Vikings-Packers Border Battle: Pete Bercich breaks it down

Analyst for the Vikings, find out how many cups of coffee he's had early this morning outside of beautiful, beautiful Appleton, Wisconsin, near the team hotel. Pete, good morning to you. Thanks for jumping on with us. I want to get, you love going to, for this game. You, I know your, your affinity for the Packers speaks volumes. What do you expect to see from Kirk Cousins? We've been dissecting it in his short time that he's had to kind of get ready for this game today. Yeah, I think my first expectation is just don't throw it to the other team, right? As badly as Monday night went, we got to understand that we turned the ball over three times. The one fumble was actually a lateral or on the quarterback. So two interceptions, he had that play. About eight minutes left to go, it was still a one-score game. So despite how poorly everything else went, you were still in the game because the defense played so well. So for Cousins, in my opinion, that's the main thing, is that he doesn't throw the football away. Now, protecting him is going to be important. We saw everything that he's done so far, especially what he's done. Thank you. In Las Vegas, he's fifth in the NFL in completion yardage. He has 20 touchdown passes. That's second in the NFL. The one thing that could serve, well, he's only, but he was only sacked 11 times in Las Vegas. So they did a good job of protecting him. He helped himself out in that regard too. But we've given up 23 already and we've had a pretty mobile quarterback. So keeping him upright in the pocket is going to be very, very important. And this Packers defense, you know, you get a new quarterback, he's the new old quarterback, whatever you want to call it. They may want to pressure a little bit more than normal. But it's kind of a risk because they don't really know exactly what they're going to see out of this offense. Pete, I know you spent a lot of years both as a player, a coach, and here you are broadcasting again, going to Lambeau Field. Does it ever get old? Because I've always told people there's nothing like the Lambeau experience as far as being a fan. There'll be plenty of Viking fans there today as well in Lambeau. What do you feel? Yeah, it's where I played my first NFL game in Lambeau. My dad played his first NFL game with the Dallas Cowboys in Lambeau. So it's a yeah, it's football Americana. I mean, it's the it's the history of the sport. And for the Vikings Packers rivalry, it's it's it's amazing to see because you have so many families that are split. You've got, you know, there's a lot of people that live between here and Minneapolis. You know what I mean? That are on both sides of the fence. And so it's always a fun day. But it's definitely. It's a rivalry, but it's definitely not like you're going to Philadelphia for a football game. No, no. There's a lot of friendly jabber going on, and the tailgating is second to none. They got the area for it. I mean, as the buses I see behind you pull up, you'll be able to smell the brats before you get there a mile away. I'm sure of that. Yeah. I mean, if you want to go old school and do like a college game and go sit on a steel bench, then yeah, it's a perfect place. Pete, thanks so much for joining us today, and have a good broadcast. We'll catch you later. Thank you so much. All right, sounds good. Thank you, guys. All right, thanks, Pete Bursich from Appleton, Wisconsin. A reminder that Fox right here, Fox 9, has the game coming up. We've got the Munich game coming up in just a little bit with the Vikings at Green Bay at noon here on Fox 9, streaming on Fox 1 and the postgame show tonight as well as we look at beautiful Lambeau Field. Look quiet right now. The neighborhood waking up, getting ready for the big battle at noon. Coming up next, sink or sail as we wrap things up here on our Vikings pregame show.