Week 9 TNF Recap - Packers Niners

in a game that was never competitive. Dan Hansas here along with the quiet storm Mark Sessler, Aaron Rodgers mark of thirty one five yards, four touchdowns, Davante Adams dominant again, ten for one seventy three and a touch If you would have asked me, not looking at the box score, I would have said twenty seven catches for seven thousand yards and a touchdown for Davante Adams, But those were his actual numbers. This was a blood bath against they

completely overmatched and more importantly undermanned forty Niners team. Well, I think the big takeaway is, even though this was a Niners team missing key elements all over the place for various reasons, the Davante Adams, Aaron Rodgers chemistry is probably the greatest quarterback wide receiver chemistry occurring in the league right now. And that's something they can hang their

hat on every week. Now. I don't want to, uh, you know, rain on that parade, but someone named Richie James um has finished the game with a hundred and eighty four yards off nine receptions in a touchdown on the San Francisco side. That I think is more game script and more bizarro action. But Davante Adams is right up there with DK Medcalf as the you know, in the conversation for greatest wide receiver in the league right now. He is invaluable that you've built in your Richie James

caveat there't here, Davante Adams point. Yes, Richie James was the only offensive player of note for the four Niners, because it almost is like the Niners are coasting to the point where on a couple of plays they just ceased to pay attention and then Richie James will be open with no one around him for fifteen yards. He had a couple of chunk play games, but that I mean, you take that out and and that saved moments day offensively, Uh, those a couple of huge places that Richie James, he

wasn't able to do much. He threw a terrible interception that's set up a Packer's score. Uh So the Niners. Uh, from their perspective, it's just tough because we all respect

Kyle Shanahan. We all thought that this was a team that had a chance to get back into the mix of the NFC playoffs when they were four and three and they were coming off uh two really good wins against the Rams and Patriots, and then they go to Seattle and they lose Garoppolo and they lose Kittle and they lose that game, and then they go go and get blown out at home and it's basically over. I'll go I'll go this for far Mark. They're now four and five, coming up next at Saints at Rams home Bills.

Is the time to stick a fork in the San Francisco forty Niners. I see them as one of the most resourceful teams out there for reasons that anyone listening to our show is now I heard a thousand times tonight. I think it's like we talked about, it's just too much and I'd go, I go right here, when your offensive line these teams when the offensive lines um get reduced down to nothing. Justin's school in for Trent Williams. Justin's schooled is what his name should be? Three sacks allowed.

I don't and I don't mean it's like he just shouldn't have been in the game, and really the game was over when he hadn't missed assignment that led to a Raven Green interception of Nick Mullins. Um. It put the It put the Packers up fourteen to three on the on the ensuing drive, and you knew the game was over. And it's like, my thing is this the game should not have been played and we don't need

to go down that road too far. We all get it. Um. I feel like other teams were treated a little bit differently in this Thursday night spot, in prime time spots. And I think that the NFL is in a tough in a sticky situation, and they have they have to four John Um. But the Niners have been left by the side of the road this week, and to stick a fork in them, I think it's fair because you look at the schedule, you look at it's not just the Corona thing, it's it's the injury, the battery that

they've taken. I mean, they're like the Eagles get mentioned as the most injury ravaged teams. The Niners are right there, the right there, and your resourcefulness, as as Kyle Shanahan, only goes so far. And we saw it tonight. We've seen it with Belichick and the Patriots, and we're seeing it out West with Kyle Shanahan. Yeah, I think I'm with you. I think the Niners it's just not their year.

Sometimes the football gods conspire and say it's not gonna happen for you, and that's what it makes it all the more frustrating. And I mentioned it on the show earlier this week when Jimmy g Mrs Emmanuel Sanders with a chance to take the lead in the Super Bowl in the final two minutes. Uh, when you don't hit that throw and then you give up the lead and

eventually lose the game. Sometimes there could be a temptation to be an optimist and and say, well, this is a great team, it's a young team, it's got one of the best young coaches in the league. We'll be back. You never know if you're gonna be back. And I say that fully aware that they could be at this time next year, uh seven and two and be right back in the mix. But all you can say or you can be the falcons, so that I mean, that's

where we're That's what you're talking about. So when you do get to that big stage, you've got to take advantage of it. They couldn't and now they're having one of those years. As for the coronavirus situation, I agree, it does feel like there's a bit of a you know, moving of the goal post, but also the coronavirus itself, the goalpost move and and how it dictates what's going on in our society right now. And the NFL is just you know, clawing to stay one step ahead of it.

We're dancing through the rain drops with this. And you know, if you try to reschedule the game, Uh, does that necessarily mean it gets in if you have a chance to play the game, which they did, Uh, do you do it? Well? The forty Niners fans out there might think we shouldn't have done it because we played a game today where not a single skill player on the roster for the NFC title game last year, Uh touched the ball in this game? No one, No one was active.

So the forty Niners, whether it's COVID or just straight up injuries, just buried in. And that's why I think you just stick a fork in them and say better luck next year and we'll find out who your quarterback is. Right absolutely, And you're so right about the the get back to the super Bowl window, because it's one thing to say, hey, we're the Patriots. Um, we have Tom Brady, we got nipped by team, and you will be back. But Jimmy Garoppolo is not that quarterback. I'm not sure

Jimmy Garoppolo plays another snap for this team. You look at the schedule, it's really rough, and uh, I don't know. It's just it's a weird season. And and this this UM game gave me two other little little points that I've talked to you about this before the fourth quarter ten minute runoff UM where you just say, look at the people watching this game aren't having a lot of fun. The players aren't having a lot of fun. If it's really rough, you know, five minutes into the fourth quarter,

ten minute runoff, game over. And now what now you get the players that say, hey, I'm Richie James, what about my incentives? My stats. We will pro rate the stats, um for your agents. They won't be real life stuff. Well I'm saying they won't be real life stats, but we pro rate them so that for your contract tabulations they would count. My second point would be I do think that Troy Aikman, at some point, um, you know, a while ago, realized that his our League thing that you've,

um know you make. He leaned into that so hard this evening that I have to feel like he's slightly punking all of us because he must know that it's a thing that's been touched on. Um. He will not let it go. And I felt like in the in the as this game was dying and do its you know, dipping into its corpse mode, into the grave, he mentioned it like fourteen times and over the last eighteen minutes of this It's like, I get that it's our league, the game I was watching. It's not from the league

that I want to be a part of. Here's here's my goal with this. I'll continue to cite Troy Aikman every time I say our League, whether it's on our podcast or on the network, because we've seen Troy can't stop referencing Good Morning football during Thursday night games that there's a g m FB promo. He'd be like, Oh, that Peter Schreeger, he sure knows his ball. They're like, oh, Kyle and Kay and Nate, they sure do have a lot of fun on that show. And I watch it

every morning on the treadmill. We need to get that shout out on as day nights and if if we start to build a connection, even if it's not an actual one on one dynamic, it's just something where it's on his radar that we like that maybe we get the shout out, maybe we get the Paul Rudd shout out. I love that, And you know that's why I mentioned Um. I mean I mentioned Troy Aikman because even though I was not a Cowboys fan growing up, he is someone that is rooted in my love of football from that

time period and it would mean a lot. That's why I asked Colleen wolf Um had she ever seen him with her human eyes, had she encountered him and she spoken to him. It would mean a lot if she could mention to him that I know of him, um, and perhaps he knows of us. So I'm so with you. I feel like, um, well, no, but I'm just I would say that the executives in our building at one point took a left turn, um when they should have stayed on the highway, the highway being our show, and

they took a left turn towards Good Morning Football. And uh, now everyone's mentioning that show. It's a very nice show, I perspected. I love them all. They're great on it sometimes, which is a nice thing. But we got left morning. We got left by the side of the road, and uh, we have a lot of work to do to get back onto that uh, you know, into the place where Troy Aikman even knows that we exist. I. He says he doesn't listen to podcasts. That's also not helpful. Final

takeaways from the Packers. They are the first team. This from the Fox Fox telecast. They are the first team since two thousand seven. The Patriots. You might have heard of them. They went sixteen or no uh to score on their opening drive in their first eight games of the season. That is so difficult to do, and that's those are scripted plays. So you're building that out all week thinking it's gonna work against your opponent, but for it to work every week and put points on the

board and in many cases touchdowns. That really tells you how in sync Aaron Rodgers is with the bearded boy Matt Lafleur and the rest of the offense. And uh, my other thought is my Aaron Rodgers sandwich prop looking better and better. Mark, he is just so comfortable in this offense. And you could see that that that relationship, as you said with Davante Adams, it's unbelievable. And now you're gonna eventually add Alan Lazard back, who was shaping

up as a breakout number two guy. Um, I still think they should have gotten Will Fuller because you might have to outscore your problems on defense. But they're still gonna be able to put up points most weeks because that is a special connection. Yeah, and I and I don't know if I take the mvs. Two touchdown breakout that seriously, Tonight has had issues, but this offense, Um, I take their six and two records seriously. My thing last year was that they're thirteen and three. Mark felt

a tad inflated to me. That could have just been me. I mean, they went into the playoffs and got ran over by this Niners team that they didn't face the same squad tonight. This Packers team is in sync. I think they really well coached, the resilient um. You know, they might have get they get dinged up here and there, but I trust them as a playoff team that could win a game or two and maybe go to the Super Bowl. I mean, Aaron Rodgers is playing lights out.

We didn't expect that. So this is a team to be to feel threatened by. If you're another team in the NFC to be scared of. And uh, the future is unknown. Hey, let's bring in Ricky Hollywood before we say goodbye. Hey, what's up? Um? A lot of stuff going on in our country right now. So they as we're taping this, it appears that Joe Biden is closing in on the two seventy electoral votes that would clinch

the presidency. You have Donald Trump, who is all sorts of fired up as well some of his cohorts that this whole thing is rigged. Uh, there's demonstrations everywhere. This is this is crazy times in our country. That the game was terrible. The Packers basically ended the game by halftime. So I asked, do you think anyone's listening to this right now, no, should we come up with like a code word if anyone's made it this far that that

maybe they could tweet at the read of us. Oh, you can, like, how many people actually made it to the end of this recap? What do you? What do we got? Everybody got a word? How about your shirt? Godzilla? Yeah, hashtag Godzilla at the three of us if you made it to the end of this recap? What is what is the over under on how many um hashtag tweets we get for Godzilla? I over over under ten. Yeah that feels good. Yeah, I hope it's gonna be higher that. Ricky,

you'll be in charge of counting them. Yeah, it'll be pretty easy. All right, good stuff. Good to see you guys. Let's get back to uh tracking this other thing that's happening. But yes, the Packers prevail. Final score thirty four to seventeen or six and there six and two. The Niners dropped to four and five. And you'll hear from us again with Greg Rosenthal Sunday night for the Flagship Show. Until then,