WEBVTT - #340 Packers Unscripted: Issues at hand 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:21.439 Hi, everybody, Welcome to Packers Unscripted from Packers dot Com. 0:00:21.480 --> 0:00:25.160 I am Mike Spofford, sitting alongside my trusted colleague West 0:00:25.239 --> 0:00:28.400 Hodkowits were coming to you here from our studios at 0:00:28.480 --> 0:00:31.800 lambeau Field and West to continue the review of the 0:00:31.800 --> 0:00:35.599 Packers three loss in Detroit on Sunday. We heard from 0:00:35.600 --> 0:00:40.760 Mike McCarthy on Monday at the podium and for all 0:00:40.800 --> 0:00:44.760 to talk about slow starts and this and that. Mike 0:00:44.800 --> 0:00:47.280 McCarthy's really focused on, at least this is what I 0:00:47.320 --> 0:00:49.920 took away from his remarks. He's really focused on two 0:00:49.960 --> 0:00:54.360 things with this team. Handling the football, which includes obviously 0:00:54.400 --> 0:00:57.480 the turnover ratio, but also dropped passes that kind of thing, 0:00:58.000 --> 0:01:02.200 and then penalties. These are the things that Mike McCarthy 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:05.080 really wants to focus on cleaning up here with his 0:01:05.120 --> 0:01:07.880 football team to get things back on track. Yeah, and 0:01:07.880 --> 0:01:10.120 it makes sense too, because I mean, here's another thing too, Mike. 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:12.800 We talked so much about Tom Brady and Bill Belichick 0:01:12.840 --> 0:01:16.360 and the success the England Patriots have had, but I mean, historically, 0:01:16.440 --> 0:01:17.959 if you look at the Patriots, they're one of the 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:21.120 least penalized teams in the NFL. As much as it 0:01:21.200 --> 0:01:24.760 is about talent and ability and scheme and and all 0:01:24.760 --> 0:01:27.720 these things, it is it's funny and that it always 0:01:27.840 --> 0:01:30.880 goes back to fundamentals. And I know for fans that 0:01:30.959 --> 0:01:34.440 isn't as you know, attractive as talking about how do 0:01:34.480 --> 0:01:36.360 we dial up more a D R past plays and 0:01:36.400 --> 0:01:41.240 things like that. But the realization is the teams that 0:01:41.319 --> 0:01:44.520 make the fewest mistakes across all, you know, all three 0:01:44.520 --> 0:01:47.000 phases are the ones that are gonna win. And you 0:01:47.000 --> 0:01:49.040 and I discussed it yesterday a little bit and that 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:51.680 the Packers just had too many of those, whether it 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:54.640 was on the kickoff return of Montgomery, whether it was 0:01:54.960 --> 0:01:57.880 you know, the taunting penalty on defense, the personal fouls, 0:01:57.960 --> 0:01:59.800 one of which that end up leading to the Packers 0:01:59.840 --> 0:02:02.160 have and you know, they were able to pooch pun 0:02:02.200 --> 0:02:04.120 it and the Packers brought it out and ended up 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:06.160 only getting to the fifteen yard line. It's small things 0:02:06.200 --> 0:02:09.760 like that that affect the field position battle and field 0:02:09.760 --> 0:02:12.000 position in time of possession. We talked about it over 0:02:12.040 --> 0:02:14.400 and over again, but ultimately, if you want to be 0:02:14.480 --> 0:02:16.480 able to turn the tide in a football game, that's 0:02:16.520 --> 0:02:17.880 how you do it. And the lines were able to 0:02:17.880 --> 0:02:20.760 accomplish that Sunday. Yeah, I think a very disconcerting thing 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:24.160 about how some of the things unfolded in that game Sunday. 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:27.440 And obviously, Aaron Rodgers doesn't fumble the ball twice in 0:02:27.480 --> 0:02:30.240 a game very often. He did not have a good 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:32.960 day handling the ball. Mason Crosby obviously had the worst 0:02:33.000 --> 0:02:34.920 day of his career. But when you look at some 0:02:34.960 --> 0:02:37.880 of those personal files like you mentioned West, there's either 0:02:37.960 --> 0:02:41.720 a lack of discipline emotionally or a lack of discipline 0:02:41.760 --> 0:02:45.359 with technique that leads to those kinds of penalties. And 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:49.200 fifteen yards is fifteen yards if you if you take 0:02:49.240 --> 0:02:51.040 a touchback on a kickoff and you get the ball 0:02:51.160 --> 0:02:54.000 to twenty five yard line, fifteen yards is twenty five 0:02:54.080 --> 0:02:57.240 or excuse me, of the seventy five yards you need 0:02:57.280 --> 0:02:59.200 to go for a touchdown. That's just making it way 0:02:59.200 --> 0:03:02.280 too easy on the other team. And the Packers had 0:03:02.320 --> 0:03:06.000 the drive, uh or I should say sorry, the Lions 0:03:06.360 --> 0:03:09.519 had the drive where started out with a pass play. 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:11.400 I believe it was too golden. Tatie gets a first 0:03:11.400 --> 0:03:13.680 down to over thirteen yards, but then a fifteen yard 0:03:13.720 --> 0:03:17.320 face mask penalty is tacked onto it. That's just that's 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:21.280 technique discipline, because there's no reason to be grabbing a 0:03:21.320 --> 0:03:24.000 face mask when you're trying to tackle an NFL player. 0:03:24.040 --> 0:03:26.200 It just those are the kinds of things that the 0:03:26.200 --> 0:03:28.600 Packers have to clean it up because when you talk 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:31.720 about self inflicted wounds, they were all over the stat 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:33.760 sheet in Detroit, Yeah, Mike. And then the other issue 0:03:33.800 --> 0:03:36.520 is to you talk thirteen yards and fifteen yards, that's 0:03:36.520 --> 0:03:39.200 twenty eight yards. That's an explosive play, right to put 0:03:39.240 --> 0:03:41.520 that in comparison for you. I mean they only had 0:03:42.000 --> 0:03:45.800 what was it, four plays over twenty yards total? Packers 0:03:45.880 --> 0:03:49.520 had six. I believe in this contest, Packers actually we're 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:51.480 able to beat them in a lot of the categories 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:55.360 that can determine victory. But the Lions got them in 0:03:55.360 --> 0:03:58.600 the artery of of this football game. They got him 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:01.240 with the turnovers, They got him with the penalties. They 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:05.080 got them with the being able to capitalize on those 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:08.680 penalties and capitalize on those turnovers. And it's something you 0:04:08.720 --> 0:04:10.760 have to clean up because I think you go back 0:04:10.760 --> 0:04:13.400 to that game against Buffalo, what did the Packers do 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:16.160 really well? They played all four quarters and yeah, they 0:04:16.160 --> 0:04:18.039 made some plays along the way, you have to in 0:04:18.080 --> 0:04:20.520 order to win a football game. But they were relatively 0:04:20.640 --> 0:04:22.400 clean in what they were able to do. You can 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:24.280 talk about what you want to do as far as execution, 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:26.840 but in terms of there weren't those situations where they 0:04:26.839 --> 0:04:29.120 were hurting themselves. There's just too many of them. And 0:04:29.120 --> 0:04:30.960 you and I stood in that stadium, like we heard 0:04:30.960 --> 0:04:34.040 that crowd. When you have that kind of energy in there, 0:04:34.720 --> 0:04:37.160 all that does it just feeds even more into it. So, 0:04:37.760 --> 0:04:40.240 as you and I discussed yesterday, the San Francisco forty 0:04:40.279 --> 0:04:41.840 niners are going to come in here on Monday night. 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:43.520 You have to put that behind you because this is 0:04:43.520 --> 0:04:45.880 a big game. Now. You have to learn from what 0:04:45.920 --> 0:04:48.080 you did. You have to protect the football. You have 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:51.279 to be able to minimize those penalties because if you 0:04:51.360 --> 0:04:53.720 don't do that, then you have a bigger issue going 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:56.640 to the boy. Yeah. Another thing McCarthy pointed out from 0:04:56.640 --> 0:04:59.320 a statistical standpoint and it and it certainly is a 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:03.200 reflection of the penalties, especially on special teams, and then 0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:06.960 also the missed field goals. He calculated the Packers were 0:05:07.040 --> 0:05:10.440 somewhere in the neighborhood of three hundred yards behind in 0:05:10.640 --> 0:05:13.240 field position. Total in terms of what they lost to 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:16.279 the Lions. That's a heck of a lot to have 0:05:16.360 --> 0:05:18.159 to make up. We talked about it yesterday. We just 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:20.560 when you just look at the average starting field position 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:23.279 of each team for their number of drives, you multiplied 0:05:23.360 --> 0:05:25.479 by the number of drives. That's how you get a 0:05:25.520 --> 0:05:28.080 statistic like that. And you know, the only time I 0:05:28.120 --> 0:05:30.559 can remember the Packers feeling like they had any field 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:34.480 position whatsoever was when Prator missed that long field goal 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:36.680 and the Packers took over on the forty five yard line. 0:05:36.680 --> 0:05:39.960 But the Packers obviously missed multiple field goals which gave 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:43.200 gave the Lions the ball, you know, at plus thirty 0:05:43.320 --> 0:05:45.080 or you know, on the plus side of the thirty 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:47.640 yard line, and the two fumbles by Rogers were you know, 0:05:47.760 --> 0:05:50.240 both in Green Bay territory, so they take over in 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:55.240 positive position there and and it's it just creates such 0:05:55.240 --> 0:05:57.800 a huge mountain to have to climb, and then you 0:05:57.839 --> 0:05:59.719 add you add in the fact that you're playing on 0:05:59.760 --> 0:06:02.520 the old and and all of that. It just it 0:06:02.560 --> 0:06:05.880 feels like we're back to, you know, talking about some 0:06:05.920 --> 0:06:08.120 of the same issues that we're going on with the 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:11.000 Washington game, where you're digging yourself a big hole. They 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:13.640 kind of did it in a different way. But um, 0:06:13.760 --> 0:06:17.000 but starting games like this, whatever the reasons are, it's 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:19.360 it has to stop where these these road games are 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:21.800 not going to change, right. And the other thing is too, 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:24.040 is that when you pass the ball fifty two times, 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:27.280 you run the ball twenty times. When you have offensive plays. 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:30.279 One of the basic arithmetic of this game is that 0:06:30.360 --> 0:06:33.040 every single play you're exposing the football to summer guard. 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:35.880 And for the Detroit Lions, I mean you look at it. 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:37.760 They were able to win the field position battle, which 0:06:37.760 --> 0:06:40.039 means they don't need to stitch together as long a drives, 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:43.120 which means you don't have to expose the football as much. 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:45.479 And that's where that all comes into play. And I 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:47.400 think that's a really good point. When you look at 0:06:47.560 --> 0:06:50.680 three some yards whatever it ended up being, they basically 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:53.280 got seventeen points given to them in some reguard in 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:55.840 terms of working with short field position. That's where you're 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:58.240 getting the big difference. Yeah, alright, Well, a little bit 0:06:58.279 --> 0:07:01.039 of sponsored business here West because I neglected my duty 0:07:01.080 --> 0:07:04.040 again yesterday. But at home or here in the stands, 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:05.760 we all know that Green Bay fans give it their 0:07:05.800 --> 0:07:08.080 all and that takes a lot of energy. So grab 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:10.600 a warm bowl of Campbell's Chunky Soup. It's meaty goodness 0:07:10.680 --> 0:07:13.520 fuels the greatness of Packers fans everywhere. Try the delicious 0:07:13.520 --> 0:07:16.840 classic chicken noodle soup. Just visit your local supermarket and 0:07:16.880 --> 0:07:20.000 asked for Campbell's Chunky Soup. Official sup partner of the 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:24.000 Green Bay Packers. Okay, Another thing that definitely deserves to 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:26.560 be discussed here that should not be overlooked in terms 0:07:26.560 --> 0:07:30.640 of what's happening with this Packers offense is the start 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:35.160 through five games that receiver Davante Adams is off to here. 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:39.200 Not only is he yon pace for significant career highs 0:07:39.240 --> 0:07:41.680 for himself in terms of receptions and yards. And I 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:45.160 know five games is not sixteen. It's not simple math 0:07:45.400 --> 0:07:48.320 um to to do the projections, and it's a long 0:07:48.400 --> 0:07:51.600 projection when they're still eleven games to go. But if 0:07:51.600 --> 0:07:55.280 he does keep up this pace, there is a Packers 0:07:55.320 --> 0:07:59.000 single season receptions record that has stood for quite a 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:03.000 while sterling Shark one and twelve. Davante Adams is actually 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:05.760 on pace to break that eighteen right now. And as 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:07.560 you said, it is a long season. But what I 0:08:07.640 --> 0:08:10.320 think is interesting is he had what a lot of 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:12.640 people would consider to be a breakout year in two 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:15.720 thousand sixteen, and he really doubled up on it again 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:18.960 before that concussions. At the end of two thousand seventeen, 0:08:19.880 --> 0:08:23.000 Davante Adams is just way above both of his starts 0:08:23.000 --> 0:08:26.320 from both of those seasons fourner and twenty five receiving yards. 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:28.600 I believe it was somewhere around. I think he was 0:08:28.640 --> 0:08:31.360 two eighty five last year and to fifteen the year 0:08:31.400 --> 0:08:35.920 before that, almost doubling, uh, those amount of plays. And 0:08:35.920 --> 0:08:38.120 and yeah, you and I talked about yesterday. I'm sure 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:40.920 he wants to have that deep ball back um in 0:08:40.920 --> 0:08:43.400 that game against the Lions. But really, what's what I 0:08:43.559 --> 0:08:47.400 thought as I watched that game is that Davantae Adams 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:49.439 made a lot of tough catches, made a lot of 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:53.880 competitive you gotta have them catches where if he doesn't 0:08:53.880 --> 0:08:55.400 come up with it, sure it might have been scored 0:08:55.400 --> 0:08:57.080 as a drop, but I don't know if anybody would 0:08:57.080 --> 0:08:59.839 have been sitting there gone, ah, you know, he should 0:08:59.840 --> 0:09:02.000 have caught that. I mean, there was some real difficult 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:03.760 ones that caught along the course of that game that 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:05.440 he was able to come through with. That that play 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:07.360 in the third quarter the one that stands out to 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:09.840 me the most, and I forget exactly the down in distance, 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:12.440 but it was fourth and ten plus and it was 0:09:12.480 --> 0:09:14.679 I believe it was on the opening drive of the 0:09:14.679 --> 0:09:17.080 third quarter of Packers are down twenty four nothing, they've 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:20.319 got to go for it on fourth down, and quite frankly, 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:23.559 he wasn't open. Aaron Rodgers put the ball in the 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:27.120 only possible spot that he could have and Davante Adams 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:29.520 made an absolutely tremendous catch and to me, able to 0:09:29.600 --> 0:09:31.840 make that play on fourth down to move the chains 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:34.280 and keep your team alive at that point when you're 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:37.200 down two to zero, otherwise you're turning it over in 0:09:37.280 --> 0:09:39.960 good field position again for the Lions. I thought it 0:09:40.000 --> 0:09:43.400 was just an incredibly clutch play. And I know Rogers said, 0:09:43.720 --> 0:09:45.760 you know, Adams would say he wishes in the fourth 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:48.440 quarter he had caught that one down by the goal line. 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:50.640 But I tell you, if you want to, if you 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:53.080 want something that's a real treat to watch on film, 0:09:53.080 --> 0:09:54.680 because I did this for my What You Might Have 0:09:54.679 --> 0:09:57.240 Missed segment, which is on the website for anyone who 0:09:57.240 --> 0:09:59.439 wants to check it out, and and Larry McCarron did 0:09:59.480 --> 0:10:03.480 some on video as well. Just watch on some of 0:10:03.480 --> 0:10:06.400 these catches of Adams his footwork at the line of scrimmage. 0:10:06.480 --> 0:10:09.559 He was going against Darius Slay pretty much the whole game, 0:10:09.840 --> 0:10:14.000 and I think Slave might be the best, certainly the 0:10:14.040 --> 0:10:17.040 most accomplished cornerback. I would say, one of the top 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:20.320 two in the NFC North and maybe in the whole NFC, 0:10:20.400 --> 0:10:23.640 along with Xavier Rhodes from Minnesota. This is a this 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:25.760 is a really really good player. They call him big 0:10:25.760 --> 0:10:29.080 play Slave for a reason. The Lions lean on him 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:31.520 a lot and uh and for the number of times 0:10:31.559 --> 0:10:33.960 that Adams was able to win that battle and get 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:37.040 separation with his footwork, it really is something to watch 0:10:37.040 --> 0:10:39.000 on film. Yeah, what stands out to me too, Mike, 0:10:39.080 --> 0:10:41.320 And this is not to take anything away from Kenny Golladay. 0:10:41.360 --> 0:10:42.840 He had a really fine day, but he had four 0:10:42.840 --> 0:10:46.240 catches for yards. Sixty of those came off that one 0:10:46.559 --> 0:10:50.240 played on the sideline. Davante Adams was absolutely surgical in 0:10:50.280 --> 0:10:52.680 this game. His longest reception was thirty yards and the 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:56.160 average fifteen point six per catch in this contest. What 0:10:56.240 --> 0:10:57.840 does that tell you? That tells you that when he 0:10:57.880 --> 0:11:00.079 was getting the football in his hands. It wasn't is 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:01.959 these short out roads and he's getting out of bounds 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:04.080 or a stop ro for eight yards. He was getting 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:05.760 the ball and he was running after catch. Now I 0:11:05.800 --> 0:11:08.120 don't know exactly what the final total ended up being, 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:10.400 but one of the adjustments the Packers made, and he 0:11:10.440 --> 0:11:13.280 talked about it after the game. Without having Randall CoV 0:11:13.320 --> 0:11:15.560 in this game, without having Druny Ellison, they moved him 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:18.280 around a lot. He was working a lot of the slot. 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:21.000 He did a lot of the underneath concepts doing you know, 0:11:21.080 --> 0:11:23.839 being able to work some slants, and he was producing 0:11:23.920 --> 0:11:26.200 off those slants. And certainly the third yard catch that 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:27.600 was a big one at a big point in the game. 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:29.880 I think it was third and seven. Packers were not 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:32.920 able to convert into points, I believe, but he really 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:35.240 was able to keep pushing and powering the offense forward. 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:37.400 I think when you look at the second half specifically 0:11:38.040 --> 0:11:39.679 with then being able to get on those drives, a 0:11:39.679 --> 0:11:41.880 lot of those started with an early catch and run 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:44.840 from Davante Adams, And yeah, he's he's at the peak 0:11:44.880 --> 0:11:47.240 of his powers. He's twenty five years young at this point, 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:49.760 he's going to be making a difference in this league 0:11:49.760 --> 0:11:51.760 for a long time. And I know for him, he 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:54.360 probably wasn't gonna be thinking about receptions, records or things 0:11:54.360 --> 0:11:57.600 like that. But if everything stays how it should, I 0:11:57.640 --> 0:11:59.160 think you're looking at the guy who not only is 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:00.959 gonna be looking at that for es thousand yard season, 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:03.680 but looking at getting that respect that everybody in Green 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:05.599 Bay feels like he deserves because he is one of 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:07.920 the top ten receivers in this league. Now, yeah, not that, 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:11.040 not that we had any questions about it, but certainly 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:14.760 living up to the new contract that he no no 0:12:15.120 --> 0:12:19.040 issues there whatsoever, showing uh, he's a true professional with 0:12:19.240 --> 0:12:21.800 his arrows still pointing up. Because you said he's at 0:12:21.800 --> 0:12:24.120 the peak of his powers and there might be another 0:12:24.160 --> 0:12:26.960 peak yet for him to reach. And you know, I 0:12:27.000 --> 0:12:28.680 was talking to him. We've mentioned this a few times 0:12:28.679 --> 0:12:30.439 now with the offseason story that I did with that 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:32.680 was in the Packers yearbook. One of the things he 0:12:32.720 --> 0:12:35.240 said is there's no complacency with him. There's guys that 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:38.360 they get contracts and they want to be on television, 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:40.000 They want to be you know, they want to have 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:43.200 their brand out there. They want to sell you know, cologne. 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:45.040 I add that in myself. But I mean, you know 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:47.760 what I mean. They they go and want to become 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:50.800 their own business. He is all about football. Football is 0:12:50.880 --> 0:12:53.560 his business. This is a thing that he wants to perfect, 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:55.120 that he wants to show that he can be the 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:57.920 best at this thing. And I've just been really impressed 0:12:57.920 --> 0:12:59.720 with the start he's gotten off to and how consistent 0:12:59.800 --> 0:13:03.240 he's been because he has four receiving yards. But other 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:06.640 than this, it's just been one consistent performance after another. 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:09.440 It hasn't had any of those you know valleys yet. 0:13:09.520 --> 0:13:12.360 So speak al right, Well, another bit of sponsor business 0:13:12.400 --> 0:13:14.560 here West, because it is time to enter the Cousins 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:17.120 Subs Best Seats in the House promotion. You and a 0:13:17.160 --> 0:13:18.920 guest could win a chance to kick back on the 0:13:18.960 --> 0:13:21.440 fifty yard line in style. Two pairs of lucky Packers 0:13:21.480 --> 0:13:24.040 fans will be chosen prior to each home game for 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:27.000 this v I P experience. Enter daily now through December 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:30.600 sixteen by completing the entry form and submitting. For complete 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:33.640 rules and eligibility, go to Packers dot com slash Best 0:13:33.679 --> 0:13:38.120 Seats Cousin Subs. We believe in better. Okay, before we 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:41.400 go here, a couple of other milestone type of items 0:13:41.440 --> 0:13:47.520 to talk about. Aaron Rodgers past forty passing yards on Sunday, 0:13:47.559 --> 0:13:50.079 and if I read things correctly, in terms of the 0:13:50.160 --> 0:13:52.680 number of games played in the NFL, he was the 0:13:52.760 --> 0:13:56.760 fourth fastest to do it. Now, if you combine forty 0:13:57.240 --> 0:14:01.080 yards with three touchdowns, he is the fastest. He got 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:05.719 to three hundred touchdowns. I believe it was in Yeah, 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:09.120 he got to three hundred touchdowns, way faster than anybody else, 0:14:09.160 --> 0:14:12.480 Like it wasn't even close. Um, But it's interesting now 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:15.800 as we just saw Drew Brees on Monday Night Football 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:18.880 break the all time passing yardage record and he now 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:22.240 sits at number one. Aaron Rodgers, within the next week 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:25.840 or two has a chance to pass guys like Johnny 0:14:25.960 --> 0:14:29.000 Unitus and Joe Montana on that list. And I know 0:14:29.120 --> 0:14:31.440 that's not what Aaron Rodgers is thinking about. It's not 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:33.600 what the packers are thinking about. They're thinking about getting 0:14:33.600 --> 0:14:36.040 a victory, trying to get healthy over the by and 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:38.240 and get things going here into the meat of the schedule. 0:14:38.280 --> 0:14:41.160 But if you just step back for a second and 0:14:41.240 --> 0:14:43.960 you start talking about names like Uniteds in Montana, and 0:14:43.960 --> 0:14:46.120 you look at what Drew Brees has done and the 0:14:46.200 --> 0:14:49.160 yardage that he's put up. Um, it's a pretty special 0:14:49.200 --> 0:14:51.960 time to be watching what these quarterbacks can do in 0:14:52.000 --> 0:14:54.000 the NFL. Yeah, it is Mike because he's still got 0:14:54.040 --> 0:14:56.120 Tom Brady playing at a high level at forty one 0:14:56.160 --> 0:15:00.240 years young. Certainly, Ben Roethlisberger, what he's accomplished in this game, 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:03.040 the points that he puts up every single week. And 0:15:03.080 --> 0:15:05.280 Aaron Rodgers, to me, still is in the league of 0:15:05.280 --> 0:15:07.640 his own in terms of the total package of the position. 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:10.520 We have a guy that can scramble, he can extend plays, 0:15:10.560 --> 0:15:12.840 he has a bullet for an arm. There's just so 0:15:12.880 --> 0:15:16.120 many things that he does exceptionally well that I don't 0:15:16.160 --> 0:15:18.160 think this league has seen before in terms of having 0:15:18.160 --> 0:15:21.560 them all together as a single attribute. So yeah, I 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:24.040 really do appreciate this time. And I'm sure there's gonna 0:15:24.040 --> 0:15:26.720 be the Carson Wentzes and you know, Jared Goffs in 0:15:26.760 --> 0:15:30.040 the next generation that will eventually, you know, take that 0:15:30.160 --> 0:15:33.200 torch and and really run with it. But this, in 0:15:33.240 --> 0:15:38.040 a way, the Breeze, Rodgers, Roethlisberger, Brady, when Manning was 0:15:38.080 --> 0:15:41.200 still here, that quarterback club, I think it stood, it 0:15:41.280 --> 0:15:43.800 stood the test of time in what they were asked 0:15:43.840 --> 0:15:46.480 to do. And this is not taken anything away from 0:15:46.520 --> 0:15:49.640 the Troy Aikman, Steve Young, Brett Farve done Marino era. 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:52.000 But there's just so many more things that are on 0:15:52.040 --> 0:15:55.200 the quarterback now today than ever before, and for them 0:15:55.240 --> 0:15:58.640 to actually play at that level really impressive. Yeah, it's 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:01.600 funny when I think about and watching Drew Brees set 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:04.000 the record on Monday Night football. The Saints now four 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:06.640 straight wins after the week one lost their four and one, 0:16:06.680 --> 0:16:08.960 they're certainly looking like the team that's right up there 0:16:09.000 --> 0:16:12.280 with the Los Angeles Rams in terms of announcing themselves 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:15.880 as a as a team to beat in the NFC. 0:16:16.760 --> 0:16:19.760 But in watching in watching Breezes like I still remember 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:23.280 my first newspaper job, wassa daily Harold got off work, 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:25.360 was at a was was at a bar on a 0:16:25.400 --> 0:16:29.840 Saturday night watching Wisconsin against Purdue at Camp Randall Stadium. 0:16:29.840 --> 0:16:32.560 And that's the game that Drew Brees had eighty one 0:16:32.640 --> 0:16:34.920 pass attempts is at the n C a record for 0:16:34.960 --> 0:16:38.360 past attempts in one game. And I remember sitting there thinking, 0:16:38.440 --> 0:16:40.680 what is this guy gonna do in the NFL when 0:16:40.720 --> 0:16:43.120 he gets there? And low and bold, here we are 0:16:43.160 --> 0:16:45.800 twenty years later or whatever it is. And uh, and 0:16:45.840 --> 0:16:47.880 he's throwing for more yards than anybody in the history 0:16:47.880 --> 0:16:50.160 of the game. The cradle quarterbacks, right, I mean he 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:52.920 was the ultimate baby that came out of that program, 0:16:53.280 --> 0:16:57.480 a little boiler baby. Yeah, but no. But that being said, Mike, Uh, 0:16:57.640 --> 0:17:00.880 it is incredible what he's becoming. For my money, I 0:17:00.920 --> 0:17:02.840 think you can go with either him or Reggie White. 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:05.119 I think they're one or two one A one B 0:17:05.240 --> 0:17:07.160 as far as the greatest free agent signings of all 0:17:07.200 --> 0:17:10.680 time when you look at not only what he meant 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:13.879 in terms of winning football and sat in with the 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:16.159 Saints and in New Orleans, but what he meant to 0:17:16.200 --> 0:17:20.399 that community after Hurricane Katrina, them winning that Super Bowl, 0:17:20.760 --> 0:17:23.480 how he's been really the focal point. And the other 0:17:23.520 --> 0:17:26.760 thing is too. Just from a pure football fan aspect, 0:17:27.040 --> 0:17:29.119 it's great to see him have a resurgence here because 0:17:29.119 --> 0:17:30.880 there were some years where they were seven and nine 0:17:30.880 --> 0:17:33.760 and things weren't looking so good. The football league is 0:17:33.800 --> 0:17:35.920 better when the New Orleans Saints are able to put 0:17:35.960 --> 0:17:37.359 some points on the board and able to throw the 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:40.840 football around, and it's made for some really compelling football 0:17:40.840 --> 0:17:42.560 here early on. And it's gonna be fun to see 0:17:42.560 --> 0:17:44.000 where it goes from here. But the nice thing is 0:17:44.040 --> 0:17:47.479 to Aaron Rodgers at thirty four. You know, he's certainly 0:17:47.480 --> 0:17:48.639 is going to have his sights on a lot of 0:17:48.640 --> 0:17:50.639 those records too. Sometime in the future. It'll be interesting 0:17:50.640 --> 0:17:52.160 to see where Brees and Brady and some of those 0:17:52.160 --> 0:17:55.160 guys put them. Yeah, and the the officials on Monday 0:17:55.200 --> 0:17:57.760 Night Football still couldn't help but penalize the Saints for 0:17:58.000 --> 0:18:00.960 excessive celebration after Drew Brees sets the record with a 0:18:01.040 --> 0:18:04.640 sixty two yard touchdown pass. But whatever, that's just how 0:18:04.640 --> 0:18:06.200 it goes though, right it is there had to be 0:18:06.480 --> 0:18:10.720 something it probably fitting. That's as fitting as it gets 0:18:11.000 --> 0:18:13.119 in the NFL. But with that, we'll call it a 0:18:13.119 --> 0:18:15.360 wrap on this edition of Packers Unscripted and I will 0:18:15.400 --> 0:18:18.159 turn over the sign off today to you. Well, thank you, Michael. 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:20.560 You're a true pro and Mike Spofford does this better 0:18:20.560 --> 0:18:23.160 than anybody. But I wanted to mention one quick thing. 0:18:23.400 --> 0:18:25.280 We've been doing this now for what three and twenty 0:18:25.359 --> 0:18:29.280 six episodes? Thing something like that. Um, first one, we're 0:18:29.280 --> 0:18:32.240 not having our biggest fan watching us, and that's my grandmother, 0:18:32.320 --> 0:18:35.000 Monica hot Cave. Make sure I get the name right. 0:18:35.560 --> 0:18:38.480 I always I always get this, um my number one 0:18:38.520 --> 0:18:41.520 supporter through all these years. And it was actually funny 0:18:41.760 --> 0:18:44.679 turned over a box to my dad last month that 0:18:44.720 --> 0:18:47.880 I was given yesterday that actually had all my clippings 0:18:47.880 --> 0:18:50.159 from the Press Gazette during my ten years at the 0:18:50.160 --> 0:18:53.399 Press Gazette. She passed away, worked all the way up 0:18:53.440 --> 0:18:56.640 to her her final day on this planet. Google's cheese Shop. 0:18:56.720 --> 0:19:01.720 Lena Wisconsin. UM and an amazing person. Everything that I 0:19:01.760 --> 0:19:05.120 have in this world I think for her and um. 0:19:05.119 --> 0:19:07.440