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Tonight we've got the Philadelphia Eagles a desperate team seemingly at Green Bay. I like Philadelphia to upset the Packers tonight. I'll get into that. Joy Taylor is joining me. Joy, how are you?

Great. Very excited for tonight. Tonight's a great game. Tonight would be the best game if it was played on Sunday. So you've got the three-in-oh Packers who have kind of struggled and stammered offensively but very good defensively against the Philadelphia team to 10 injuries.

I've got left tackle injuries at wide receiver defensive back issues. They're healthier now left tackle back wide receiver.

Alshon Jeffrey back. I like Philadelphia. If I was betting it not in my blazing five, but I take Philadelphia plus four tonight.

But it's interesting. Green Bay is a team in transition. And of course New England last year was a team in transition.

And about two years ago New Orleans became a team in transition. But Green Bay is different than those two teams. New England became last year a power running team.

And why Tom Brady's 42? They now draft a running back every year. They're much more reliant on the running back. They have the deepest set of running backs and a league than Tom Brady.

And Drew Breeze a couple of years ago, New Orleans stepped up. They started drafting running backs, paying their offensive limon a life. But with Breeze and with Brady, there is a reason. They're old.

Aaron Rogers is not. He's 35. He's a young 35. He's always kept himself in great shape. He eats well. Smart guy. He's got most believe he's still in his prime. I think he's slightly out of it. But I think he's got at least three to four tremendous years left.

But Green Bay made a decision two years ago. We want to be less beholden to Aaron Rogers.

Because the downside to being beholden to Aaron Rogers was he wasn't getting along with Mike McCarthy. He'd had teammates take shots at him. He could be condescending and difficult. And despite what Aaron and Green Bay people deny, the articles came out.

They said this time when we hire Matt LaFlure, you don't be the problem. They, of course, denied. I still believe the article.

So if you watch Green Bay tonight, much like New England a year ago and New Orleans two or three years ago, they were teams in transition.

And it's very interesting because Rogers is not old. Rogers is really at least the worst case scenario just at the, just at the beginning of his twilight for good years left.

But if you noticed last year, Green Bay was last in the NFL rushing 32% of the time this year. They're rushing 44% of the time.

Top 10 in the league. They ramped up their defense. Now Green Bay was smart. They knew they were going to have to pay Aaron Rogers. And they knew there wasn't a better college quarterback than Aaron Rogers. And they knew they were going to have to pay him.

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