Next Saturday, you got the Rams at Seattle, then later that night, it's Washington hosting Tom Brady and the Bucks.

And then Sunday, the Bears will visit Drew Brees and the Saints.

That is the way this whole thing shaped up, and so are C.

I will come to you is one who knows what it's like to go up against Aaron Rodgers at his very best.

Are the Packers in your mind clearly the team to beat in the NFC playoffs?

Hell, yeah, man.

I mean, shooting people should be like we were sitting in in our locker room before the game hoping that Jay Cutler could find a way to beat Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers.

If you're in the A F C like that, and that's how good he is playing right now, that's how good this team is playing right now.

Coming into this game, I wanted to see what they do against David Montgomery.

They kind of got over the hump with Derrick Henry last week with the run game, and that's what you were waiting on with this team, you got a quarterback that's playing at and a level right now where his confidence is through the roof, right?

His his his comfort is through the roof.

And when Aaron Rodgers plays that way, when?

When?

When?

When McAllen.

Rogers shows up to the game and you know that those two fingers of Scotch, they're gonna be in celebratory fashion and not soaking.

Then you're in trouble.

And that's what we're starting to see from this team, no matter who it is, where there's MVS, Davante, Adams, Lazard or you're using the backfield with Erin Jones.

This team is clicking at a high rate offensively, but knowing that you can lock up outside, which I hear Alexander and Kevin King on that defense Darnell Savage in the middle and you're stopping the run, you're gonna force teams to throw the football.

You're gonna force teams to drop back, drop back and getting shootouts with Aaron Rodgers.

But then you have the Smith brothers coming off the edge.

The Green Bay Packers are set up to get to the Super Bowl.

They're set up to challenge for another ring.

What they do with it is on them all right.

And so, Dan, let's talk specifically for a moment here about the quarterback, the legendary Aaron Rodgers.

How would you describe the season he just completed?

It's the best season in Aaron Rodgers has ever had.

It's the best he's ever looked.

Greeny, I'll describe it is this makes and misses when I watch games for a quarterback and then watch tape like I'm looking at Makes and Mrs the Mrs Alright, do you miss reads that air there.

Aaron Rodgers doesn't like.

Find them.

They're not there like he doesn't miss reads.

What do you miss Throws like when your coach schemes a guy open or that guy gets open?

Do you miss him?

No, the guy just doesn't miss right now and then makes because sometimes dudes don't get open and you gotta make a throw and he's constantly making these throws.

That's why, like, I don't know if I've ever seen again.

We were drafted same year.

I've seen every throw.

I don't know if I've ever seen him in as complete control as he is right now, like he gets frustrated when he when when the throw isn't made.

That, like there's this sticky coverage.

The receivers got like three inches of separation and it's incomplete, like he gets upset about that.

He has risen his standard of playing his his expectation off play to such an excellent level that if he doesn't go 10 for 10, he gets upset about it.

He's like, Man, I'm not playing well enough.

His standard is just so incredibly high.

It's the best season he's ever had.

However, we told you when they tease, there is one major concern for the Packers at this stage.

Rex.

What is that?

It's the left tackle, you know Bachtiar e being out.

I mean, it's it's a huge loss and Aziz Muchas I mean, I've talked about how Green Bay, I think they got the medal to go all the way and they're gonna be and they're gonna be really hard to beat anyway.

But David Bakhtiari, probably the best left tackle in the National Football League.

It's a huge loss and, you know, protects the blind side.

Now they're flipping the right tackle, the left tackle and bringing another another guy in.

It's just it z such a big loss and I don't think people realize it well.

It's just an offensive lineman.

Yeah, it's the best left tackle in football, and it's a It's a huge loss.

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C.

I thought you wanted to jump in one final thought from you, Ryan.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

The big thing about Aaron Rodgers.

Remember this guy's?

It wasn't just the off season of not getting a wide receiver.

It wasn't just drafting Jordan love first round.

Dan talked about Makes and misses.

Aaron Rodgers missing last year.

He was missing throws.

He was missing coverages.

He was missing.

Hey was missing, finding the right play each and every game.

And that ascension not only from where he used to be but from last year to know is absolutely amazing.

Aaron Rodgers wanted to get this fixed, and he has, and he's had the best season of his life the day that that they made that decision on draft day, we said Aaron Rodgers may go on a scorched earth tour of the National Football League.

Well, you can spell that tour.

M V P.

That's the season he just had.

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