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What's up friends? Welcome back to the Pack of a Day podcast. I'm your host, Andy Herman. You can follow me on Twitter at Andy Herman NFL. Joining me once again for this Friday to unfortunately not be discussing the Packers' wildcard playoff preview. But instead, discussing the Packers end to the season is the one and only Mike Wall. You can follow him on Twitter at Mike Wall 68. Mike, how have you been?

I'm great, Andy. Thanks for having me on. Yeah, you bet. Not the conversation that we wanted to be

having, obviously, it would be a lot more fun to be breaking down Packers 49ers, although

that would have had some own complications in and of itself anyway. But I want to start, obviously,

with Packers Lions. And I don't even know where I specifically want to start.

I guess maybe just your 1,000 foot view, your takeaways from Packers Lions and what kind of went wrong.

Everything started with that goal line stand.

It's like the week before the Minnesota Vikings game, we had the goal line stand kind of set the zone for the game.

The Lions had a goal line stand where two out of the three plays, they blew us up in the backfield because we had poor blocking up front, their interior, their interior defensive line blew us up. And that kind of set the tone for the game. I mean, it goes along, it goes in line with, I think, the Packers are the worst and goal-to-go situations in the league. So I don't know if it was any surprise. It's been kind of a fault of theirs.

But. in line with, I think, the Packers are the worst and goal-to-go situations in the league. So I don't know if it was any surprise. It's been kind of a fault of theirs. But I thought, you know, specifically when you look at their defense, they just did a great job of beating our interior line all day. I think it took away a lot of opportunities. There's certainly some plays that could have been made in the passing game. I know they've been passed around social media, but it just looks at, again, a lack of execution against a team.

You just feel that there's so many opportunities against.

It was very, very surprising, given what you see on tape against the Detroit Lions in the run game and the passing game, to see their game plan, their game plan being predicated largely on not, you know, it wasn't just like

the reverses that didn't work, but it was, it was all, like the game plan was kind of based

around that theme. It didn't really make sense, given what we have from a personnel standpoint. That's happened a couple times this year. Sometimes they take a shot and they miss.

And then defensively, man, like the lines are a good football team offensively. They have a great

offensive line. They have two good running backs. Jamal Williams really shoved it out of the throat

in that second half.

It's played good enough to win, but I'm sure we'll talk about those fourth down plays.

It's always just a head scratcher because it's just confluence of events where your coach

has historically put you at a certain position.

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