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Eric Baranczyk

Eric Baranczyk

Oct 26, 2026

30:56
Right.
30:56
So something's either he has completely physically fallen off the cliff, which is not unheard of for somebody over 30, especially someone over 35.
31:06
You could be a good one here in the next year.
31:07
Just you fall off the cliff physically.
31:10
If that's not the case.
31:12
then shame on the Packers coaching staff for not playing that guy because Glover at right guard is going to get your quarterback killed, and you can't run the football.
31:21
And, you know, so you go to that first series, that first drive.
36:22
Okay, let's talk about play calling yesterday because, to me, it seems like their offense is now run on first and second down, get in third and long situations, chuck 50-50 balls downfield and hope for the best.
28:02
It looked like he confused Dak Prescott.
28:06
Absolutely, he did.
28:07
And, you know, so let's go back to the Bears.
28:10
You thought, well, maybe this was just a, you know...
28:15
Backup quarterbacks, you know, they were being confused.
28:19
But what you saw, I think, was there's a lot of eye candy going on on defense that makes it really difficult.
28:27
So the one play that we all think about after the game was the interception by Evan Williams, right, where he's mugged up on the line of scrimmage.
33:17
His game has come up and elevated so much.
34:14
His game has come up and elevated so much.
34:16
Yeah, the long ball early in his career was not pretty.
34:20
But right now, I mean, he can throw the ball.
34:23
He's got a lot of different arm angles that he's able to throw the ball successfully on.
34:29
And if you look at the quarterback rating from last week and you think, wow, 74, that isn't really good.
34:37
Back during six drops, a couple of them were touchdowns, right? So those numbers change in a hurry when those things aren't happening.
34:44
But It just is amazing when you give the guy a little bit of time.

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41:39
So you tell me what you see that's so different out of Glover as an offensive lineman as opposed to actually putting Zeitler in.
28:56
It's not fixed, but they at least held up, and especially long enough to be able to allow Jordan Love to throw the long ball.
29:03
Well, that was the key, right? You know, this was the first game.
29:09
In the Tampa Bay game, you saw it in pieces.
29:13
But this was the first time in 2026 that we got to see Jordan Love play quarterback.
29:19
You know, he was the first three games and, you know, Tampa Bay kind of allowed him to get comfortable, more comfortable.
29:31
But most of the time, you know, the first three games, he was just trying to save his life out there.
29:39
You know, you look at that Atlanta game, I mean, the first two plays of the game, he's You know, his belly button's looking at the moon.
33:22
Yes, it was effective enough to be complimentary.
35:56
Yesterday we started to finally see some of that Tucker Kraft yards after the catch.
36:01
Yeah.
36:02
And that was a good thing, wasn't it? Especially that first little dump off that tight end screen.
36:07
That was that was really good.
36:09
And, you know, the touchdown pass, the one that didn't happen was OK because we scored anyway.
36:14
But the touchdown pass was great.
36:15
Getting his feet down in there.
38:12
Give me your thoughts on the line.
28:35
I mean, every piece of talent offensively when it comes to the trenches on this team can't be bad.
28:41
No, I've been saying that for a bit.
28:42
You know, there's, go back a couple years, three years ago, that was, yeah, three years, four years ago.
28:49
Steno's been the offensive player now two years, I believe.
28:53
But there was a time where you could take five guys from Walmart and put them in there and by two games, they were blocking really good.
29:01
You know, so I don't know if the disconnect is talent versus coaching, but You know, I look at that thing yesterday and, you know, I thought Belton, when he had to come in, played pretty darn good.
29:16
Certainly, run blocking, I'm looking forward to the future and what they're going to be able to do with the run blocking.

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38:55
But at least for right now, they're able to stop the run, and they look so much more aggressive in the middle of that defense in the trenches than they have in a long time.
1:31
Any takeaways from that particular contest?
1:34
Well, yeah, first of all, and, and I talked about it in our, in our column, in our, our podcast with Pete and I, um, is that the, the D-line depth, uh, really is interesting.
1:45
I know they, they just picked up a guy off of waivers from Minnesota, which is, which is probably a, a good opportunity to take a look, see if he can add any, any little bit of wiggle to the pass rush or, or where, where he falls in.
1:56
Um, but you know, the, the, the Brimson, really like, um, his, his progression after his rookie year.
2:05
And, uh, the other, that McClelland, uh, that draft pick, I tell you, he, he's a, he's a great big man and, uh, he's got some, some stuff to, to clean up.
2:13
But, but as a rookie, I think, you know, the ceiling looks pretty high on him.
2:17
And then the other backup that I really liked, you know, is Stackhouse.

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9:03
Give me your thoughts on where the line is right now.
4:01
Juice? Do you like bringing in the guys like bringing in Hargrave up front? Do you like the way they've kind of remanufactured that defense a little bit?
4:10
I do.
4:11
I do like Hargrave.
4:12
I've always liked him.
4:13
I thought he was a guy the Packers could have gotten.
4:16
The Vikings got him last year.
4:18
And I was really hoping he would.

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11:46
Would it surprise you if Goody trades back a couple of times to garner more draft choices, to get more talent, to get kind of that buckshot approach to see who sticks and who doesn't, come the OTAs and the minicamps and the training camp?
26:20
You tell me what you think.
26:23
I agree with you.
26:24
You know, we've had the conversation, I think it was the early part of November, when we were talking about this, Bill, and, you know, it's about being a leader of men, right? And not only that, but the other part is something isn't correct.
26:41
Like, in the communication...
26:43
It's either the offensive coordinator to the head coach making the play calls or the head coach just is stubborn and doesn't want to do what he doesn't want to do.
26:54
But we've seen this.
26:55
This is not the first time.
30:39
They didn't do it the rest of the game.
31:54
With everybody somewhat being healthy and Josh Jacobs getting the week off and giving that knee a little bit of rest, getting Zach Tom back and everything offensive line-wise, is it just the rust that you would be leery of and not being capable of kind of getting it going?
32:10
Well, I think there's a multitude of issues.
32:14
They've lost their last four ballgames.
32:16
That is not a record that anyone wants to triumph or trumpet going into the playoffs.
32:24
If they were 14-0 or 13-0 and they lost the last four games because they arrested everybody, that's not the case.
32:30
They gave everything against the Bears and they lost.
32:33
They tried to do the best they can against at least The coaches are somewhat, some people look like they were trying to do the best they can against the Ravens and lost.
37:02
But how good, like if the Packers come into this game and say, you know what, we're just going to concentrate on not screwing ourselves over, If they don't mess this up themselves, how good are the Green Bay Packers?

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