Good morning, everybody. Welcome into the Winklerverse for our day late and $2 short Packers recap of their win 16-10 over the Indianapolis Colts.
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I did not jump on Sunday to do a podcast because I had a buddy over and he's never experienced it. It's the red zone. So we had to get the red zone because this Packers game was supposed to end where we could have a good 50 minutes and we could almost have the whole witching hour.
But then it went a lot longer than it needed to towards the end of the game, which made me a little concerned. First off, the big takeaway, they won the game. I mean, Malik Willis is your quarterback. He got a Colts team where Anthony Richardson, who is my daily fantasy play of the day, just because when this guy plays football, he puts up big numbers. He's like QB4, QB5, QB2.
When he plays and is healthy throughout the game, he puts up big numbers. He did not do that on Sunday because of the Packers defense. The Packers defense did an incredible job and it is going to be a work in progress with Jeff Halfley. We're seeing different things. Maybe the one high safety, the four down linemen.
They're changing all this stuff that these guys have known for a long time. And there might be some just growing pains with a new coach anyway, but the performance that the defense had, I think has to be maybe the top billing. I'm thinking in my head, is it the performance that the defense had or is it the performance that Matt Lafleur had as the head coach? Independent thoughts of my own. You started with MLF deep in his bag, Jacobs Jukin, Jet Sweeps, Narv Dogg, ball control.
Okay. There's going to be some major growing pains for Colts fans with Richardson. That pick that he threw was more pre-ordered than an Uber ride to the airport. It was a near masterpiece for MLF and the Packers, a 26-3 beat down wearing an ugly 16 to 10 sweatshirt, but who cares? Plan was great. Team was ready.
And aside from a few botches, nearly perfect. Hashtag stuff it. Hashtag beg it. Hashtag keep her moving. Hashtag do I even watch the commanders anymore?
They want to dad. So Packers got the win 16 to 10. Very exciting. As we all enjoy a victory Monday, it never felt like they were going to lose once it was 10, nothing. And then they had the opportunity to score.
Obviously Josh Jacobs fumbled. So maybe things got a little hairy there, but the Packers were able to bait Anthony Richardson into three interceptions, including the one late, but it didn't feel like the Packers were going to lose. Even though they were sort of giving things away, it did, you know, 13-3, it felt 30 to three. The problem with those kinds of games though, is when you have that, the feel of it is different from the reality of it.
And the reality of it is the Packers gave up a touchdown late and the Colts had the opportunity to possibly take the lead. Now the text that I had sent again, I hate texting during games. I think I hate getting texts during games. I like being the texter. I don't mind being the sender.
I don't like to be the sendee. And maybe that was just during a prime time game when I'm trying to work. I guess if I'm not trying to work, it's fine. If it's a noon game and people are texting me, okay. But if it's like a prime time game and I'm trying to regulate my Packer fan emotions and I see Jordan Love go down and I'm also trying to, you know, do a job, talk on the radio. This isn't like working, like taking 20 minutes watching the game. I'm talking about sports as the sports that I care about is going on.
And now I got to respond to the text, but I was sending everybody. And I did the copy paste with three different chains is this is the kind of game that in a regular season, I think we can win. If this was the playoffs, they would have lost Anthony, Anthony Richardson had a guy in stride towards the end there.
If that's the 49ers, that's Brandon Iook and he's catching it. I mean, in the playoffs, the Packers lose that game. So it's nice to know that they can win a game like this. It's nice to know that it can happen. Now we just need to transfer that into the playoffs.
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Now get into some of the stats and look around the league. Here's Sean. Hello Winkler verse.
They're calling into the voicemail line as directed by an ex posting directed towards us. So in regards to the Packer name, I will start with the good and the good is that the Packers committed to the run. A lot of out of necessity, but they resisted the urge to get away from it and they committed to the run. It was very nice thing to see. Another good was the defense was flying to the ball in a very, very, very reassuring manner. Made me happy.
I don't know if it made anybody else happy, but I was happy with it. And then to, uh, additionally, the defense is they're going after the ball a lot more and they are taking the ball away from the offense. And that is a very good thing. Now the bad that before did not make any kind of halftime adjustments. And that was frustrating because he has been at this a while and he will leak.
I mean, he had that third down conversion, um, a little on pass to Romeo Dobbs. So there is no reason not to have a little bit of trust in there. And not only that, let's build his confidence too, for crying out loud. And then the last thing that is bad, uh, again, Matt LaFleur, he's starting to get the silver Fox look and that is just making him even cuter. His cuteness is increasing and that is completely and it's unnecessary. It's annoying as shit.
And I just just drives me up a wall. Thank you for taking my call. Bart Winkler of the Winkler verse. Love you guys.
See ya. Thank you to the Sean O'Connell going through some stuff Malik Willis, obviously 12 to 14, 122 yards and a touchdown. His rating was 128.6. His quarterback rating is a, uh, fake stack. QBR is not real.
Uh, so I'm not going to bore you with that. Um, I, I can't, I cannot believe ESPN got that one to stick with you guys. Uh, 128 or 126.8. That's an incredible rating. Now he only threw 14 times and he only threw for 122 yards. Okay. Um, but he does have a better stat line so far this season than Caleb Williams. Hold on.
I'm not there yet. Malik was just, they had some design QB runs. Remember this guy has been a packer for three weeks. Um, he did have some plays. He needed to make some plays. He made that play to Dobbs. He had that touchdown to Wix, which the broadcast, I think right away said, eh, it could have been a pick six. I don't know if the guy had the footing, but I, you know, I like, how, how do you, how do you complain about a 12 or 14 game, uh, for Malik Willis with the touchdown? So it was nice that he was able to step in, uh, apparently Jordan Love actually was pretty close to playing. That's what Damoski saying. I still don't buy it. I think Matt was just trying to be cute with it.
I do think that it's possible. He plays this weekend. I just don't think he was ever close to playing last weekend against the Colts. Now against the Titans, the noon game coming up, you kind of want to see Malik Willis because it's his old team. There's some fun there and we'll have a sucks like Malik Willis got beat out by this guy who sucks. So how bad are the Colts? How bad is the Colts defense?
Uh, one might wonder, so we'll see what happens. That's going to be a big storyline this week, the questionable, the downfall, the probable, uh, we'll figure out what happens with Jordan Love, if he's going to play or not this weekend, but they got a win when he was out. And I think that when you have a backup quarterback, he's got to come in like your season, my, my backup quarterback idea is you need a guy that can come in and play four games. And in those four games, you hope to go two and two worst case, go one and three, because if you have a good enough quarterback, you should still be able to make up the difference in the rest. So if we are going to miss Jordan Love for four games, which seems like it's probably not going to be that long, but if we are, you got to win.
So that's good. Now you've got three more chances. If necessary to get another one and go two and two.
That's just the theory that I always think that you need to come up with. If you start to miss more than four games, sure. Your backup quarterback can still win, but then your chance of it actually like winning a super bowl decrease quite a bit. So Malik Willis, this was a guy who was not here a few weeks ago. I was trying to think of myself to myself, would Sean Clifford have given you this game?
Would Sean Clifford have given you this game? And I don't know that he would have, I think with Malik, they certainly had an idea what they wanted to do run the football, which they did that a lot, run the football, run the football, run the football a little bit with Malik, but also if the spot came where you needed to trust him, you needed to trust him. And it looked like Matt Leflore was able to, at least in spots, trust Malik Willis, which you have to. This is the most important position on the field.
You've got to at least have some semblance of faith in your quarterback. Otherwise you might as well put Kendall Hinton back there like the Broncos did. So Malik ran the ball six times, some designed some not, but he had 41 yards. Jayden Reed they used as a runner, which was good because they probably knew they weren't going to get the ball to him a lot.
So use him when you can. Even Bo Melton got involved in that. Marshawn Lloyd had a big run, got pulled back, but he looked good on that run at least. Emmanuel Wilson came in a little later. Josh Jacobs, 32 for a buck 51, 4.7 average. I was really excited when the Packers got Josh Jacobs. I think he's a really good back. I think he's severely underrated, maybe because of the situation he was in or he had a down here. With the Vikings, they've got Aaron Jones now and Aaron Jones, you know, he's doing all right too.
The Ty Chandler got most of the running for them yesterday. But Josh Jacobs, I don't know that you get this kind of game out of Aaron Jones. Can Aaron Jones get the ball 32 times? Like this?
I don't know that you can. So it would have been nice to have both of them. I still wish we had Aaron Jones. I'm not taking away from Aaron Jones at all. I just want to make sure we highlight Josh Jacobs is really good.
Josh Jacobs is really good and this is the exact kind of thing where you wanted Josh Jacobs for. So let's not, I know we're sad about Aaron Jones and he likes the skull chant. That's very, that's shitty. That's heartbreaking.
That sucks. But this is why the Packers got Josh Jacobs and it came to fruition and it came to pass. It helped is what I was trying to say. Dobbs three for 62. Wicks again had that touchdown. Tucker Craft had a couple of catches as well. Jacobs did fumble. Now I can't not praise Jacobs without that goal line fumble sucked.
And I don't even want to say against a better team it would have mattered more. I'm stunned what happened with the Colts. I don't quite understand what happened with the Colts. They looked like a very competent team against the Texans.
They did lose that game in week one but Richardson was good. Ran the ball a little bit more. Packers were able to get the ball a little bit more. Packers were able to keep him in check there when he wanted to run. The pressure was really good. The defense was really good. Now they only got one sack but I thought they did a good job of containing him. He only had 37 yards on four carries.
Jonathan Taylor obviously he's going to bust it out. They ran for 140 yards. Packers ran for 261. So all in all this was a game that looked like it was going to slip away from them.
It did not. This was a game that the Packers had a plan. Not unleash Malik but rely on Malik when we have to otherwise we are running that football. And in the defense we're not winning this game without the defense and the defense stepped up as they needed to. So a 16-10 win probably could have been a little more. They missed a field goal as well. I mean take that touchdown away. Take the field goal. We're up to 26. Maybe you hold them on that last drive. I mean this could have been a 26-3 win as a wise man said earlier in this video.
So yeah. Good win though. They got the Titans next week.
We'll again be on Jordan Lovewatch and hope to see the Packers offense that we need. But it does help to know that at least for one week when they needed to go on their backup quarterback they were able to go to their backup quarterback. Now the Packers who the odds for them to make the playoffs were in favor of them missing the playoffs after last week. Still technically as I look at the standings technically it does look like the Packers are a last place football team.
Why would that be? Ah conference record yes. The Packers are currently last place in the NFC North because we are 0-1 in the NFC after losing to the Eagles. The Bears have not played an NFC opponent yet so they're 0-0 and the Lions are 1-1 both NFC opponents and they did get a win. So yes technically the Packers are in last place. So if you're a Bears fan or a Lions fan or even a Vikings fan you can you can temper down Packers victory Monday-ness today by saying that you are a last place football team.
It's true as of right now they are. The Vikings meanwhile are 2-0. 2-0 in conference.
2-0 in the season. Now they beat the Giants last week okay whatever but they beat the 49ers which as I've taken back my I would root for the Bears over Aaron Rogers in the Super Bowl. I take that back. I root for Rogers. How about Rogers? Braylon Allen.
Nice. Um crazy for Braylon Allen too. If it's the NFC championship game I'm rooting for the Niners over the Vikings. Unfortunately I would be but yesterday when the Packers are on at noon and I'm just kind of randomly seeing whatever jumps on my red zone screen that's set up on my laptop I don't hate that the Vikings won. I don't hate that they beat the Niners shut them up a little bit. Niners I think are the only NFC team that Brock Purdy loses to so we got to figure out what's going on there.
But Sam Donald pretty good. Lions lost to the Buccaneers and then the Bears as we all saw on Sunday Night Football. Caleb Williams is going to be good okay. The Bears are going to be good all right.
They are going to be. They might not be yet and I think what happened with a lot of Bears fans is and Bears media is they didn't want to wait for that time. Like at the beginning of the year last year there was going to be some struggles with Jordan Love but if we came out in week one and say watch this dude Jordan Love's going to set the world on fire look at his weapons he's going to be so good.
We'd look dumb. Later in the season it worked because Jordan Love everything came together and he got his big contract. Maybe that's what happens with the Bears but nobody in Packerland last year was like this is going to be fucking amazing the whole time the whole time is going to be great. Bears fans kind of were like that. I have a voicemail from Spark Guy. Some Packers Bears I think some Brewers Cubs it's the whole Chicago versus Wisconsin thing that we just can't get enough of here on the show. I got people still digging around the YouTube and looking for the Craig Council reaction when we found out live.
Here is Spark Guy on the voicemail. Spark Guy here you sent out the bat signal on your postgame on the Packers for a Bears perspective and as a resident Bears fan I need to give that perspective. I couldn't disagree with you more I think where I'm consistent and not hypocritical. Brewer fans including yourself are not. The dynamic between the Brewers and the Cubs and the Packers and the Bears is the same. The number one rival of the Brewers is the Cubs. The Cubs are not rivals to the Brewers.
Cubs fans are not invested. Brewer fans are. Brewer fans are very excited when the Cubs do poorly. Cubs fans generally and I'm not putting myself in that category because I am here and I get a lot of shit so that I have started but again it's not the same like I just Brewers don't bother me nearly as much and I'm unique situation I'm here. Chicago fans down there they don't care about the Brewers and some of them will even cheer for them because it's a fun stadium it's a good history everything else. The same now applies and as a Bears fan I heard. That's not why you cheer for them you cheer it's a fun stadium it's a fun stadium because you overpower us and you embarrass us in our own building. Cubs fans aren't cheering for the Brewers Spark Guy. I'll let this play out but Spark Guy does diminish. Where I agree with him so far is when the Cubs struggle Brewers fans are aware of it we know and it's heightened this year because we want Craig Council to suck so when the Cubs struggle we know okay and we might we might like if the Cubs are on Sunday Night Baseball we might like if the Cubs are on Sunday Night Baseball and if the Cubs are here's it if the Cubs are on Sunday Night Baseball and the Cubs win we are silent but if the Cubs lose we're loud as we're very loud here's the difference with the Cubs if the Brewers lose they're silent Cubs fans are silent if the Brewers win Cubs fans are loud because they're like this fucking team wins yeah Cubs fans are different Brewers fans jump on the Cubs when they lose Cubs fans are beside themselves when the Brewers win they probably care less than we care but you also took our guy who were happy you did maybe but it was still bullshit anyway I'll let it play out but the Bears are not they're not rivals with the Packers both ways um the Bears have been dominated for 30 years and some year there you know where they did defense and made the Super Bowl once but it's been domination by the Packers that's exactly why the Bears fans should and do just rebel on the Packers disappointments uh that's how these things go when you're down you're looking up and you're fighting to get up and part of that is truly enjoying the misery of those above you that said I would say the gap is much smaller than Packer fans assumed considering their countless playoff failures um and the fact that you know I think the main thing to say is I had a hater at a 10 year old birthday party and one of them when the Packer game came up said you know they suck and somebody else said their title town and that kid said they haven't even won a Super Bowl since we've been alive been 14 years and that tenor is exactly where I come from I revel in Packer Packer losses I don't expect Packer fans to care about the Bears particularly at this point but it's totally normal within fandom for Burr fans to kind of obsess about the Cubs and for Bears fans to kind of obsess about the Packers and some of the greatest memories I have are Packer losses and they truly are enjoyable so just disagree be consistent either don't care about any of your opponents or care about them all and I think your version of not caring about your opponents or your rivals even if it's a one-sided rivalry it's just so dumb so that's all buddy take care I'll tell you where I am and you'll hear this on the Infinity Sports Network my show nine to one 9p to 1a including tonight and every weeknight on your local radio affiliates many affiliates throughout the great state of Wisconsin I tell Bears fans this because I'm on in Chicago I understand that so I I tell them look I'm a Packer fan my whole life they've been good you guys are about to be good I'm going to guide you through what that's like to be good to have expectations you can't meet a girl on the first night and all of a sudden get married that's what you're trying to do when you it was an arranged marriage Bears fans didn't want Caleb Williams weren't excited okay and then they got excited in the preseason and now they're like maybe not as excited anymore I don't know but you guys think you're very um good and you're very like here here this might prove spark guys point there was one comment I posted on there's this one Packer fan account I don't know these Facebook accounts like die-hard Packer fan I think it is why do 500,000 people follow this account oh Packer but then uh they like made fun last night of Caleb Williams paint your nails with something else that's lame that's lame we're not all gonna be Terry Bradshaw about it that's lame you can like I mean I'm glad the Bears lost especially that kind of game had the Packers lost and then the Bears won like in the same game that was really dumb I've been really dumb but they're gonna be good they've got a quarterback that's gonna be good they've got a quarterback that's gonna be good he has struggled so far statistically I think he's actually worse than Bryce Young's first two games I saw a tweet that I'll have to go look at but he's going to be good and the Bears are going to be good they're just not right now they'll get there they're just not right now so I think my gripe with Bears fans is any misery that you're feeling is because you brought it on by saying they're gonna be so good they will be in a little bit but it takes steps to get there just like the Packers did last year with Jordan Love and now we're good again so we can be bummed when they give away a game in Brazil and relieved when a backup quarterback comes in who we just met three weeks ago and he saves the day against the Colts so it's gonna be like this uh it's gonna be dumb we can't stay out of each other's way and then and then we both try to like say no you care I don't care you care do you hear about the Bears I don't give a shit but you hear about I mean we're both we're both we're both the same there's no difference maybe maybe Packers Bears I'm changing to this Packers Bears history is different than Brewers Cubs fine we're the same we like our teams and don't like the other teams and we like when the other team's bad and we try to deflect how much the rivalry means to us it's the same shit spark guy we're the same no one's better than any of them we're all trash as fans okay hammer that point home Packers get the dub they've got the Titans next week we'll break things down even further later in the week Horvat will have the picks hope to have more content for you probably won't I'm a busy guy thanks for listening to this edition of into the Winkler verse you have a great rest of the Monday and we'll talk to you tonight on the infinity sports network
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