Speaker 1: Hi, everybody. Welcome to another edition of Packers Unscripted from
Speaker 1: Packers dot Com. I am Mike Spoffer, joined as always
Speaker 1: by the one the only Western hod Cowits were coming
Speaker 1: to you here from our studios at lambeau Field. Week
Speaker 1: seven West. The Washington football team is coming to lambeau Field.
Speaker 1: It will be a Neon and Central Time kickoff on Sunday.
Speaker 1: And when you look at this Washington team two and four,
Speaker 1: Packers are five and one. I wrote this Wednesday evening,
Speaker 1: posted it on our website looking at this Washington defense,
Speaker 1: and I lead the story with a simple line that
Speaker 1: something just doesn't compute, because defensively, this is a unit
Speaker 1: that was last last season, was second in the league
Speaker 1: in yards allowed, fourth in the league and points allowed.
Speaker 1: Led Washington to a playoff spot with a backup quarterback
Speaker 1: actually actually third string quarterback, nearly got a victory in
Speaker 1: the first round of the playoffs over Tampa Bay, who
Speaker 1: eventually won the Super Bowl, of course. But yet with
Speaker 1: the bulk of that personnel back on defense, Suddenly after
Speaker 1: six games, this Washington team is thirty one in the
Speaker 1: league in yards allowed and last in the league in
Speaker 1: points allowed. It's just a lot of it just doesn't
Speaker 1: make sense because because the talent is there on that
Speaker 1: side of the ball without question. It is kind of
Speaker 1: funny that, you know, a few weeks ago we're talking
Speaker 1: about the Cincinnati Bengals, and the Bengals have really come
Speaker 1: on right with a lot of guys that I don't think,
Speaker 1: you know, your family members at the kitchen table really
Speaker 1: know who they are. Washington, it's not that problem. I mean,
Speaker 1: Chase Young, Montez Sweat, John Bostick is a linebacker for them.
Speaker 1: You know, Jamaine Davis has been a steady middle linebacker
Speaker 1: in this league. Kendall Fuller, William Jackson, the third Landon Collins.
Speaker 1: I mean they have names, you know, Matti and ITAs.
Speaker 1: I mean, they have guys that you know who these
Speaker 1: people are in fast year, I think Rogers even mentioned
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers talked about it. You know, they won a
Speaker 1: lot of games last year playing to their defense, I mean,
Speaker 1: being able to, you know, strategically sort of win games,
Speaker 1: allow them to manage things offensively because of what their
Speaker 1: defense was doing. Well this year, that floodgate is sort
Speaker 1: of broken a little bit. Now. The real interesting thing
Speaker 1: about Washington is they still are dangerous they're giving up
Speaker 1: a ton of yards forner and twenty three yards per game.
Speaker 1: As you mentioned the scoring defense, but they can get
Speaker 1: after the quarterback, they can find ways to take away
Speaker 1: the football. It's just the big picture sort of statistics
Speaker 1: that everybody talks about when you break down total defense,
Speaker 1: total scoring. They're really coming up short in that area. Yeah, something,
Speaker 1: something just hasn't come together. Because even just last week's game,
Speaker 1: they were beating Kansas City thirteen to ten at halftime,
Speaker 1: and then Kansas City runs away with it in the
Speaker 1: second half, and and Washington is not even competitive in
Speaker 1: the final two quarters after playing a really really solid
Speaker 1: first two quarters. So defense of Lee, it starts with
Speaker 1: that defensive front. With this unit, you're talking about four
Speaker 1: first round picks. They used a first round pick in
Speaker 1: every draft four years in a row, nineteen and twenty
Speaker 1: to get Jonathan Allen Deron Payne. The two inside guys
Speaker 1: were first, then Montes Sweat and Chase Young the two
Speaker 1: edge guys. Now, those edge guys haven't racked up a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of numbers yet this year. But Chase Young,
Speaker 1: he has just two sacks, but those two sacks have
Speaker 1: come in the last two games, so that maybe the
Speaker 1: NFL defensive rookie of the year starting to heat up
Speaker 1: a little bit. The two inside guys are really interesting though,
Speaker 1: because Payne and Alan they rank they both rank in
Speaker 1: the top seven amongst defensive tackles interior defensive lineman in
Speaker 1: terms of total pressures on the quarterback. Kenny Clark is
Speaker 1: in that top seven as well, in uh in a
Speaker 1: tie for fourth place, but uh, um, but I believe
Speaker 1: it's Alan is third and Pain is tied for even
Speaker 1: um on that chart. So this is uh. You know,
Speaker 1: the Packers have faced really good defensive fronts for several
Speaker 1: weeks now, starting with San Francisco in week three. Um, obviously,
Speaker 1: and we talked about we talked about Pittsburgh and then
Speaker 1: and then Cincinnati and then last week with Chicago, and
Speaker 1: this is this is another big challenge up front, and
Speaker 1: you know, the Packers are still dealing with some injuries
Speaker 1: on the offensive line as they navigate them. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: they were fortunate enough as we kind of you know,
Speaker 1: prognosticated projected earlier this week with Matt Lafleur that David
Speaker 1: Bock terror by back at practice, which he was on Wednesday.
Speaker 1: But you know, I don't think you can necessarily count
Speaker 1: on him being back this this Sunday. It's mostly about
Speaker 1: getting that window opening, getting some practice reps underneath his
Speaker 1: belt the way I described as maybe simulating a little
Speaker 1: bit of a mini training camp, if you will, after
Speaker 1: he's had ten months off. But then you lose Josh
Speaker 1: Myers as well, So that means likely Lucas Patrick going
Speaker 1: into that center spot. Good news is Elton Jenkins all
Speaker 1: good on that front. Was removed completely from the injury
Speaker 1: report on Wednesday with the ankle injury after missing three games.
Speaker 1: But the fact of the matter is, Mike, you know
Speaker 1: that unit has put together so many strong games this year.
Speaker 1: This is probably one of the stiffest tests they faced
Speaker 1: all season. Um, while you know Robert Quinn and Khalil
Speaker 1: Mack and everybody that you know, Chicago presents in what
Speaker 1: is statistically one of the better units in the league,
Speaker 1: I still think that this Washington unit stands right there
Speaker 1: with them. Chase Young, you mentioned he only has two sacks,
Speaker 1: but this is a guy that can go off at
Speaker 1: any time. I mean those two sacks can become five
Speaker 1: sacks on the season real quick. And you know, with
Speaker 1: sweat sweat has been one of my favorite I loved
Speaker 1: him coming out of the draft, I believe, but I
Speaker 1: don't want to be misquote staking here. I believe it
Speaker 1: was the heart condition or that there was some kind
Speaker 1: of medical red flag that that allowed him to kind
Speaker 1: of fall a little bit that he felt he fell
Speaker 1: towards the end of the first round. I believe he
Speaker 1: ended up being taken twenty six in the draft was
Speaker 1: a remarkable fine for Washington as long as the medicals
Speaker 1: checked out. This guy was a bona fide top ten,
Speaker 1: top fifteen type talent. He had that ability and he's
Speaker 1: been a really productive player for them. Nine sacks last season,
Speaker 1: I believe, and even this year, yes he only has three,
Speaker 1: but he's been able to hit the quarterback the pressure
Speaker 1: status you outlined in your story on packers dot Com. Like,
Speaker 1: we focus so much about stats, so many stats on sacks,
Speaker 1: but it really is about how you affect the quarterback,
Speaker 1: and as Matt Lafloor said, this group definitely accomplishes that. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well on on the offensive side of the ball for Washington,
Speaker 1: the Taylor Heineke I give. I give this young man
Speaker 1: all the credit in the world. When you I remember
Speaker 1: watching that playoff game that when the Packers had the
Speaker 1: first round buy in the playoffs last year. And obviously
Speaker 1: Alex Smith, who had as a quarterback, had come off
Speaker 1: the bench and completed his remarkable recovery from injury and
Speaker 1: had led Washington to that division championship in the NFC East.
Speaker 1: But then he was not healthy enough to play in
Speaker 1: the playoffs. So Taylor Heineke gets thrown in there and
Speaker 1: and uh and did a whale of a job. And
Speaker 1: as I said before, they almost pulled the upset against
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay. That game was that game was still in
Speaker 1: the balance with five six minutes left in the fourth quarter. Um.
Speaker 1: But when I look at you look at statistically where
Speaker 1: Washington is on offense this year, Taylor Heineke does not
Speaker 1: get sacked a lot. He can run around, he can scramble.
Speaker 1: He's actually the second leading rusher UM for Washington behind
Speaker 1: uh the number one back Antonio Gibson. But uh, but
Speaker 1: when you look at it statistically, there's there's a there's
Speaker 1: an explosive element to the passing game that's just missing.
Speaker 1: They don't Yes, they've had they've had some big explosive plays,
Speaker 1: but on a consistent basis, this is not a passing
Speaker 1: game that's been able to produce the five yard completions
Speaker 1: to get those big chunks of yardage to get drives going,
Speaker 1: and uh and and as a result, it's it's an
Speaker 1: offense that that that's gotten bogged down because it's just
Speaker 1: it's it's been forced to grind things out, you know,
Speaker 1: more than they would like. Yes, And I think you
Speaker 1: make some excellent points there. While there's a bigger question
Speaker 1: mark with what's going on right now with the Washington
Speaker 1: defense and why it hasn't all clicked, I think there's
Speaker 1: a lot more understanding of where Washington is at offensively
Speaker 1: right now. They made a big shift obviously, a lot
Speaker 1: of a lot of changes with the quarterback position. I
Speaker 1: mean the fact that you had Heineke, who was brought
Speaker 1: in last December on the practice squad was the only
Speaker 1: quarterback I think they retained throughout their off season. That
Speaker 1: that that's one and obviously you know Alex Smith retired,
Speaker 1: But that shows you the seismic shift you saw with
Speaker 1: Washington's personnel. I like Heineke a lot, though I still do.
Speaker 1: I mean, this guy is a grinder. He's sort of
Speaker 1: reminds you of some of these quarterbacks of yesteryear in
Speaker 1: the two thousands and two thousand tents, that guys just
Speaker 1: who kind of come out of obscurity and find a
Speaker 1: way to make plays. But to your original point that
Speaker 1: you presented the start and stop right now, this Washington offense,
Speaker 1: I think you're seeing that in Terry mclaurin's stats this season.
Speaker 1: McLaurin had a huge game against Atlanta hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: some yards, two touchdowns. The last two weeks I think
Speaker 1: eight catches total sixty eight yards. I mean, it's been
Speaker 1: a difficult kind of sledding there. And unfortunately for their
Speaker 1: backfield situation now, Antonio Gibson is dealing with a shin injury.
Speaker 1: He did not practice Wednesday. You don't know what his
Speaker 1: status is going to be. They do have j D. Mckissic,
Speaker 1: who's been a veteran that's been around this league, but
Speaker 1: he was more of a past catching option for them.
Speaker 1: I I don't know if that's going to be their
Speaker 1: bell cow back if Gibson can't go in this thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's not really a role that mckissic has had in
Speaker 1: his career. He's been more of he's been more of
Speaker 1: that that change up back receiver out of the backfield
Speaker 1: type of guy, and been very productive in that role.
Speaker 1: But he hasn't really been a twenty five carrier game
Speaker 1: type running exactly, and just overall this is just a
Speaker 1: really beat up unit there. Tight end position has been
Speaker 1: just hampered by injuries. McLaurin even is also dealing with
Speaker 1: a hamstring. He miss practice on Wednesday. So mclauren is
Speaker 1: an impressive receiver though. He incredible, He really is. He's
Speaker 1: a He's a he's a dynamic He's a dynamic guy
Speaker 1: who can, as I said, even though some of the
Speaker 1: explosive players have been missing, this guy can explode on
Speaker 1: you as well as be it also be a possession
Speaker 1: guy to move the chains. He's a young receiver who
Speaker 1: really can do it all. He's kind of in that,
Speaker 1: you know, sort of six ft six one range that
Speaker 1: Davante Adams falls into. Two very different type of players.
Speaker 1: But you know, for so long everybody had this idea
Speaker 1: that it's just you gotta be Megatron, right, you gotta
Speaker 1: be six five. You just gotta tell her over people,
Speaker 1: you gotta run a four four. There's a kind of
Speaker 1: the shiftier, sort of hybrid type receiver that's developed in
Speaker 1: recent years. I think McLaurin is the perfect example that
Speaker 1: because he wasn't a highly touted guy coming out of college.
Speaker 1: I think he was a third round pick if my
Speaker 1: memory serves me correctly, and he has just stepped in
Speaker 1: from day one and been a playmaker for Washington and
Speaker 1: a badly needed playmaker too, for an offense that has
Speaker 1: had a lot of changes in their backfield, has not
Speaker 1: had a lot of stable personnel from year to year,
Speaker 1: and and certainly Heineke has developed that rapport with them.
Speaker 1: The Packers main key, though, is going to be making
Speaker 1: sure that they don't allow him to get back on
Speaker 1: the tracks this week. They got to delay that impending
Speaker 1: storm one more game. Yeah. Well, I want to get
Speaker 1: to some more of those keys to victory for the
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Speaker 1: all right, keys to victory here for Green Bay. I
Speaker 1: just want to throw this one out there, because you know,
Speaker 1: when the Packers get on a winning streak like they
Speaker 1: are now they've won five in a row, you start
Speaker 1: to take for granted sometimes how well this team offensively
Speaker 1: protects the football. And this is one of those games.
Speaker 1: In my opinion, I think the Packers are the better team.
Speaker 1: You're playing at home, you know, back at home after
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks on the road and all that.
Speaker 1: This is definitely a game the Packers should win. Do
Speaker 1: not give Washington those turnover opportunities that can really start
Speaker 1: to swing a game, and give that give that underdog
Speaker 1: team on the road the belief that they can steal
Speaker 1: a victory. Um for from you, the Packers have to
Speaker 1: continue to protect the football the way they have. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And and for me, it's just pressuring Heineke. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's no coincidence, Mike that the games in which Heineke
Speaker 1: has played the best, those are the two games that
Speaker 1: Washington has won this year. The games from which he's
Speaker 1: had big passing days are the days in which Washington
Speaker 1: has won especially if Gibson can't go in this one.
Speaker 1: You know, there's still sounds like there's still some tests
Speaker 1: they're doing on the ship. I think that's an injury
Speaker 1: he's been dealing with before. But they're gonna be really
Speaker 1: restricted in terms of what they're going to be able
Speaker 1: to do offensively. I think in those instances, you look
Speaker 1: at Ron Rivere and what he's done throughout his coaching career,
Speaker 1: that's where he's going to adapt. And in Heineke is
Speaker 1: a big part of that. His scrambling ability is a
Speaker 1: big part of it. Last week, they did such a
Speaker 1: great job of rushing to contain Justin Field's not allowing
Speaker 1: him to burn you, uh and you know, kind of
Speaker 1: break your ankles and put on some bad film. Green
Speaker 1: Bay played very discipline. They played very discipline and the
Speaker 1: penalties side of things as well. You have to keep
Speaker 1: that momentum building in this game. In first and foremost,
Speaker 1: you're five and one. The Washington football team is two
Speaker 1: and four. Right now, you have to play like a
Speaker 1: five and one football team at your own home field
Speaker 1: at noon start time. Everything working in your favorite on
Speaker 1: a five game winning streak. Be who everybody thinks that
Speaker 1: you are. Yeah, I agree, And when I especially when
Speaker 1: I look at the offensive side of the ball for
Speaker 1: the Packers, and we've talked over the weeks about all
Speaker 1: the shuffling on the offensive line and the injuries they're
Speaker 1: dealing with, but with this string of tough defensive fronts
Speaker 1: that they have faced, Matt Lafleur, Nathaniel Hackett, Luke Getzi,
Speaker 1: Adam Stanovitch, the coaching staff, Aaron Rodgers and company. Out
Speaker 1: in the field, there's they're they're developing. They're developing an
Speaker 1: offense that uh, that travels, so to speak. And what
Speaker 1: I mean by that is is you know you can
Speaker 1: line it up against a lot of different opponents. Because
Speaker 1: over these weeks here, with with facing these defensive fronts,
Speaker 1: the injuries on the offensive line, the Packers have they
Speaker 1: they've they've gone to sometimes a quit game with the
Speaker 1: passing game, get the ball out of rogers handily. They've
Speaker 1: relied on the running backs. They've let Aaron Jones and
Speaker 1: a J. Dillon grind out yards. They've used those running
Speaker 1: backs in the passing game to keep those linebackers, keep
Speaker 1: the pass rushers honest, because they have to honor whatever
Speaker 1: and wherever those running backs are going to go schematically. Schematically,
Speaker 1: the Packers are are developing an offense that they can
Speaker 1: take up against almost any opponent and and and also
Speaker 1: reflexively deal with whatever injuries up front. Now you're hoping
Speaker 1: in the coming weeks here that this Packer's offensive line
Speaker 1: is going to eventually look like the one that that
Speaker 1: you thought it would be at the beginning of the season,
Speaker 1: or you know, aside from box trs injury obviously, but
Speaker 1: I like what Green Bay is doing on offense, and
Speaker 1: as you said, just be who you are, keep keep
Speaker 1: this up, keep developing what you're doing with this balanced
Speaker 1: offensive attack and making defenses play you, honestly, because when
Speaker 1: you produce on the ground and with the just just
Speaker 1: the skills and the masterful mind of Aaron Rodgers and
Speaker 1: how he gets this offense into the right play at
Speaker 1: the right time, with the right checks and adjustments, the
Speaker 1: Packers are on their way to, you know, to the
Speaker 1: offense that they want to have. They've been doing it
Speaker 1: more and more, and Mike too, whether it's the way
Speaker 1: they protected the football, the way the defense has taken
Speaker 1: the ball away. Even last week, you know, a big
Speaker 1: uptick for Green Bay in the in their own you know,
Speaker 1: with their offensive red zone, you know, being able to
Speaker 1: actually get scores and all four of those trips getting
Speaker 1: touchdowns on three of them. That's the recipe. It was
Speaker 1: the recipe last year, controlling the time of possession. I
Speaker 1: just feel like Green Bay, you know, Aaron Rodgers was
Speaker 1: talked about this upcoming slate of games that came that's
Speaker 1: coming up, and people talk about trap games, and I
Speaker 1: really enjoyed Rogers perspective on that when he mentioned that.
Speaker 1: He's like, of course, we know what the schedule is.
Speaker 1: You have to know what the schedule is, but you're
Speaker 1: not gonna say some cliche about you know, it's all
Speaker 1: about washing all of our focuses on Washington. That's the fact.
Speaker 1: It has to be about Washington this week, because otherwise,
Speaker 1: if you're five and two and you just lost to
Speaker 1: a previously two and four team and now you're taking
Speaker 1: on our probably the best team in football in a
Speaker 1: short week, you're not really setting yourself up for success
Speaker 1: very well. Everybody in that locker room understands where Green
Speaker 1: Bay is at. They understand this is the one little
Speaker 1: oasis here at home before they get back out on
Speaker 1: the road again. You have to make it count. And
Speaker 1: I think for the most part, as long as you
Speaker 1: protect the football, control the possessions, Green Bay knows the
Speaker 1: recipe here what it's going to take to be the
Speaker 1: team like Washington that's gonna come out with nothing to lose. Yeah,
Speaker 1: quick thought before we talk about the rest of the
Speaker 1: NFC North Um. The nineteen fifties classic uniforms will be
Speaker 1: on display Sunday at lambeau Field. From the pictures, we've
Speaker 1: only seen pictures really, but what do you think? Pretty shnazzy. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I liked them, you know, and especially it was a
Speaker 1: change of pace, right. I mean, as much as I
Speaker 1: really do hate not being able to wear the ACME
Speaker 1: Packers stuff on camera was like my favorite. But you
Speaker 1: like wearing all that blue, the blue and gold stuff.
Speaker 1: You were You've been big into that. Love it. I'm
Speaker 1: still trying to work on it when the days in
Speaker 1: which we don't have to be on camera. But I
Speaker 1: will say when the uniforms got announced, with our wonderful
Speaker 1: video department Adam Howell Heinrich and his team Tyler Geiski,
Speaker 1: they put together some amazing packages. It did get you
Speaker 1: excited for it because the other thing I like too,
Speaker 1: is the NFL finally in addition to relaxing a lot
Speaker 1: of different things, Um, they relaxed the helmet stuff. You know,
Speaker 1: they got to a point there where they're saying no
Speaker 1: changes with the helmets. Well, now the Packers are gonna
Speaker 1: be able to go without the logo, give it a
Speaker 1: real clean look. Altogether, I'm just really excited for it.
Speaker 1: And the fact of the matter is the the inspiration
Speaker 1: of it. I think they came up with a pretty
Speaker 1: cool design. You don't see many versions and variations from
Speaker 1: such a traditional football team. Why would you. The Yankees
Speaker 1: aren't going to go out and neon you know, green
Speaker 1: and blue anytime soon. But it still holds true to
Speaker 1: the feeling of the Packers, but also give you a
Speaker 1: kind of a new vibe as well. Yeah, it's I think.
Speaker 1: I think the uniforms look really sharp. Um, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: interested to see just really out on the field in
Speaker 1: a game what the green pants look like, because it's
Speaker 1: just not something we've seen the Packers where it's always
Speaker 1: been the gold pants except for the color rush the
Speaker 1: white when when they've had the white pants and what's that, Well,
Speaker 1: we haven't had color Russia they haven't. They haven't. I
Speaker 1: mean this uniform in a sense is because it's green
Speaker 1: jersey with green pants, you know, so there is there
Speaker 1: is kind of a color rush element to it. But
Speaker 1: uh yeah, Well elsewhere in the NFC North, actually, with
Speaker 1: the Packers two games up on both the Bears and
Speaker 1: the Vikings, Chicago Minnesota both three and three, Minnesota's on
Speaker 1: its by Chicago, a really tough assignment. A road game
Speaker 1: at Tampa Bay. So if you're the Packers here, you're
Speaker 1: you're at home against Washington. If Tampa Bay holds, serve
Speaker 1: at home against the Bears, and with Minnesota on the
Speaker 1: bye week, you can come out of this week with
Speaker 1: a two and a half game lead on Minnesota. Any
Speaker 1: three game lead on the Bears through seven games, that'd
Speaker 1: be a nice spot to be, but obviously you got
Speaker 1: to take care of business at home. Your thoughts on
Speaker 1: Bears Buccaneers, Yeah, a really difficult test for for Chicago
Speaker 1: because offensively, I think, uh, I think Tampa is going
Speaker 1: to give them a lot of problems with what the
Speaker 1: scheme that they run, how fast those linebackers are. That's
Speaker 1: gonna be an uphill battle. I actually will be really
Speaker 1: interested to watch that Bears defense. Well, we'll see whether
Speaker 1: or not Robert Quinn is going to be in the
Speaker 1: concussion product or not concussion the COVID protocol or not
Speaker 1: if he's available. But even still, you know, Khalil mac
Speaker 1: against that line. And but it also looked like a
Speaker 1: chem Hicks reinjured that growing against the Packers when he
Speaker 1: had that when he had that one. Yeah, so maybe
Speaker 1: it won't be as formidable as I was forecasting just
Speaker 1: a second ago. But be that as it may. You know,
Speaker 1: two of the best inside backers in the league in
Speaker 1: that game. It's gonna be it'll be a fun matchup
Speaker 1: and certainly for Green Bay, uh you know, some potential
Speaker 1: distance there. And then you know, the Detroit Lions gonna
Speaker 1: have to go to l A against the five and one.
Speaker 1: The storyline there obviously the swap of the quarterbacks Jared
Speaker 1: Goff Matthew Stafford changing places. There's been you know, the
Speaker 1: sides of you know, express some regrets about kind of
Speaker 1: how things went down from a communication standpoint, and maybe
Speaker 1: some bad feelings and whatever. But now it's yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean the rams are the rams are you know up
Speaker 1: at the top of arguably the you know, the toughest division,
Speaker 1: topped a bottom in the NFC and uh and the
Speaker 1: Detroit Lions still looking for that first victory after after
Speaker 1: some real kick in the gut losses for Dan Campbell.
Speaker 1: The Lions knew what they were doing when they were
Speaker 1: trading Matthew Stafford. They understood that this was okay, we're
Speaker 1: putting the flag up. This is officially a rebuild now.
Speaker 1: But man, I don't think they were thinking they end
Speaker 1: up having this matchup at Owen six and in Jared
Speaker 1: Goff's you know, yards per tempt being where they're at.
Speaker 1: As far as the Rams are concerned, though, they're a
Speaker 1: fun football team to watch, Mike. Between them in Arizona,
Speaker 1: I mean that NFC West, there are some really competitive
Speaker 1: You talk about the NFL in two thousand twenty one
Speaker 1: and the offensive Revolution and people wanted to watch exciting football.
Speaker 1: There's probably no two better teams that really exemplify that
Speaker 1: right now than the Rams and the Cardinals. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: the Rams, as we talked about on our last show,
Speaker 1: the Rams only lost this year is to the Cardinals,
Speaker 1: and the Cardinals on top of that division, but the
Speaker 1: ram Ms al right on their heels. Any other games
Speaker 1: from this week slate that the Texans being fed to
Speaker 1: the Cardinals. Oh my god, good luck. Um No, but
Speaker 1: it is interesting there there are some pretty interesting battles.
Speaker 1: I mean, a two and four Patriots team is going
Speaker 1: up against the Jets. Just you know, the Patriots trying
Speaker 1: to find a way here after that really difficult loss
Speaker 1: against Dallas. Was a tough one they took. They took
Speaker 1: Dallas all the way overtime last week. You know so much.
Speaker 1: I just want to touch on this really fast and
Speaker 1: we'll get out of here. So many people, including you know,
Speaker 1: our own media court, which is fine. I'm not ripping
Speaker 1: on anybody, but everybody's talking about that Kansas City matchup.
Speaker 1: I understand. The Packers have a really tough schedule. Kansas
Speaker 1: City has had a really tough goal of it this year,
Speaker 1: and now they're taking on a Tennessee team that's four
Speaker 1: and two. Kansas City goes in three and three. It's
Speaker 1: been an uphill battle for them as well. So as
Speaker 1: far as the league is concerned, I don't know how
Speaker 1: many marquee matchups there are this week, but some pretty interesting.
Speaker 1: There are six teams on a buy too, so there
Speaker 1: are just a lot fewer, a lot fewer games this
Speaker 1: week than we've seen, but it's a measuring stick week
Speaker 1: to see some of these teams that are pretty impressive
Speaker 1: record wise, if they can do what the records seem
Speaker 1: to indicate they should. Yeah, absolutely well, it'll be a
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