Episode Transcript
Hi, everybody.
Welcome to another edition of Packers Unscripted from Packers dot Com.
I am like Spafford, joined by my partner and Everything Packers, Wes Hodkwitz.
Coming to you here from our studios at lambeau Field to preview Sunday Night Football West.
It will be the Packers against the Cowboys down at at and T Stadium in Dallas, Green Bay.
Two to one.
The Cowboys are one and two, having played a tough game against the Eagles in Week one, a overtime shootout against the New York Giants in Week two, and then as we talked about on our last show, they kind of ran into a desperate Chicago Bears team in Week three and took it on the chin at Soldier Field.
So Dallas is one and two to this point, and I think the biggest question marks, the two biggest question marks heading into this game, one on each side of the ball.
For Dallas.
One is what will the offense look like without Ceedee Lamb, who is injured?
And two are the Cowboys going to get this defensive thing figured out?
Because their defense right now is really struggling.
Speaker 2And then obviously there's the questions now with Trayvon Diggs if he's going to be available for them with the knee injury, right, I mean, Jadavian Clowney is now there.
I think there were some talks about he'll probably be suited up for this one the first time.
That was sort of their signing in the aftermath of the Micah Parsons trade.
A lot and you wrote about it to an extent.
A lot is going to be made this week out of Micah Parsons, and I made a little bit out of Kenny Clark as well.
But for me, more than anything, I think this is about the Packers offense, and it's about Green Bay trying to get going here against a Dallas defense that was really going through it on Sunday against Chicago right now, thirty second in the NFL dead last and passing defense.
They're struggling to rush the quarterback, pressure the quarterback, and the post Micah Parsons era.
Kenny Clark, to his credit, has nine pressures right now, which is tied for eleventh in the NFL.
But that's their their leading guy.
He also that one sack that Kenny got in the opener is also their team lead right now.
So for the Packers, coming off of that performance against a very difficult, very tenacious Cleveland Browns defense, our response is needed.
And if there was ever a get back game on paper, this is set up like that for green Bay.
Speaker 1Yeah, I mean this.
I agree with you that this game is going to be all about green Bay's offense because the numbers jump out at you.
I mean, the Cowboys only have four sacks as a team.
Defensively through three games, they just have one interception.
The opposing quarterback rating is one twenty five point three.
That's what they are allowing to opposing quarterbacks.
Those quarterbacks being Jalen Hurts, Russell Wilson who has since been benched, and Caleb Williams of the Bears.
So and we're hearing, of course, lots of talking green Bay about, Okay, how do you get the running game going with Josh Jacobs and the struggles there.
This game is going to be about green Bay's passing offense because it's going to be the passing offense that is going to open things up for Josh Jacobs.
The Cowboys have been vulnerable to the pass, particularly to the big play.
They've given up a lot of explosive plays defensively.
I expect the Packers to come into this game in full attack, aggressive mode offensively, and they are going to They are going to make the Cowboys stop the big play.
I think matt Lefuller is going to go after him well.
Speaker 2And you and I answered a lot of questions this week about Jordan Love and the Packers offense, but one of the statistics that still is out there for Green Bay, and it's a pro football focused step.
But when it comes to big play throws, nobody's made more of them this season than Jordan Love.
The Packers had a ton of explosive plays in those two first two games.
Maybe didn't score as much as Packers would have liked, but effectively were able to move the football.
Last week, in addition to not scoring, they really struggled to move the football the running game.
For Josh Jacobs to be held to thirty yards and sixteen carries, that is so not really even indicative of the type of running back he is or how productive Green Bay has been on the ground.
Maybe they haven't always had those big explosive plays, but they've found ways to push the pile three four yards even when necessary of the yards weren't there, That didn't happen against Cleveland.
And one of the things I had so much respect for the Browns about that I didn't understand until I watched him is when you hear single high, it's like, Okay, this is a feast or famine type defense.
No, they are just that good in that fast at getting pressure on the quarterback that they can play those games in the secondary.
Dallas is not that defense, especially in this current construct, without Micah Parsons there.
As much as Parsons has added to Green Bay's scheme, it took something big away from Dallas's.
Because that's honestly, in all due respect to Brian Schottenheimer and everybody there, they planned the entire offseason eventually to have Mike Persons out there, and they don't have him right now.
So this is this is a tough spot for them to be in as well.
But for the Packers standpoint again, you and I will do these previews and we'll talk about the opponent.
But for me, out of all these games we've covered so far, this one really is about green Bay and what the Packers have to do here that they didn't accomplish in Cleveland.
Speaker 1Yeah, and it's it's a it's a bounce back game for green Bay's offensive line.
And from a health standpoint, you know, Zach tom was not at practice on Wednesday, Aaron Banks not at practice on Wednesday.
We'll see exactly what shakes out with green Bay starting lineup and who's going to be playing where.
But but regardless of the who, it's a bounce back game for green Bay's offensive line.
The way things went in Cleveland.
You know, I get, I admit I get a little tired of all of the criticism that I read from the fans and the insider inbox about, you know, all the green Bay offensive line.
It's this huge problem, like what's going on?
Like did you watch the two games of the season against the Lions and against the Commanders.
Green Bay's offensive line did exactly what it needed to do to win those games.
The unit had a bad game, it doesn't mean it's a bad unit.
It doesn't mean the Packers have suddenly have all kinds of problems because they had one bad Sunday in the first road game of the season.
Now that being said, they've got to turn it back around the other direction.
I'm expecting to see an offensive line a lot more like the one we saw against Detroit a lot more like the one we saw against Washington, even if a starter to you know, there were two starters.
Those two starters were missing against Washington.
The Packers offensive line didn't miss a beat there, and that was no slouch of a commander's defense, So go ahead.
Speaker 2Elton Jenkins talked to his locker on Wednesday, and in addition to the fact that he has a very big assignment coming up against Kenny Clark, doups of those two guys practicing against each other, particularly in training camp, right when they're really going good on good and you're trying to kind of hone in yourself and sharpen the iron there.
But he also mentioned afterwards talking to the Packers' offensive line, Elton Jenkins is the first one to step up.
In addition to his group media interview and then also talking with Jason Wildy afterwards.
You know, Elton wasn't happy with how he performed, and he wasn't happy with how the offensive line performed.
He went to those guys afterwards after the game and told them, you guys all got to go home and look in the mirror and be critical of yourself and what we put on tape today because, as you often talk about, when you do that, when that type of stuff happens, teams learn how to attack you.
It's about how green Bay, now as a whole, bounces back.
Speaker 3Now.
Speaker 2The one thing those guys won't do, they won't make excuses.
That was a very disadvantageous position that the Packers offensive line got put into.
You are facing arguably the best pass rusher in the National Football League.
You're thinking, Zach Tom might be able to get through this thing, and you lose them after one play.
Tom will see what happens with the oblique.
It sounds like he didn't reaggravate it, which is positive.
But again, there's this game.
There's the buy trying to get him right, Aaron Banks, the groin injury.
We'll see what happens there.
So those are two big holes that the green Bay Packers have to fill.
But at the very least, assuming neither of those guys go and went Thursday's practice or Friday's practice, the Packers will have an opportunity to kind of figure out what their best five is and proceed with that now into this game.
Speaker 1Yeah, and on the other side of the ball, despite the Cowboys one to two record.
You can't look past the fact that Dak Prescott's completing seventy one point four percent of his passes.
He's thrown for eight hundred yards in three games, which is no small feat.
But as I mentioned at the top, Ceedee Lamb, the number one wide receiver and Prescott's favorite target, is out and the Cowboys also will be missing one of their starting guards in Tyler Booker, who who also is on the shelf for a couple of weeks.
One of the things that jumped out at me looking at Dallas's offensive statistics is tight end Jake Ferguson.
He's got twenty seven catches in three games.
Now, he's not going to necessarily continue that, but he's on pace for like one hundred and fifty catches over the course of the season.
He's catching nine passes per game on average, and he could be a guy that Prescott looks for even more if that's possible with with Ceedee Lamb not available.
So that's something that that the Packers need to keep an eye on.
And uh and the Cowboys have a new running back as well.
They got Javante If I'm saying Williams Javonte now refresh this old guy's memory.
He was with Denver second round right second round draft pick with the Denver Broncos.
So he's there, he's their new belcow running back, and you know he's he's a guy who's who's been there and done that in this league, even though he's still pretty young and UH certainly with UH seeing as much as well as the Packers have played against the run, seeing those couple of explosive runs that Quin Shaw Quin Shawn Judkins excuse me, ripped off against the Packers in the second half in Cleveland, the Cowboys may be looking to do something there.
So for all to talk about what this means with Green Bay's offense against Dallas' defense and everything, I don't want to overlook the other side of things because even without Ceedee Lamb, Dak Prescott is still a guy who a lot of times finds a way.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 2In first and foremost, I mean Javonte Williams, I would say is actually one of the best free agent signings we've seen so far.
One year, three and a half million dollars.
He had some down years there and he was trying to get things right again.
Dallas, you know, one of the hallmarks man.
We talk about the Packers' ability to develop offensive lineman Dallas, especially with the way that they build their offensive line.
They've had a lot of success with plug and play guys.
This has gone back for a decade now.
I think a Darren McFadden going down there.
Obviously, DeMarco Murray having the run that he did.
Ezekiel Elliott, without a doubt, was a pro bowler.
Speaker 3In his time.
Speaker 2But for Williams to go there and be this productive one thing they really struggled with last year.
They did not have a running game at all during Mike McCarthy's last year, and that really affected them.
Once Dak Prescott was gone, they needed to get that right.
They felt like they could get that right, and this was sort of a mid level market signing and it's worked out for him so well.
Already has three touchdown runs as well this season.
Jake Ferguson is fascinating because he has twenty seven catches for six point eight yards per catch.
But that being said, he's already at his forty percent threshold for where he was at last year in receptions.
I think he had fifty four or something like that last year.
Pretty darn near close to half of it already, so Packers will have to find a way to neutralize him.
And George Pickens is the new weapon.
So even if cdee Lamb isn't out there, and he is a handful, he's one of the very best in this game, Dak Prescott still has guys to work around.
And now that Prescott's back, he's put the hamstring injury behind him.
The yards per play and the explosive plays haven't been there so far for Dallas.
When you look about you look at his yards per passing play, I think it's in the six to eight range.
Then you go over to their opponents which is almost like nine point eight.
Yeah, yards per play.
So defensively they're gashing a lot, but offensively they've been really, you know, pretty efficient so far.
Fourth in the league right now in total yards.
But they've also had turnovers too that.
Speaker 3I've hurt them.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Well, the storylines that of course we've been talking about with the players.
You mentioned it before.
Micah Parsons will be returning to Dallas sort of that unexpected homecoming because a month ago he wouldn't have thought this was in the cards necessarily, and now the Packers and a bunch of guys in Green Bay, particularly Elton Jenkins, are going to go head to head with Kenny Clark, one of their favorite former teammates and mainstay here.
You have a story on our website about the whole Jenkins and Clark matchup.
I have a story on the website about Micah Parsons and what he had to say about the homecoming.
So I don't want to belabor that.
But everything that I heard, and you found some comments that Kenny Clark made to the Dallas media and whatnot, I can't say I've been surprised at all by anything I've heard from any of the players kind of you know, involved in all this.
I mean, I got the sense from Micah Parsons that he just wants the he just wants the game to get started, because he feels like, once once, once the ball is kicked off, it's it's a football game.
It's not about him being back in Dallas and all of that anymore.
And I think, you know, once Elton Jenkins and Kenny Clark kind of you know, lockhorns for a couple three plays, you know, in the early portion of the game, then that part kind of goes away.
As well, because it's just another opponent, right, So yeah, that seems to be the way everybody's approaching it.
Speaker 2Yeah, And I mean Kenny said, Kenny might have set a record for saying needing to go one to zero in a nine minute interview.
That was his focus is that, And he was great.
He's like Kenny always is, very humble, very affable.
You can tell that the Dallas media has already taken to him down there, and but this ultimately is about trying to win this game.
The one thing I thought was really interesting that Kenny said though he was legitimately shocked and he was really surprised.
He had heard the rumblings that they potentially could be acquiring Michael Parsons.
He didn't.
He was floored when he found out.
He said, he was downstairs with his he had just gotten home from practice.
He was with his daughter and Brian Gudikun's the same GM that was just give him a fist bump a couple hours earlier at practice that same day, was calling to let him know that this trade had gone through and Kenny was the player.
Speaker 3Now.
Speaker 2The one thing that I think is the ultimate credit to Kenny is the Dallas.
Speaker 3Cowboys wanted him badly.
Speaker 2This wasn't just oh, we we're gonna trade two first round picks and we got to throw somebody else in to make the money work.
No, I mean the Cowboys really felt like he was.
I think there's been a little bit of a caricature with it with the Jerry Jones stuff, but the personnel department there really valued what he brings as a defensive tackle and they've really struggled with the edge rush.
But inside he has a good one too going early on.
But for him, it is about this game.
He said, you know, they were asking him, are you gonna go get some hugs before and He's like, I'm there to be hugged, but I'm not going to go pursue it.
I mean, if people want to come up to me and talk and chat, that's great, but I have a job to do and that's ultimately what he wants to be able to get done.
And Michael Parsons, as you were part of that discussion, I thought had some really salient points and that, Yeah, it's a lot of talk, and it's a lot of headlines and it's a lot of narratives going into this thing.
But once that ball is snapped.
He has a job to do.
He hopes that people down in Dallas love him.
He hopes that people appreciate what he gave.
But he doesn't need any like type of like circumstances or celebrations or He's not.
Speaker 1Worried about the scoreboard tribute thing that Jerry Jones said is not going to happen the way it's happened in Dallas for Emmett Smith and and for Ezekiel Elliott when they came back, and he's like and he's like, I'm not worried, you know, he's It's the last thing on his He wants to play it.
Frankly, he just wants to play the football.
Speaker 3Thank you for saving me.
I can't think of the word tribute there.
Speaker 1Well, we've already touched on a few things, but when it comes to keys to victory in this game, to kind of boil it down to, you know, the one or two bullet points, where are you at on this one?
Speaker 2For the Packers, Packer's got to run the ball, Mike, you gotta run the ball one way or another.
They got to find a way to get this thing going.
I think Josh is when you're it's not like Cincinnati.
I don't know if you saw those statistics that are going on in Cincinnati right now.
I forget the back's name.
I mean he's like negative fifty four yards before contact.
I mean basically, the defensive front is in the backfield before he can even get moving.
But Jacobs has had a hard time finding some wiggle room, and he's faced some really good defenses too.
There's some really strong opponents that he's gone up against.
But with defenses wanting to throw an extra guy in the box.
And Kenny even said it in his address with the media, I mean that is where everything starts for green Bay.
If Josh Jacobs starts running, if Tucker Kraft, as Kenny also pointed out, if those two start getting going and inside, everything opens up for Green Bay in the passing game.
So they have to be able to run the football and then honestly to build off of that.
And I hope I'm not stealing anything from you because I'm talking a lot here.
But Jordan Love getting back the horse, and you mentioned it, he did that after the interception.
He led them down, put them back in scoring position.
But Jordan Love may have played one of his best games in that wild card game against Dallas a year and a half ago.
This is critical now for him to be able to put everything that happened in Cleveland behind him, refocus and just get this offense humming.
Yeah, Packers are still looking for that first thirty point game on paper, thirty points allowed so far per game for Dallas.
It's set up for green Bay to have success.
Speaker 1Yeah, And that's why to me, what rises to the top for me here is that the Packers need to finish drives in this game.
Because I expect this matchup green Bay's offense against Dallas' defense.
I expect the Packers to be able to move the ball and to be able to move the ball really consistently.
But you and I have seen plenty of games where you can have a team that's moving the ball, you can be racking up all kinds of yards, But then if you can't finish drives and you're settling for field goals, then you're not maximizing on those opportunities that you're creating for yourself.
And I do expect the Packers to be able to move the ball into rack up yards, but they've got to finish the drives to rack up the points as well.
I mean the Packers have won.
As we know, the Packers have not lost in at and T Stadium since that place was built.
It's a six game winning streak that started with Super Bowl thirty five, sorry super Bowl forty five, excuse me, against the Pittsburgh Steelers, and then the last five games have been against Dallas down there.
The Packers have won them all.
What really jumps out when you look at the scores of those games is that the Packers have averaged thirty six and a half points in those six victories in that building.
They go in there and they score points, and that needs to continue.
And I think this is an opportunity for Green Bay to do that.
On the flip side.
Defensively, I just think it's about making Dak Prescott uncomfortable.
And because I don't know about you, but I always feel like when I if I'm watching the Cowboys on television, their offense always looks different at home versus when it's on the road, and when no matter what the statistics say, necessarily Dallas at home to me is always still a very dangerous offense with Dak Prescott at the controls.
And I think it's incumbent upon the Packers Parsons and company pass rush wise, where Shan Gary's got the four and a half sacks already so far this year.
They need to make They need to make Prescott uncomfortable, and I like green Bay's chances.
Speaker 2Honestly, I think for green Bay's defense, I'm glad you brought that up.
If they can sack Prescott and they can turn the ball over, those are the only two things that we're missing from Cleveland.
I don't care if it's fumble.
People are asking about the force fumbles and the emphasis on that they haven't gotten the force fumbs yet.
I don't care if it's a force fumble.
I don't care if it's a fumble.
I don't care if Dak Prescott catches the ball, lays it on the ground and invites them to pick it up.
However you get the football.
Just being able to make those type of game changing plays, that's what changed the tie to that Browns game.
As much the Packers is disappointing, that was for green Bay to lose that way.
One takeaway absent the end of the first half.
I'm talking about a drive killing takeaway would have I think put things in green Bay's favor.
They didn't get it.
The other thing, I just want to mention very quickly, and you know this better than anybody.
Their nineteen nineties green Bay Packers could not get past the Dallas Cowboys.
That table has flipped.
However, Packer fans thought of the Seattle Seahawks in the early twenty tens, the San Francisco forty nine ers, now some of these teams that have stood in the way at Green Bay, the Packers have been that force for the Dallas Cowboys.
A lot of people laughed about that that show they did on Netflix where Jerry Jones is talking about how devastating that loss was last year when they were or two years ago when they were the number one seed, in the number two seed or twof seed the first two to seven game, how difficult that was to take because you got to remember, Dallas has lost some absolute killers to green Bay.
When you go back to twenty fourteen and the des Brian catch no catch, that Packers have been a thorn in their side.
So when Brian Schottenheimer says, I don't care if we have Tyler Brooker, I don't care if we have CD Lamb we have enough to beat the Green bit Packers.
You best believe you're gonna get Dallas's best effort.
Speaker 1Yeah, absolutely, I think I think the Packers are going to get Dallas's best shot because yeah, and certainly that fan base that is going to be filling that stadium, I do think there will be a decent contingent of Packers fans there.
But that fan base remembers the twenty fourteen Divisional game, the twenty sixteen Divisional game which was in Dallas, the twenty twenty three wild Card game which was in Dallas.
That those those fans remember those games and they will be they'll be out for blood, so to speak, in this one.
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In Week four, we'll start with the NFC North Minnesota Vikings are against the Pittsburgh Steelers in Dublin, So we get to wake up in our hotel room Sunday morning in Dallas and turn on NFL Football.
Yeah, eight thirty eight Central time kickoff if you're so inclined.
Cleveland is at Detroit, so that Browns team that just knocked off Green Bay now goes into Ford Field.
And then the Bears, coming off their first win of the season, go to Las Vegas to take on a Raiders team that is struggling a bit.
I think the Bears have a great opportunity to get to two and two and kind of erase their zero and two start.
But any thoughts you have on those NFC North matchups.
Speaker 2Well, I mean, it's funny, man, we're back to Aaron Rodgers.
It's right, and not that some fans stop, but I mean this is this is a big one.
I mean, Minnesota, that was a huge response.
I thought every team in the NFC, it's again, it speaks to the strength of the division.
When they've all been punched in the mouth so far, each one of them is bounced back.
I already made my point known on Tuesdays show about Chicago and how I felt like they played against Dallas and that was the right response the Vikings to lose Aaron Jones and JJ McCarthy and then look that good in that game and Carson Wentz and I mean probably the best you know videos, memes, highlights, you know those old clips of him in the stadium at the Metrodome with the you know, the Vikings jersey on, you know, as a North Dakota kid being over there and he going to those games.
Now he's the quarterback.
I mean, that's that's what the NFL is all about.
But that being said, Pittsburgh and that defense that has been built to win a championship.
This year has to come through.
So that'll be a fun one to watch.
These Thursday night games have been great.
It's really fun to watch.
I mean, not necessarily the Dolphins one, but I mean, by and large this season, these are This is a really high stakes matchup.
Seattle's feeling good about itself, Arizona was feeling good about self.
And you know, Marvin Harrison had some drops, some mis cues, and now they lost James Connors.
Speaker 1So yeah, both those teams, Seahawks and Cardinals for Thursday football, they're both two and one.
That's a big that's a big game in the NFC West.
Speaker 2Huge, huge, huge, And uh you know the Seahawks too have been working through some injuries there.
So this is a really good slate of game.
I mean, you're gonna talk about the whole thing here, but I mean there's there's a couple mismatches.
Again, Buffalo gets matched up against New Orleans and three zero and three.
Yeah, but then yeah, I mean Philly in Tampa.
I mean, like Jacksonville has impressed some people.
They get to face the forty nine ers, the Colts and the Rams.
Speaker 3I don't want to take your win.
Speaker 1No, No, those were a couple of the ones that I was gonna mention.
You've got Philadelphia going up against Tampa Bay.
Here two three and o teams in the NFC.
That one is that one is down in Tampa.
I think a sneaky interesting game is Indianapolis at the Rams with you know the Rams.
The rams only loss was, you know, blowing the big lead against Philadelphia and Indianapolis is kind of the surprise of the league.
I would say, right now, off to that three and oh start.
And then speaking of surprises, I don't think at the beginning of the season, either one of us would have said, oh, Baltimore against Kansas City in Week four and both teams are one and two, you know, so bar some sort of you know, crazy overtime tie.
I mean, either the Ravens or the Chiefs is going to be one and three one month into the season.
That's certainly something.
Speaker 3Uh'll both be one two and one.
Yeah, sorry, I always gotta be that.
Speaker 1Guy, I know, but that's that's not a scenario anyone necessarily envision.
Now that being said, I think both the Ravens and the Chiefs have played some played a tough schedule you know, they've they've had you know, they've had their opponents kind of.
Speaker 3I just did what they need to do last week.
Ye first are tough?
Speaker 1Yeah, absolutely so.
I it's it's a it is, it's a it's a really interesting slate of games.
I want to get.
I want to get your thoughts as far as Philly going down to Tampa Bay.
One of these teams theoretically will be four and oh the other one is going to drop to three and one.
Which one do you think stays undefeated?
Speaker 2Yeah?
Speaker 3I think Eagles run through them.
Speaker 2To be honest with you, Okay, I have a ton of respect for what Todd Bowles is built there.
There's a lot of people that thought he was just going to be that.
You know, we've seen this so many times where you have the air apparent and then they just it just doesn't work out you when they succeed him.
I think Bowls has done a good job of taking what Bruce arians built and has made it his own now and showed that.
You know, he did deserve that opportunity to be a head coach again in this league.
But I just think Philly is so formidable right now and they can beat you in so many different ways.
Speaker 3Yeah, and it's a bad game.
Speaker 1But yeah, and it's a bad time for Tampa Bay to lose Mike Evans to a string injury too.
You know, I would have leaned toward Philadelphia in this matchup of early unbeatens anyway, but then hearing that Evans is now out and the Buccaneers don't have Chris Godwin, you know, they still don't have all the all their other weapons back, and now you lose a guy like Evans, that's really going to put really going to put the pressure on Baker Mayfield.
And for all the magic he has worked in the first three years of the season, I think the magic runs out a little bit here in Week four.
Speaker 2Yeah, and I'll never come him out.
I mean, this guy's incredible what he's been doing.
He's proved me wrong several times over over the years, including this season alone.
But it's also the most winnable division in football.
So it's like if they if they do find a way to beat Philadelphia, that's a great way to put your flag in the ground and say we're going to be a contender this year.
I just want to also a couple of other things.
I want to mention absolutely hate.
I'm using the word hate here the idea of starting Jackson Dart this week, they're gonna make that switch with the Giants.
He's taken over under center.
Russell Wilson is going as the backup.
Brian Davil said, that's gonna be the way they're gonna do it the rest of the year.
They're going against.
They are at home, but they're going against the three to zero LA Chargers team.
Next week they play the Saints.
If it was me, I think I would have given Russ one more start here because this isn't This game isn't going to changing thing.
It's a non conference opponent, and if the Chargers get after him, that's not great.
And then Cleveland and Detroit man is a really really sneaky good game.
It also shows you the different levels of two and two teams sometimes, right, like the Browns get to two and two, they're gonna look like world beaters.
Yeah, after knocking off Green Bay in Detroit, no kidding, but with how the Lions offense is playing right now, specifically that run game against this uh Cleveland defense.
Oh and by the way, it's coordinated by Jim Schwartz.
Speaker 3Theater.
Speaker 1Yea cinema, Yeah, there we go.
Well with that, we will call it a rap on this edition of Packers Unscripted.
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Thank you for tuning in.
Speaker 2Everybody.
Speaker 1We will see you next time.