speaker 1: the second down play that he he was really frustrated
Speaker 1: with himself because that was kind of the classic play
Speaker 1: action deep drop boot where you're looking potentially for a
Speaker 1: shot play and the Packers always have one guy running
Speaker 1: deep down the middle and another guy running um, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't say a shallow cross, but a crossing route as
Speaker 1: kind of the second option, and e q st Brown
Speaker 1: flashed open a little bit on that crossing route and
Speaker 1: Rodgers went to him right away, and after the game
Speaker 1: he you know, he really regretted that he didn't just
Speaker 1: hold that ball a tick longer because he thinks he
Speaker 1: would have had Davante Adams one on one and going
Speaker 1: down the middle for for a shot play and a
Speaker 1: potentially big play that could have shifted things back the
Speaker 1: other way. But the throw to e Q ends up
Speaker 1: getting broken up along the sideline and good defensive play incomplete,
Speaker 1: and uh, and the opportunity to Adams was was one
Speaker 1: that Rogers just simply regretted. Yeah, And it's tough because
Speaker 1: I don't usually I'm not the Monday morning quarterback type.
Speaker 1: I don't know what it's like. It's a lot easier
Speaker 1: when you're sitting up in that press box and you
Speaker 1: have that advantage point compared to what you're seeing on
Speaker 1: the field. But I did say to you on that
Speaker 1: play that it looked like Davante Adams had single man
Speaker 1: high and he was getting separation. It looked like if
Speaker 1: Rogers puts that thing on a dime there, it could
Speaker 1: have been that that touchdown type play, much similar to
Speaker 1: some of those forty yard connections they had in the
Speaker 1: Rams game that really helped the offense, propelled them in
Speaker 1: the second half. Could have flipped the game back, no
Speaker 1: doubt about it. But but you know, could have should have.
Speaker 1: What those are the situations you're in. But I think
Speaker 1: that's the tough part about this loss too, is that
Speaker 1: it's not like they walked into the Colisseum where they
Speaker 1: went into Julette Stadium and just got just pounded and
Speaker 1: they weren't in the game. They were in both of
Speaker 1: these games. And Clay Matthew said after the game in
Speaker 1: l A. It's not like they're five and one. You know,
Speaker 1: at that point there were three three and one. They
Speaker 1: need to find victories, and unfortunately for them, they've got
Speaker 1: some big guys stepping up for him. Davante Adams touchdown
Speaker 1: after the game. Veldes Scantling had three catches for a
Speaker 1: hundred and one yards in the third quarter alone, including
Speaker 1: the fifty one yard or to really get the offense
Speaker 1: moving the ball early, that explosive play you're looking for.
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones I thought got out of the gate really
Speaker 1: well in this game. Averaged over five yards to carry
Speaker 1: once again. Rodgers made some clutch throws, Jimmy Graham made
Speaker 1: his impact, felt finally got an the end zone. But
Speaker 1: the totality of that is that you have to look
Speaker 1: at what the Patriots are doing as well. And when
Speaker 1: you're going up against an offense as is dynamic, explosive,
Speaker 1: as as the Patriots are with Tom Brady, you have
Speaker 1: to be able to match that series after series, play
Speaker 1: after play. The Packers got the stops they were looking
Speaker 1: for early on, but down the stretch just weren't able
Speaker 1: to counter it. Yeah, and when you look at when
Speaker 1: you look at the missed opportunities, you know, Rogers talked about, hey,
Speaker 1: he just he's got to find ways to get Davante
Speaker 1: Adams the ball more forty yards even though Adams did
Speaker 1: have a touchdown, But forty yards is is, you know,
Speaker 1: not enough. I'm sure that the touchdown to Jimmy Graham
Speaker 1: to open the third quarter, that was the last ball
Speaker 1: that went Jimmy Graham's way. I'm sure that wasn't Roger's
Speaker 1: plan either. I haven't looked at the film, but the
Speaker 1: way they were trying to guard Graham with Patrick Chung
Speaker 1: and Graham was making some plays and getting some opportunities.
Speaker 1: One very well could have maybe should have been a
Speaker 1: touchdown if not for the defensive holding call, which actually
Speaker 1: saved the Patriots four points because because the Packers did
Speaker 1: end up kicking a field goal. But I'm guessing the
Speaker 1: Patriots made some sort of an adjustment on Graham after
Speaker 1: the touchdown because we just never saw another pass go
Speaker 1: his way. You look at the end of the second quarter, West,
Speaker 1: the Packers are at midfield, You're down seventeen to ten.
Speaker 1: You're getting the ball coming out to start of the
Speaker 1: third quarter, so you'd like to have the opportunity for
Speaker 1: the double up there. You're at midfield, you have third
Speaker 1: and one. Rogers calls the uh kind of a naked bootleg,
Speaker 1: you know, quarter back keep type of play. To his credit,
Speaker 1: Adrian Claiborne stayed home on that side, didn't bite on
Speaker 1: the play action fake up the middle, and Rodgers isn't
Speaker 1: able to convert on third and one. When you know
Speaker 1: you get that first down on third and one, you're
Speaker 1: not very far at all from giving Mason Crosby a
Speaker 1: chance to give you three points before halftime. So it's
Speaker 1: it's all of those those opportunities, those chances here and
Speaker 1: there that get away from you. And when you're on
Speaker 1: the road and when you're against a guy like Tom Brady,
Speaker 1: it's it just becomes a big mountain to climb when
Speaker 1: those opportunities keep slipping away. Yeah, and I think that
Speaker 1: was the difference in this ballgame. I do want to
Speaker 1: tip my cap though. I mean, you you have to
Speaker 1: credit some of the things New England did offensively, No question,
Speaker 1: thought they were very versatile with how they use their talent.
Speaker 1: They are they are who they are for a reason.
Speaker 1: And and as I thought, as Truman Williams said, which
Speaker 1: was a really good point in relation to those trick plays,
Speaker 1: they're they're They're not the type of team that's just
Speaker 1: gonna leave things on the play sheet. If they feel
Speaker 1: like there's something that they want to utilize in any
Speaker 1: game situation, they're going to utilize it if it feels
Speaker 1: like it's going to get them yards and production and points. Uh.
Speaker 1: The Packers actually did play they prepared. Tremont Williams said,
Speaker 1: they ran the flea flickers in practice, they did some
Speaker 1: of the stuff that they do with Edelman. But when
Speaker 1: you get into a game setting, it's different. And another
Speaker 1: thing I want to tip my cap to the Patriots
Speaker 1: about especially looking at their defense. It seems to me
Speaker 1: that while we talked about in the lead up to this,
Speaker 1: there isn't that Chandler Jones. There isn't really that star
Speaker 1: that they've had in the past. But they have a
Speaker 1: lot of really gritty guys that and sometimes have been
Speaker 1: some ways have been cast offs from other places. You
Speaker 1: look at Clayborne, you look at Lawrence guy when he's
Speaker 1: become in this league, and I think that Kyle Vennoy
Speaker 1: another one the guys that sort of develop a chip
Speaker 1: on their shoulder and they play well, they play hard,
Speaker 1: they play as a unit, and you know, for them,
Speaker 1: they only had five penalties for thirty yards, Packers doubled
Speaker 1: that up in total yardage for penalties. When those type
Speaker 1: of things happen, you have a disciplined team that plays hungry.
Speaker 1: That's the reason they're on a six game winning streak
Speaker 1: right now. Yeah. Well, and give credit to stuff on
Speaker 1: Gilmore as well. Is the one who draws Davantae Adams.
Speaker 1: I know Rogers after the game was saying, hey, I
Speaker 1: gotta find a way to get Adams the ball more.
Speaker 1: But Gilmore is no slouch as for as a cover
Speaker 1: corner goes in the sleeve. I actually think they schemed
Speaker 1: Adams pretty well in that game. I thought they did
Speaker 1: some good things to get them open in space. Again,
Speaker 1: if you hit that big play right there, that changes
Speaker 1: the dynamic of his box scores. So but yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: Gilmore did some good things. The safety is playing up
Speaker 1: over him at times. All things they did to take
Speaker 1: Adams away. Unfortunately for them, Valdi Scantling took advantage of
Speaker 1: some of those. Yeah, all right, Well, another bit of
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Speaker 1: let's just take a look at where things stand in
Speaker 1: the NFC North. The Packers officially at the midway point
Speaker 1: now eight games in three four and one, not where
Speaker 1: Green Bay wanted to be by any stretch of the
Speaker 1: imagination in front of them. The Chicago Bears at five
Speaker 1: and three after about as easy a win as it
Speaker 1: gets in Buffalo because the I don't even know if
Speaker 1: the Bears had three hundred yards, but yet they put
Speaker 1: up forty one points because their defense just completely controlled
Speaker 1: the game got in the end zone a couple of
Speaker 1: times yards in that game. I mean, it's the Bears
Speaker 1: offensively didn't have to do anything and they scored forty points.
Speaker 1: And then the Minnesota Vikings right behind them now at
Speaker 1: five three and one, Bears had a hundred total yards
Speaker 1: off They didn't even have two hundred yards of offense,
Speaker 1: and they had forty one points on the board. It
Speaker 1: just it doesn't get any easier than that. Um No,
Speaker 1: that's okay. The Minnesota Vikings, who have not had their
Speaker 1: bye week yet, they are five three and one, so
Speaker 1: they are kind of right on the heels of the
Speaker 1: Chicago Bears. After a victory over the Detroit Lions and
Speaker 1: what they sack Matthew Stafford ten times, the Vikings set
Speaker 1: a single game sack record for their franchise, which is
Speaker 1: saying something with with that defense not only over the years,
Speaker 1: but you know the days of purple people leaders in
Speaker 1: the seventies and everything. Ten sex in one game, Holy cow.
Speaker 1: But um but yeah, West three, four and one. Right now,
Speaker 1: if you're the Packers, the only thing you can focus on,
Speaker 1: obviously is the Miami Dolphins. You have to get this
Speaker 1: win this week, get back to five, and then it's
Speaker 1: about finding somehow, some way to win a road game.
Speaker 1: You're sitting at oh and four on the road, and uh,
Speaker 1: that's obviously that's not gonna cut it. The Packers have
Speaker 1: got to walk out of a stadium, walk out of
Speaker 1: a visiting stadium with a victory, so that they know
Speaker 1: what it feels like, they know what it looks like.
Speaker 1: They haven't done it yet this year, and now it's
Speaker 1: becoming the really the storyline of this season. Frankly, we
Speaker 1: can talk about until we're blue in the face. Certainly,
Speaker 1: their next road game is going to be on a
Speaker 1: short week at Century Link Field. We know how difficult
Speaker 1: you and I have been in there, how loud that
Speaker 1: place gets. But the fact of the matter is, Mike,
Speaker 1: that's a week and a half away. The Packers need
Speaker 1: to concentrate now on the Miami Dolphins. One of the
Speaker 1: strange things about the Dolphins. We'll talk about them in
Speaker 1: tomorrow show. In these next couple of shows, they actually
Speaker 1: are getting outscored by forty points. But yet there five
Speaker 1: and four, they're they're above five hundred. They're right in
Speaker 1: that wild card mix in in the a f C.
Speaker 1: No doubt they've been protecting the football. Frank Gore has
Speaker 1: been consistently moving the chains for them. It's a team
Speaker 1: you can't look past. And you have to get this
Speaker 1: one at home. The facts are what they are. You're
Speaker 1: going four right now on the road, but you're three
Speaker 1: oh and one at home. You gotta get this win
Speaker 1: on Sunday. It's imperative. The the other thing to Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins certainly playing some good defense. And you mentioned the
Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks in that upcoming trip to century Link Field.
Speaker 1: I didn't realize this until I saw it on Twitter.
Speaker 1: The San Diego Chargers the first team, first a f
Speaker 1: C team since two thousand eleven, to get a victory
Speaker 1: at century Link Field, which is really the first A
Speaker 1: f C team basically in the Russell Wilson to go
Speaker 1: into Seattle and uh and knock off the Seahawks. So um,
Speaker 1: Seattle They're gonna whatever happens this next week, both Yattle
Speaker 1: and the Packer is going to have a ton on
Speaker 1: the line in that Thursday night game because Seattle sitting
Speaker 1: there with four losses now as well. Absolutely, and I
Speaker 1: think it's really I mean, you give credit to the Chargers.
Speaker 1: Keenan Allen's healthy again, playing well. Philip Rivers has been
Speaker 1: up and down, but has obviously had a peak this year.
Speaker 1: Melvin Gordon's when the top young running backs in the league.
Speaker 1: That being said, the Seattle Seahawks. We know how well
Speaker 1: they play at home. So to have that performance, to
Speaker 1: have a you know, pick six come back at them, um,
Speaker 1: that's not how they play football. So it's gonna be
Speaker 1: interesting to see how they respond to that too, and
Speaker 1: in another week and a half and where that game stands,
Speaker 1: because yeah, there's gonna a lot of implications involved with it.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, for now, we are going to call
Speaker 1: it a wrap on this edition of Packers on Script.
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