Speaker 1: Hi, everyone, Welcome to Packers unscripted from Packers dot Com.
Speaker 1: I am Mike Spofford sitting next to my trusted colleague
Speaker 1: West Hodku. It's we're coming to you here from our
Speaker 1: studios at lambeau Field and West. It is Wednesday, which
Speaker 1: for us means opponent breakdown day, and the next opponent
Speaker 1: for the Green Bay Packers will be the Los Angeles
Speaker 1: Chargers on Sunday afternoon inside a soccer stadium whose name
Speaker 1: escapes me at the moment, but I'm still struggling with
Speaker 1: saying Los Angeles Charges instead of San Diego. So there
Speaker 1: with me here as we us something like that. It
Speaker 1: used to be called the stub Hub Center, but then
Speaker 1: it changed its names. Thousand seat capacity that I talked
Speaker 1: with Mark Murphy yesterday. Actually I was doing a um
Speaker 1: a sort of conference call for one of our friend
Speaker 1: Haley's fan clubs, and Mark Murphy was on the conference
Speaker 1: call with fans and he was saying that he's predicting
Speaker 1: that about seventy of that seven thousand um seat stadium
Speaker 1: is going to be Packer fans um Sunday. It's going
Speaker 1: to be interesting. Yeah, the other how this shakes out
Speaker 1: and then there's gonna be about other twenty fans, percent
Speaker 1: of fans that probably aren't fans for either team, and
Speaker 1: maybe like five percent that were there for the Chargers. Uh.
Speaker 1: It's incredible, and it's been a tough situation for the
Speaker 1: Chargers this year. I think there's been some comments and
Speaker 1: remarks made. Now, this is gonna be a pretty very
Speaker 1: pro Packers crowd, just based on how they travel. There's
Speaker 1: a reason why this game is being played in l
Speaker 1: A as opposed to shipping it overseas. But it's actually funny.
Speaker 1: I think, you know, you listen to some of these
Speaker 1: comments the Charges players have made, it's almost like every
Speaker 1: game has sort of been a road game for them
Speaker 1: this season. Yeah, they played a primetime game at home.
Speaker 1: I believe it was a Sunday night game earlier this
Speaker 1: year against Pittsburgh, and the Pittsburgh Steeler fans took over
Speaker 1: the place. I mean it was it was a home
Speaker 1: game for the Steelers, more than two thousand miles from home,
Speaker 1: and it sounds like Sunday afternoon could very much be
Speaker 1: the same way for the Packers. You know, and this
Speaker 1: is one that I guess, you know, I'm gonna say,
Speaker 1: I really don't have a whole lot of sympathy for them.
Speaker 1: I mean, you could have easily had this game go overseas,
Speaker 1: and not saying that there would have been a ton
Speaker 1: of Packer fans there too, but you might have had
Speaker 1: a better chance to have Charger fans. I just I
Speaker 1: go back to that game last year, Mike against the Rams.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, ninety thousand seat l a Colosseum, and there's
Speaker 1: go Pack go chance during the entire game, and they're
Speaker 1: filled to the top of the building and it just
Speaker 1: and the Rams were undefeated at the time, and I
Speaker 1: would say that that was about as close to a
Speaker 1: fifty fifty split as I have ever seen at a
Speaker 1: true road game. I mean, it really was. I believe
Speaker 1: the announced attendance that day was around eighty thousand because
Speaker 1: it wasn't a sell out at the Colosseum, but of
Speaker 1: the was eighty thousand, I bet it was forty thousand
Speaker 1: each side. Yeah, So needless to say, I think this
Speaker 1: game on Sunday is gonna be very interesting to watch
Speaker 1: from that perspective. Also, twenty seven thousand seed stadium that
Speaker 1: I think fits thirty thousand for football, so a very
Speaker 1: different environment than you and me are really you know,
Speaker 1: used to covering well. When you look at the Chargers season,
Speaker 1: here in the record says they're three and five, but
Speaker 1: if you look at how these games are gone there,
Speaker 1: their record, quite frankly, west could be absolutely anything at
Speaker 1: this point. They won in overtime in week one, uh
Speaker 1: there other than one victory that they had by a
Speaker 1: considerable margin. Their other victory was against the Bears this
Speaker 1: past weekend when the Bears missed a kick on the
Speaker 1: mr field goal on the final play of the game.
Speaker 1: All five of the Chargers losses are one score defeats
Speaker 1: that they were in those games all the way up
Speaker 1: until the end. Probably the most heartbreaking of the bunch
Speaker 1: was the road game at Tennessee where right at the
Speaker 1: end of the game they're down by three. They actually
Speaker 1: twice the officials call a touchdown in the final minute
Speaker 1: of the game and they think they've won the game,
Speaker 1: replay the automatic review of the score. Twice those replay
Speaker 1: reviews placed the ball inside the one yard line, and
Speaker 1: then after the second nullified touchdown, Melvin Gordon fumbles the
Speaker 1: ball at Titan's recover and the Chargers take another loss.
Speaker 1: So they've they've had They've had about his wild, crazy
Speaker 1: down to the wire every week up and down season
Speaker 1: as you could possibly have. The bottom line, though, is
Speaker 1: that they have five losses. They're kind of on the
Speaker 1: on the brink here, coming off of a playoff season
Speaker 1: when they were twelve and four a year ago. They're
Speaker 1: on the brink here, falling out of contention if they
Speaker 1: don't get the ship right at it. Yeah, and this
Speaker 1: is not a team you can mess with either, because
Speaker 1: the firepower is there. They had Super Bowl asked oprations
Speaker 1: going into this season, and all the reasons why the
Speaker 1: Melvin Gordon holdout sort of complicated everything. It was funny, though,
Speaker 1: might because as difficult and demoralizing as that Tennessee game was,
Speaker 1: that was right after the game against Pittsburgh at home,
Speaker 1: whereas you were talking about a very pro stealers crowd
Speaker 1: in the Charges played about as poorly as you could
Speaker 1: play in all three phases of the game in that venue.
Speaker 1: But they got they got. You know, something went right
Speaker 1: for them last week. Uh, they played tooth and nail
Speaker 1: with the Bears. You know, Philip Rivers didn't have his
Speaker 1: best game, but ultimately at the end of it, they
Speaker 1: had a little bit of good fortune with the miss
Speaker 1: forty one yard field goal from any Pinero. And here
Speaker 1: they are with three and four. But as you said,
Speaker 1: they're only blowout this year was that thirty to ten
Speaker 1: win over Miami. Otherwise the Colts overtime win, and all
Speaker 1: those losses that were within a score. It's been a
Speaker 1: very down to the wire season for the Chargers and
Speaker 1: much like my fantasy football team, just haven't been able
Speaker 1: to find the wins well. And this is when I
Speaker 1: was looking them up and writing some things in Insider
Speaker 1: Inbox about the Chargers. Really you compare this seas and
Speaker 1: for them to last year. Last year they had seven
Speaker 1: of their sixteen games in the regular season were decided
Speaker 1: by one score, and they were six and one in
Speaker 1: those seven games. Just look at their record in the
Speaker 1: one score games this year. It's it's what's happening in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter where they're not able to get it
Speaker 1: together and pull these things out at the end. That's
Speaker 1: the difference between them being twelve and four a year
Speaker 1: ago and UH and kind of teetering on the edge
Speaker 1: of falling out of contention halfway through nineteen. It's a
Speaker 1: fine line in this league, as we talk about all
Speaker 1: the time. But that being said, as you said, there
Speaker 1: are explosive weapons on this team. There is a savvy
Speaker 1: veteran quarterback who has been there and done that. Do
Speaker 1: not sleep on the l A Chargers. Well, and the
Speaker 1: thing that actually confused me the most. For all the
Speaker 1: ups and downs that the Charges have had, they are
Speaker 1: coming off a win and then that's when they decided
Speaker 1: to make the change of offensive coordinator with Ken wizzen Hunt. Right,
Speaker 1: I mean that they make a change there. It seemed
Speaker 1: like an interesting time to do it. Wizzen Hunt had
Speaker 1: been there for a number of years at this point.
Speaker 1: But they're just looking for some kind of spark. Let's
Speaker 1: be honest, though, Mike. In the good years the bad years,
Speaker 1: this team has gone as Philip Rivers has gone, and
Speaker 1: unfortunately for them, he's just not been at his peak
Speaker 1: this season. Last year I really thought he was, Oh
Speaker 1: he was put especially down the stretch. I thought he
Speaker 1: was playing tremendous football. I mean they went in in
Speaker 1: a primetime game into Arrowhead Stadium and knocked off the Chiefs,
Speaker 1: who ended up being the number one seed in the
Speaker 1: a f C in the playoffs year. Yeah, and it's
Speaker 1: one of these things where you know, you look at
Speaker 1: him and how he plays even this season, I mean
Speaker 1: the games in which he's been down. You think of Denver,
Speaker 1: you think about Pittsburgh, the loss against Detroit, he hasn't
Speaker 1: played well. It's kind of weird because then you look
Speaker 1: at like what Atlanta is going through with Matt Ryan
Speaker 1: the last two years. Matt Ryan's passer rating, all the
Speaker 1: statistics look great, they just aren't winning football games. With
Speaker 1: the Chargers, it really does need to be the Philip
Speaker 1: Rivers show, especially early in the season when they didn't
Speaker 1: have Melvin Gordon. He's come back but hasn't quite found
Speaker 1: his rhythm yet. Austin Ekeler has had his months. But
Speaker 1: the dangerous thing about this Chargers offenses, Philip Rivers and
Speaker 1: Keenan Allen have been doing this for a long time now.
Speaker 1: Allen again six yards I think already on the season.
Speaker 1: He's a type of difference maker that you have to
Speaker 1: account for at all times and a big play threat
Speaker 1: that can put points on the board at a given moment. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean Keenan Allen is uh is certainly a big
Speaker 1: play threat. And Mike Williams, the number two on his team,
Speaker 1: has made some big plays down the field as well.
Speaker 1: I believe Williams average you've got it in front of
Speaker 1: you per catch, Yeah, I mean sixteen yards per catch.
Speaker 1: This guy has been a pretty big play guy. And
Speaker 1: you mentioned Austin Ekeler, who essentially became the number one
Speaker 1: running back at the start of the season because of
Speaker 1: Melvin Gordon's long holdout. He's a guy that now is
Speaker 1: very regularly being worked into not only the rotation to
Speaker 1: run the ball, but to catch passes out of the backfield.
Speaker 1: He's racked up five hundred yards receiving in five touchdowns
Speaker 1: as a pass catcher already this year for umum for
Speaker 1: you know, smaller shifty running back. So that's definitely a
Speaker 1: weapon to keep an eye on. But I'm with you
Speaker 1: that this team really does go as as Philip Rivers goes,
Speaker 1: and the change that offensive coordinator will we'll have to see. Obviously,
Speaker 1: it's being done to to provide some kind of a spark,
Speaker 1: to light some kind of a fire under an offense
Speaker 1: that head coach Anthony Lynn Fields is underperforming. And um,
Speaker 1: you know we've seen it West. These things can go
Speaker 1: one of two ways. Sometimes it can take a while
Speaker 1: to adjust to the new voices in the room and
Speaker 1: the new types of game plans. Other times it really
Speaker 1: does provide a spark and then and suddenly a team
Speaker 1: takes off. Yeah. I mean the biggest example that that
Speaker 1: I can recall is really, you know, the Jim Bob
Speaker 1: Cooder era in Detroit. Yeah, after Joe Lombardi had been
Speaker 1: let go. It seemed like that was a galvanizing moment
Speaker 1: for that offense and Matthew Stafford. This is interesting though,
Speaker 1: because as you mentioned, with Eckler, uh, it's fifty one
Speaker 1: catches already on the air. He's tied with Keen Allen
Speaker 1: for the most on the Chargers roster, putting him on
Speaker 1: pace for over a hundred this season. Melvin Gordon is
Speaker 1: back in additionally has been their bell cub. But I
Speaker 1: think the one thing they learned in those whatever it
Speaker 1: was five six weeks that they didn't have Gordon is
Speaker 1: Eckler is a guy that you can turn to, you
Speaker 1: can rely on, and he does seem to have some
Speaker 1: chemistry there with you know, Philip Rivers. And let's be honest,
Speaker 1: when the Packers have had issues this year, it's with
Speaker 1: those type of shiftier type players and open space in
Speaker 1: teams that have tight ends and you know the Chargers
Speaker 1: have tight ends to Hunter Henry is a guy that
Speaker 1: can make you heard at times, and in Dontrell Inman
Speaker 1: has quite a few big plays this season, even though
Speaker 1: he maybe doesn't have the ton of catches that you
Speaker 1: look for from like guys that really jump off the radar.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I think you have to pressure Philip Rivers.
Speaker 1: I think you need to be able to stop the run,
Speaker 1: and you've got to make sure you can limit those
Speaker 1: big places because there are multiple threats there. The only
Speaker 1: thing that will be interesting though, is if things kind
Speaker 1: of crazy and Charges have to switch switch to like
Speaker 1: a silent count in their own stadium. That's gonna be
Speaker 1: one thing to watch because that definitely will challenge the
Speaker 1: communication of that unit. Yeah, but that's also something that
Speaker 1: they've already had to do. And you know, they took
Speaker 1: their lumps against the Pittsburgh Steelers with that that pro
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh crowd, so they've been through that once before. UM
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Speaker 1: on the defensive side of the ball for the Chargers,
Speaker 1: reigning a f C Defensive Player of the Week is
Speaker 1: Joey Bosa. Not only did he have two sacks in
Speaker 1: the seventeen to sixteen victory for the Chargers over the
Speaker 1: Bears on Sunday, he had two additional tackles for loss
Speaker 1: in that game. And this is also the second consecutive
Speaker 1: game now that Joey Bosa has had multiple sacks. So
Speaker 1: um a lot of attention going to his younger brother
Speaker 1: out in San Francisco, and for good reason, because Nick
Speaker 1: Bosa is also a defensive Player of the Week this week.
Speaker 1: But Joey Bosa, he's been doing it for a little
Speaker 1: bit longer than his younger brother. I believe this is
Speaker 1: his fourth year in the league. And uh, this is
Speaker 1: one of those guys that know Matt Lafleur, Nathaniel Hack
Speaker 1: at that offensive staff. You go into a game building
Speaker 1: a game plan against this defense, Joey Bosa is the
Speaker 1: guy with the target on his back, do you I'm
Speaker 1: trying I was trying to think of this before the show.
Speaker 1: I wonder if this is the first time that him
Speaker 1: and Jake Kumer are going to be playing each other,
Speaker 1: because there are first cousins for those people who yes,
Speaker 1: you're right, and that is one little storyline. When we're
Speaker 1: all done with this, we're sitting back at our desk
Speaker 1: and trying to like plot out the week. That's be
Speaker 1: one thing that's interesting to follow. But Bosa, obviously his
Speaker 1: brother Nick, two of the pre eminent pass rushers in
Speaker 1: the league. I saw that stat last week that they
Speaker 1: actually beat the Watt Brothers record for most sacks in
Speaker 1: a single week by Brothers five. So you can jot
Speaker 1: that one down in your little notebook. Um, but no,
Speaker 1: Joey is a fantastic football player. For four sacks the
Speaker 1: last two weeks, um thirty five and a half already
Speaker 1: in three plus seasons. I mean, how quickly the time goes,
Speaker 1: not even his twenty fifth birthday yet. And yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean they need him to be a difference maker. They're
Speaker 1: really relying on it. They do have real solid playmakers here.
Speaker 1: I'm sure we'll talk about Casey Hayward here in a second. Um,
Speaker 1: Thomas Davis is still in the NFL. I mean that's incredible.
Speaker 1: That's that he's still he's still going strong. He's not
Speaker 1: just playing, he's playing well. Yeah, and I mean Desmond King,
Speaker 1: I mean, there's there's a lot of names on this
Speaker 1: defense that kind of jump off the page to you.
Speaker 1: And then certain Melvin Ingram when he's healthy is has
Speaker 1: been one of the top guys in this league as
Speaker 1: well at times. So yeah, but both say is the guy.
Speaker 1: I mean, they draft him to be the guy and
Speaker 1: and certainly he's lived up to that reputation over the
Speaker 1: last few seasons. Yeah, this this Chargers defense a unit
Speaker 1: that's had its ups and downs. But you know, for
Speaker 1: the most part, I mean, granted the Bears, they've had
Speaker 1: their struggles offensively with Mitchell Robinsky and everything. The Bears
Speaker 1: really struggled to to put points on the board against
Speaker 1: this unit. It's there really isn't a game this year
Speaker 1: that you look at this Chargers defense kind of getting
Speaker 1: blown out of the water everything. The biggest reason, frankly,
Speaker 1: that the Charges have played so many close games and
Speaker 1: have really been in every game that they've played, is
Speaker 1: because their defense is just solid. It's not spectacular, it's
Speaker 1: not to knock you over, it's it's not that fearsome
Speaker 1: type of defense that um that that you know, takes
Speaker 1: the ball away all the time or just buries the quarterback.
Speaker 1: But it's a really really solid unit. And you know,
Speaker 1: Casey Hayward, the former Packers certainly one of those guys
Speaker 1: in the back end you mentioned Melvin Ingram is the
Speaker 1: tandem guy on on the other edge. As far as
Speaker 1: a pass rusher with Joey Bosa, this is a this
Speaker 1: is a solid group that is not necessarily going to
Speaker 1: be easy to score. Again, it is funny though there
Speaker 1: are now this I would say this is a better
Speaker 1: defense than Kansas City, but there are parallels there though,
Speaker 1: right I mean defensively with their run front, there's gonna
Speaker 1: be opportunities there for Aaron Jones and Jamal Williams again
Speaker 1: this week. I think they're in the twenties as far
Speaker 1: as their total run defenses here, but there are top
Speaker 1: ten past you know, unit against that in twelfth overall
Speaker 1: in total yards. Uh. Certainly a team that is that
Speaker 1: is difficult to be messed with. And Casey Hayward, I'd
Speaker 1: be ever missed if I didn't just talk about the
Speaker 1: career that he's had out there. Um in the last
Speaker 1: four seas, and I mean has become an all pro cornerback.
Speaker 1: I know every time you bring up the c H
Speaker 1: word packer fans get enraged. Um, it is what it is.
Speaker 1: I mean. I the reason I guess I probably have
Speaker 1: this like this perspective is I always valued Hayward as
Speaker 1: the top of the line cornerback. I just thought he was.
Speaker 1: I thought he caught some bad breaks with the hamstrings,
Speaker 1: but I thought he was a leader in an important
Speaker 1: voice in that room, especially in two thousand and fifteen
Speaker 1: when you know they started to you know, there weren't
Speaker 1: there wasn't that Sam Shields guy in there anymore more.
Speaker 1: You know, there was different type of you know, makeup.
Speaker 1: You needed someone that talked, You need someone that lad
Speaker 1: and Casey Haywards that guy, Um, and I have a
Speaker 1: really high amount of respect for him and how he's
Speaker 1: carried himself and how he's bounced back from adversity in
Speaker 1: his life to become the player that he has been.
Speaker 1: And there are big time playmakers in this defense. So, um,
Speaker 1: this is gonna be another one of those battles where
Speaker 1: it's gonna be yards, it's gonna be time of possession,
Speaker 1: It's gonna be takeaways. The Chargers definitely are a team
Speaker 1: that can take the football away. Their third down defense
Speaker 1: has hurt them at time times this season. But as
Speaker 1: you said, Mike, there's a reason why there's been so
Speaker 1: many gut wrenching losses for l A this year, and
Speaker 1: it's because they've been in every game they've played. Yeah, So,
Speaker 1: I mean that's when you go through nine games, when
Speaker 1: you get to this point in the season into your
Speaker 1: ninth game and you've played that many close ones, you
Speaker 1: expect to get at least those and they just haven't
Speaker 1: been able to do that. Yeah. Yeah, that's it's really been, uh,
Speaker 1: some late game failures that have been some some major regrets,
Speaker 1: and they're looking at obviously, as you said, they caught
Speaker 1: a break. The Bears missed the kick on the final play,
Speaker 1: So they finally get one of those late game situations
Speaker 1: to go their way and they're hoping that that begins
Speaker 1: the turnaround for them to get back on track and
Speaker 1: back into playoff contention. On the special team side of things,
Speaker 1: I actually want to talk about the Packers because we
Speaker 1: have some roster news there to discuss. The Packers have
Speaker 1: brought Traymont Smith back up to the active roster from
Speaker 1: the practice squad and have released undrafted rookie wide receiver
Speaker 1: and her man Darius Shepherd. So we saw a little
Speaker 1: bit of a shake up with the return game. Shepherd
Speaker 1: was replaced on kickoffs by Channon Sullivan, but Shepherd was
Speaker 1: still returning punts against Kansas City. Now the shake up
Speaker 1: is essentially complete. The Packers really looking for some kind
Speaker 1: of a spark in the return game because both with
Speaker 1: what opponents have done on returns and the lack of
Speaker 1: explosive plays in terms of what the Packers have done
Speaker 1: with their returns, the Packers have been losing the field
Speaker 1: position battle this season and that's one area that Matt
Speaker 1: Lafleur really wants to change. Yeah, and that's why when
Speaker 1: you look at the offense, the four minute offense, the
Speaker 1: ability to sustain drives have been so critical and important
Speaker 1: because a lot of times they have been having to
Speaker 1: go the full distance of the field. They want to
Speaker 1: find a spark play. They want to be able to
Speaker 1: turn that around and you know, and find some success there. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm very curious see what they do with Trey
Speaker 1: Smith here. Uh. Certainly we already talked about it at
Speaker 1: nausea months ago. I mean, this is a guy that
Speaker 1: is the top of the line kickoff returner. He was
Speaker 1: one of the best in the business last year, made
Speaker 1: the p f A w A All Rookie team in
Speaker 1: that compa City. But he hasn't really returned punt since college.
Speaker 1: So do you look at him to handle those duties
Speaker 1: because realistically, that is the one when you were talking
Speaker 1: about you know, Shepherds still being back there against Kansas City.
Speaker 1: Packers don't have a lot of like guys with a
Speaker 1: lot of pelts on the wall and regards to punt
Speaker 1: returns right now. Truman Williams did it in a pinch
Speaker 1: last year, But I don't think that's your that's your
Speaker 1: prime option. That's more of an you know, break the
Speaker 1: glass in case of emergency. Yeah, we've and we've seen
Speaker 1: in training camp, preseason, we've seen Jay Year Alexander dabble
Speaker 1: in punt returns a little bit. But again, that's your
Speaker 1: you know, one of your top cornerbacks. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know. At the end of the defensive series,
Speaker 1: when he might be tired and the defense is getting
Speaker 1: off the field, do you send is that the guy
Speaker 1: you send back their return upon I don't know what
Speaker 1: the Packers are going to do here, frankly, and we
Speaker 1: may not find out until Sunday afternoon because there was
Speaker 1: no indication there was There was no reveal from the
Speaker 1: coaching staff or from anybody in the locker room that
Speaker 1: there was a change being made at kickoff return until
Speaker 1: the beginning of Sunday night's game when we saw Sullivan back. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and Sullivan said, I mean, you know, he'd taken you know,
Speaker 1: kickoff returns here and there, and he caught some balls.
Speaker 1: But it wasn't until that week that Sean Menninger finally
Speaker 1: told him, Okay, you're the guy, and he went in
Speaker 1: there and you know, he did the job. But as
Speaker 1: you know, my kickoff returns and punter turns, there's such
Speaker 1: different animals. And I'm not trying to put punt returners
Speaker 1: up there with the difficulty of playing quarterback or an
Speaker 1: island corner, you know, trying to coordinate a defense as
Speaker 1: a middle linebacker. But it is a difficult job. I
Speaker 1: think if you have the top of the line punt returner,
Speaker 1: you gotta value that person because there just aren't a
Speaker 1: lot of them. Because it's it's a it's such a
Speaker 1: delicate balance, probably more than I think maybe any other
Speaker 1: position besides quarterback in terms of being conservative in wanting
Speaker 1: to make a big play and having to have a
Speaker 1: little risk, and the Packers just have not they've not
Speaker 1: had the big play and unfortunately they've had enough punt
Speaker 1: already this season. So these are all options that they're
Speaker 1: looking to exercise a little bit. And you know, we'll
Speaker 1: we'll have to see how this game plays out. But
Speaker 1: there is an extra roster spot open to mention that
Speaker 1: too as we're talking right now. Um, certainly you have
Speaker 1: Jay Sternberger is an eligible you know, guy to take
Speaker 1: that they also had released, you know, Evan Bayliss. That's
Speaker 1: how that came open. Um, you know Ibrahim Campbell's coming back.
Speaker 1: I mean, just a lot of different things that kind
Speaker 1: of get thrown up into this discussion in terms of
Speaker 1: how you picked your fifty three and then from that
Speaker 1: fifty three, who are your special teams stalwarts? Right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean there's a lot of shuffling out to do
Speaker 1: as as the week goes along. And there's one thing
Speaker 1: we know about Matt Lafleur. He's not necessarily going to
Speaker 1: just reveal what his plans are. He'll take those plans
Speaker 1: into Sunday night. We'll be sitting in the press box
Speaker 1: and then we'll see, we'll see how it shakes. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean that's the reason that with Channon Sullivan, it
Speaker 1: was funny. We're way up there in that Kansas City
Speaker 1: Head press box and I, you and I were saying, oh,
Speaker 1: that's Channon Sullivan. Rob Demovsky, God bless him. I'm not
Speaker 1: trying to put him on blast here, but Rob, you know, says, oh,
Speaker 1: Channon Sullivan's back for the return. And then he switches
Speaker 1: his tweet and note to no, that's that's Tony Brown.
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, it's still Channing Sullivan. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: just the position everybody was in because once you realize
Speaker 1: it wasn't Darius Shephard, you really didn't have a thought
Speaker 1: in the back of your mind who it might be.
Speaker 1: I thought maybe Jama Williams. And as it turns out,
Speaker 1: they end up going that direction with Sullivan, and we'll
Speaker 1: see what direction they go now moving forward. Yeah, all right, Well,
Speaker 1: with that, we'll call it a wrap on this edition
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