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The Packers have much of a chance
on Sunday to you, yeah, I

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would say the Cowboys fans have reason
to have some confidence going into this football

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game because when you look at a
game like this, you start looking at

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your your recipe or your script to
success. How do you get to a

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victory? And for the Green Bay
Packers, there's several things that have to,

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you know, fall into line.
For Dallas Cowboys, they could play

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a sloppy quarter or maybe even a
sloppy half and still figure out how to

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win this football game, depending on
how that goes. And you know,

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for the Packers, they're facing a
top five offense, a top five defense,

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and this Packers team, who has
been up and down offensively, has

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hit its stride as of late.
But they're going to have to score some

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points. Looking that, on the
other side of the football, you got

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Dak Prescott, a number one scoring
offense and the whole NFL. So I

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say that to say this Cowboys defense
has been so good, but they they've

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turned the ball over all opponents.
I think that is going to play a

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big part in this football game because
a lot of their success defensively has to

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do with the turnovers that they have. The Green Bay Packers are one of

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the best teams in the NFL of
taking care of the football. If they

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can play to that, if they
can play to their style of football,

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they can keep this thing close.
Score some points. You've got to be

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a fishing in the red zone and
then keep it close at the end and

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anything. It could be a coin
flip at the end if it doesn't go

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that way, if the Cowboys turn
the ball over, if the Cowboys score

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two touchdowns on their first two drives, and this thing turns into you know,

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Packers have to throw the football and
not just be able to run with

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Aaron Jones, this thing could get
out of control. Being as close as

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you are to coach McCarthy, and
I'm sure you've kept your eye on the

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Cowboys this season and his trajectory.
How do you feel about his evolution as

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a play caller throughout the season And
do you feel like it is decidedly different

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now than it was in the beginning. Yeah, I do, I really

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do. And I got to say
this, when coach Michael was in Green

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Bay, he was constantly evolving,
always trying to tinker and tweak the offense.

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He was calling it or if Tom
Clemens was calling it, or if

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Edgar Bennett was calling it, didn't
matter. He was always trying to tweak

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it and evolve it. And quite
frankly, that's you know what ended up

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turning into a disaster in seventeen and
eighteen in Green Bay. The evolution of

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the offense was not good. It
evolved into a bad spot and it didn't

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resonate with the players. But I
see down in Dallas more of a rejuvenated

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MIC. He's mixing up personnel groups, He's using shifts and motions very well.

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He's keeping defenses in a spot where
they have to communicate constantly pre snaps

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that all the checks and balances are
done post snap for the defense, and

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that makes it very difficult on him. So I like what he has done.

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And Dak Prescott has been exceptional throughout
the course of the season. I

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think he's deserve it of at least
an MVP vote, if not making it

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competitive with Lamar Jackson. So yeah, I like everything that Mike has done

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with that offense down there. But
I got to tell you, guys,

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I'm not surprised this is a John
former Packers, or you a fullbacker or

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running back. I mean, look, they used you at running back sometimes.

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What do you prefer to go by? Offensive weapon? What are you

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man? I'm gonna call it running
back on that one. And that's that's

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the title I'll take right there.
Thank you, I appreciate it. Former

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Pak Yeah, former Backers running back
John kun also does the sideline. He

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does radio open and green Baby also
does sidelines for the Packers radio broadcast.

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So like when you had played the
super Bowl here, that was ice storm

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weekend here in DFW, and when
you played in the d do you remember

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much about that week and how crazy
it was weather wise because we weren't really

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ready to handle that type of weather
down here in DFW. What do you

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remember about that week? I remember
telling every textan that I came in contact

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with that sand is not the same
thing as salt. They don't work the

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same on the roads. So when
you put sand on top of ice,

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it's just stay slippery. It doesn't
grab it all. Yeah, we were

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really looking forward to a warm weather
Super Bowl figure and that we were coming

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from Green Bay, but the snow
put us right into our place. And

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I'll tell you guys this. We
were supposed to practice at SMU stadium.

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What you guys know is in outside
stadium. We cannot do that that week

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because they didn't have the ability to
because it was kind of vice but it

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was kind of snow and it was
a little bit of a mush and with

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that turf field, they weren't really
able to make the field safe for us

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to practice on. So we had
to practice at a high school. And

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I can't remember which high school was, but I was fascinated by the fact

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that we practiced at a high school
indoor practice facility. I'm gonna say that

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again because the Wisconsin that is unheard
of an indoor practice facility for high school

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and it was fascinating. It was
fun because a lot of us got that

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throwback field of what it used to
be like to be in high school and

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when you play football in high school
and the smells of the high school locker

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room and the smells of the high
school practice facility. It was fun.

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It was kind of bringing us back
to our childhoods before we went into the

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biggest game of our lives. Are
you, as I'm asking you, because

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he's in the headlines a lot,
are you in touch with your old quarterback?

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Aaron Rodgers much. Oh yeah,
I talked to him still from time

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to time, and I let him
know when he gets the world, you

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know, freaking out about the things
that he says, and you know he

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likes to have fun with that type
of stuff. And hey, here's the

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deal with Aaron Rodgers man unfortunate situation
with the Achilles this year. I was

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really looking forward to seeing what he
could do with the New York Jets with

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that roster and in that market did
not come to be. And I'm just

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wondering, right, he turns forty
years old next year, how long is

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he going to continue to do this? Because you'd like to see him at

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least be able to finish the season
before he calls it a career. Let

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me ask you a question about Aaron
real quick. And I don't want to

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linger on this. Part of me
believe he wants to believe because I think

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he's kind of a smart ass.
That part of him is just trolling the

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world with some of his stuff.
I was curious, says, you obviously

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know him better than most. How
what percentage of that is real deep belief

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conviction and how much of it is
just you know, I'm just gonna throw

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a can of gas on it and
just watch people react. I would say

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it's a good bit of both,
and I would say there's also a good

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bit of sarcasm. There's a good
bit of inside innuendos jokes that only his

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closest friends truly understand, which you
would say doesn't make for good theater,

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doesn't make for good television. But
to him, that's what's funny. That's

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how he likes to row. And
he's always been one to be distrustful of

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the media in some sense. He
doesn't feel like they drive the correct narrative

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that they should drive, so to
that extent, he doesn't care if he

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throws them off the scent of what
he really believes and how he really feels

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based off of the things that he
says. But boy, I'll tell you

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it's polarizing up here in Green Bay. It's definitely polarizing, and the fan

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base is one or ever, there's
never an in between. The Aaron Rodgers