#904 Packers Unscripted: Almost here

15 years covering the Green Bay Packers, 20 years as a professional journalist in some shape or form.

I'm going to give you the most obvious answer in the history of the NFL.

You have to keep a lid on that passing game.

The Minnesota Vikings, when you look at the way that they're built right now, there is nothing that Kyler Murray wants more.

There's nothing that Kevin O'Connell wants more than to be able to get Justin Jefferson and Jordan Addison going right off the bat.

Yep.

I think it would set the tone for the entire season.

There's a lot of good points you raised in many of our discussions this week.

They ended last season on a major high note with five straight wins.

But it is a new year.

And if you're the Green Bay Packers, I look at the Vikings right now in a very similar lens as what the Detroit Lions were four years ago, whatever that was, when they finished 9-8.

They got a very competitive win over Green Bay to end that season to knock the Packers out of playoffs contention.

The Minnesota Vikings, they want to be the spoiler here a little bit, but they need their receivers to do it.

And I felt like the air was let out of the balloon last year when the Vikings realized the ceiling that was going to be on top of that passing game.

Justin Jefferson having two touchdowns that season, 12.5 yards per catch, just not the type of dynamic numbers you're expecting from him.

Now, Kyler Murray, he's not going to come in there and, I think, light this thing up the same way Sam Darnold did.

I think there's going to be a lot more components to this thing.

But, you know, O'Connell, the way that these guys are thinking right now, they want to get the ball in the hands of Jefferson and Addison.

And for the Vikings, win, lose, or draw, I feel like that is going to be the fuel that gets this engine running this season.

Yeah, this game feels like a battle of the explosive plays, right? It does.

And we haven't seen Kyler Murray running Kevin O'Connell's offense.

But yeah, when you talk about Justin Jefferson, Jordan Addison, TJ Hawkinson, and you look at Kyler Murray's history in Arizona, he's never going to be mistaken as a ball control quarterback.

I mean, this is a guy who wants to strike, wants to hit you downfield.

And the Packers are very much the same way.

And you know how this is in these indoor, like loud stadiums.