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 Hodkuwitz. Were coming to you here from our studios
Speaker 1: at lambeau Field. West. Were at the midway point of
Speaker 1: the week here as Packers Seahawks Sunday five forty pm
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Speaker 1: fast approaching. We will continue our deep dive into Puget
Speaker 1: Sound maybe as we continue to examine the Seattle Seahawks
Speaker 1: here and interestingly West. You look at these two teams,
Speaker 1: the Packers and the Seahawks, and there aren't a whole
Speaker 1: lot of similarities in how they play, but yet you
Speaker 1: look at their seasons and there are a lot of
Speaker 1: similarities and just how they figure out ways to win.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's the similarity between these two teams. But
Speaker 1: in terms of like the xs and os in the personnel,
Speaker 1: they are very few similarities. So it's just kind of
Speaker 1: a strange matchup in that sense. It really is. But
Speaker 1: that's why I love it so much, because it's the NFL.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's so many different ways you can get
Speaker 1: from A to Z and and I think Seattle and
Speaker 1: Green Bay have both proved that. But you do mention
Speaker 1: some of the statistical parallels between the two. They tied
Speaker 1: for I think second or third in the NFL, third
Speaker 1: in the NFL. I think it was second in the
Speaker 1: NFC for the best turnover margin plus twelve on the season.
Speaker 1: With how they ended things, they're both really strong red
Speaker 1: zone offensive teams. I think in some areas they've you know,
Speaker 1: I think they're right next to each other and run
Speaker 1: defense in the twenties. I mean, it's just there's been
Speaker 1: a lot of different things that they both seems to
Speaker 1: do relatively similar. Now, all that being said, you can
Speaker 1: throw that out the window once they step on the field,
Speaker 1: But seeing you know which team ends up on the
Speaker 1: positive side of the turnover battle, which team controls the
Speaker 1: time of possession, which team defends the run better than
Speaker 1: the other. These are all the little tiny boxes that
Speaker 1: you check off and route to figuring out who the
Speaker 1: better team is and who's going to advance to the
Speaker 1: NFC Championship. And then when you just throw in the
Speaker 1: fact that outside of teams in the NFC North, they
Speaker 1: know each other as well as anybody in the NFL
Speaker 1: for non divisional opponents, They've seen each other every season
Speaker 1: for the last six years. I haven't seen members of
Speaker 1: my family for the last six years, So I mean,
Speaker 1: just to see how this is kind of laid out
Speaker 1: and played out. Uh, you don't really get the matchups
Speaker 1: with Ben Roethlisberger and Tom Brady and obviously when Peyton
Speaker 1: Manning was playing as much as I'm sure fans would like.
Speaker 1: But they've seen Russell Wilson year after year, and you know,
Speaker 1: seeing him match wits with Matt Lafleur and Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1: Those those are fun things to be able to dissect
Speaker 1: and really look into. But I think another interesting aspect
Speaker 1: of this You mentioned the familiarity and how many times
Speaker 1: these teams have played one another regular season and post
Speaker 1: season over the last six or seven years. But yet
Speaker 1: the two thousand nineteen vers to these teams don't really
Speaker 1: look like the teams that we've seen in years past, because, yes,
Speaker 1: you have Russell Wilson, you have Aaron Rodgers, but Matt
Speaker 1: Lafleur is the new head coach in Green Bay. The
Speaker 1: Packers have a lot of new personnel on defense. The Seahawks,
Speaker 1: the legion of boom is no longer there. In the secondary,
Speaker 1: we talked about how their top running backs have been
Speaker 1: injured and they've been, you know, filling in guys who
Speaker 1: don't have at the same level of experience in uh
Speaker 1: that offense, so as familiar as they are with one
Speaker 1: another over the over the long haul, over the course
Speaker 1: of time, these two teams, the two thousand nineteen Packers
Speaker 1: in the two thousand nineteen Seahawks are very different even
Speaker 1: from the two that met in November on that Thursday
Speaker 1: night game in Seattle, just over a year ago. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And one of the thing I want to be able
Speaker 1: to use off of that pivot too, is when you
Speaker 1: look at the roster construction, I think one area where
Speaker 1: the Packers have kind of caught up to Seattle. In
Speaker 1: one area I thought, I tipped my my captain, John Snyder.
Speaker 1: I thought they did a tremendous job with this was
Speaker 1: augmenting their roster with veteran players, leadership, and obviously production
Speaker 1: on the field. John Snyder has been doing a tremendous
Speaker 1: job of that going back for the last decade now
Speaker 1: Green Bay and a lot of times would end up
Speaker 1: being maybe caught with the undrafted rookie in a certain
Speaker 1: position that maybe he wasn't quite ready for or having
Speaker 1: to you know place you know, fill out their special
Speaker 1: teams units with guys that maybe don't have a lot
Speaker 1: of experience with the way that they built this team
Speaker 1: this year, you see the Marcedes Lewis is and you know,
Speaker 1: being able to you know, find guys like Ibraheim Campbell,
Speaker 1: Tyler Irvin who was a fourth year proh put them
Speaker 1: onto your team and and not have them with this
Speaker 1: you know, deer in the headlights kind of look. Not
Speaker 1: only does that allow you to to put guys that
Speaker 1: are you know, have been in those situations before on
Speaker 1: the offense and a defenseiveside the ball, I think it's
Speaker 1: also allowed your your tie summers of the world. You know,
Speaker 1: a rookie that's played on all the core special teams
Speaker 1: all season, he's ready for these moments in the areas
Speaker 1: in which he has been asked to play the entire season.
Speaker 1: That's one thing I've always been impressed with Seattle about
Speaker 1: is I just feel like in all three phases they
Speaker 1: play to their personnel and you're not going to catch
Speaker 1: them being unprepared. Not saying that the Packers weren't. But
Speaker 1: I just think there's a lot of veteran leadership there
Speaker 1: that has helped Seattle through this run. And now when
Speaker 1: you look at Green Bay, when you talk about the
Speaker 1: difference to what that roster looked like last November to
Speaker 1: what they are here in January two twenty, that's what
Speaker 1: stands out to me. They added not only those four
Speaker 1: free agents, but then you look at the Jared Valdiers,
Speaker 1: the Ryan Grants, even though he hasn't been asked to
Speaker 1: play yet. All these guys have a lot of pelts
Speaker 1: on the wall at this point, and if they get
Speaker 1: called upon, they're going to be ready for it. So
Speaker 1: it's just an exciting time. It's an exciting week to
Speaker 1: be able to discuss this matchup and the latest permutation
Speaker 1: of this rivalry over the last decade. Yeah. Well, and
Speaker 1: it seems as though with these two teams you sort
Speaker 1: of get the latest permutation of the team on a
Speaker 1: week to week basis. And what I mean by that
Speaker 1: you look at the Seattle Seahawks. We talked all season
Speaker 1: long about how the Packers keep finding different ways to win.
Speaker 1: They make some key plays in the worth quarter. Maybe
Speaker 1: it's on defense with an interception. Maybe it's on offense
Speaker 1: with a big third down conversion. Maybe it's a big
Speaker 1: punt on special teams that flips the field. Those are
Speaker 1: the ways in the fourth quarter of the Packers of
Speaker 1: won games. You look, you look at the Seahawks West.
Speaker 1: This is a team, a defense that in sixteen regular
Speaker 1: season games, had twenty eight sacks, not even two per
Speaker 1: game over the course of the regular season. So what
Speaker 1: do they do in the wild card game in Philadelphia?
Speaker 1: They sack Carson Wentz and Josh McCown a combined seven
Speaker 1: times cent of their sack production of the entire season.
Speaker 1: They get it in one game in the playoffs when
Speaker 1: they got to have it on the road to stay alive.
Speaker 1: That's that's what has defined the Seahawks. That in some
Speaker 1: ways is what has defined the Packers. When we talk
Speaker 1: about you find a way to win, you do what
Speaker 1: it takes that day to chalk up the w and
Speaker 1: move on. So a funny little side story to this,
Speaker 1: I have to put together the game program for all
Speaker 1: these Packer home games, which is just a joyous joy
Speaker 1: as venture for myself. But I was working with Alexei Kinnard,
Speaker 1: who is one of our production assistants here, and she
Speaker 1: was getting together the dope sheet that natela Cassio, Tom Fanning,
Speaker 1: all our wonderful people up in communications put together and
Speaker 1: in that is the in the league ranking section where
Speaker 1: they realist out the leaders on the team and all
Speaker 1: these categories. And I'm looking at Seattle's and it's Jaren
Speaker 1: Reid with four sacks. Four s and I literally like, wait,
Speaker 1: double check that that can't be right. It can't be
Speaker 1: four sacks because I thought Jadave and Clowney maybe had more.
Speaker 1: He only had three. So like they just for whatever
Speaker 1: reason this year, and I think it probably goes back
Speaker 1: to what you were saying yesterday, where it isn't quite
Speaker 1: the dominant defensive yesteryear, but they have good personnel and
Speaker 1: they played to it. Ken Norton Jr. Has been a
Speaker 1: guy that has been there for many years now. He
Speaker 1: understands what Pete Carroll's looking for, and they understand the
Speaker 1: strengths of that defense. It just so happens that for
Speaker 1: whatever reason, the big pressure statistic this year wasn't something
Speaker 1: that Seattle really thrived in. Yeah, it's it's it's interesting
Speaker 1: how that played out. I want to get back to
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Speaker 1: it's interesting the way the way this season has evolved
Speaker 1: because I don't think I don't think this particular version
Speaker 1: of the Seattle defense has um something that is their
Speaker 1: trademark to speak. And I think in a lot of
Speaker 1: ways this Packers offense with the first season of Matt
Speaker 1: Lafleur and everybody getting adjusted to the new system and
Speaker 1: and Aaron Rodgers working his way through the playbook and
Speaker 1: all the processing that he does at the line of scrimmage,
Speaker 1: I don't know if this Packers offense necessarily has a
Speaker 1: trademark in year one of la Fleur system, but by
Speaker 1: the same token when you get when you get into
Speaker 1: the postseason. We heard Matt Lafleur and Aaron Rodgers talking
Speaker 1: last week about the bye week, the self scout process,
Speaker 1: finding what you do best, and maybe cutting back on
Speaker 1: some of the different concepts and segments of the playbook
Speaker 1: that you study it and they didn't go as well
Speaker 1: as you had hoped, And so you pair things down
Speaker 1: a little bit, and you have to believe the Seahawks
Speaker 1: defensively when you look at their numbers, you know, twenty
Speaker 1: twenty second and twenty six in the league one or
Speaker 1: the other in terms of yards allowed, points a lot
Speaker 1: on the season. I mentioned the low sack total. They
Speaker 1: haven't been very good in the red zone relative to
Speaker 1: the rest of the league. But you know, with Pete
Speaker 1: Carroll and the way he coaches defense, and as long
Speaker 1: as he's been doing this and as successful as he's been,
Speaker 1: he's gonna put the best defense he can out there
Speaker 1: in terms of this is what we've done well this year,
Speaker 1: and so this is this is what we're going to
Speaker 1: ride uh and try to make it work against whatever opponent.
Speaker 1: That's the sense that I get in terms of how
Speaker 1: you go about it when over the course of the
Speaker 1: regular season you weren't some highly ranked Juggernauts. Absolutely, and
Speaker 1: I want to address that, But first off, I need
Speaker 1: to give mysel up a correction, because we're all about
Speaker 1: accuracy here on Unscripted. It was Reshime Green that led
Speaker 1: them in Sex, not Jared Reid. He only had two
Speaker 1: and a half. Green had four. Yeah, and I actually
Speaker 1: really enjoyed, you know, Pete Carroll spoke to They haven't
Speaker 1: really had much of media availability yet this week, but
Speaker 1: he spoke to their reporters on Monday, and I thought
Speaker 1: he made two really great points. The first one was
Speaker 1: Green Bay is as difficult as any place in the
Speaker 1: NFL to play, especially this time of the year. And
Speaker 1: I mean the record bears it out there. Oh and
Speaker 1: three going into this at least under Pete Carroll trying
Speaker 1: to you know, turn that around from their perspective. But
Speaker 1: the other thing, when you look at the way he's
Speaker 1: going to have this team ready. He said, we are
Speaker 1: going to be as ready as we can be for
Speaker 1: this matchup and what it's going to take. And I
Speaker 1: think when you look, you know, with what Pete Carroll
Speaker 1: has done, it always felt like he's an underrated coach.
Speaker 1: I know that sounds weird because he won a Super
Speaker 1: Bowl and he's been there for a decade now, but
Speaker 1: when you just look at the entire gamut of what
Speaker 1: he did at the college level and the pro level,
Speaker 1: you go back and watch some of those clips of
Speaker 1: him as an assistant coach in places in the early
Speaker 1: nine ease. I mean, this guy's been doing it for
Speaker 1: a long time. He's a master motivator and he also
Speaker 1: understands his personnel to the tiniest of details, and that
Speaker 1: is I think what has allowed them to create winning
Speaker 1: game plans, especially this time of the year. It's what
Speaker 1: has allowed them to get on some runs. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: when you look at all the statistics, it doesn't look
Speaker 1: tremendous for Seattle, particularly on the defensive side of the ball,
Speaker 1: but they find ways to win. Last week was a
Speaker 1: great example of it on offense, where you know they
Speaker 1: had seventeen carries from the backfield for nineteen yards. Well,
Speaker 1: they got their receivers going. There's been times when you
Speaker 1: look at Hollister this year, who's what the third or
Speaker 1: fourth tight end that's been up for them. Luke Wilson
Speaker 1: didn't even start the season with them before returning, and
Speaker 1: now he's the quote unquote starter. They find ways to win.
Speaker 1: And when you have a team that has been beat
Speaker 1: up and banged up and has had to weather injuries
Speaker 1: throughout the course of the season, they've been able to
Speaker 1: to maneuver the maneuver those pieces around. Then again going
Speaker 1: back to John Snyder, Quandre Diggs gets added mid season.
Speaker 1: You heard all the things in Detroit, how much of
Speaker 1: a loss that was for them. That was a very
Speaker 1: emotional transaction for them to lose him, and he goes
Speaker 1: to Seattle and has helped be a fixture, and that's
Speaker 1: that defense. So all these things add together that it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter what the full season says at this point,
Speaker 1: it's what did you look like in your last matchup.
Speaker 1: That's the only thing that you can really go off of.
Speaker 1: I think when you try to predict, if you even can,
Speaker 1: how these postseason matchups are going to play out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I think there's an argument to be made.
Speaker 1: And I know Pete Carroll is a coach that a
Speaker 1: lot of Packers fans despised, and you know they don't
Speaker 1: like all the TV shots of him chewing his gum
Speaker 1: and cheering and pumping his fists and all that kind
Speaker 1: of stuff. I get it, trust me, I get it.
Speaker 1: But I think there's an argument to be made when
Speaker 1: you look at all the injuries the Seahawks have dealt
Speaker 1: with this year. They've had, They've been banged up on
Speaker 1: the offensive line over the last couple of years, they've
Speaker 1: completely replaced that legion of boom secondary, they've had all
Speaker 1: the injuries that they've had at running back throughout the
Speaker 1: course of the year, some key positions. On top of
Speaker 1: the fact that San Francisco was a rising, highly competitive
Speaker 1: team obviously this year, and that division also included the
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Rams, the defending NFC champions who went to
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, and yet this Seahawks team came an
Speaker 1: inch away from winning the division championship in the NFC West.
Speaker 1: I think there's an argument to be made that, regardless
Speaker 1: of what happens from here on out with the Seahawks,
Speaker 1: this might be Pete Carroll's best coaching job that that
Speaker 1: he's done there. And that's saying a lot for a
Speaker 1: guy who's gone to two Super Bowls and all sorts
Speaker 1: of playoff appearances and whatnot. But we talked about this
Speaker 1: in some respects, you know, in other years with Mike McCarthy,
Speaker 1: where when there's so much to have to overcome to
Speaker 1: create a successful season and to get where you are,
Speaker 1: those are sometimes the ones that become the best coaching jobs,
Speaker 1: not necessarily the the championship season that everybody remembers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and and there's a couple of those things that jump
Speaker 1: out to you, certainly with McCarthy. I think you always
Speaker 1: look at thirteen and how they kept themselves in it
Speaker 1: and fifteen how they were able to pull through despite
Speaker 1: the litany of injuries they dealt with. But from Pete
Speaker 1: Carroll's perspective, it isn't just how he managed this team,
Speaker 1: it's how him and that whole organization has kept them afloat.
Speaker 1: I mean, you look at it, Mike. They had to
Speaker 1: stare themselves in the mirror for a long time for
Speaker 1: a couple of seasons. Now, they didn't fall in those
Speaker 1: kind of dulg rooms that the Saints did, and even
Speaker 1: to some extent the Packers did with these you know,
Speaker 1: six and nine and one seven and nine type seasons.
Speaker 1: But you remember Earl Thomas being carted off the field
Speaker 1: and the questions with with Richard Sherman. And it wasn't
Speaker 1: just that the legion of boom Era ended. It was
Speaker 1: how it ended and what they had to do to
Speaker 1: keep their ship afloat. And they did that and they've
Speaker 1: been able to create I think, not that there was
Speaker 1: anything wrong with the past culture that was their identity,
Speaker 1: but they forged a new one now with this current makeup,
Speaker 1: in this current group. And then you bring in the
Speaker 1: Marshawn Lynches of the world. You know, I know they
Speaker 1: were saying they want to get Lynch going more. But
Speaker 1: you and I have been talking since the beginning. I mean,
Speaker 1: just the the idea of him reinserting himself off into
Speaker 1: that locker room and what that could do, not only
Speaker 1: for the veterans that are still there, but some of
Speaker 1: these young guys that have looked up to him. I mean,
Speaker 1: those are important voices to have. It's not always just
Speaker 1: about having a hundred forty yards rushing, although I'm sure
Speaker 1: the Seattle Seahawks would willingly take it. It's about what
Speaker 1: those guys can do to formulate a culture, chemistry and
Speaker 1: make themselves believe. I think that's what Seattle has done.
Speaker 1: They believe. It's on the Packers now going into this
Speaker 1: matchup on Sunday, to say, you know what, we're the
Speaker 1: healthier team, statistically, we're the better team, were the more
Speaker 1: complete team, and we're going to be the team advancing
Speaker 1: to the NFC title game. What do you make of
Speaker 1: Pete Carroll's assertion earlier this week, he made it pretty
Speaker 1: clear that he wants to get Marshawn Lynch more involved.
Speaker 1: He wants to feed him the ball more. Now we've
Speaker 1: seen his limited involvement in the two games that he's
Speaker 1: been back, but Lynch does have a rushing touchdown in
Speaker 1: each of those games, against San Francisco in Week seventeen
Speaker 1: and then against Philadelphia in the wild card game. We
Speaker 1: also saw the rookie running back Homer fumble on his
Speaker 1: first postseason carry against the Eagles last week, which the
Speaker 1: Seahawks fortunately were able to recover. I think that through
Speaker 1: a little bit of a scare into um maybe what
Speaker 1: they were planning to do in some respects against the
Speaker 1: against the Eagles. That's just speculation on my part, but
Speaker 1: I'm just curious what your thoughts are on. When we
Speaker 1: hear from Pete Carroll like, Yeah, we want to get
Speaker 1: Lynch the ball more, we want to we want to
Speaker 1: ramp this up more. It's almost as though he's saying,
Speaker 1: we want to try to get back to that Seahawks
Speaker 1: postseason team that we've been in the past. Yet, of
Speaker 1: course Pete Carroll is as aware as anyone that this
Speaker 1: is not the same team. That he's had in the past,
Speaker 1: like we've been talking about. Yeah, so what I when
Speaker 1: I heard those words, And I've watched both of these
Speaker 1: these last couple of games. I watched the San Francisco
Speaker 1: game too. Yeah, what stands out to me? What I
Speaker 1: kept thinking the back of my mind is what Buffalo
Speaker 1: went through this year. Uh. Now, don't get me wrong,
Speaker 1: Singletary is a much more accomplished, higher highly touted pick
Speaker 1: here than what Homer was. But they also had Frank Gore.
Speaker 1: Frank Gore is steady, Eddie. He is the veteran. He's
Speaker 1: seen every situation and when you give him the ball,
Speaker 1: you know he's gonna be, you know, smart with it. Singletary, though,
Speaker 1: has the bigger threat of the home run. That's the
Speaker 1: question I think that they need to answer right now
Speaker 1: with how they want to use Travis Homer and how
Speaker 1: they want to actually go on about incorporating Marshawn Lynch.
Speaker 1: And I think a lot of that is dependent on
Speaker 1: game situations. If it's me, you know, Homer was a
Speaker 1: draft pick of their's. Obviously we've talked about all these
Speaker 1: other guys that have come through for them, But I mean,
Speaker 1: this is a guy that they felt good about going
Speaker 1: back earlier to the summer, and even though he didn't
Speaker 1: get his opportunity right away, there was obviously something that
Speaker 1: they liked in him, and he's younger. I see that
Speaker 1: guy is the guy that if I'm the coach, I
Speaker 1: want to get him out there early. And depending on
Speaker 1: what that game looks like a halftime, that's when the
Speaker 1: Marshawn Lynch Show begins. Because you just know he's gonna
Speaker 1: be smart with the football. He's going to be consistent because,
Speaker 1: as you said, you know you don't want to speculate,
Speaker 1: but I think it isn't even that big of a speculation.
Speaker 1: When you have an unproven young running back and they
Speaker 1: put the ball on the ground, there's gonna be questions there.
Speaker 1: There's gonna be some uncertainty, and at the very least
Speaker 1: with Lynch, you know what you're getting. Now. All that
Speaker 1: being said, I have to give credit where credits due
Speaker 1: Marshawn Lynch. Even though the yards per carry aren't exactly
Speaker 1: what I think everyone probably wants them to be so
Speaker 1: far his goal line dive, I was really impressed with
Speaker 1: the vertical he got on that. I was not anticipating
Speaker 1: that from a thirty three thirty four year old running back,
Speaker 1: and even some of the small things he's done well,
Speaker 1: the way the way he powered that one in inside
Speaker 1: the five against the Eagles last week, that was an
Speaker 1: impressive run. That was the beast mode power run. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, in a short yardage type situation that that
Speaker 1: you're used to seeing and and maybe maybe it was
Speaker 1: seeing that that that's prompted Pete Carroll to say, Okay,
Speaker 1: maybe maybe Marshawn has his he has his legs back
Speaker 1: under him again, Let's let's maybe see if we can
Speaker 1: ride this guy a little bit. I just think the
Speaker 1: fact that Pete Carroll put that out there, and the
Speaker 1: fact that if there is anybody in you know, in
Speaker 1: the NFC divisional round who's going to have fresh legs,
Speaker 1: so to speak, it's a guy like Lynch, even though
Speaker 1: he is the age that he is, but he didn't play.
Speaker 1: He's only playing in his third game and essentially the
Speaker 1: last year and a half. Yeah, and I'll say this too.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're gonna have to turn to Marshall
Speaker 1: Lynch at this juncture the season, I actually would prefer
Speaker 1: what ended up happening with them where they basically signed
Speaker 1: him off the street as opposed to him being on
Speaker 1: the rostrail year and taking those hits. I mean Aaron Jones,
Speaker 1: a conversation I had with him two weeks ago really
Speaker 1: changed my mindset and all that. I mean, yeah, there
Speaker 1: is something to be said for being in a groove
Speaker 1: and feeling momentum and you know, being in football shape.
Speaker 1: There also is something too with your body being healthy
Speaker 1: in January and the benefit of not having all that
Speaker 1: wear and tear on it. So I'm not saying that
Speaker 1: the Seahawks have like tapped into something. We're gonna see
Speaker 1: he become common where all these veterans just come back
Speaker 1: for posting speculation about the Patriots and ground and everything
Speaker 1: if they were going to bring him back and then
Speaker 1: that didn't work out. But yes, go ahead, but you
Speaker 1: know all these things that you factor into it. It's
Speaker 1: just it's gonna be a really interesting situation for the
Speaker 1: Seahawks because I think, no matter if it's Bailey, I said,
Speaker 1: Homer Bailey there for a second, Travis Homer, whether it's Homer,
Speaker 1: whether or not it's Marshawn Lynch, the Seahawk if they
Speaker 1: feel like they're gonna have a chance in this game,
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to get the run game going more
Speaker 1: than they did last week. For as much as people
Speaker 1: want to make about the Packers and oh are they
Speaker 1: are they really a thirteen three team, They're not going
Speaker 1: to allow Russell Wilson to have the game he did
Speaker 1: against Philly. If Seattle does even threaten to consistently run
Speaker 1: the ball at their backfield, that's gonna be a recipe
Speaker 1: first disaster when you look at Sadarius Smith, Preston Smith,
Speaker 1: and the rest of those guys for green Bay. That
Speaker 1: is my blueprint though right now. It's being able to
Speaker 1: make sure that you contain Russell Wilson and you can
Speaker 1: contain that running game, because if you do that, that's
Speaker 1: what makes those downfield shots a DK metcalf more difficult
Speaker 1: to do. And it's going to be what allows, you know,
Speaker 1: Tyler Lockett not to be able to get into the
Speaker 1: rhythm that he has against some of these teams this year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would agree with you. Well, We've got plenty more
Speaker 1: to talk about here as the week continues with this
Speaker 1: playoff game approaching, but for now we'll call it a
Speaker 1: wrap on this edition of Packers Unscripted. Be sure to
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