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Well, I tell you what, man, I don't know exactly the words I used over these past

couple days when I began to unveil this revelation that when you really look at it, it's entirely possible this Packers team is a heck of a lot better than maybe we're given it credit for.

We talked about the quality of opponents that they've lost to, and not only that, the lack of anything other than elite

quality opponents that they've lost to, right? In other words, they haven't lost to

terrible teams, bad teams, mediocre teams, or even good teams. Teams like, you know, the Texans,

other like playoff teams, things like

that. I don't remember what all the different stats were, but it was starting to put a picture

together where you kind of stand back and go, wait a minute, wait a minute, is this actually a really

good team? So the thought process for me, and obviously really

good teams can have bad days and everything else, you never know how things are going to pan

out. But in my head, I thought, okay, you're a really good team. You're a battle ready, battle

hardened, battle tested, whatever, all the battles.

You're a team forged in iron, right?

If that's you, and you're coming off this Lions team,

and that was a heck of a playoff, you know, I mean, that was as tough as you're going to see all year,

and you realize you can do it and everything else,

we need to see you go up against the Seahawks and just be the better team. Whatever that happens to look like, you need to go in

there and everybody watches and goes, oh, okay, the Packers are on a different, they're just on a

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