Packers Crush Patriots, Emerge as Super Bowl Contenders

And I told him, I thought the Patriots were going to get blown out. And he was like, what? I was like, I think the Patriots are going to get blown out. I think it's really hard when you have a banged up football team with questions all over the offensive line. weapons that are not NFL caliber weapons and a defense that does not have a pass rush because Gabe Jackson is hurt. Your one pass rusher is hurt. He was questionable, he played, but I mean, Jordan Love could have had a cup of coffee back there. He just, you know, surveyed that, do whatever he wanted to do. And that's an offensive line that hasn't been great this year for Green Bay. It just, you look at the weapons that the Packers brought in. And if you give Jordan Love time and you have multiple weapons and Carlton Davis has not been good, he's been hurt most of the year. And then they just went at Gonzo. And I think there is a big question right now about Gonzalez. And I really wonder about the comments about commitment. I wonder if the Patriots have felt like Gonzalez got his contract and has checked out and has not lived up to the responsibility that they need him to be. And a leader they need him to be, given how young the football team is and how banged up the football team is. So I took the comments from Hollis and Vrabel at Gonzalez because he looked like he wanted to do anything else besides cover Matthew Golden yesterday. And he got lit up, not just by Golden. He got lit up by anyone he was covering. The Packers targeted him. And I think it was the first time any cornerback has given up 100-plus receiving yards to two different wide receivers in the same game, which is crazy, which is what the Packers did to him yesterday. Yeah, that's absolutely wild. The other thing I'll give credence to is Jonathan Gannon's been in his bag. If anybody's been watching closely, he's had that Packers defense playing absolutely lights out football. So that's why I was worried about the Patriots walking into the, well, it was twofold. The Patriots pass defense has been giving over the last like five weeks, five, six weeks ish. Anybody outside of Gonzalez, they've all been terrible. Yeah. Gonzalez has been like the one linchpin that's like, he's been awesome. Not this last week, obviously, but up to this point. He's been awesome, but the rest of them have sucked. Now he's playing bad and they got shredded, but also to the point the Packers defense is playing lights out freaking football. So I kind of wonder, turning this to the other side real quick, Peralta. Are we not talking about, like, are the Packers, like, a real Super Bowl contender, considering the state? Welcome to the show. You're late. You're late to the party. I'm on. I bet I'm 30 to 1. You did. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I bet him two weeks ago. I haven't heard this out there. So, I mean, there's still 26 to 1 right now. The NFC is. I'm sorry. I know everybody wants to talk about history here, but the NFC is trash. Okay. Yeah. It's not great. And the AFC is not much better to be quite honest. I think the whole NFL right now is full of mediocre football teams. And so I looked at the Packers and I was like, wait a minute, 30 to one Jordan Love. I believe in, okay. He is entering into the quote prime of his career. Matt LaFleur was thrown out the window, and I think he's a very good offensive coach. You mentioned what Gannon's doing with the defense. They don't have a running game, and they need to find one somewhere, somehow, very soon. But Jacobs got hurt in the first quarter, so they didn't have much to do with the run game. But they're getting Parsons back in a couple of weeks on that defense. And if the offensive line figures that out, like after all of the street free agents, and I'm not saying they're going to be anywhere, any semblance of good, but if they can just be somewhere in the area code of like bottom level league average, if they can do that, you've got a suffocating defense, you've got Parsons coming back. They've been getting pressure without Parsons. Like over the last five games, they've been eighth best in pressure rate. They add Parsons to that. It's going to go up even higher. The secondary is playing really, really well. So, yes, it's like the one missing link out of this team is can they run the football? Caleb Johnson looked pretty good against the Pats. Now, I'm not saying he's a long-term answer, but, like, this isn't a team where I don't think they should nor will they go out and make the monster, despite the rumors, go out and make the monster trade for Jonathan Taylor. But could you get another back in here that maybe gives you a little bit of pop? Could you, or the Tennessee Titans say that, or the O-line, but the Tennessee Titans say they don't want to trade Tony Pollard. Okay. We, we float you a fifth. You're going to change your mind. I don't know.