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Oh boy, Packer Nation.
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Goodness gracious.
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That was that was one of the games of all time.
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Uh we are coming at you just a few minutes here after the Packers somehow, some way get out of New York with a victory of 20 to 17 over the New York football Jets.
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And boy, do we have a lot of thoughts coming out of this game.
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I think let's just start really quick and just get it out of the way.
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Boy, were there a lot of penalties.
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The Packers, 14 penalties, 133 yards.
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The Jets, not any better.
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13 penalties were 156 yards.
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And it was just it was a brutal game.
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And you know, we were going back and forth during this game saying, you know, these are correct calls.
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These are just two poorly disciplined teams going at each other.
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So rough to get out of to get out of there with a win here after all of this going on.
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But how how are you feeling, my man?
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Because I feel like I've aged 20 years and my blood pressure has gone up substantially.
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Oh my goodness.
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Yeah, I think I've finally relaxed a little bit now that it's uh some minutes later.
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But yeah, that that was some stressful uh stuff, let's say.
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Uh wow, they really put us through it.
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And look, folks, uh, we try to be objective, but the name of the podcast says it all.
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We are Packer fans, and uh we we we're pulling for the team the whole way at various points.
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We were ready to give up the ghost.
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Like it just seemed like everything was going against us, we had no life.
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Uh number 10 seemed to be in space somewhere, I don't know where, but he his head wasn't in the game.
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It didn't look like.
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So, yeah, what a turn of events, and they may have saved the season.
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At least temporarily they did.
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Let's see what happens long term.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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This is you know the epitome of one of those counts as a win on the stat on the stat sheet and and and uh in the record books, but really doesn't feel like much of a win coming out.
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So it's you know it was a brutal start to this game.
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Let's just go through it, you know, kind of quarter by quarter here.
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You know, obviously two huge injuries almost back to back with Jaden Reed going down uh with a scary neck injury and then Zach Bacaboelli.
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Uh potentially another um you know year-long knee injury.
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Uh obviously, we don't want to speculate yet.
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We haven't seen any final news coming out of the camp, but it didn't look great.
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And to start off our our game with with those two guys going out was was a real a real blow to us early.
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Oh yeah, real scary.
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I really feel for Jay Reed.
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And you could see, like I speculated pre-game, they wanted to get him involved.
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Absolutely.
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This this was primed to be a potentially big game from him, and then that guy just wrenches his neck on the way down.
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I don't know if he already got glanced a glancing blow from the uh the helmet of the other guy.
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So yeah, look, it's it'd be a uh uh cry and shame to lose him.
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But uh right now I'm just pulling for his health and well-being.
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Yep, absolutely.
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Um, and then you know, going through that first quarter, not a lot to talk about, honestly, other than just the amount of penalties racking up.
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I think at one point we had more penalty yards than our than yards of offense, you know, and that that that trend will continue as we get as we get through quarter by quarter in this game, but man, talk about a rough start.
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Yeah, it was not a good look.
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The defense was hanging in there, they were, which we have to give credit to.
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Again, seems like a good overall plan by Jonathan Gannon.
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As the game went on, we had some missed tackles, we had some unfortunate penalties.
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And guess what, folks?
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The Jets have some good players too, uh, especially Brees Hall.
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Yeah, Brees Hall had a had had a big had a big gain late in the game that really kind of set them up.
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And you know, he's he's always a danger, right?
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Doesn't matter if he's going between the tackles, going outside, you know, getting hit in the flat for a little swing pass.
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Guy's dangerous.
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Um and you know, I I think I think other than that one that one big play, we did a decent job limiting him.
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You know, 16 carries for 29 yards is not nothing to ride home about.
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He did have five catchers for about 63 yards, and obviously that big gainer.
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Um, but yeah, man, I mean it the game plan's gotta be limiting him going into it, which you know we talked about coming into this week.
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Um and look, shout out the defense, man.
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I mean they they really showed up and you know delivered when they when they had to.
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Um couple couple big um moments for some young guys.
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We had we had the breakout LVN game finally, which was which was fantastic.
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Uh, you know, came out with one and a half sacks, had a couple TFLs, and really came at big moments for us and kind of I think fired up the guys and you know kind of showed exactly what we talked about, you know, preseason.
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Like we need a guy to be opposite Micah, right?
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We don't need him to be a world beater, we don't need him to be, you know, a guy getting 15 sacks a year, but we need a guy to lock down the other side and you know deliver in pressure spots.
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And I think LVN had maybe his best game as a pro today.
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Yeah, possibly.
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He's very active, no doubt, and he seems to have built up some pass rus moves, and you know, he's always that physical specimen with that speed, size, strength going on, and he he seemed to overwhelm whoever was in front of him, at least sometimes.
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Of course, nobody's gonna get in the backfield every play, but yeah, he he got it going early and he got it going late, too.
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So thank thank the gods for Hercules.
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Yeah, exactly.
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Um, and then on the other side of the ball, you know, another young guy, happy for happy for Marshawn getting his first NFL touchdown.
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That was really great to see.
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Wasn't super efficient otherwise, other than that, you know, had had kind of a tough time finding some running lanes, um, but was able to to punch in his first score uh in his NFL career, which which was I'm sure kind of a big weight off his back after the last couple years he's had with injuries.
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Yeah, yeah, he looked good on that.
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And he had some tough runs.
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He eluded some people uh a couple few times.
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He reminded me of Josh on one of those plays where uh you know he should have been stopped and he wasn't.
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So I like that.
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Of course, the fumble's inexcusable.
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Yeah, that was tough, and he's known for fumbling from college, so we gotta get that cleaned up.
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Thankfully, Caleb Johnson looks like a player, nothing spectacular, but he stays on his feet.
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He was able to move the pile, he has a little bit more bulk, it looks like, than whoever else we have.
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And he's he's got some speed, you know.
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He he he can he can jet through there when he when he needs to.
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So uh that seemed to be a good distribution between those two, and then Brooks, you know, every once in a while.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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Um and you know, again, continuing on the trend of you know, guys that we're just thrilled for at this point in the season.
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I mean, Christian Watson with another touchdown, uh kind of cementing his role as our number one guy.
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Uh didn't have a crazy stat line up, you know, beyond that, obviously that that touchdown on the quick slant, but I mean having that reliable big body in the red zone is something this offense has been missing.
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Yeah, he's so key to our whole team.
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He missed a couple there, uh, you know, that were unfortunate.
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And yeah, we're gonna have to talk about sloppy play overall, but um yeah, I mean, two games, three touchdowns, it's a good start for him, and he's staying healthy so far.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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Um, and I think you know, continuing on the trend of of receivers, let's let's talk about Matthew Golden really quick.
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Uh, he was my pick for X Factor player of the week this week.
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I think he had a he had a fine game.
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I think you know he he had a couple key um drawn PI calls that really set us up.
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You know, you we can debate back and forth how weak they were, if they you know should have been flags or not.
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Turns out at the end of the day, if a ball is underthrown, all the receiver has to do is just jump back into the guy and it's like fits a flag every single time.
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So, you know, that's a the that's more of an endemic issue across the league rather than you know these specific plays.
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But I thought he had a great impact.
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You know, I I loved that little, and this this is a great heads-up play by by um by Jordan as well on the uh the last couple plays before we kicked that field goal.
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You know, the little alert route on the left-hand side where he found he he saw the corner kind of cheating towards the run and just decided to flip one to golden for like a 10 or 11 yard gain.
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You can see he was fired up after that, and you know, he he knows that that was a pivotal play.
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So I'm glad he got he got a chance to you know really kind of try to drive drive the knife home in a sense.
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Yeah, that was great.
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He missed a couple two along the way.
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It just drops one right in his hands.
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Uh so yeah, his concentration was lacking at times, but as we know, he's so dynamic when he does get the ball and he can just run past people.
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And well, both he and Christian, of course, but uh you know, it's just it's fantastic, fantastic to have these two burners on our team.
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And if they can stabilize their hands, and you know, usually Watson is reliable, and I think Golden will be.
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I think you know, people have said he's got the best hands on the team, so yeah, uh, let's just hope it was rain.
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And I think also their thoughts could have been with Jaden a little bit there.
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Uh you know, absolutely it's just you know, they're human and and emotions are gonna play a part.
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Yeah, and I think that that actually dovetails nicely into kind of the last player I wanted to highlight specifically.
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I think we got three burners on this team, man.
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Shout out to Sky Moore.
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I mean, talk about having an impact with limited touches.
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Dude was having basically having his way on the return game today, especially with breaking off that big 60 plus yarder that set us up for the for the game tying field goal.
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Yeah, definitely.
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He runs tough, he finds those holes, he's not afraid back there.
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He he's confident, he attacks the game, he's not waiting for the game to get him, which we did all last year in punt returns, especially Romeo.
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Bless him, but he's not a punt returner.
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So, so yeah, and you gotta give credit too to the entire special teams for opening up some gaps.
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I think Sky actually made a lot of that happen, but still, the the other guys must have been doing something right, and at least at the times they didn't get a penalty.
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So uh, you know, we we we have a special teams coordinator who isn't asleep on the job this year.
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Bless.
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I mean, what what an incredible thing to to highlight as such a win for this for this team, have it having a coordinator who's not asleep at the wheel.
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I mean, but I I I totally agree with you.
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You know, the the special teams has looked pretty good this year.
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You know, we had we we had one shank by wheel in this this game, didn't that wasn't great, but then that a few 60-yard bombs.
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You know, and obviously Trey Smack coming out here, you know, hitting a game winner in his second career game.
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Dude's got got ice in his veins, man.
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Love that.
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Well, it's gotta feel good.
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I mean, if he would have missed that, all hell would have waned down.
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But uh uh yeah, he hit the chip shot.
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Good, good man.
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Um would McManus have been uh you know all good on that?
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I'm not so sure.
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So yeah, I'm I'm I'm I'm very pleased we have Mr.
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Smack.
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Absolutely.
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All right, I think that that wraps us up on kind of the the main positive takeaways for this game.
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Let's let's get into it a little bit on the negatives.
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And I think the the biggest one by far is I mean, goodness gracious, these penalties, man.
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I and so many unforced errors, right?
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We we talked about this going into this game.
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You cannot have this many unforced errors and expect to win in this league.
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We got away with one here today.
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Let's let's be real.
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14 penalties for 130 yards is that's not winning football.
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Yeah, in in some ways, we had no rights winning this game given the sloppiness and the inefficiency on offense.
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Yep, so yeah, uh you gotta lay that at the feet of the coach.
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Now, sure, the players have to perform, but I think we've all seen through our lives that you got you got some coaches who have disciplined teams.
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Now, I would I would say overall in his career with Green Bay, Matt's teams have been fairly disciplined.
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So I'm not sure what's going on.
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I think a lot of it's the instability of that offensive line again, sure, and those guys just getting their footing, you know, literally and figuratively.
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And it's it's costing us.
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And then on defense, we got still even if they're not called all the time, we got jittery guys at the line there, you know, just about to go off sides, it seems like.
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So we gotta get that cleaned up, and then yeah, there's still our special teams plays where we're we're getting penalties when when when uh we don't need them, of course, you know.
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And so yeah, it's it's just discipline all around.
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Uh and uh, you know, this is this is just not uh Bill Belichick kind of coaching at its height.
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It's it's sort of Mickey Mouse with the uh with the lack of discipline.
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And you know, we've got we got other problems of key players out.
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We can't add to it with this.
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We gotta get this under control.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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And you know, it's this is this is two straight week weeks.
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You know, three three makes a pattern, right?
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So I think we look to Thursday night to see if some of this can get cleaned up because this is if this is who we are as a team, is that this is our identity as sloppy football.
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I mean, we got we got nothing really.
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Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
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And hey, listen though, we broke the six-game losing streak.
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What a time to be alive, man.
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I mean, it it was the longest drought since 1991, which is pre-my existence on this earth.
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So I have quite literally never known a losing streak like this.
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And yeah, let's just let's put that behind us and never talk about it again, because never go there again.
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No.
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Um, you know, speaking of of things we never want to see again, one for nine on third down.
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Ugh.
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That is not what you want in the professional in the National Football League.
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Uh listen, let's do let's let's talk about 10.
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He came through on some crucial plays, he scrambled a couple times.
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I give him credit.
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He somehow uh kicked that ball enough so that we we got that recovery of one one of his strip sacks.
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But uh overall, uh I just thought it was a terrible performance by him, both in some of his decision making, where he's throwing into guys covered or guys that are not going to get the first down anyway, and in his execution, where he's just he's just inaccurate.
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So yeah, I I I don't know how to explain it.
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You you could talk about a little rain.
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Uh it wasn't pouring rain there, and I don't think the winds were crazy.
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So I I guess just just a poor performance that's gonna happen.
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He was great last week, and we gave him a lot of credit last week, but we didn't man, he he almost laid an egg today.
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Yeah, you know, and I'll I'll give him just a a little bit of grace here where you know on that on that fumble, I guess he did hurt his throwing hand in some capacity.
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I you know, I saw trainers working on him on the sideline a few times here and there.
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Obviously, he didn't come out, he didn't miss any time, you know.
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So if if if you're out there, you have to be able to execute.
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Um no two ways about it, you know.
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And but he even pre-the injury, right?
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There were some questionable throws.
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Um, you know, there was a couple in the dirt, things like that.
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So, you know, a lot to clean up.
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We we know the talent is there with with J Love.
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We know that he he is a gamer, we know that he can rise above, but um not not a performance I think he's gonna want to linger on for too long after today.
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Absolutely.
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You want to talk about Keyshawn?
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Yeah, I suppose we should.
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You know, he's he's such a he's such a dynamic player in a lot of ways, and we we've talked about him several times where it's like, you know, makes you makes you cry from frustration, makes a cry from joy.
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But I think that kind of sums him up as a player.
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So yeah.
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Today was a little was a little tough on his end.
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He played very well last week.
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This week he didn't have it.
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Now, look, Garrett Wilson is no joke.
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I get it, but he just uh didn't seem as locked in this game, and uh that they were picking on him quite a bit.
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So uh that's that's unfortunate, you know, and we didn't have St.
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Juice today with a hamstring.
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Um so but anyway, we're riding with Keyshawn, apparently.
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Yeah, I don't know if he's still CB1, quote unquote, but he's he seems to be one of the top two.
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I thought Cisei again played well.
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He had a missed tackle or two that I didn't enjoy, but uh I you know he he gets after it uh uh in the run game too.
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So yeah, I'm I'm really pleased with the rookies' progress.
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And he had half a sack too, right?
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Coming off the edge, combining with with Van S, I think it was.
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You know, yeah.
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I I just I really like the early willingness from the young guys to go, you know, get in the backfield, get up in guys' face, you know, coming from the secondary, right?
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And I think that's a good, a good, you know, um thing to highlight about about Jonathan Gaines' defense.
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They're very aggressive.
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You know, especially you know, over the last two weeks, as our only our only sample size really, guys are flying all over the place.
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And you know, getting these young rookie DBs involved at the line of scrimmage, I think, is a big is a big plus.
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Yeah.
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Last year it seemed to be Micah or nothing, and that was Hafley's defensive philosophy.
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Right.
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And it's like, okay, you know what?
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Uh Micah will give it to you more times than not.
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But then what happens if he goes out?
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Well, we saw what happens, and I love Jonathan's attitude, even if you you know, if you caught some of his press conferences early on, he was always stressing, yeah, we'd love to have Mike uh and we're gonna integrate him into things when he comes back.
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But I think we got a lot of good players, and he's you know, he's he's a great one, but I think you know we're we're gonna we're gonna play as a team.
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So he he has that attitude that I think the guys appreciate and and respond to.
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And you know, he's he's real he's rotating the edge spots quite a lot, giving everybody a chance.
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LBN is in there most passing plays, but you got Denai Sutton in there, you had Cox in there, and Sorrell.
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I didn't watch the D-line as closely as possible, so I assume he's subbing out there too.
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Um, but yeah, I just think that's I mean they have they have to be players who can make something happen, but I like the philosophy.
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Yeah, you know, I I think it's been a pretty solid run for him so far in the season.
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Obviously, you know, we give a bunch of points to the Vikings, not all that is on is on him, right, with the short field and everything.
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But I'm I'm becoming a believer.
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You know, I I texted you that mid-game and I was like, hey man, I think I think I'm with you on the on on the Ganon train, you know.
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Yeah, we can't expect miracles.
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The teams are gonna score, but he's he seems to have some intelligent plan, and the guys seem resilient and pretty much relentless getting after it.
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You know, when we were down 17-7, they could have folded, which we've seen in the past at times, but they didn't.
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Yeah, and you know, let's let's talk about that really quick before we move on to Thursday preview.
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Uh I I will give a pretty big shout out here to us to uh as a team for not getting down early, right?
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And I don't mean in the in the score, I mean getting down mentally early, right?
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We lose two of our key offensive guys right away and are having just a brutal half of football, brutal three quarters of football, really.
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And look, we responded in in a lot of ways.
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The defense held them when they did, you know, Jay Love led us down the field when he could, you know, special teams contributed.
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I mean, this is an ugly win, but it was kind of what we've been looking for, which is some you know response to adversity from from our our squad.
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Well said.
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So, you know, like like like we said, a win's a win, right?
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Just like Al Davis said, just win, baby, you know, and we're just happy to get out of New York uh semi-intact and with with a win on the scoreboard.
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Um and you know Yeah.
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Well well, we'll be at you uh, you know, in a couple days with the Falcons preview, but you want you want to just touch on it now?
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Yeah, I'll just just very briefly, you know, just just the fact it's being a short week.
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You know, we've been on the road two straight weeks, we finally get our home opener.
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You know, it is Thursday night, and it is against the Falcons who boy did they get crushed today.
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Um you know, not a lot to to be positive about there, but they still have a dangerous offense.
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They got Bijan Robinson, they got Drake London.
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We'll see what they're doing at quarterback this Thursday.
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Supposedly Pennyx is gonna be back.
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Okay.
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So he's he's a relatively dynamic playmaker.
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Um and we'll see, you know.
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I I think I think it's gonna be good for the guys to get out there at Lambeau this season the this this Thursday and you know try to get try to wash some of the shame off from week one.
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Ugh, yeah.
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Yeah, so breathe easy, Packer fans.
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The guys did it.
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We can enjoy at least a few days of uh victory, victory celebration, and we'll be back at you here for the game 3D preview sooner than later.
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Yes, sir.
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All right, as always, guys, go pack go.
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We'll see you later.
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Later.
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Oh boy, Packer Nation.
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Goodness gracious.
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That was that was one of the games of all time.
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Uh we are coming at you just a few minutes here after the Packers somehow, some way get out of New York with a victory of 20 to 17 over the New York football Jets.
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And boy, do we have a lot of thoughts coming out of this game.
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I think let's just start really quick and just get it out of the way.
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Boy, were there a lot of penalties.
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The Packers, 14 penalties, 133 yards.
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The Jets, not any better.
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13 penalties were 156 yards.
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And it was just it was a brutal game.
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And you know, we were going back and forth during this game saying, you know, these are correct calls.
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These are just two poorly disciplined teams going at each other.
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So rough to get out of to get out of there with a win here after all of this going on.
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But how how are you feeling, my man?
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Because I feel like I've aged 20 years and my blood pressure has gone up substantially.
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Oh my goodness.
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Yeah, I think I've finally relaxed a little bit now that it's uh some minutes later.
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But yeah, that that was some stressful uh stuff, let's say.
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Uh wow, they really put us through it.
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And look, folks, uh, we try to be objective, but the name of the podcast says it all.
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We are Packer fans, and uh we we we're pulling for the team the whole way at various points.
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We were ready to give up the ghost.
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Like it just seemed like everything was going against us, we had no life.
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Uh number 10 seemed to be in space somewhere, I don't know where, but he his head wasn't in the game.
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It didn't look like.
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So, yeah, what a turn of events, and they may have saved the season.
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At least temporarily they did.
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Let's see what happens long term.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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This is you know the epitome of one of those counts as a win on the stat on the stat sheet and and and uh in the record books, but really doesn't feel like much of a win coming out.
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So it's you know it was a brutal start to this game.
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Let's just go through it, you know, kind of quarter by quarter here.
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You know, obviously two huge injuries almost back to back with Jaden Reed going down uh with a scary neck injury and then Zach Bacaboelli.
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Uh potentially another um you know year-long knee injury.
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Uh obviously, we don't want to speculate yet.
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We haven't seen any final news coming out of the camp, but it didn't look great.
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And to start off our our game with with those two guys going out was was a real a real blow to us early.
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Oh yeah, real scary.
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I really feel for Jay Reed.
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And you could see, like I speculated pre-game, they wanted to get him involved.
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Absolutely.
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This this was primed to be a potentially big game from him, and then that guy just wrenches his neck on the way down.
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I don't know if he already got glanced a glancing blow from the uh the helmet of the other guy.
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So yeah, look, it's it'd be a uh uh cry and shame to lose him.
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But uh right now I'm just pulling for his health and well-being.
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Yep, absolutely.
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Um, and then you know, going through that first quarter, not a lot to talk about, honestly, other than just the amount of penalties racking up.
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I think at one point we had more penalty yards than our than yards of offense, you know, and that that that trend will continue as we get as we get through quarter by quarter in this game, but man, talk about a rough start.
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Yeah, it was not a good look.
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The defense was hanging in there, they were, which we have to give credit to.
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Again, seems like a good overall plan by Jonathan Gannon.
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As the game went on, we had some missed tackles, we had some unfortunate penalties.
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And guess what, folks?
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The Jets have some good players too, uh, especially Brees Hall.
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Yeah, Brees Hall had a had had a big had a big gain late in the game that really kind of set them up.
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And you know, he's he's always a danger, right?
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Doesn't matter if he's going between the tackles, going outside, you know, getting hit in the flat for a little swing pass.
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Guy's dangerous.
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Um and you know, I I think I think other than that one that one big play, we did a decent job limiting him.
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You know, 16 carries for 29 yards is not nothing to ride home about.
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He did have five catchers for about 63 yards, and obviously that big gainer.
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Um, but yeah, man, I mean it the game plan's gotta be limiting him going into it, which you know we talked about coming into this week.
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Um and look, shout out the defense, man.
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I mean they they really showed up and you know delivered when they when they had to.
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Um couple couple big um moments for some young guys.
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We had we had the breakout LVN game finally, which was which was fantastic.
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Uh, you know, came out with one and a half sacks, had a couple TFLs, and really came at big moments for us and kind of I think fired up the guys and you know kind of showed exactly what we talked about, you know, preseason.
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Like we need a guy to be opposite Micah, right?
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We don't need him to be a world beater, we don't need him to be, you know, a guy getting 15 sacks a year, but we need a guy to lock down the other side and you know deliver in pressure spots.
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And I think LVN had maybe his best game as a pro today.
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Yeah, possibly.
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He's very active, no doubt, and he seems to have built up some pass rus moves, and you know, he's always that physical specimen with that speed, size, strength going on, and he he seemed to overwhelm whoever was in front of him, at least sometimes.
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Of course, nobody's gonna get in the backfield every play, but yeah, he he got it going early and he got it going late, too.
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So thank thank the gods for Hercules.
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Yeah, exactly.
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Um, and then on the other side of the ball, you know, another young guy, happy for happy for Marshawn getting his first NFL touchdown.
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That was really great to see.
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Wasn't super efficient otherwise, other than that, you know, had had kind of a tough time finding some running lanes, um, but was able to to punch in his first score uh in his NFL career, which which was I'm sure kind of a big weight off his back after the last couple years he's had with injuries.
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Yeah, yeah, he looked good on that.
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And he had some tough runs.
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He eluded some people uh a couple few times.
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He reminded me of Josh on one of those plays where uh you know he should have been stopped and he wasn't.
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So I like that.
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Of course, the fumble's inexcusable.
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Yeah, that was tough, and he's known for fumbling from college, so we gotta get that cleaned up.
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Thankfully, Caleb Johnson looks like a player, nothing spectacular, but he stays on his feet.
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He was able to move the pile, he has a little bit more bulk, it looks like, than whoever else we have.
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And he's he's got some speed, you know.
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He he he can he can jet through there when he when he needs to.
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So uh that seemed to be a good distribution between those two, and then Brooks, you know, every once in a while.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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Um and you know, again, continuing on the trend of you know, guys that we're just thrilled for at this point in the season.
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I mean, Christian Watson with another touchdown, uh kind of cementing his role as our number one guy.
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Uh didn't have a crazy stat line up, you know, beyond that, obviously that that touchdown on the quick slant, but I mean having that reliable big body in the red zone is something this offense has been missing.
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Yeah, he's so key to our whole team.
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He missed a couple there, uh, you know, that were unfortunate.
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And yeah, we're gonna have to talk about sloppy play overall, but um yeah, I mean, two games, three touchdowns, it's a good start for him, and he's staying healthy so far.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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Um, and I think you know, continuing on the trend of of receivers, let's let's talk about Matthew Golden really quick.
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Uh, he was my pick for X Factor player of the week this week.
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I think he had a he had a fine game.
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I think you know he he had a couple key um drawn PI calls that really set us up.
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You know, you we can debate back and forth how weak they were, if they you know should have been flags or not.
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Turns out at the end of the day, if a ball is underthrown, all the receiver has to do is just jump back into the guy and it's like fits a flag every single time.
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So, you know, that's a the that's more of an endemic issue across the league rather than you know these specific plays.
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But I thought he had a great impact.
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You know, I I loved that little, and this this is a great heads-up play by by um by Jordan as well on the uh the last couple plays before we kicked that field goal.
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You know, the little alert route on the left-hand side where he found he he saw the corner kind of cheating towards the run and just decided to flip one to golden for like a 10 or 11 yard gain.
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You can see he was fired up after that, and you know, he he knows that that was a pivotal play.
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So I'm glad he got he got a chance to you know really kind of try to drive drive the knife home in a sense.
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Yeah, that was great.
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He missed a couple two along the way.
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It just drops one right in his hands.
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Uh so yeah, his concentration was lacking at times, but as we know, he's so dynamic when he does get the ball and he can just run past people.
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And well, both he and Christian, of course, but uh you know, it's just it's fantastic, fantastic to have these two burners on our team.
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And if they can stabilize their hands, and you know, usually Watson is reliable, and I think Golden will be.
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I think you know, people have said he's got the best hands on the team, so yeah, uh, let's just hope it was rain.
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And I think also their thoughts could have been with Jaden a little bit there.
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Uh you know, absolutely it's just you know, they're human and and emotions are gonna play a part.
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Yeah, and I think that that actually dovetails nicely into kind of the last player I wanted to highlight specifically.
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I think we got three burners on this team, man.
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Shout out to Sky Moore.
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I mean, talk about having an impact with limited touches.
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Dude was having basically having his way on the return game today, especially with breaking off that big 60 plus yarder that set us up for the for the game tying field goal.
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Yeah, definitely.
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He runs tough, he finds those holes, he's not afraid back there.
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He he's confident, he attacks the game, he's not waiting for the game to get him, which we did all last year in punt returns, especially Romeo.
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Bless him, but he's not a punt returner.
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So, so yeah, and you gotta give credit too to the entire special teams for opening up some gaps.
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I think Sky actually made a lot of that happen, but still, the the other guys must have been doing something right, and at least at the times they didn't get a penalty.
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So uh, you know, we we we have a special teams coordinator who isn't asleep on the job this year.
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Bless.
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I mean, what what an incredible thing to to highlight as such a win for this for this team, have it having a coordinator who's not asleep at the wheel.
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I mean, but I I I totally agree with you.
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You know, the the special teams has looked pretty good this year.
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You know, we had we we had one shank by wheel in this this game, didn't that wasn't great, but then that a few 60-yard bombs.
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You know, and obviously Trey Smack coming out here, you know, hitting a game winner in his second career game.
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Dude's got got ice in his veins, man.
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Love that.
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Well, it's gotta feel good.
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I mean, if he would have missed that, all hell would have waned down.
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But uh uh yeah, he hit the chip shot.
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Good, good man.
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Um would McManus have been uh you know all good on that?
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I'm not so sure.
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So yeah, I'm I'm I'm I'm very pleased we have Mr.
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Smack.
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Absolutely.
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All right, I think that that wraps us up on kind of the the main positive takeaways for this game.
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Let's let's get into it a little bit on the negatives.
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And I think the the biggest one by far is I mean, goodness gracious, these penalties, man.
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I and so many unforced errors, right?
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We we talked about this going into this game.
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You cannot have this many unforced errors and expect to win in this league.
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We got away with one here today.
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Let's let's be real.
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14 penalties for 130 yards is that's not winning football.
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Yeah, in in some ways, we had no rights winning this game given the sloppiness and the inefficiency on offense.
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Yep, so yeah, uh you gotta lay that at the feet of the coach.
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Now, sure, the players have to perform, but I think we've all seen through our lives that you got you got some coaches who have disciplined teams.
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Now, I would I would say overall in his career with Green Bay, Matt's teams have been fairly disciplined.
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So I'm not sure what's going on.
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I think a lot of it's the instability of that offensive line again, sure, and those guys just getting their footing, you know, literally and figuratively.
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And it's it's costing us.
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And then on defense, we got still even if they're not called all the time, we got jittery guys at the line there, you know, just about to go off sides, it seems like.
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So we gotta get that cleaned up, and then yeah, there's still our special teams plays where we're we're getting penalties when when when uh we don't need them, of course, you know.
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And so yeah, it's it's just discipline all around.
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Uh and uh, you know, this is this is just not uh Bill Belichick kind of coaching at its height.
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It's it's sort of Mickey Mouse with the uh with the lack of discipline.
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And you know, we've got we got other problems of key players out.
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We can't add to it with this.
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We gotta get this under control.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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And you know, it's this is this is two straight week weeks.
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You know, three three makes a pattern, right?
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So I think we look to Thursday night to see if some of this can get cleaned up because this is if this is who we are as a team, is that this is our identity as sloppy football.
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I mean, we got we got nothing really.
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Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
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And hey, listen though, we broke the six-game losing streak.
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What a time to be alive, man.
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I mean, it it was the longest drought since 1991, which is pre-my existence on this earth.
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So I have quite literally never known a losing streak like this.
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And yeah, let's just let's put that behind us and never talk about it again, because never go there again.
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No.
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Um, you know, speaking of of things we never want to see again, one for nine on third down.
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Ugh.
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That is not what you want in the professional in the National Football League.
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Uh listen, let's do let's let's talk about 10.
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He came through on some crucial plays, he scrambled a couple times.
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I give him credit.
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He somehow uh kicked that ball enough so that we we got that recovery of one one of his strip sacks.
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But uh overall, uh I just thought it was a terrible performance by him, both in some of his decision making, where he's throwing into guys covered or guys that are not going to get the first down anyway, and in his execution, where he's just he's just inaccurate.
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So yeah, I I I don't know how to explain it.
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You you could talk about a little rain.
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Uh it wasn't pouring rain there, and I don't think the winds were crazy.
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So I I guess just just a poor performance that's gonna happen.
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He was great last week, and we gave him a lot of credit last week, but we didn't man, he he almost laid an egg today.
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Yeah, you know, and I'll I'll give him just a a little bit of grace here where you know on that on that fumble, I guess he did hurt his throwing hand in some capacity.
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I you know, I saw trainers working on him on the sideline a few times here and there.
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Obviously, he didn't come out, he didn't miss any time, you know.
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So if if if you're out there, you have to be able to execute.
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Um no two ways about it, you know.
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And but he even pre-the injury, right?
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There were some questionable throws.
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Um, you know, there was a couple in the dirt, things like that.
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So, you know, a lot to clean up.
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We we know the talent is there with with J Love.
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We know that he he is a gamer, we know that he can rise above, but um not not a performance I think he's gonna want to linger on for too long after today.
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Absolutely.
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You want to talk about Keyshawn?
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Yeah, I suppose we should.
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You know, he's he's such a he's such a dynamic player in a lot of ways, and we we've talked about him several times where it's like, you know, makes you makes you cry from frustration, makes a cry from joy.
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But I think that kind of sums him up as a player.
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So yeah.
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Today was a little was a little tough on his end.
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He played very well last week.
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This week he didn't have it.
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Now, look, Garrett Wilson is no joke.
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I get it, but he just uh didn't seem as locked in this game, and uh that they were picking on him quite a bit.
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So uh that's that's unfortunate, you know, and we didn't have St.
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Juice today with a hamstring.
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Um so but anyway, we're riding with Keyshawn, apparently.
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Yeah, I don't know if he's still CB1, quote unquote, but he's he seems to be one of the top two.
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I thought Cisei again played well.
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He had a missed tackle or two that I didn't enjoy, but uh I you know he he gets after it uh uh in the run game too.
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So yeah, I'm I'm really pleased with the rookies' progress.
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And he had half a sack too, right?
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Coming off the edge, combining with with Van S, I think it was.
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You know, yeah.
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I I just I really like the early willingness from the young guys to go, you know, get in the backfield, get up in guys' face, you know, coming from the secondary, right?
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And I think that's a good, a good, you know, um thing to highlight about about Jonathan Gaines' defense.
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They're very aggressive.
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You know, especially you know, over the last two weeks, as our only our only sample size really, guys are flying all over the place.
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And you know, getting these young rookie DBs involved at the line of scrimmage, I think, is a big is a big plus.
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Yeah.
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Last year it seemed to be Micah or nothing, and that was Hafley's defensive philosophy.
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Right.
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And it's like, okay, you know what?
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Uh Micah will give it to you more times than not.
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But then what happens if he goes out?
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Well, we saw what happens, and I love Jonathan's attitude, even if you you know, if you caught some of his press conferences early on, he was always stressing, yeah, we'd love to have Mike uh and we're gonna integrate him into things when he comes back.
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But I think we got a lot of good players, and he's you know, he's he's a great one, but I think you know we're we're gonna we're gonna play as a team.
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So he he has that attitude that I think the guys appreciate and and respond to.
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And you know, he's he's real he's rotating the edge spots quite a lot, giving everybody a chance.
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LBN is in there most passing plays, but you got Denai Sutton in there, you had Cox in there, and Sorrell.
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I didn't watch the D-line as closely as possible, so I assume he's subbing out there too.
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Um, but yeah, I just think that's I mean they have they have to be players who can make something happen, but I like the philosophy.
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Yeah, you know, I I think it's been a pretty solid run for him so far in the season.
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Obviously, you know, we give a bunch of points to the Vikings, not all that is on is on him, right, with the short field and everything.
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But I'm I'm becoming a believer.
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You know, I I texted you that mid-game and I was like, hey man, I think I think I'm with you on the on on the Ganon train, you know.
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Yeah, we can't expect miracles.
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The teams are gonna score, but he's he seems to have some intelligent plan, and the guys seem resilient and pretty much relentless getting after it.
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You know, when we were down 17-7, they could have folded, which we've seen in the past at times, but they didn't.
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Yeah, and you know, let's let's talk about that really quick before we move on to Thursday preview.
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Uh I I will give a pretty big shout out here to us to uh as a team for not getting down early, right?
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And I don't mean in the in the score, I mean getting down mentally early, right?
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We lose two of our key offensive guys right away and are having just a brutal half of football, brutal three quarters of football, really.
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And look, we responded in in a lot of ways.
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The defense held them when they did, you know, Jay Love led us down the field when he could, you know, special teams contributed.
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I mean, this is an ugly win, but it was kind of what we've been looking for, which is some you know response to adversity from from our our squad.
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Well said.
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So, you know, like like like we said, a win's a win, right?
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Just like Al Davis said, just win, baby, you know, and we're just happy to get out of New York uh semi-intact and with with a win on the scoreboard.
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Um and you know Yeah.
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Well well, we'll be at you uh, you know, in a couple days with the Falcons preview, but you want you want to just touch on it now?
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Yeah, I'll just just very briefly, you know, just just the fact it's being a short week.
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You know, we've been on the road two straight weeks, we finally get our home opener.
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You know, it is Thursday night, and it is against the Falcons who boy did they get crushed today.
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Um you know, not a lot to to be positive about there, but they still have a dangerous offense.
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They got Bijan Robinson, they got Drake London.
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We'll see what they're doing at quarterback this Thursday.
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Supposedly Pennyx is gonna be back.
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Okay.
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So he's he's a relatively dynamic playmaker.
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Um and we'll see, you know.
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I I think I think it's gonna be good for the guys to get out there at Lambeau this season the this this Thursday and you know try to get try to wash some of the shame off from week one.
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Ugh, yeah.
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Yeah, so breathe easy, Packer fans.
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The guys did it.
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We can enjoy at least a few days of uh victory, victory celebration, and we'll be back at you here for the game 3D preview sooner than later.
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Yes, sir.
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All right, as always, guys, go pack go.
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We'll see you later.
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Later.
