Speaker 1: Hi, everybody, Welcome to Packers Unscripted from Packers dot Com.
Speaker 1: I am Mike Spofford, joined alongside my trusted colleague Wes Hodkuits,
Speaker 1: were coming to you here from our studios at lambeau Field.
Speaker 1: We are back from Los Angeles West and unfortunately with
Speaker 1: a nine to seven Packers loss, the most difficult loss
Speaker 1: of the season certainly by far. And uh, I don't
Speaker 1: know where you want to start with this one, but
Speaker 1: really what it comes down to is you've got to
Speaker 1: make the plays at crunch time. You can't make mistakes
Speaker 1: at crunch time. The Packers made too many. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: you know, it was interesting the way you brought that up,
Speaker 1: because it is. It's the most difficult loss this season.
Speaker 1: Because in some regard, Mike, I think you could say
Speaker 1: this might have been the Packers best game of the
Speaker 1: year in terms of what they were able to in
Speaker 1: spurts and not to be able to come up victorious.
Speaker 1: But the main takeaway from this, Mike is that when
Speaker 1: you're playing a team like the Los Angeles Rams at
Speaker 1: seven and oh that has done so many things so
Speaker 1: well and can beat you in so many different ways,
Speaker 1: you have to be able to keep your foot on
Speaker 1: the pedal. Mike Daniel said it afterwards, speaking specifically about
Speaker 1: the defense. They had them on the ropes earlier, and
Speaker 1: when you have Mike Tyson on the ropes, you have
Speaker 1: to knock them out if you're going to be able
Speaker 1: to get out of there with the victory. They were
Speaker 1: not able to do that, and really they weren't able
Speaker 1: to do it in all three phases. So that is
Speaker 1: really where I think the disappointment lies. You. I made
Speaker 1: three points last week, and I'm not trying to toot
Speaker 1: my own horn or anything, but I thought all these
Speaker 1: were valid points. They had to win the early downs,
Speaker 1: they had to be able to contain Todd Gurley, and
Speaker 1: really Mike, I thought the biggest thing was they had
Speaker 1: to be able to control the tempo of that game.
Speaker 1: They did all three of those things at different intervals.
Speaker 1: They got the crowd in it in their favor, Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers was able to get the offense moving the ball early,
Speaker 1: They made the rams punt on their first five possessions.
Speaker 1: Everything was going their way until ultimately it wasn't. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And while I agree with what you're saying that and
Speaker 1: what Mike Daniels said, for example, that the Packers had
Speaker 1: the opportunity to knock him out. I will say this though,
Speaker 1: the Rams are undefeated for a reason, and it's because
Speaker 1: teams like that don't get knocked out. And what that.
Speaker 1: What I'm trying to say is that no matter how
Speaker 1: the first fifty fifty six minutes of the game go,
Speaker 1: you have to be able to make the plays when
Speaker 1: the game is on the line to beat a team
Speaker 1: like that. And the Packers gave up a sack on
Speaker 1: a crucial third down when they had the ball and
Speaker 1: a one point lead. Their rookie punter had his worst
Speaker 1: punt of the season at the wrong time, which gave
Speaker 1: the other team a short field and time Montgomery fumbles
Speaker 1: the kickoff. When you're gonna give Aaron Rodgers the ball
Speaker 1: with two minutes to go, needing a field goal to win,
Speaker 1: and he doesn't get that opportunity. Those are the mistakes that, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can look back at the safety and some breakdowns
Speaker 1: on defense and some opportunities that were missed on offense,
Speaker 1: only two for nine on third down offensively, if you're
Speaker 1: gonna beat a team like this, you're not gonna beat
Speaker 1: him with ten minutes left in the fourth quarter. You
Speaker 1: have to beat him at the end of the game,
Speaker 1: and the Packers didn't do it. No, that's right, Mike,
Speaker 1: and I think you gotta give a lot of credit
Speaker 1: to the Rams. I got a new found respect for
Speaker 1: Jared Goff. Mike Pett had a phenomenal game plan prepared
Speaker 1: for him, being able to pressure him, get him off
Speaker 1: the spot early, but he showed a lot of resiliency
Speaker 1: for a third year quarterback and be able to lead
Speaker 1: that offense down the stretch. But ultimately the biggest factor
Speaker 1: that is Todd Gurley and what he presents. Packers were
Speaker 1: able to bottle him up early, but then he gets
Speaker 1: the third yard catch right before halftime. He starts to
Speaker 1: wear them down in the second half, ends up having
Speaker 1: a hundred yard day on the ground. And defensively, they
Speaker 1: have Aaron Donald, and we know what Aaron Donald presents
Speaker 1: and what he can potentially do and the mismatches that
Speaker 1: he helps create for them. Defensively, there are a lot
Speaker 1: of weapons there and a lot of very skilled guys
Speaker 1: that can hurt you. The Packers, I thought, did a
Speaker 1: relatively good job of navigate eating that for the most part.
Speaker 1: But to your point, in the critical moments of that
Speaker 1: game when you need to need to put things away.
Speaker 1: They just weren't able to get the job done. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we talked all last week about Aaron Donald and Todd Gurley,
Speaker 1: and it's interesting how this unfolded because for the most part,
Speaker 1: I thought the Packers did a really good job on
Speaker 1: Aaron Donald. Then you look at the stat sheet at
Speaker 1: the end of the game and he's got two sacks,
Speaker 1: and one of those at crunch time when the Rams
Speaker 1: needed the football back, and he got the job done.
Speaker 1: I thought the Packers defended Todd Gurley very well. They
Speaker 1: didn't let him loose for big runs. They got a
Speaker 1: lot of tackles at or near the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 1: You look up at the end of the day and
Speaker 1: he's got a hundred ninety five yards from scrimmage, a
Speaker 1: hundred fourteen on the ground, eighty one through the air,
Speaker 1: the juggling catch down the sideline you mentioned he got
Speaker 1: loose in the second half on kind of a drag
Speaker 1: route across the middle of the Packers dropped the coverage
Speaker 1: there and he ends up going for a thirty yard touchdown.
Speaker 1: The rushing yards had a twenty three yard run and
Speaker 1: a sixteen seventeen yard run basically forty of those yards
Speaker 1: right towards the end of the fourth quarter of the
Speaker 1: Packers on the verge of you know, holding him well
Speaker 1: under a hundred yards, but the twenty three yard runs
Speaker 1: sets up the uh, the go ahead field goal. They're
Speaker 1: just you know, that's that's what the difference making players
Speaker 1: do in this league. You can you can feel like
Speaker 1: you've done the job against them, and then at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, they still made the plays that
Speaker 1: make a difference. And the frustrating thing for the Packers
Speaker 1: is they had their guy, Aaron Rodgers with the opportunity
Speaker 1: to be the difference maker at the end of the game,
Speaker 1: and a mistake on special teams cost him the opportunity.
Speaker 1: Yeah dead. And and the thing that's interesting too about
Speaker 1: Rogers and how he performed, just how comfortable he looked
Speaker 1: right from the get go, and maybe the crowd had
Speaker 1: something to do with that, but just seeing the way
Speaker 1: the weapons worked, I mean, Aaron Jones had a phenomenal
Speaker 1: performance at thirty three yard touchdown that they really needed
Speaker 1: in the third quarter to be able to you know,
Speaker 1: get back in it. After the Rams had responded. Davante
Speaker 1: Adams you mentioned two of nine on third down. Both
Speaker 1: of the conversions were on forty yard reception by Davante Adams,
Speaker 1: who now at this point in the season almost at
Speaker 1: gets seven receiving yards, becoming not only just a Pro
Speaker 1: Bowl type player, but looking like an all pro top
Speaker 1: of the shelf receiver in this league. Marquis Veldes Scantling
Speaker 1: has a forty yard touchdown catch. Clay Matthews had arguably
Speaker 1: one of his maybe his best performance of the year,
Speaker 1: had a huge sack at a critical moment to get
Speaker 1: the ball back to the offense when they had a
Speaker 1: seven to six lead. Kenny Clark, JOYR Alexander five p
Speaker 1: b U S. I think that's what makes us the
Speaker 1: hardest to swallow for the Packers is as we talked
Speaker 1: about some of the things that the Rams did well,
Speaker 1: there was a lot of really solid individual performances from
Speaker 1: the Packers perspective, but it is a game of mistakes,
Speaker 1: and in the end, I think when you look at
Speaker 1: what the way the Rams played, they just made enough
Speaker 1: plays and the Packers just had a few too many
Speaker 1: mistakes to be able to walk out of the Colisseum
Speaker 1: with the w Yeah. Well, Mike McCarthy said after the
Speaker 1: game he was asked about the time montgomery kick off
Speaker 1: return with two oh five on the clock. He said
Speaker 1: the plan was to stay in the end zone and
Speaker 1: give the ball to Aaron Rodgers time. Montgomery did not
Speaker 1: speak with reporters after the game. We don't necessarily know
Speaker 1: as perspective here, but it sounds like a player simply
Speaker 1: didn't follow the coaching staff's instructions ended up being a
Speaker 1: fatal mistake. I don't want to dwell on that here,
Speaker 1: but what I will say West is that the special
Speaker 1: special teams in this game is really what ended up
Speaker 1: being the difference. I thought offensively and defensively, both teams
Speaker 1: really showed who they are. Um there were big plays
Speaker 1: on both sides. There were some breakdowns on both sides,
Speaker 1: but that's what good teams do. They get you to
Speaker 1: to make some mistakes as game, as the game goes along.
Speaker 1: But on special teams, the rams, they pinned the Packers
Speaker 1: at the four yard line with a punt, they pinned
Speaker 1: them at the one yard line and got a safety.
Speaker 1: I mentioned the bad punt by J. K. Scott at
Speaker 1: the end. You have the you have the fumble. On
Speaker 1: special teams the Packers. They didn't make any glaring errors
Speaker 1: on special teams until the very end. But what was
Speaker 1: a what was an edge for the Rams on special
Speaker 1: teams became the decided edge with the mistakes at the end. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a good point you raised. And what actually stood
Speaker 1: out to me as I was walking out of the
Speaker 1: stadium getting onto the bus, getting ready to write, was
Speaker 1: that you could make a huge argument right here that
Speaker 1: the Rams have the three best players in their phase
Speaker 1: in the league right now with where you look at
Speaker 1: what Todd Gurley does on offense, Aaron Donald does on
Speaker 1: defense given his position, and also Johnny Hecker as a punter. Uh,
Speaker 1: he comes as advertised, and then Greg's oline is no
Speaker 1: joke as the leg. He's got that nickname for a
Speaker 1: reason now that he's back healthy. Absolutely, And the thing
Speaker 1: was that I thought was interesting about Hecker. They got
Speaker 1: off to sort of a rough start. There was some
Speaker 1: high snaps, he was having a hard time some line
Speaker 1: drive type punts, but the way they battled back and
Speaker 1: with his arm. Kevin King was talking about it after
Speaker 1: the game. He's their number three quarterback for a reason.
Speaker 1: That isn't just the hype, you know, joke or just
Speaker 1: a stance. No, he has an arm and the Packers
Speaker 1: knew they were gonna have to be ready for that. Uh.
Speaker 1: Fortunately for the Packers, after he did have that twelve
Speaker 1: yard completion to Sam Shields, the defense came back and
Speaker 1: got a three and out right away. But again, Hecker
Speaker 1: came back, had a beauty of a punt to put
Speaker 1: them pin the Packers back at their own one yard line.
Speaker 1: Work in tandem with with Sam Shields, and then that
Speaker 1: ends up being sort of a turning point in this
Speaker 1: game with them being able to get the safety you
Speaker 1: need to get those type of players out of special teams.
Speaker 1: And for the Rams, who are often considered one of
Speaker 1: the trickiest, most skilled units in the league. You know,
Speaker 1: Jim Jim Fossils guys, they really stepped up. Well, that's
Speaker 1: where I think the Rams proved that they are the
Speaker 1: best team in the NFL right now in that throughout
Speaker 1: the majority of that first half, the Packers had the
Speaker 1: Rams defense on their heels a little bit. The Packers
Speaker 1: defense had Jared Goff a little discombobulated in the pocket
Speaker 1: with the sacks and the different third down pressures and
Speaker 1: everything the offense and the defense for the Rams were scuffling,
Speaker 1: their special teams picked them up. And that's what the
Speaker 1: best teams in the league have. You always have one
Speaker 1: phase that is going to bail you out, that is
Speaker 1: going to keep you where you need to be and
Speaker 1: give you a chance to win until everybody else gets
Speaker 1: going like they're used to. Because you're undefeated for a reason.
Speaker 1: You you've won all these games because you're offense and
Speaker 1: defense can get the job done. And once the Rams
Speaker 1: offense and defense started a roll, we saw it. I
Speaker 1: mean the game went from ten to nothing Packers to thirteen. Rams.
Speaker 1: There's a stretch there where the Rams outscored the Packers
Speaker 1: twenty three to three. They played a stretch of that
Speaker 1: game like they expected to. I give the Packers credit
Speaker 1: to thirteen in the second half, not a lot going
Speaker 1: their way. They kept throwing punches. They came back with
Speaker 1: a couple of touchdown drives there, especially the big play
Speaker 1: to Davante Adams on third down when the Packers it
Speaker 1: only converted one third down all day up until that point.
Speaker 1: Roger sits Adams for the big third down, the draw
Speaker 1: play to Aaron Jones. You get a touchdown, Suddenly you're
Speaker 1: right back in it. And then you put together another
Speaker 1: touchdown drive after that with a great inside move by
Speaker 1: the rookie Marquez Velde scantling on the one on one
Speaker 1: coverage on the outside, he makes the inside move, gets open,
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers puts the ball right on the money. His
Speaker 1: speed takes care of the rest of the pylon for
Speaker 1: the Packers to come back with two touchdowns there after.
Speaker 1: The way that game was going I thought was really
Speaker 1: really impressive because the Rams were starting to impose their will,
Speaker 1: so to speak, in the game. And uh, and the
Speaker 1: Packers responded. Unfortunately, it just wasn't quite enough. Yeah, getting
Speaker 1: back to my original point, Uh, John Fossil, Sorry, I
Speaker 1: said Jim there to correct, make sure you get the
Speaker 1: right fossil. But um, I think one of the things
Speaker 1: you bring up is really interesting. And when you look
Speaker 1: at Davante Adams those plays that he made, specifically, if
Speaker 1: the Packers do find a way to win this, I
Speaker 1: thought that this was one of the shining moments in
Speaker 1: Davante adams career because you know how badly they needed
Speaker 1: both of those third down conversions, specifically that second one.
Speaker 1: They needed something to go their way because it was
Speaker 1: one of the more bizarre games I've covered in the
Speaker 1: standpoint of You're right they did. The Rams did get
Speaker 1: on a big rally there and they were able to
Speaker 1: come back and grab the lead, but it wasn't like okay,
Speaker 1: they cut it to ten to eight, and then they
Speaker 1: came on at the second half and just ran down
Speaker 1: the field and scored again. The Packers got a three
Speaker 1: and out and then and added a field goal, and
Speaker 1: then the Rams finally got going after that. So for
Speaker 1: the Packers, they needed a response. They needed young guys
Speaker 1: to emerge. They needed a guy like Davante Adams to emerge.
Speaker 1: He did that, and I think when you look at
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones, how consistent he was throughout the course of
Speaker 1: this game. I think he's averaging right now I don't
Speaker 1: have in front of me. I think it might be
Speaker 1: like seven yards of carry. Now. At this point, the
Speaker 1: package featured him a little bit more. He rewarded them
Speaker 1: for those snaps and then I mean, what can you
Speaker 1: say about Marquis Valdo Scandling. I asked him this question
Speaker 1: after the game and in talking with them in the
Speaker 1: tunnel at the Colosseum. The fact that they did get
Speaker 1: Geronimo Allison and Randall cob Back, and by no means,
Speaker 1: I'm sure they had them on a rep column. They
Speaker 1: wanted to be, you know, safe with them in the hamstring.
Speaker 1: But the fact the Packers were that confident in Valdis
Speaker 1: Scandling and Equinimius st. Brown. They ran packages where it
Speaker 1: was just those two young receivers out there. They didn't
Speaker 1: have the veterans they felt Mike McCarthy this offensive coaches have,
Speaker 1: they felt confident enough of what those rookies had done
Speaker 1: to this point to keep them on the field. When
Speaker 1: they got their veteran options back, the Packers got a
Speaker 1: rally back. They're gonna have a tough opponent next Sun Night.
Speaker 1: But offensively, the emergence that with young players like this
Speaker 1: emerging in the offense, it allows them to open up
Speaker 1: the playbook more and allows them be less predictable, and
Speaker 1: I think obviously that had a big impact in what
Speaker 1: they were able to do in terms of turning the
Speaker 1: tide to that game against what a lot of people
Speaker 1: consider to be the best team in football right now. Yeah, well,
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Speaker 1: Another thing we definitely have to touch on here in
Speaker 1: the aftermath of this game, the l A Coliseum was
Speaker 1: lambeau Field Westable, Holy cow. I believe the announced attendance
Speaker 1: was seventy five thousand plus and uh, if it wasn't
Speaker 1: fifty fifty Packers Rams fans, it was somewhere awfully close
Speaker 1: to that, because you could hear it right from the
Speaker 1: beginning when when the Packers got their first sack on defense,
Speaker 1: when they scored the first touchdown, Actually the roar was
Speaker 1: pretty loud for Jimmy Graham when that was originally ruled
Speaker 1: a touchdown, and then they got the touchdown later after
Speaker 1: the reversal put the ball inside the one yard line.
Speaker 1: But um, but boy, right from the get go, the
Speaker 1: Packers fans made their presence felt, and they could be
Speaker 1: heard all game long. There were more go Pack go
Speaker 1: chance and during that game in l A. Than maybe
Speaker 1: I've heard at a game at lambeau Field in quite
Speaker 1: some time. That the fans, the fans, the fans showed up.
Speaker 1: I give him credit. And and uh, as I said,
Speaker 1: my the the headline for my insider inbox on Monday
Speaker 1: morning was they deserved one more possession. And some fans
Speaker 1: that I see in the inbox have misinterpreted that saying
Speaker 1: that I'm thinking the Packers deserved one more and they
Speaker 1: gave that possession away. I totally agree. My my line
Speaker 1: there was that the fans who showed up and really
Speaker 1: supported the Packers in that game, they deserved one more
Speaker 1: possession to see if Aaron Rodgers could pull this game out. Yea.
Speaker 1: And I think there are even some sentiments from the
Speaker 1: Rams side that I mean, certainly they want to win
Speaker 1: the game, but that did kind of take the drama
Speaker 1: out of it at the end, based on how well
Speaker 1: that game had been played up to that point by
Speaker 1: both teams. Uh, it was just a fun atmosphere to
Speaker 1: be a part of in some regard to kind of
Speaker 1: reminded me a little bit. Hear me out on this
Speaker 1: a little bit of the Metrodome as far as the
Speaker 1: reporters were concerned, because the way that the press box
Speaker 1: works there, it's sort of old school, and that you're
Speaker 1: it isn't It's basically right on the side of the field,
Speaker 1: but you know mid level, which you don't get kind
Speaker 1: of mezzanine level and all of we had basically shutter
Speaker 1: type windows that just opened and closed, and the crowds
Speaker 1: just right in front of you. It reminded me of
Speaker 1: the Metrodome in that regard that you could hear what
Speaker 1: the fans were saying, you could feel the energy of
Speaker 1: the crowd. It was a really cool atmosphere. I don't
Speaker 1: know what it's been like for the Rams this year.
Speaker 1: I know they're trying to recultivate that fan base, but
Speaker 1: in terms of just a natural football game, was really
Speaker 1: fun to be a part of because it almost reminded
Speaker 1: me in some regards with like high school, because you had,
Speaker 1: like the Packers fans when the Rams are on the field,
Speaker 1: they were getting loud, and then you still had the
Speaker 1: Rams contingent that weren't quite as loud when the Packers
Speaker 1: around the field, but sort of going back and forth,
Speaker 1: it was. It was fun to be a part of.
Speaker 1: But but I think the tough part for the Packers
Speaker 1: is that they did have at least a fifty fifty
Speaker 1: crowd there on the road. You don't usually get an
Speaker 1: opportunity like that. You just weren't able to turn it
Speaker 1: quite into a victory. But as far as we will
Speaker 1: probably end up being the only game I cover at
Speaker 1: the Coliseum, it was interesting to be a part of. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: as far as moving forward here for the Packers, you
Speaker 1: said it, I said it. I do think this was
Speaker 1: certainly given the opponent, this was the Packers best performance
Speaker 1: of I think in order for this to mean something
Speaker 1: west because there are no moral victories in the NFL,
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers said after the game, you don't get momentum
Speaker 1: from a loss. It doesn't happen. But where this becomes
Speaker 1: meaningful is if this now is the new standard play
Speaker 1: for the two thousand eight teen Packers, if they play
Speaker 1: like this more often, because we haven't, we haven't seen
Speaker 1: an offensive and defensive complementary effort for four quarters like
Speaker 1: we saw on Sunday. If that continues, I think victories
Speaker 1: are going to follow. I think the Rams had a
Speaker 1: lot to do with the fact that the Packers did
Speaker 1: not win this game. They are eight no at the
Speaker 1: midway point of the season. But that's where if this
Speaker 1: doesn't become the Packers new standard of play, then this
Speaker 1: is just another crappy loss. Yeah, and Clay Matthews basically
Speaker 1: said the same thing and so many words afterwards when
Speaker 1: he was asked about you know, if this is something
Speaker 1: you can build on and basically said it better be
Speaker 1: better be something that we can leap frog from, because
Speaker 1: there were a lot of positives to draw from. The
Speaker 1: Packers put together a pretty good plan offensively and defensively
Speaker 1: for how to attack the Rams. And we've seen it.
Speaker 1: You know, they played a tight game against Seattle. This
Speaker 1: team is just not this impenetrable force has just been
Speaker 1: running through everybody, but they're finding ways to win. The
Speaker 1: Packers did put together a good plan to attack that,
Speaker 1: but weren't able to pull it off. This stretch doesn't
Speaker 1: get any easier though. You get New England, then you
Speaker 1: get to come home against a team like Miami that
Speaker 1: you know they're not pushovers. And you are on your
Speaker 1: own turf. But then you have a three day turnaround,
Speaker 1: four day turnaround to go out to Seattle to play
Speaker 1: the same team that's starting to feel it. You can
Speaker 1: you can tell, you can tell. The December slate lines
Speaker 1: up well for the Packers, but they got to take
Speaker 1: care of business in November to set themselves up for
Speaker 1: a run here. This has to be something you learned from.
Speaker 1: It has to be something that motivates you and can
Speaker 1: really propel you into that third quarter of the season,
Speaker 1: because there it really was. If you step back, you
Speaker 1: take the emotion of it, there were a lot of
Speaker 1: positive to draw from. It's just that you didn't get
Speaker 1: the W. Yeah, and this is where the Packers stand
Speaker 1: in the NFC North. A lot of people are going
Speaker 1: to say, well, the Packers are in third place. There
Speaker 1: also were the one final possession potentially from being in
Speaker 1: first place if they pull out the game. Because the
Speaker 1: Bears are four and three. The Vikings are four three
Speaker 1: and one after a home lost to the New Orleans Saints,
Speaker 1: who have not lost since Week one and are looking
Speaker 1: just as good, perhaps if not better than the Rams.
Speaker 1: And we're going to find out because they're going to
Speaker 1: play each other here very soon. The Packers now three
Speaker 1: three and one and the Detroit Lions are three and four.
Speaker 1: You look at you look at where this is west.
Speaker 1: The Vikings, Bears, and Lions have not played each other
Speaker 1: at all this season, So there's a lot of infighting
Speaker 1: in the NFC North that still has to take place
Speaker 1: amongst those teams. The Bears still have to play the Rams,
Speaker 1: the Vikings still have to play at New England and
Speaker 1: at Seattle, just like the Packers do. So there's a
Speaker 1: heck of a lot here left to be decided. I know,
Speaker 1: I know Packers fans aren't happy with three three and one,
Speaker 1: and this was a huge opportunity on Sunday in Los
Speaker 1: Angeles that got away. But all you do is, you know,
Speaker 1: lace up the shoelaces, as they say, and go from here. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: And if you're Mike McCarthy, I mean you just look
Speaker 1: at what this team has done in the result and
Speaker 1: see it's shown in the past, being able to work
Speaker 1: through some of that early season adversity, to be able
Speaker 1: to to put yourself in a position to win a
Speaker 1: division title, to have a high, you know seed in
Speaker 1: the playoffs and try to you know, Chase another one
Speaker 1: of those Lombardi trophies. Like I just mentioned in my
Speaker 1: last answer, it comes back down though, to try and
Speaker 1: to put this on film and breaking it down and
Speaker 1: understanding what you need to do better. Mike Daniels and
Speaker 1: one of the other things he said is that, you know,
Speaker 1: we did a lot of good things well, but it
Speaker 1: just you know, it wasn't quite enough. We have to
Speaker 1: be better in different areas. We have to be better,
Speaker 1: We have to tighten things up, and then maybe we'll
Speaker 1: see this team again down the road. There were a
Speaker 1: lot of guys that are very similar sentiment. Sharon Williams
Speaker 1: said the same thing. These guys want another crack at
Speaker 1: them and they don't mind if it ends up being
Speaker 1: in the coliseum again. They feel like they can play
Speaker 1: with anybody. And there's been ups and downs at this
Speaker 1: point in the season, the first eight weeks, but Packers
Speaker 1: still feel good about where they're at. It's just ultimately
Speaker 1: going to be about changing the tone and picking up
Speaker 1: some victories and instead of just trying to find some
Speaker 1: moral victories. Yeah, all right, Well, with that, we've got
Speaker 1: to go. We'll call it a wrap on this edition
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