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Breaking news out of Green Bay has the entire Packers organization and fanbase reeling tonight. Star running back Josh Jacobs turned himself in and was arrested on five domestic abuse-related charges stemming from a disturbance last Saturday. Jacobs and his legal team are vehemently denying the allegations while the investigation remains active and ongoing with very few details released publicly. This is a serious situation that raises immediate questions about Josh Jacobs' future with the team and how the Packers will navigate it under the NFL's personal conduct policy. The facts as we know them right now: On May 23 at approximately 8:37 a.m., the Hobart-Lawrence Police Department was dispatched to a disturbance complaint involving Jacobs. He turned himself in on May 26, was arrested, and booked into Brown County Jail on five charges — battery (domestic abuse), criminal damage to property (domestic abuse), disorderly conduct (domestic abuse), strangulation and suffocation (felony), and intimidation of a victim (misdemeanor). Hobart-Lawrence Police Chief Michael Renkas stated: "This remains an active and ongoing investigation. No further information will be released at this time." Jacobs' response through his attorneys David Chesnoff, Richard Schonfeld, and Clarence Duchac: "Josh vehemently denies the allegations, and this matter is in the early stages of investigation with important evidence that has not yet been made public. We ask for fairness and restraint while the judicial process takes its course." Organizational and league reaction: The Packers said they are aware of the matter and will withhold further comment as it is an ongoing legal situation. The NFL is aware and has been in contact with the club. Head coach Matt LaFleur is scheduled for media availability tomorrow and will almost certainly face questions on this developing story. Roster and season implications: Jacobs signed with Green Bay in free agency in 2024 after five seasons with the Raiders. He had a strong 2025 season (15 games, over 1,200 rushing yards, and 13+ rushing touchdowns) and remains under contract for the next two seasons. We break down what this means for the backfield, potential depth adjustments, and the cloud this situation puts over the offense heading into the summer. This episode is brought to you by PrizePicks! Use code PACKDADDY and visit https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/PACKDADDY to get started with America's #1 fantasy sports app. This one is heavy, and I want to hear from you — tell me your thoughts on this one. How do you think the Packers should handle it moving forward? Drop your takes in the comments. Hit subscribe if you haven't already so you stay up to date on every development, and please leave a review — it helps more than you know. To advertise on this podcast please email: ad-sales@libsyn.com Or go to: https://advertising.libsyn.com/packernetpodcast Help keep the show growing and check out everything I'm building across the Packers and NFL world: Support: Patreon: www.patreon.com/pack_daddy Venmo: @Packernetpodcast CashApp: $packpod Projects: Grade NFL Players ➜ fanfocus-teamgrades.lovable.app Packers Hub ➜ packersgames.com Create NFL Draft Big Boards ➜ nfldraftgrades.com Watch Draft Prospects ➜ draftflix.com Screen Record ➜ pause-play-capture.lovable.app Global Economics Hub ➜ global-economic-insight-hub.lovable.app

What's up Pack fans, you're locked into Tundra FM where the filters are completely off. Brick Lombardi coming through the wreckage after two brutal weeks that felt like pure torture. We jumped out to a 10-0 lead against Philly thinking we finally turned the corner, only for everything to melt down in spectacular fashion. Then we relived the nightmare against the Panthers. Missed throws, dropped passes, offensive line panic mode, and a total inability to move the chains. Eight straight quarters of watching this team fall apart right in front of us. We also diagnosed the sickness — that nonexistent pass rush and what Arizona might offer as a cure. But then we flipped the script to the bright side with OTA vibes. Jordan Love looking ice cold, stadium bombs in practice, young guys flying around, and the whole NFC starting to sweat again. You really think you're getting Green Bay out your head? This episode is brought to you by PrizePicks! Use code PACKDADDY and visit https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/PACKDADDY to get started with America's #1 fantasy sports app. If you felt every ounce of that pain and hype tonight, smash that subscribe button, drop a rating, and tell us in the comments — how do we fix this mess before pads come on? More fire coming soon. To advertise on this podcast please email: ad-sales@libsyn.com Or go to: https://advertising.libsyn.com/packernetpodcast

Big Sal is fired up from the recliner in Peshtigo and he's not buying a single word of this "Lions are decaying" narrative. He lays it out plain and simple — Detroit isn't falling apart because they were never constructed properly to begin with. It's the same loud, flashy outfit that dominates highlight reels in October and vanishes the second real football shows up in January. In this no-holds-barred rant, Big Sal covers: Why labeling it "decay" is actually too generous for a franchise that's shown the exact same flaws year after year How the national media keeps doing the Lions' heavy lifting by pretending they were ever legitimate contenders The uncomfortable truth that Green Bay has always been the team that shows up and delivers when the stakes are highest in the NFC North His straight-up prediction that the Lions will once again finish behind the Packers in the division standings This episode is brought to you by PrizePicks! Use code PACKDADDY and visit https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/PACKDADDY to get started with America's #1 fantasy sports app. If you're tired of the same old Lions nonsense and want more unfiltered Packers talk that tells it like it is, subscribe to the Packernet Podcast Network, drop that five-star review, and share this episode with every member of Pack Nation who's had enough. Go Pack Go! #GoPackGo #Packers #Lions #NFCNorth #BigSalRant

In this episode, Ryan dives deep into the quarterback landscape of the NFC North, using advanced metrics like EPA per dropback, DVOA, CPOE, and PFF grades to separate fact from fiction. After a quick NFL news update and OTA thoughts, he breaks down why Jordan Love and Jared Goff stand out as the clear 1A and 1B in the division, while addressing the hype around Caleb Williams and Kyler Murray's availability concerns. Key discussion points include: Why traditional stats like yards and touchdowns are noisy and unreliable compared to modern metrics Detailed 2023-2025 performance analysis showing Love and Goff consistently ranking in the top 5-10 Caleb Williams' accuracy issues and the massive leap needed to reach elite level The importance of low-noise, reproducible stats that actually tie to real value on the field This episode is brought to you by PrizePicks! Use code PACKDADDY and visit https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/PACKDADDY to get started with America's #1 fantasy sports app. If you enjoyed this deep dive into quarterback evaluation, please subscribe, leave a 5-star rating and review, and share with fellow Packers fans. Follow along for more analysis as OTAs continue. To advertise on this podcast please email: ad-sales@libsyn.com Or go to: https://advertising.libsyn.com/packernetpodcast

This episode is pure Packernet After Dark — late-night poetic vibes where the static turns into music and every Packers moment feels like destiny locking into place. We're staring at the smallest draft class in 20 years, feeling zero panic because Gutekunst didn't just grab players… he grabbed frequency. From corner locks to booming punts, reinforced trenches, and Jordan Love's pocket turning into a fortress, it all hits different when you can feel the stars aligning. Key Discussion Points: Breaking down the six-pick draft class and why it feels like pure constellation energy instead of panic Reliving that beautiful Thursday Night Lambo win that delivered stress-free Thanksgiving leftovers and horizontal couch dominance Standing at the Draft Night crossroads in Pittsburgh with war room tension, Mel Kiper skepticism, and future stars waiting on their name Late-night winning exhaustion where you can't sleep because the symphonies in your head won't stop — Go Pack Go to Sleep edition This episode is brought to you by PrizePicks! Use code PACKDADDY and visit https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/PACKDADDY to get started with America's #1 fantasy sports app. If this one hit you in the soul, make sure you're subscribed, drop a review, and tell me in the comments — what frequency are you feeling right now? Which segment had you locked in the most? To advertise on this podcast please email: ad-sales@libsyn.com Or go to: https://advertising.libsyn.com/packernetpodcast Support the Show & Explore My Projects Help keep the show growing and check out everything I'm building across the Packers and NFL world: Support: Patreon: www.patreon.com/pack_daddy Venmo: @Packernetpodcast CashApp: $packpod Projects: Grade NFL Players ➜ fanfocus-teamgrades.lovable.app Packers Hub ➜ packersgames.com Create NFL Draft Big Boards ➜ nfldraftgrades.com Watch Draft Prospects ➜ draftflix.com Screen Record ➜ pause-play-capture.lovable.app Global Economics Hub ➜ global-economic-insight-hub.lovable.app Go Pack Go. The stars are locking in position.

Listen up, Pack Nation — the fog is lifting! While the meatballs were screaming that the Packers would be left destitute after the Micah Parsons trade, Brian Gutekunst was quietly loading up the ship. This episode is pure fire as I break down why 2027 could bring us ten or eleven draft picks, turning Green Bay into a self-sustaining contender factory. Key Discussion Points: The hidden power of compensatory picks and how Gutey played the system like a Stradivarius Why the Lions and Bears are desperately overspending while the Packers build for sustained dominance My personal journey from panic to full-blown excitement about the long game The massive 2027 freighter loaded with talent that was there the whole time This episode is brought to you by PrizePicks! Use code PACKDADDY and visit https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/PACKDADDY to get started with America's #1 fantasy sports app. If you love the Packers and smart front office talk, do me a favor — head over to Apple Podcasts or Spotify right now, search LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHIN, and drop us five stars. Write a review that says "Gutey played the secret compartment." It helps the show tremendously. To advertise on this podcast please email: ad-sales@libsyn.com Or go to: https://advertising.libsyn.com/packernetpodcast Support the Show & Explore My Projects Help keep the show growing and check out everything I'm building across the Packers and NFL world: Support: Patreon: www.patreon.com/pack_daddy Venmo: @Packernetpodcast CashApp: $packpod Projects: Grade NFL Players ➜ fanfocus-teamgrades.lovable.app Packers Hub ➜ packersgames.com Create NFL Draft Big Boards ➜ nfldraftgrades.com Watch Draft Prospects ➜ draftflix.com Screen Record ➜ pause-play-capture.lovable.app Global Economics Hub ➜ global-economic-insight-hub.lovable.app Go Pack Go!

Memorial Day is over and Packers OTAs officially begin tomorrow, but before we spiral into boot watches and right tackle rotation drama, we're settling the real fight in the NFC North. Today I lay out exactly why Jared Goff was the best quarterback in the division last season — not with vibes, not with "he's about to take the leap," but with the actual numbers that matter. We're calling out the bad stats, the ecological fallacies, and the crayon rankings once and for all. What to expect from Week 1 OTAs: voluntary participation, no pads, teaching tempo, key injury updates, and why I'm already preemptively pissed about potential right tackle cross-training experiments. The statistical case for Jared Goff: leading the North in yards, touchdowns, passer rating, and sitting comfortably ahead on PFF while protecting the ball better than Jordan Love or Caleb Williams. Why wins, raw yards, and "future potential" metrics are noisy garbage when ranking quarterbacks — and why serious people isolate what the QB actually controls. Tomorrow's plan: the full, no-holds-barred ranking of all four NFC North quarterbacks using metrics that actually work. This episode is brought to you by PrizePicks! Use code PACKDADDY and visit https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/PACKDADDY to get started with America's #1 fantasy sports app. Tell me your thoughts on this one — I want to hear from you. If the rant fired you up, hit subscribe, drop a review, and throw your NFC North QB rankings in the comments. We're just getting started with OTAs and these quarterback debates. To advertise on this podcast please email: ad-sales@libsyn.com Or go to: https://advertising.libsyn.com/packernetpodcast Help keep the show growing and check out everything I'm building across the Packers and NFL world: Support: Patreon: www.patreon.com/pack_daddy Venmo: @Packernetpodcast CashApp: $packpod Projects: Grade NFL Players ➜ fanfocus-teamgrades.lovable.app Packers Hub ➜ packersgames.com Create NFL Draft Big Boards ➜ nfldraftgrades.com Watch Draft Prospects ➜ draftflix.com Screen Record ➜ pause-play-capture.lovable.app Global Economics Hub ➜ global-economic-insight-hub.lovable.app

Brick Lombardi is back behind the glass on Tundra FM After Dark, cranking the volume until the windows in Ashwaubenon rattle. Tonight we unleash the industrial, mechanical, and completely inevitable force of Green Bay's defense — the Iron Wall that stands ten feet high and the Frozen Hell that swallows anyone dumb enough to challenge it. We break down the collision of steel and flesh, the wolves circling in Brown County, and the lyrics that capture every sack, every lockdown, and every moment hope leaves an opponent's lungs at 40 yards. From the pressure building on every snap to the perfect violence in the pocket, this is the soundtrack for when the defense starts hunting after the sun goes down. This episode is brought to you by PrizePicks! Use code PACKDADDY and visit https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/PACKDADDY to get started with America's #1 fantasy sports app. Turn it up louder, subscribe to the Packernet Podcast Network, drop a rating, and tag us when your speakers blow. More Tundra FM heat dropping soon. #TundraFMAfterDark #PackersDefense #IronWall #FrozenHell #Packernet To advertise on this podcast please email: ad-sales@libsyn.com Or go to: https://advertising.libsyn.com/packernetpodcast

Pack Nation, buckle up because Sal is absolutely heated and unloading on the biggest myth in the NFC North. While everyone's crowning Jared Goff as the best quarterback in the division based on his shiny 2025 stat sheet, Sal rips the paint job off and shows you the termites eating the foundation. This is a full-throated, no-holds-barred takedown of the Goff hype train as it heads straight for a wall. Key Discussion Points The Kelvinator Fridge Analogy: Goff's massive 2025 numbers (4,564 yards, 34 TDs) look elite on paper but were just an engine running on fumes after Ben Johnson left for Chicago. The Week 10 Panic: Dan Campbell had to rip the headset off the OC and call plays himself because the offense completely fell apart without the old system. Blitz Exposure: Goff's passer rating against the blitz dropped from 119.7 to 96.6 once the genius scheming disappeared — the mask slipped hard. Jordan Love vs. Goff: Real ribeye quarterback who thrives under pressure versus the kale chip system manager who needs GPS instructions. Sponsor Integration This episode is brought to you by PrizePicks! Use code PACKDADDY and visit https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/PACKDADDY to get started with America's #1 fantasy sports app. Call to Action If you can tell the difference between a real quarterback and a system manager, head over to Apple Podcasts or Spotify right now and leave a five-star review for LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHIN. Tell us in the comments — is Goff cooked in 2026? Drop your hottest take. Advertising Contact To advertise on this podcast please email: ad-sales@libsyn.com Or go to: https://advertising.libsyn.com/packernetpodcast Support the Show & Explore My Projects Help keep the show growing and check out everything I'm building across the Packers and NFL world: Support: Patreon: www.patreon.com/pack_daddy Venmo: @Packernetpodcast CashApp: $packpod Projects: Grade NFL Players ➜ fanfocus-teamgrades.lovable.app Packers Hub ➜ packersgames.com Create NFL Draft Big Boards ➜ nfldraftgrades.com Watch Draft Prospects ➜ draftflix.com Screen Record ➜ pause-play-capture.lovable.app Global Economics Hub ➜ global-economic-insight-hub.lovable.app Go Pack Go!

ladies and gentlemen. Welcome once again to the Packernet Podcast. I am your host and resident panelist, as always, Ryan Schlipp. Check us out online, packernet.com Find me on Twitter, pack underscore dad. So, yesterday we did a Caleb thing, because it was brought to my attention, I guess, that these kinds of things are being said, and I mean, it shouldn't be necessarily surprising. I mean, we've seen a lot of dumb things from Les. I mean, we've seen Justin Fields, who was dog crap, and we're being told that the guy was actually very, very good and was just being held back, and all this stupid nonsense was never ever true, as I think we all have come to realize. Shame on those that doubted me, but again, the the Bears are not the only ones having some fantastical ideas, and as I've said the last couple of days, the one that surprised me the most was the Minnesota Vikings, and so I'm more curious than anything to kind of dive around and see what the heck these guys have been doing over here. Again, they're quiet, they've been quiet, which you know, again, everybody's been kind of quiet, nobody's really crossing that line of like talking trash, but everyone's kind of in their own corner getting themselves fired up and in their tight little, their airtight bubbles, so that when you walk into it, it's holy cow, what have you guys been doing over here, which I'm sure they do to us as well, but I figured there's a nice little connection here, because yesterday we talked about the Chicago Bears quarterback and some of the nonsense that's going on, and although I'm not sure exactly what the heck is going on over there in Minnesota, aside from just a very cursory look, I do know that a big part of their belief in everything being different this year is, wait for it, the quarterback. Now, most of us hadn't even considered that this is very similar to when they got Donald, which, yes, did go very, very well. He's still playing at a very high level. I don't think many people expected that, and I don't think that that happens very often. I think that that's exceedingly rare. We'll see if Malik is another one of those, unfortunately, but there does seem to be an underlying confidence that, okay, we needed a quarterback, boom, we got this guy, and again, I don't know if it's so much that Kyler is going to be elite as opposed to JJ, was the worst thing that has ever happened to anyone ever anywhere, and anybody that is even marginally decent at anything is going to get us to where we need to be, because I guess we're just such a good team, we need subpar quarterback play just to be a playoff team, like if we just get to up to subpar, then we're good, but I figure before we kind of attack the issue, I want to find out what exactly it is, what are Vikings fans saying about their quarterback situation, because first of all, I think it's settled, but I, you know, they're at least not 100% going to come out and say that it's settled. The Athletics, Alec Lewis believes the Vikings will measure quarterback JJ McCarthy's development by assessing his accuracy, touch, consistency this summer, by the way. I will say, as Packer fans, we don't want JJ McCarthy to start. The reason being they went out and got this quarterback, Kyler Murray, with the full intention of him starting. There's never a question, JJ is going to be moved, McCarthy is going to be the guy, we're going to find a new quarterback, excuse me, Kyler is going to be the guy, and then we're going to find a new quarterback and move forward that way, unless we can get Kyler to be really good, even then it's kind of iffy, they're probably hoping for a second Sam Darnold situation, then they don't mess it up and get rid of him, but he's 30, and as a mobile quarterback, age is a much bigger issue. He's not quite 30, but he's getting there. Once you start hitting the later years as a mobile quarterback, you have to learn to stand in the pocket and throw, and if you can't, then it's not great. Plus, the size and injury stuff, his, he's not going to be a 40 year old quarterback, it's not going to happen. So, the shelf life here is much shorter than, for example, Sam Darnold. So, with all that said, with the expectation of moving on from McCarthy and moving in a different direction, if. McCarthy starts. It's because, holy crap, he took that step. So that's the only, the only path I see, pending some, you know, injury or whatever, where they start JJ McCarthy over Kyler Murray, which would suck, because that would, that would be bad. So why don't we start here, and I know this guy's like extra biased hypey for the Vikings, but it's still a good spot to kind of be like, all right, what, what, what's what's the vibe over here? What's going on, Jerome's so the storyline of the off season that this is Purple FTW podcast, by the way, if you're interested in supporting, or whatever. I don't know, like it should get hype, and it seems sort of glossed over that the Vikings signed Kyler Murray, who's still getting paid almost 40 million bucks from the Cardinals for $1.3 million and he's Asian, he can do that. The good thing, a two-time Pro Bowl quarterback in his prime, so note number one, they're doing the whole, you know, two-time Pro Bowler thing. In his prime is another one. These are little notes that you can set to the side of what there is to be excited about. Still under 30 with revenge on his mind, as long as he's not playing video games to basically captain this ship, man, whether it's Kyler, whether it's JJ. Yes, it is funny that it transitioned so quickly from, dude, this guy is legitimately, he's legitimately elite, and nobody's talking about it, and that's crazy, or maybe the other guy who's also good don't sound super committed, there. That's interesting. Is JJ McCarthy being thrown under the bus at times? Yes, yes, but quarterback competition, we all know we love JJ. You know what I love more, the Vikings. So whoever it is, whatever it takes, done to them, and also we say we said we just need a captain of the ship, we need somebody to thought he was gonna say Carson Wentz, I was like, please just say Carson Wentz, it'd be hilarious if you also, if that doesn't work, we got Carson Went, skip ahead here just a touch, and with Kyler, this is a chance for some full on career rehab, right. Justin Jefferson, his corner is going to be good to go, and his time with Arizona didn't end the greatest, right? You know, got his contract, even though he's playing his video game. Still never going to forgive Steve Keim, but last year Kyler Murray, you know, five games before he got injured, he did some stuffings and things, you know, completed 68% was best, which Kyler doesn't get enough credit for being an accurate thrower. The football was good to go, and I know a lot has been made, is like, well, what about his a dot has averaged up the targets, but now last couple years, have you seen the Arizona offense? Like, there has nothing been there's to be fair, the reason that matters is because if you're going to talk accuracy, you kind of have to look at it as an accuracy per area of the field thing, right? Because if, if the a dot, the average depth of target is the reason for the accuracy, then you're not actually that accurate of a quarterback, you just throw easier passes. I'm not saying that's the case, but that's the reason that gets brought up. Ben, there's never been a more podunk checkdown offense since watching like JV football. It's essentially what it is, man. But Kyler went two and three as a starter. Jabroni Brisket went one and 15, by the way, or one at 11, plus enough, really good at math, yeah, but Kyler is on the full on career rehab trajectory, and the odds reflect that, in terms of comeback player of the year. Now, Mahomes is probably just gonna be handed the trophy, right, because ACL pretty much probably, yeah, come back all that good stuff, he's the prohibitive favorite across all of the books. Kyler is interestingly enough coming in second, either plus 600 so six to one, you know, 550 in a couple places as well. And I know that everyone's pissing, Mona, like, well, why is Michael Parsons odd so low? Parsons not a quarterback. Parsons tore his knee up late in the season, so there's no guarantee that he's going to be back early in the season, and may not even be himself by mid season. It is what it is, so that's why his odds are longer. Plus, he's not a quarterback, plus, like you said, Pat Mahomes. Good luck beating Pat Mahomes. Pat, I mean, Pat, Pat Mahomes doesn't even need to actually be like a top 10 quarterback, you can see that already everybody already putting him in the top two as far as the rankings, like today, even though he hasn't been in four three years since he's been, I think you'd have to go back four years before he'd be in the top three conversation, but he just needs. To come back and have a winning football team and look like Pat Mahomes, and he will win Comeback Player of the Year, Kyler Murray. If Pat Mahomes doesn't do that, Kyler Murray does make sense to be the next best in line, because he's a quarterback, and if they can make him look good, which again, he doesn't need to be like, you know, PFF grade, top 10-ish. He needs to be healthy the whole year. The Vikings need to have a winning record and needs to look like it's on the back of Kyler Murray, and if they do that, and Pat McHale's isn't in the way, he will win that again. You could say, well, I mean, that's pretty impressive that he is ahead of Michael Parsons, that does say something, maybe kind of, but very much to his point. Micah Parsons is going to have a very difficult time when you're going to miss at least the first four games of the season to dominate to such a degree, and basically the only thing that matters here in this conversation, if we're talking about comeback player of the year, is stay healthy, get a bunch of sacks. I mean, good luck getting the number of sacks you need minus an entire quarter of the season. So, yeah, I mean, I guess, but if you remove Micah from the equation, who is Kyler ahead of in the odds? Malik Neighbors, Daniel Jones and Deshaun Watson. Basically, it's a two-man race with Pat Mahomes at the top, and then Kyler, if he can play, and Mahomes, you know, if he gets hurt, then we'll just hand it to Kyler. And if Kyler can't do it, then Micah has a chance. And the fact that Micah is ahead of all these other guys, which makes sense, have not even having a full season, I don't necessarily know everybody else's situation, but Deshaun Watson isn't even guaranteed to be the starting quarterback, although his odds are way off. Basically, it's not a very large pool, so you know to look at and be like, well, he has the second best comeback odds. I'm not necessarily saying he's doing this, but to use that as evidence that, like, Vegas believes he's going to have a great year, it's an unbelievably small pool of people that could even be considered for this award, because he's going to have a truncated amount of time to do some damage. You have Malik Neighbors, Daniel Jones, Deshaun Watson. Why is Watson on there? It was, but Kyler, second place at getting around six to one. I do think it is Mahomes award to lose, but you know, the media does love a good story, and if and when Kyler Murray is, you know, he wants a starting job and just absolutely lights it up with this freaking offense, which there's gonna have a rededication in the run game. Kyler still has enough mobility where it's a threat to the defense. You got Jefferson, Addison, and Jennings. This offensive line should be good to go, because Darrisaw's leg hopefully won't fall off this season. And then you got Jackson, whoo, Blake Brandle, the solid veteran, getting acclimated at center. Will Fries going to prove that he's worth, hey dirty baby, I'm worth the money. Don't you worry, I said, hey, okay, we got some fries. All right, all right, all right, let's, let's, let's calm down, let's go ahead and skip a little bit here. It's offense, I know that people like to poo poo on the Vikings, and I know that we generally have a very sunny disposition when it comes to the Vikings, but if you're not drinking the purple Kool-Aid, honestly, it takes a special type of hater and loser to look at this offensive unit and be like child, please, and not even mention the defense across, which is going to be hellacious, is going to be extremely good at getting their ass off the field, good field position, taking the ball away, everything's gonna be good. So I honestly do believe that Kyler, you know, everyone and their mom, all Cardinals fan, you know, blaming Kyler for everything, but it's okay. It's okay, he can take the heat, he's gonna be motivated, he's gonna be mobile, agile, hostile. Give me all the six to one, baby. Just I feel like Kyler's on that comeback train and is going to be good to go, right? All right, good enough. So that's a position, and I look again as a Packer fan, even though they are in the division, and, but we got a lot to cover, and a lot to talk about, and all that stuff, and I think for the most part we've been looking at the NFC North through a 30,000 foot view. I haven't spent a lot of my life looking at Kyler Murray and his career, occasionally dabble over the years, just kind of like, oh, what's he, oh, he's, he's really good now, oh, he sucks now. Oh, whatever. I think kind of, kind of the big picture plan that I had here was let's look at Kyler, because that's another big thing. I don't want to go super in depth. We may have to, if I can't, you know, make this a big enough podcast in and of itself. And then perhaps we'll see, I don't, I don't want you know, sometimes I like my themes maybe a little bit more than I should, but the thought would be tomorrow we would do something similar with the Lions with the final crescendo, and maybe we'll just skip part three and go straight to the crescendo, being let's just look at the NFC North quarterbacks, and let's be honest about it. Let's look at golf, let's look at Kyler, let's look at Kayla. And then love, I don't know if we need to do this for the Lions, because I don't know that a lot of Lions fans are sitting around going, "Dude, we're going to be dope because of our quarterback. Last I remember, they started to fall out of love with him a little bit, but maybe that's the best. I'll do a tiny bit of digging to see if there's some golf hype. There probably is, and if there is, then we'll, we'll play this game as well, just so we can kind of get the receipts, and then hear specifically the arguments being made for them, and then we'll, and then again we will crescendo. What the heck does that word mean? Boy, I had no chance of spelling that crescendo, c r e s c r e s c e n d o, a gradual increase in loudness, force, or intensity. See, that's not what I was going for. So, a crescendo is the swelling, it's not the.. so now we're doing the crescendo. This is the swelling portion. Should stop using both of those words, swelling and crescendo. Well, see, I didn't want that to be the.. I didn't want that to be the word I was looking for. There's got to be a different word. Other related terms: fortissimo, sforzando, and tutti. Fortissimo is what we're going to go for, so we'll do the, we'll do the crescendo now, and then it'll get to the fortissimo. Definitely not the other thing, also not 2t We're not going to do a 2t We, there will be no two ting here on the Packer Nut Podcast. But let's take a break, and we'll be right back, you right, let's move over here. This is Menace, excuse me, Purple Daily, Minnesota Vikings chemistry. It is a Q and A segment, I believe. I don't know, but this.. this first portion is Brian continues and says, let me get serious now. The national media narrative on Kyler Murray is that his deep ball has regressed, but a quarterback's downfield accuracy is heavily tied to his targets. When he had DeAndre Hopkins a few years ago, Kyler was one of the better deep ball throwers. First of all, I don't think that's true at all. We'll get into the actual breaking these things down, but just to be clear, you would have to prove that to me. That's one of those things people on social media like to do, where they say things that they think sound smart without having any regard for whether or not you have to look that up. I don't think that that's true. Why? I mean, why would that be the case? I mean, the assumption is, well, if you got somebody wide open or whatever, but that's kind of irrelevant, and the stats don't really take that into account. It's just a question of whether or not you throw a good ball, and saying, well, if you look back a few years ago to when he had this person, then, then, yeah, but you're kind of, you're not really answering the question, you're just kind of giving a different explanation for it, while acknowledging that there has been regression. Yeah, well, a few years ago it was good. I know that's the entire point. It was good, and now it's not good. And you're saying that it's, it's only because of the players, and I'm not saying there can't be some kind of a relationship there. Maybe it goes to confidence, or, you know, I don't know, could also be things like offensive line, you know, if you're throwing on the run in a panic, as opposed to a comfortable pocket, there can be all kinds of variables, but on some level you're going to have to actually prove that correlation, which is again a lot of work to do, significantly less now with AI, but I doubt anybody's actually going to bother doing that, as opposed to just saying it because it sounds good in football with Justin Jefferson and the best supporting cast of his career in Minnesota. Is it creative to prove that as well? I don't know that that's true, but perhaps easy to think Kyler can regain that accuracy and launch himself right back into the MVP conversation, like in 2020 This is how you know that somebody's just saying stuff when, when we go from 'trust me, bro, I'm just being rational' to 'Should we be talking MVP? Why would we go to MVP again? It's not that it's impossible, but why would your mind be sitting there? Why, why, why would that be the case? I mean, if we say it's possible for all 32 quarterbacks, and then work backwards, how far do we get before Kyler gets taken off that list, I. You know, if we're going off of most likely, I don't think he's at or near the top. He won with D Hop, if he stays healthy for the majority of the season. That is where Judd's camp notes come into play. I gotta see the arm strength, because you know he's not wrong. Look, like we have seen, you might be wrong, but I guess we don't know that highlights of Kyler through the years with Cardinals, with some nice deep passes. In fact, again, kind of begging the question here. The question is, is it regressing right? So, if you go back and say, well, if you look back several years ago, it looked good. That doesn't answer the question of is it regressing. If I'm not mistaken, he beat the Vikings on a deep pass to the late Rondelle Moore in a game. So I'm curious to see what the arm strength is now, and again, the question wasn't about strength, although that would be a part of it. It was specifically about accuracy, which is a different thing. Doesn't have to be. I mean, if you don't have the strength and the accuracy of getting the ball to where it needs to be, as opposed to falling short, naturally follows. But now we're just kind of answering why. But he may have strength and not accuracy, so he. so, in other words, what is probably going to happen that doesn't answer the question is he's going to get in cap, he's going to launch a 55 yard ball, and everybody from Purple Daily is going to go, "Well, that answers the question. Everybody was talking about his arm strength, and there it is. No, no, that's not exactly what was being questioned. It was his deep ball accuracy, which is a different thing, and if it was just, but it's weird, because was it the receivers, was it the play calling, because he still had play calling, what the hell does that have to do with his accuracy, or arm strength, for that matter, some pretty good receivers, or so we thought with the Cardinals, but it definitely dissipated, so stage one is what I would say, stage, so this, this theory, like, like the downfield theory of he just has, he's had bad targets, and I'm maybe I'm wrong on this, but I feel like that logic could apply for sure to the 25 plus yard air throws, right? So, all right, this is kind of a 5050 ball. I'm putting the ball way down the field, and over the last four years on passes that travel 25 plus yards in the air down the field of all the qualified quarterbacks, like the, like the 45 qualified quarterbacks, Tyler is dead last incompletion percentage, 21% on passes that travel 25 or more yards. I wasn't going to look at it quite yet, because that was going to be more of a tomorrow or two days thing, but I'm staring at he's looking at something else, because it's 25 yards, he's probably over at Pro Football Reference or something. I'm looking at PFF, which is 20 plus yards, and I'm not looking at the rest of the field, but I can see he has a 76 grade, which sounds good, but this is when you're talking deep balls, this is the area where you've probably got five quarterbacks with a 99 grade, you've got the, you know, probably 20 in the 90s, so being at a 75 he's going to be relatively low. His completion percentage is at 37.5% which that usually is low. So, I can't speak to where that's at, but I'm guessing this is not very good compared to the rest of the league. Yards in the air, yeah, dead last in expected points added per attempt, that's bad. And dead last in yards per attempt, you could say. Well, well, that doesn't even make any sense. You wouldn't look at yards per attempt when you're already looking at 25 I mean, that's kind of just a weird anomaly, I guess. Well, I guess, and again, this is, there are better ways to do this than yards per attempt, if you were really concerned, but if it's 25 plus as the final thing, you could say that he has a weak arm because everybody else has these 60 yard, 50 yard throws, and his, his or more in the 2530 range. He's really not airing it out as much. You could say that, but that doesn't even necessarily answer that question. I think that's just a stupid stat to look at yards per attempt when you're looking at the, when you're looking specifically at yardage, yeah, I mean, give them a, give them a reliable target down the field. Here's where this is, this is where Judd's camp notes are going to come into play even more. It's the 10 plus yards in the air being bad that makes me more nervous, because that now includes the intermediate stuff, kind of the like the deep intermediate, those in cut routes that Kevin O'Connell loves. They're doing my homework for me. I appreciate this. Right, since 2022 on passes and going back to 2022 this encompasses some of his good years. The travel 10 or more yards down the field, Kyler dead last in expected points added per attempt. Yeah, that's 41st out of 43 in yards per attempt, and 36 out of 43 in completion percentage. The yards per attempt make a little bit more sense there, but still, it's even in general, I think yards per attempt is kind of a stupid stat. The only time I would really care is if it was exceedingly high or exceedingly low, that's where you kind of put a little asterisk next to some things like accuracy, and say, okay, we need to kind of do a little bit extra digging, but I genuinely don't care all that much. Yes, having Jefferson, Addison, Juan Jennings is going to help him, and any other quarterback, but like those are valid concerns over the past few years that we need to see what that looks like throughout mini camp, training camp, OTAs, etc. but do we think so? I guess let's go back to 2024 with Donald. You pretty quickly picked up on, don't, don't start. Don't listen. Here is another thing that we're going to have to, again, this, this is kind of just immersing ourselves in, like, what is the conversation over here? What are we doing? What I'm not going to tolerate is, yeah, but we said this about Donald. Darnold was a one-off. Okay, now I am not saying that Kyler, who's already unlike Darnold, demonstrated an ability to be a very good quarterback, if he got, if he was healthy in Arizona, he might have been good this year in Arizona. And I think Kevin O'Connell is a good coach, a good play caller, they have a good offensive line, they have good wide receivers, or mostly good offensive line, and at least one good wide receiver. There's every reason to believe that this could be one of his up years in a career that's been very like really good, really bad, really good, really bad. What I'm not going to do is play this game where you know, look at what happened with Donald, and so we should expect that to be a thing that happens all the time. That is a once in a lifetime situation. What happened with Arnold on in watching him at training camp? He had a great deep ball, like his depot is, he has a very good impeccable. He always did his medium range stuff was okay. I mean, it wasn't a disaster, but it certainly was not great. But if you have issues with the deep ball and you have issues with what you just talked about, which is the intermediate stuff. What would you say you do here? So, like, that's going to be really intriguing to watch. It seems to me like, like one or the other has to be efficient, and quite frankly, if I only can take one, I'm probably taking the mid-range stuff, because those plays present themselves a lot more, like I mean, just, just as a, so if we look at it, and this is going to be pretty, I don't know, that this, let me look at Jordan Love real quick, because this feels a little off, and again, his seems like he's known for throwing a lot of short passes, yeah, so, and Jordan's probably not a good example either, because I think he throws more deep balls than your average quarterback, but so he's at 15% of his passes are 20 plus, 20% of his passes are in the 10 to 19 yard range, so again, that's probably closer than most who would throw probably less deep balls for Kyler, you're looking at nine compared to 17, so yes, of course, you want the 17% to show out better than the 10% For reference, Jordan Love has a 94 passing grade on deep passes, a 91 passing grade on medium passes, 84 on short, and then 62 at behind the line of scrimmage. Kyler is 7174 6976 I'm not even gonna tell you directionally which way we're going, because it doesn't matter. He's just like a mid 70s across the board, and 41% of his passes are the zero to nine yards, with 24% being behind the line of scrimmage, so 63% of his passes came nine yards or less, and for Jordan Love it was, let's see, 55% so still a big chunk, but again you got 35% beyond that, with Kyler Murray sitting at like 25% of his passes, which is pretty crazy, one in four passes traveled 10 yards or more, Jordan was closer to one in three, and about 50% of Justin Jefferson's receptions came 10 yards or further down the field. Anywho, sorry, let's continue, but yes, that will be, that'll be very interesting to see. And you can always say, hey, look, I mean, with the Vikings, you're gonna have a top three receiver tandem that's really, really good, and that's, you know, the this is another thing that all four NFC North teams. Do is they, I think, over inflate. I don't want to sit here and say except the Packers, but I do think accept the Packers, because I don't think a lot of Packer fans, and I've talked to, if anything, they undersell the group. Well, Watson's never healthy, and Reed's no good, he's going to get traded and golden, and they're the underrated group in my mind, but top three receiver tandem. What are you talking about? Again, this is what I said. Remember when I told you that they massively overrate Addison? This is fricking crazy to me, that you think you have a top three. You don't even have a top three receiver anymore. This Justin Jefferson is the Pat Mahomes of wide receivers, he is a very good receiver who hasn't been a top receiver in three years, but everybody still says he's a top receiver, and yeah, maybe he bounces back, that's possible, but also until you do, I don't think I'm going to call you a top guy anymore, he ranked 14th last year as a receiver below Davante Adams. Now, I mean, no offense to Devonte, but I mean we know Devonte is slowly drifting in his 30s. Stefan Diggs has fallen off faster than Devonte, by the way. Christian Watson ranked 11th, so we have Christian Watson on this team who graded out higher than Justin Jefferson last year, and again, blame the quarterback all you want, that's fine, but until you actually prove it on the field, I'm not going to just say, "Oh no, he's still the top receiver. By the way, Pookan Akua, criminally underrated, everybody knows Pooka is good, he had like a 96 receiving grade, I don't think I don't think Jefferson has ever had that, and by the way, I was wrong. I was looking at Stefan Diggs; he ranked 17th last year. Justin Jefferson, his best year ever was a 91 so his grades have been 9190 9091, The last, then it dropped to an 88 which is still very good, but first time he's ever been below that, and then an 80 in 2025 that is a shocking drop off. Puka Nakua had a 96 receiving grade, that is better than than Jefferson has ever been by a mile. Jackson Smith and Jigba had a 93 grade, that's better than Jefferson has ever been, ever. So we still talk about Justin Jefferson, because again we fail to recalibrate, but he's not up there anymore. By the way, Aman Ross St. Brown, the last four years, 9091 9091 Aman Ross St. Brown has been as good as Justin Jefferson for four straight years. In other words, he's having a four year stretch that Jefferson had his first four years and is currently the better wide receiver in the NFC North. So, Jefferson isn't even the best receiver in the NFC North anymore. In fact, again, if we're just going off of last year, if we look at the did it, do, do, do. Let's, this would have been easier to just not do this. NFC North, Aman Ross St. Brown, then Christian Watson, then Justin Jefferson, with Luther Burden being nipping at his heels with a 78 great Romeo had a 77 almost as good as Justin Jefferson, Jameson Williams at a 77 I mean that that group is all right there with a minor gap between Jefferson and Watson, 80 to an 84 and then Aman Rah by himself at a 91 The only real blue chip wide receiver in the NFC North right now is Aman Raw St. Brown, until Justin Jefferson proves that last year was an anomaly, I had some stuff going on, our quarterback sucked, whatever, but I'm back fine, but again, until you prove that, and it's been, you have to go back not to 2025 or 2024 but to 2023 as the last time you had a 90 receiving grade, and again Pooka had almost 100 receiving grades. That's one of the best receiving grades that any receiver. I don't know that Devonte has ever had a grade like that, but yet we're still going to sit here and allow Vikings fans to talk about Justin Jefferson as though he is the premier receiver in the NFL, and that you have a top three receiving group, bro. You absolutely freaking do not. That is, that is an.. that is an absolute joke that you believe you have a top three receiving core, and.. and if you try to add your bum tight end to that, I'm gonna laugh in your face. I'm sorry, you might have the fourth best receiving core in the NFC North. I think you have the fourth best tight end again. You're, you're, when you, when you look at not just the, the top end, but the talent. I mean, if you look at Detroit, they've got Sam LaPorta, Jameson Williams, Amon Ra, St. Brown. I would take that. Met over Jefferson Addison and TJ Hawkinson, for reference, Jefferson 80 grade, Addison 61 which is the second lowest wide receiver grade. I think we already covered this in the entire NFC North, also ahead of Cole Commet, but that's kind of irrelevant at this point, but as far as wide receivers, just the second lowest, and then as far as tight ends, TJ Hawkinson is the lowest, not including Cole Commit, because he's not a number one tight end. It goes Coast and Loveland, then Sam Laporta, then Tucker Kraft, in terms of receiving grades, with all three of them being relatively close, 8683 and 83 between La Porta and Kraft, Hawkinson 62 he's not in the same category. Hawkinson is not good. There are three good tight ends, and Hawkinson is not one of them. So I would take Detroit without hesitation. Let's look at Chicago. Chicago has Colston Loveland, who is the, according to receiving grade, the second best receiver period in the NFC North. He was very good last year, had almost 1000 yards as a tight end at 906 Roma Dunes, a with a 71 grade, and Luther Burton with a 78 Now, you could argue that Jefferson currently is better and probably bounces back even more. So, would you rather have that? Honestly, no, because you can have one Justin Jefferson with a terrible supporting cast and a subpar tight end, and no real running backs to speak of, which we're not even discussing, or you can have an ascending a doomsday, an ascending burden, and a guy that could potentially be the top tight end in football here at Colston Loveland. Of course, I'm taking Chicago's group over Minnesota's group, and then you get to Green Bay. Well, as I said, Christian Watson already graded out higher than Justin Jefferson last year, and we have Matthew Golden, who we barely even got to see this past year, who almost graded out as well as Justin Jefferson did. He graded out better than Jalen Naylor and Jordan Addison. Obviously, there are other two receivers that were there, Naylor now a Raider, but it doesn't matter. They don't have good wide receivers, and then Tucker Kraft, who again is significantly better than what they have. The Minnesota Vikings have the fourth best receiving group. They're not even top three in the NFC North, and he's talking about, say that again, with the Vikings, you're going to have a top three receiver tandem that's really, really good. Oh my lord, you might have a bottom three receiver tandem. Dude, shut up. I mean, not really. Justin Jefferson is going to preclude that, but it's just.. it's not good. It's just not you. You have to get Justin Jefferson back to being a really good receiver. And again, even then, in today's NFL, he's not.. I don't know that he's going to be top five, because there's so many really, really good receivers. It's going to be hard for him to surpass Aman Ross St. Brown, who is currently playing at a level that Justin Jefferson played at at his best. Jamar Chase is already up there. Jackson Smith and Jigba and Pooka are already better receivers than Justin Jefferson, as I said, ever was. Drake London is up in that category right now. Pickens is up in there, there's a lot of guys that are that are kind of playing in that range. I think at best he gets back to what he was and ends up being third, but in a pile of probably three to four other guys that are about as good, but probably not as good as Jackson Smith and Jigba and Pooka Nakua. And again, I don't, I don't think there's any real reason to believe, pending Amon Ra falling off, that he, like, massively surpasses Aman Raw St. Brown. So, again, Justin Jefferson, I will, I will say this again, is the Pat Mahomes of wide receivers. He took the title of being the top receiver. And listen, I've always been flattering of Justin Jefferson, all right, because I, because I tell the truth, and if it's true, then I say it's true. He has been a very good receiver. I've always said he is a very good receiver. I have at times called him probably the best receiver, but this, this is not 2021 by the way. I don't know if he's ever been better than third. If you go back, I'm going back to 2020 now. Yeah, and that's that's the thing with being so, so, because he's been consistently like top three, top five. I've said he's like the best in football, but he's, I don't think he's been better than third. Justin Jefferson in 2020 was behind Stefan Diggs and Devonte Adams. In 2021 he was behind Devonte Adams and Cooper Cup. In 2022 he was, he dropped a fifth from third, and was behind Amon Ra, Devonte Adams, Jalen Naylor, and Tyreke Hill, which I mean, that's three years in a row, Devonte was ahead of them. 2023 he is fourth behind Amon Ra. And an Iuk and Tyreek Hill, and then again the fall off can begins in 2024 so he was top three, then the last, then the next two years, 2022 and 2023 he was top five, and now he in 2024 drops to top 10, being eighth behind T Higgins, Drake London, Aman Raw St Brown, Mike Evans, AJ Brown, Nico Collins, and new to the scene, Puka Nakua. By the way, in this year you had Nico Collins with a 92 grade, which again Justin Jefferson has never had. And then in 2025 is when you have him dropping out of the top 10, not even top 15, he becomes a top 20 receiver, ranking 17th. Hilariously, his 80 pff receiving grade is closer to Michael Wilson of Arizona than it is to Aman Ross St. Brown in the same division. I bring that up, obviously, because his new quarterback, it was in Arizona, so anywho, let's take our final break, and we'll be right back. And I'll say this just to start off this other site, but first of all, the Purple Daily, they do a good job being much more centered, and they have been this whole time. The top three thing kind of set me off, obviously, but, but for the most part, the conversation is centered around, you know, we'll have to see where he's at, and if he's any good. The fella in the middle here, I don't know their names, but he brings up a good point. I won't play the whole audio, but he's he's looking at 2021 and saying this is what Tyler's best year was, and he's going to go through how good it was as a point of being excited toward him, or whatever, or what he's capable of, I should say, and he brings up as a counterpoint to his point before he gets started, as a caveat, he knows that this is a very long time ago, five years as an eternity in the NFL, and brings up Deshaun Watson. If you remember, Deshaun Watson was the dude in Houston. He was freaking amazing as a quarterback. It feels like that never happened. It was such an eternity ago, another world ago, because, considering how much he gets made fun of for being garbage, he was unbelievably good as a quarterback, but if you were to try to convince anybody that he is good or could be good, as opposed to this dude fell, I can't explain it, but it's over. It just goes to show five years is an eternity, and without playing this, I'll just add one final caveat, and that is, you know, the NFL sometimes speaks to us and tells us what they think, then sometimes they get it wrong, clearly. But the Vikings did not inherit a guy that the NFL believes is elite. The Arizona Cardinals are paying him to play for another team right now, paying him a massive amount of money to play for the Vikings, and the Vikings invested like a million dollars to get them. They paid nothing for him, and anybody could have gotten him for that. And the Vikings just let him walk in. I don't think there is a single team out of 32 that believes in Kyler Murray anymore, and I think that's evident by the way that this whole thing is panning out. There was not a massive market, there was not a bidding war for him, there was nothing. They, they are paying a huge amount of money to let him play somewhere else, and this obviously ties into the Jefferson thing as well, because not only Vikings fans, but I'm sure Packer fans will listen and say, "Oh, come on, of course he's elite. And again, I believe he - I mean, he's young enough that I'm sure he'll have a bounce back this year in a better situation. My point is things change in the NFL, and we don't change with it fast enough. The Pat Mahomes thing, the Justin Jefferson thing, things change rapidly, and we constantly.. but this is where free agency gets stupid, because people will hear big names and go, 'Oh, you gotta get him. Not realizing he hasn't been a thing in three, four years. This is also why I don't think Pooka gets his proper due, because I mean, we know Pook is good, but I mean, you know, he's not Jocelyn Jefferson, bro. Come on, stop it. The torch has been passed, and Puka is what Justin Jefferson never was. And this is with all due full respect to Jefferson, who I have been. If you're a Vikings fan and you've been listening a while, you need to acknowledge I have been very flattering to Jefferson. In fact, when I talk about top receivers, he's always my go-to, and I believe he can get back to like a 90 grade this year. It's entirely possible, but I think he's going to try to fight to get back into top five. At a minimum, I would guess he gets back to top 10, but it's also possible that his reign is over, and he is just a good receiver, not a great receiver. And as Packer fans, I need you to understand a couple things. When I try to get people to understand the gap in understanding here, in other words, we put Justin Jefferson on God tier, and Watson is good, but he hasn't really. Reach that level, like he's a solid guy. We need a number one. Watson was above him, better than him, higher category. And the fact that he was 11th to be a top 10 receiver is incredible. It is, there are so many elite receivers, it is hard to crack the top 10. He was 11th, Justin Jefferson was 17th. The inability for Packer fans to grasp this, I think, fully, and I say this partially to myself, because it's, it's, it feels impossible, but we don't fully appreciate how good Watson was this past year, not, and this isn't even necessarily AC, he's been good this whole time. Like I said, he had a breakout, he came back from injury and was like, holy, the same same with Tucker, except it's the opposite with Tucker. Everybody always thought Tucker was great, and I was like, you guys are overrating Tucker. And then he became the beast that everybody said he always was. Now I think he's still overrated, where people say he's the number one tight end. I think he could be, and he's in a conversation with a pile of tight ends, including two others in our own division, Colston Loveland and Sam La Porta, but I'm not, I'm not really interested in fighting that battle, because he's a very good tight end, and you know, if he ends up being the fifth best instead of the number one, I'm, you know, whatever. Fine. Just call him the best. I don't, I don't really care. It's not worth fighting over, but there is a severe lack of understanding how good Christian Watson was in the limited time that we saw him. By the way, he came back healthy and just played, so we might have a top 10 receiver all year if he can stay healthy, not to mention hopefully a breakout gold, and not to mention Tucker Kraft continuing to ascend, hopefully, or at least maintaining his position that he was at last year. You want to talk about top three receiving duo, or a group, or whatever? I don't know that the Packers crack that, but boy, do they have a good one. They're at least fighting in a very tough division to be the best receiving group in the NFC North, which is again going to be very difficult when you have Aman Rah Saint Brown and Sam La Porta. We're going to have to rely on depth, which the Bears also have, so they're also going to be better than the Bears. So, in order to be the best in the division, you have to be very good and very deep, and that's not going to be easy to do, but this is a to go off and complete my tangent that has nothing to do with the original topic. This is a very good and underrated group of receivers. I think this is a very good take here too. I think his name is Jud. I'm not sure, but this is this is this is essentially, I think they do a very good job of putting things in their proper context, the way that I try to do, and to try to step back and be like, okay, let's, let's be calm, and let's think about this. He highlights specifically, sort of the fan problem here, because it's funny when you're, when you know a guy and he was a big name player, and he gets signed by the team that you cover a lot of times, you, you go in thinking that the highlights that you've seen are him, or what you've heard is him, and then you find out it's different. Exactly right, exactly right. And that could be positive or negative, right. This is why the Kyler Murray thing is probably so polarizing, because if you're a Vikings fan, you think highlights, and if you're a Packers fan, you think Call of Duty, right? Do you think the guy's a freaking bum and a lazy in and wait a minute? I don't know how Call of Duty works, but don't they have certain, like, releases or whatever? We gotta, I want to see something long-running NFL meme that Kyler Murray tends to play worse after a new Call of Duty game comes out, or during a big Call of Duty event like Double XP weekends. Hold on, wait for it. So, probably not September. When is our next game? Oh no, is it late? Oh, november 15. Yeah, that might. So, we might have missed it. According to this, mid October is the highest risk period for a new Call of Duty drop. There's also there are weekends for double XP. This is so funny that we're going to be able to make fun of them for this, but apparently they don't announce that until a few days or like a week until presumably the Thanksgiving period is when they're going to be having some kind of events, and we play the Vikings november 15, so probably too early. Dang it, when do the.. what does the Vikings get? Who's.. who's.. I hope it's not the Bears. So mid October they've got the Saints, which would be hilarious if they dropped that one, possibly the Colts. That's kind of late October, and then you've got the Thanksgiving time, which would be roughly ers, Falcons. Yeah. Oh, well, we'll have fun with it. I think we can maybe end on this. No, this is a very long video, and there's plenty of other Kyler stuff, but just again, just trying to get a general vibe on this one other thing that was. Mentioned as a person that called in or wrote into their show and talked about the potential problems with a, as the writer put it, a Kevin Hart-sized quarterback playing in cold weather. Now that's a very good point, obviously it is a dome team, but they have to play two games in, well, I guess one in Green Bay, which I think is, uh, when is that? Yeah, the first one is there, so that actually works in our, then, yeah, the november 15, so that that works massively in our favor. Let me take a peek at their schedule here. So, when is it going to start getting cold, probably not till October. Warm weather, warm weather, pretty much everybody's a freaking dome now. Lions are a dome, Buffalo, but that's at home. Yeah, so I mean, they don't play a cold weather game, I think until november 15 against the Packers. They play the Patriots in New England december 10. I'm trying to remember who has a dome and who doesn't, Patriots, I don't believe do they play the Jets january 3, so I think those are their only cold weather games, but still worth mentioning, and obviously by virtue of how cold weather works, these are all later in the season, so if you have an injury-prone smaller quarterback that has already taken his lumps, now has to start playing in cold weather games. You could see a situation where the Minnesota Vikings possibly get off to a hot start, but similar to what you see with older quarterbacks, they start to diminish toward the end of the season. This is why, by the way, Green Bay always talks about how they like to get bigger guys, and they've always kind of liked getting bigger guys, in part just as a general NFL theory, but also because of the cold weather situation, and even if you think you're not a cold weather team because you have a dome, you still have to travel, you're still gonna have to play in it, and theoretically, and hopefully you're going to struggle to get through the later portion of the season and stay resilient as it starts getting colder, so hopefully that does end up being a bit of a hindrance. All right, so here's the plan, tentatively moving forward. I'm going to do some general due diligence today to see if Lions fans are hyping up golf. I'm guessing there has to be some. On one hand, you've got like the I think if you, if you just had a room full of Lions fans, they're probably not hyping up Goff a ton. They feel like he's maybe kind of holding them back or something. I don't know, but if you were to have an NFC North discussion about Jordan Love and Caleb and who's the best quarterback, I'm guessing you'd see plenty of Lions fans come out and say, give me a frickin' break, it's golf, and that's all I need, that's all I need to go off of. So I will see if I can find some of that. We will discuss that quarterback situation and how they feel about him, and then that will.. what the heck was the word for Flino? I don't remember something Italian and Effie. We'll do our breakdown of my thoughts again, kind of like I've done before, in terms of I don't want to go in, find where Jordan is the best, pretend that those are the best stats, and then say, ha ha, we win. I want to start with the stats and then go find them and then rank them accordingly. Start from a standpoint of, here's what I think makes you kind of like what Colin Coward did, but he did it like an idiot. Start with your criteria, and then go look at the quarterbacks. But I'm going to leave it at that for today. I will talk to you all later. 

What's up Pack fans? On this episode of Packernet After Dark, we're diving deep into the endless entertainment that is Bears fans struggling with basic football concepts. JD from Wisco nails it — sometimes you just gotta break out the Sesame Street treatment with Big Bird explaining EPA, charts, and why their guys might not actually be that good. Key highlights include: Breaking down the arrogance vs. reality gap with Bears, Vikings, and Lions fans heading into the season Massive excitement for the Packers' offensive weapons — Tucker Craft as an elite tight end, Watson, Golden, Reed, and Jacobs all clicking Uncle Rico's multiple calls on international games, Christmas Day stupidity, and why excuses about travel are just that — excuses Strong reactions to hot media takes like Adam Schefter claiming Rodgers/McCarthy will outplay Love this year This episode is brought to you by PrizePicks! Use code PACKDADDY and visit https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/PACKDADDY to get started with America's #1 fantasy sports app. If you want unfiltered Packers talk, division rival roasting, and call-in chaos, make sure you're subscribed, leave a 5-star rating, and drop your thoughts in the comments. Who else is ready for the Packers to reclaim the North and make rival fans go quiet? To advertise on this podcast please email: ad-sales@libsyn.com Or go to: https://advertising.libsyn.com/packernetpodcast

Pack Nation, I couldn't wait until tomorrow — I had to snipe this one right now! Big Sal is fired up and unloading on the Minnesota Vikings fans treating Kyler Murray like the second coming while ignoring the same tragic movie they've been watching for decades. From JJ McCarthy's disaster to the endless "next year" cycle, this is unfiltered truth-telling at its finest. Key Discussion Points Why Vikings fans are repeating the exact same overhyped savior narrative with Kyler Murray Breaking down the injuries, inconsistency, and "what if" reality behind Murray's career The hilarious logo change delusion and how it changes nothing about a losing franchise Sharp contrast with the stable, building Packers under Jordan Love vs. Minnesota's comedy of errors This episode is brought to you by PrizePicks! Use code PACKDADDY and visit https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/PACKDADDY to get started with America's #1 fantasy sports app. If you love loud, raspy, slightly unhinged truth — even when it roasts the meatballs across the border — go leave us a 5-star review on Apple and Spotify right now. Tell 'em Big Sal sent you. To advertise on this podcast please email: ad-sales@libsyn.com Or go to: https://advertising.libsyn.com/packernetpodcast Support the Show & Explore My Projects Help keep the show growing and check out everything I'm building across the Packers and NFL world: Support: Patreon: www.patreon.com/pack_daddy Venmo: @Packernetpodcast CashApp: $packpod Projects: Grade NFL Players ➜ fanfocus-teamgrades.lovable.app Packers Hub ➜ packersgames.com Create NFL Draft Big Boards ➜ nfldraftgrades.com Watch Draft Prospects ➜ draftflix.com Screen Record ➜ pause-play-capture.lovable.app Global Economics Hub ➜ global-economic-insight-hub.lovable.app Go Pack Go!

In this episode of the Packernet Podcast, we unload on the bold claims that Caleb Williams is already a top five quarterback in the NFL. We dig into recent analyst rankings and YouTube breakdowns that place him ahead of proven veterans, and we examine why the arguments feel more like vibes than substance, especially when stacked against Jordan Love and other established signal-callers in the NFC North. We break down the key discussion points: Why two-year touchdown and interception totals get treated as elite production when single-season numbers from Lamar Jackson, Joe Burrow, and others put them in perspective. The shaky criteria around durability, mobility, and "momentum" that fail to separate truly good quarterbacks from merely available ones. How future potential and age arguments are being used to artificially elevate young players while quietly pushing proven QBs like Jordan Love down the rankings. The dangerous game of projecting infinite improvement onto one player while ignoring similar trajectories for others across the league. This episode is brought to you by PrizePicks! Use code PACKDADDY and visit https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/PACKDADDY to get started with America's #1 fantasy sports app. If you want honest, stats-driven NFL talk without the hype, subscribe to the Packernet Podcast, leave a rating and review, and join the conversation on social media. More daily Packers analysis and NFC North breakdowns are coming soon! To advertise on this podcast please email: ad-sales@libsyn.com Or go to: https://advertising.libsyn.com/packernetpodcast

The air changes when 80,000 people decide they are all angry at the same thing at the exact same time. You don't just hear the chant — you feel it in your dental work. Tonight on Tundra FM we didn't talk about Packers football. We mobilized. We opened the tunnel and let the 1996 Lambeau warning rip through "Go Pack Go," the kind of energy that turns frozen turf into a battlefield. "Dig Your Graves" took the shovel to Chicago — same old Bears disease, same old false hope, same old collapse right when they think they finally have it. "Linebacker's Wrath" watched loyalty turn into a liability as stars fade and pressure closes in on old friends now wearing different colors. "Standard Bearers" slammed the door on every pretender measuring for new drapes in Detroit, Chicago, and Minnesota. The North is not a democracy. It is a monarchy. And the king just sent his regards. This episode is brought to you by PrizePicks! Use code PACKDADDY and visit https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/PACKDADDY to get started with America's #1 fantasy sports app. Tell me your thoughts on this one — I want to hear from you. Which rival needs the next shovel? Drop it in the comments, smash that subscribe button, and leave a review if this one hit different. More Tundra FM and After Dark heat coming soon. To advertise on this podcast please email: ad-sales@libsyn.com Or go to: https://advertising.libsyn.com/packernetpodcast Support the Show & Explore My Projects Help keep the show growing and check out everything I'm building across the Packers and NFL world: Support: Patreon: www.patreon.com/pack_daddy Venmo: @Packernetpodcast CashApp: $packpod Projects: Grade NFL Players ➜ fanfocus-teamgrades.lovable.app Packers Hub ➜ packersgames.com Create NFL Draft Big Boards ➜ nfldraftgrades.com Watch Draft Prospects ➜ draftflix.com Screen Record ➜ pause-play-capture.lovable.app Global Economics Hub ➜ global-economic-insight-hub.lovable.app Go Pack Go. The North belongs to us.

Big Sal is sitting in his recliner trying to enjoy some smoked whitefish when he hears Colin Cowherd and Mike Florio lose their minds on national radio. Cowherd calls Caleb Williams the third-best quarterback in the entire NFL. Florio says he'd take Williams over Patrick Mahomes because of age and contract value. Big Sal's blood pressure goes through the roof, and he's not waiting until tomorrow to let Pack Nation know exactly how he feels. In this unfiltered Let Me Tell You Something rant, Big Sal delivers one of his most passionate takedowns yet: He breaks out the legendary power-washer analogy to explain why flashy "cap hit" and "big-time throw" numbers don't mean a damn thing when the division gets cold in December. He torches the idea that a rookie deal and some highlight-reel athleticism automatically make a quarterback elite while real winners like Mahomes and Lamar Jackson are still playing. He warns Bears fans and national media that they're standing on very thin ice, especially now that Micah Parsons is in Green Bay and ready to test that supposed durability. He reminds everyone that you don't win Super Bowls with spreadsheets and projections — you win them with quarterbacks who don't fold when the pressure actually hits. This episode is brought to you by PrizePicks! Use code PACKDADDY and visit https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/PACKDADDY to get started with America's #1 fantasy sports app. Pack Nation, we cannot let this nonsense stand. Go leave that five-star review right now and tell them Big Sal sent you. Subscribe, share this with every Bears fan who thinks they just got "validated," and drop your thoughts in the comments. Big Sal wants to hear from you. To advertise on this podcast please email: ad-sales@libsyn.com Or go to: https://advertising.libsyn.com/packernetpodcast Support the Show & Explore My Projects Help keep the show growing and check out everything I'm building across the Packers and NFL world: Support: Patreon: www.patreon.com/pack_daddy Venmo: @Packernetpodcast CashApp: $packpod Projects: Grade NFL Players ➜ fanfocus-teamgrades.lovable.app Packers Hub ➜ packersgames.com Create NFL Draft Big Boards ➜ nfldraftgrades.com Watch Draft Prospects ➜ draftflix.com Screen Record ➜ pause-play-capture.lovable.app Global Economics Hub ➜ global-economic-insight-hub.lovable.app GO PACK GO!  

The 2026 NFL schedule is out, and Ryan does something more useful than reading the Packers' games in order — he goes division-wide to see how the Vikings, Lions, and Bears are feeling about their slate, and specifically what each fanbase thinks about facing Green Bay. The Vikings are the story. The optimism is loud and the Packers disrespect is real — week one at home is already being called a win, Kyle Murray is apparently the missing piece to eleven-plus wins, and Brian Flores is apparently worth more than an actual roster. Ryan is not pleased. The Lions are a different conversation: they give Green Bay its due, acknowledge the Packers swept them last year, and know they have something to prove. The Bears land somewhere in the middle — plenty of Caleb Year 2 assumptions, but at least they treat the Christmas matchup at Soldier Field like it matters. Ryan's takeaway: all four NFC North fanbases are projecting double-digit wins. Someone's going to be very wrong.

Buckle up, Packers Nation — this Tundra FM episode pulls zero punches. From Caleb Williams throwing tantrums and missing practice nets to JJ McCarthy's quick fade and Jared Goff's dome-dependent comfort zone, the North is cracking while Jordan Love quietly becomes the revelation we've been waiting for. Brick Lombardi is in rare form, delivering bars, brutal honesty, and that signature unfiltered heat. Key Discussion Points Cry Baby Caleb – From training camp meltdowns and mascara-running tears to fumbles, tantrums, and zero composure under the lights — the Windy City savior is already cracking. Fourth and Long Two – JJ McCarthy's sophomore spotlight turns sour fast with picks, fumbles, and ankle drama — Michigan magic meets NFL reality. No Crown Two – Chicago's endless search for a king ends in painted nails and broken promises while Soldier Field stays cursed. Lamb in a Lion Skin & Jordan on Tundra – Goff's system-dependent game gets exposed, while Jordan Love steps out of the shadows with perfect geometry and real frozen-tundra heart. This episode is brought to you by PrizePicks! Use code PACKDADDY and visit https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/PACKDADDY to get started with America's #1 fantasy sports app. Drop your hottest take in the comments — is Caleb already done or does he still have a shot? Who's the most overrated QB in the North right now? Subscribe, leave a review, and turn on notifications so you never miss an After Dark roast. To advertise on this podcast please email: ad-sales@libsyn.com Or go to: https://advertising.libsyn.com/packernetpodcast Support the Show & Explore My Projects Help keep the show growing and check out everything I'm building across the Packers and NFL world: Support: Patreon: www.patreon.com/pack_daddy Venmo: @Packernetpodcast CashApp: $packpod Projects: Grade NFL Players ➜ fanfocus-teamgrades.lovable.app Packers Hub ➜ packersgames.com Create NFL Draft Big Boards ➜ nfldraftgrades.com Watch Draft Prospects ➜ draftflix.com Screen Record ➜ pause-play-capture.lovable.app Global Economics Hub ➜ global-economic-insight-hub.lovable.app  

Pack Nation, strap in because Sal is fired up and vibrating like an old fridge on a hot day. While everyone's celebrating the Micah Parsons addition and dreaming of an iron curtain defense, this episode is the loud warning cry about the one group that could torpedo the entire 2026 season: the interior offensive line. Jordan Love is a king, but he's not a magician — and right now he's staring down 300-pound meatballs collapsing the pocket two seconds after the snap. The brutal PFF numbers from the second half of 2025 showing we ranked around 19th-22nd in interior pressure allowed Why the Bears, Ben Johnson, and that NFC North rival revenge tour are circling our weak guards like sharks The dangerous November stretch (Patriots, Vikings, Rams) that could turn into a sack fest if we don't add veteran depth The house-of-cards depth chart and the "lake ice in March" reality — one injury and the whole thing goes under This episode is brought to you by PrizePicks! Use code PACKDADDY and visit https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/PACKDADDY to get started with America's #1 fantasy sports app. If you're as concerned about right guard as I am, smash those five stars, drop a review telling the world Sal is right, and let's demand this front office fixes the engine room before it's too late. Subscribe, share with your Pack family, and get loud — we are NOT letting a couple of meatballs in the middle ruin this window. Go Pack Go! To advertise on this podcast please email: ad-sales@libsyn.com Or go to: https://advertising.libsyn.com/packernetpodcast

Aaron Rodgers says he thought he was done in Pittsburgh once Mike Tomlin left — then McCarthy got hired and here we are. One last rodeo. Ryan's genuinely entertained. The Browns quarterback situation is objectively hilarious. Deshaun Watson is operating as the starter. Dylan Gabriel is second in line. Shedeur Sanders — the guy most people assumed would start — is third. Dylan Gabriel, by the way, had the NFL's lowest EPA per dropback in 2025. Just ahead of Shedeur Sanders. Then: a deep dive into Tucker Kraft, sparked by a Hayden Hicks chart showing Kraft with the second-highest yards per target in football. Bears fans lost their minds. Ryan lost his patience. He pulled every stat he could find — 4.16 yards per route run in man coverage (nearly double second place), 158.3 passer rating when targeted in man coverage, 17 targets, 14 catches, 241 yards, four TDs. The guy who supposedly "can't beat man coverage" is the best man-coverage tight end in the NFL. Ryan would like Bears fans to bring receipts next time. Also: Marlon Jones full profile (cancer survivor, Eastern Washington to Vanderbilt, UDFA), Eagles locker room chaos, and the case for staying off social media and just putting it on the podcast instead.save 

Pack Nation, it's another late night in the Packernet After Dark call-in booth — and the callers brought everything. From Jaire Alexander's mental health journey to the Packers' historically brutal injury luck to whether Beer Cheese Benny is raising his kids right (he absolutely is), this one covers the full spectrum of what it means to be a die-hard Packer fan.

Three tracks from Brick tonight, covering a wide range of moods. First: After Dark — a horror segment where the call-in show goes full supernatural. White noise, mirrors showing reflections that aren't there, callers leaving armadillo eggs that bleed. Brick warns: some frequencies were never meant to be tuned in. Then: Why Go to the Library — an ode to AI convenience that collapses the moment the router blinks red. ChatGPT, Claude, no pants required. Until the Wi-Fi dies and you're back in 1983 wandering the stacks. And finally: Zack Tom's Historic Deal. $88 million over five years, $30.2 million guaranteed — the biggest offensive lineman bonus the Packers have ever handed out. Fourth-round pick 140 became the vault door. Brick counts the gold.

They want Big Sal to panic about the defense. He's not panicking. He's done the research. This offense finished fourth in expected points added per play in 2025 — while Tucker Kraft missed time, Christian Watson missed half the year, Jaden Reed missed half the year, Josh Jacobs played on one working leg from November on, and Clayton Tune took actual NFL snaps. Strip out the Clayton Tune disaster and this offense was tied for number one in efficiency in the entire NFL. Through all that carnage. Now it's 2026. Craft is back. Watson is healthy. Reed is healthy. Jacobs has two working legs. Golden is a thing. It's a complete offense for the first time in a very long time, and Sal wants to know why exactly Packer Nation is panicking about the first four games without Micah Parsons. The defense will be shorthanded early. That's real. But the schedule gave Green Bay a runway — Vikings, Jets, Falcons, Buccaneers — and this offense doesn't need to be flashy. It needs to be surgical, eat clock, and keep opposing offenses on the sideline. Josh Jacobs scored 31 touchdowns in 34 games on a busted knee. Jordan Love is genuinely elite. Micah Parsons is coming back in October like a freight train that was briefly delayed at the station. Big Sal's calling it. The window is open.

A lot happened at the NFL owner's meeting and Ryan's got all of it. Nashville officially gets Super Bowl 64 in 2030. Minnesota gets the 2028 draft — good news for Packer fans within driving distance. International games are expanding to 10 per season starting in 2027, with Goodell eyeing 16 eventually. Ryan's cautiously okay with the expansion until someone says Japan, at which point he's fully on board and also realizes he'll never actually go. The Bears got a special briefing on their stadium situation, because the other 31 owners apparently need a progress report on why Chicago still doesn't know where their team plays. The only two viable options remain Arlington Heights and Hammond, Indiana — meaning the days of Bears fans talking trash about small-town Wisconsin are officially over. Ryan has thoughts. Also: Rashee Rice is in jail after a marijuana violation voided his deferred sentencing. Josh Sweat is unhappy in Arizona, Ganon is in Green Bay, and Ryan does the math on what a third-round pick for a number-three edge rusher might look like. He's making that call. And finally — the Packers briefly discussed bringing Davante Adams back before it went nowhere, and they signed Vanderbilt DB Marlon Jones, who beat stage-three Hodgkin's lymphoma last year and is the feel-good story of the offseason.

The schedule's out and the After Dark crew has opinions. Chris from Alabama likes the bye week placement and is already planning his trip to the Week 13 game. Kyle from Madison calls the first four weeks "layups" and dubs the Packers' social media aesthetic "local car dealership." Uncle Rico checks in from Nashville, where apparently the working part of a work trip takes a backseat to downtown. Batman breaks the season into sections and lands on 12-5. And then there are four separate Nico appearances — covering Micah's return timeline, the offensive ceiling with a healthy roster, the possibility that the NFL used AI to build the schedule, and a full-throated Christmas Day declaration that Ryan mostly agrees with. Between all of that: a deep dive into which schedule release videos worked (the Simpsons one, the Chiefs infomercial) and which ones were embarrassing (the Lions — your coach pinned a piece of paper to a board and left), a reminder that OTAs start next week, and a closing note on fan expectations: good teams lose games, so let's try to appreciate the good ones when they come.

Brick's going into the archive tonight. Three tracks, three different moods. First up: August Heat and Tempers Rise, pulled from last preseason when the timeline was on fire over dropped passes and vanilla scheme. Brick logged the panic when it was loud. He's playing it back now that everyone who was loudest in August has gone quiet about what they said in August. Then: Second City Blues. Brick has nothing against the city of Chicago — beautiful architecture, great skyline, Lakeshore Drive is worth seeing before you die. Their football team, however, is a civic embarrassment. Their pizza is a casserole. The song documents both positions thoroughly. And finally: Green Bay Grotesque. Written in 7/8 time. Contains a brass section. Uses the phrase "diminished and strained" to describe a wide receiver's hamstring. Brick has been waiting for the right moment to air it. He decided tonight was the moment.

The off season is over. Brian Gutekunst made his moves. Big Sal has grades. Free agency gets a B minus — Javan Hargrave was sharp, Benjamin St. Juste was necessary, Skymore on returns was overdue. But Sal isn't handing out gold stars for cleaning up your own mess. The Aaron Banks restructure and the Nate Hobbs disaster are on the same ledger, and you don't get credit for both sides of that equation. Extensions get an A minus. Jaden Reed locked up, Sean Clifford rewarded for improvement, Christian Watson and Tucker Kraft still coming. Trades land at C plus (Rashan Gary) and B (Zaire Franklin). And the draft — six picks, the fewest of Gutekunst's entire tenure — might be the best class he's ever run. Brandon Cise, Chris McClellan, Dennis Sutton at 120 (Sal calls it stolen), Trey Smack. The man stopped stockpiling and started building. Big picture: this team is better at linebacker, corner, defensive interior, and special teams than the one that walked off the field in Chicago down 21-3 and somehow still lost. Overall grade: B plus. Would've been an A if last year's wreckage wasn't still in the rear view.

Instead of doing the standard win/loss prediction everyone else does, Ryan handed the 2026 Packers schedule to multiple AIs — Grok, Claude, and ChatGPT — and had them simulate the season week by week, complete with final scores, key plays, and the reason the Packers won or lost each game. Three of the four models landed at exactly 11-6. What came out isn't just a schedule prediction — it's an accidental portrait of what being a Packer fan feels like every year. The Week 1 loss in Minnesota that sends everyone into full panic. The Jets win that doesn't really count. The Micah Parsons homecoming game against the Bears. The Rams loss on two costly interceptions that breaks everybody. The Bills loss at home that makes you question everything. The Christmas Day win in Chicago that brings everyone back. And then the Week 18 loss to Detroit on a missed field goal that sends you into the playoffs feeling somehow both good and terrible about 11-6. Ryan's takeaway: there's no combination of six losses that feels good. But 11-6 is 11-6, the off season is actually kind of relaxing, and the regular season is going to be exactly this — all of it — whether you're ready or not.

Big Sal has something to say about the NFL scheduling the Packers at Soldier Field on Christmas Day. On Netflix. At noon. Against the Bears. He's not happy about the disrespect. He's not happy about Ben Johnson's mouth. He's not happy about the league handing Chicago a national stage after one lucky wild card comeback where the Packers led 21-3 and somehow lost. What he IS happy about — deliriously, dangerously happy about — is that the NFL just handed Green Bay the perfect stage to shove that collapse right back down Chicago's throat on the holiest day of the year. The bears are paper tigers with good timing once. Micah Parsons is in Green Bay now. December 25th, Soldier Field, the whole country watching. Big Sal is calling it early: that's not a gift for Chicago. That's a setup. Merry Christmas, Ben Johnson. You earned this one.

Brick Lombardi takes the chair tonight on Tundra FM with three tracks, one night, and the kind of honesty only thirty years in radio can deliver. It opens with a goodbye — a song for number 23, Jaire Alexander, the kid from Louisville who walked into this league and made receivers miserable for seven Pro Bowl-caliber years. Brick isn't litigating the contract or pretending he knows what happened behind closed doors at 1265 Lombardi Avenue. He's just acknowledging what the man meant before moving the show along.

Ryan dives into one of the most emotional stories of the offseason as Jaire Alexander finally tells his side in a raw, vulnerable Players' Tribune piece — and Pack Daddy walks through the highs, the lows, and the mental health battle that led to him stepping away from football. Plus, the latest Packers rookie contract news, the Micah Parsons PUP list buzz, and a brutal reality check for Vikings fans who've been shoving Jordan Addison down our throats.

The 2026 NFL schedule is out, and Packernet After Dark is breaking it all down in real time with Pack Nation calling in from every corner of the country. Pack Daddy walks through why this schedule might be the most gracious setup the league has handed Green Bay in years — a soft early runway while Micah Parsons is presumed out, the Bears at Lambeau in Week 5 for his return game, a perfectly placed Week 11 bye, and a five-game home stretch heading into the playoffs. But not everything is sunshine and cheese curds.

Big Sal hasn't slept. Big Sal hasn't eaten. Big Sal has been pacing the living room since the 2026 Packers schedule hit the wire — and Pack Nation, he's got things to say. From the brutal road-heavy start to a Wednesday-night Thanksgiving Eve game on Netflix, this schedule is a STORM and Sal is here to walk you through every dropped flake of it.

The 2026 NFL schedule is finally out, and Pack Daddy is breaking down every single matchup on the Green Bay Packers slate. From a Week 1 trip to Minnesota to a home finale showdown with Detroit, this year's schedule looks tailor-made for a championship push — six prime time games, the first-ever Thanksgiving Eve game against the Rams, and a five-game home stretch to close the season. But the road to get there runs through some of the toughest teams in football.

Pack Nation — Big Sal is PACING. It is eleven in the morning, the schedule does not officially drop until seven tonight, and the leaks are pouring in like a busted dam. Big Sal cannot wait. He has got coffee, three browser tabs open, a buzzing phone, and a carpet that is officially finished. Strap in — this is the schedule leak reaction in real time.

Pack Nation, the NFL just dropped the Christmas gift nobody saw coming — and somebody got coal. The 2026 schedule release is official, and the Green Bay Packers are heading to Soldier Field on Christmas Day for a Week 16 showdown with the Chicago Bears. Pack Daddy breaks down what this primetime holiday matchup means for Green Bay's playoff push, the NFC North race, and Jonathan Gannon's defense in its first full season under center.

Pack Daddy is digging into the 2026 schedule release breadcrumbs, the latest Packers waiver wire moves, and a full statistical case for why Christian Watson belongs in the top 10 wide receiver conversation. Pack Nation, this is the kind of analytical deep dive the mainstream media isn't doing on the Green Bay receiver room.

Pack Daddy is back in the late-night chair and Pack Nation showed up swinging. Tonight's edition of Packernet After Dark tackles the dumbest takes floating around social media, the upcoming 2026 schedule release, and why the Jordan Love hate has officially crossed into clown territory.

BREAKING NEWS out of the NFL offices — the Green Bay Packers are headed to primetime in a way we've never seen before. For the first time in league history, the NFL will play a Thanksgiving Eve game, and Pack Nation is at the center of it. Jordan Love and the Packers are set to square off against Sean McVay's Los Angeles Rams in what could be one of the most-watched regular season games of the year. We break down what this means for the franchise, the fans, and the road to January.

Big Sal from Peshtigo is pacing a hole in the carpet and he's got a handwritten list. The 2026 NFL schedule drops tomorrow night at 7 PM central, and Sal has SIX hopes for Pack Nation — and he's reading them to you whether you like it or not. From nine home games at Lambeau to a frozen Caleb Williams in December, this is a man who's been thinking about the schedule for three days straight and openly admits his brain is broken.

Brick's scraping the vault tonight — and it shows. Four songs, two of them not even Packers tracks, and somehow it still adds up to one of the more honest hours he's put on the air. We open in the ring with Eight Limbs of War — a Muay Thai sermon with drums, straight out of Ryan's personal stash. Then we walk the division down with Suck It, a cold-cut industrial chant for the three cities that talk more than they win. We sit in the Cleveland wound with Ten to Nothing (Gone to Waste) — September's collapse, scored in boom-bap, and a reminder that the football gods wrote the same script against Unitas back in nineteen sixty-five. Same ending. Sixty years apart. Same exact wound. Then we walk out of it. Green Bay Thunder closes the show with Lombardi's ghost in the rafters and a quest that hasn't ended yet. Four songs. One sermon. No filler. You were never alone out there.

Big Sal is fired up, Pack Nation, and he's putting his contract predictions on the record. Three deals. Three players. Three numbers that are going to define the future of this Packers roster. Kraft, Watson, Wyatt — all sitting on Brian Gutekunst's desk like a stack of bills you keep meaning to deal with. Big Sal is dealing with them right now.

The end of 2025 left a bad taste in everyone's mouth — but the numbers tell a very different story than the vibes. Ryan digs into DVOA, EPA per play, success rate, and drop-back efficiency to show that, even through chaos and injuries, the Packers fielded one of the best offenses in football. The real disappointment? A defense that should have been elite under Jeff Hafley and dragged the whole operation down.