Can Jordan Love Shake Off the Rust Against Chicago Saturday?
Packernet Podcast: Daily Green Bay Packers Podcast
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4.7 • 525 Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Adam Schefter drops major news about Matt Lafleur and Brian Gutekunst's future in Green Bay, suggesting contract extensions are the priority—not performance evaluations. But the real fireworks come when Ryan dives into a data scientist's Shannon entropy analysis that completely demolishes the "predictable play caller" narrative Packer fans have been pushing for years.
Key Discussion Points:
- Schefter reveals the Packers' contract negotiation strategy and why the "hot seat" talk was overblown
- A deep dive into Steven Patton's play calling predictability chart—and the cognitive dissonance from fans who suddenly don't care about predictability when the data doesn't support them
- Ryan goes play-by-play through fourth-and-short calls to prove fan "memories" are completely wrong
- Matt Lafleur's press conference highlights: Jordan Love starts Saturday, Zach Tom expected back, and Willis ready as backup
- Rest vs. rust data breakdown—what the numbers actually say about resting starters heading into playoffs
- Major winter storm potentially brewing for Saturday's Packers-Bears showdown
If you're tired of hot takes without receipts, this episode brings the data. Ryan challenges fans to answer one simple question: What would it actually take to change your mind about Lafleur?
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| 0:00.0 | ladies and gentlemen welcome once again to the packinette podcast i am your host and |
| 0:14.2 | resident panelists as always ryan schlip check us out online packernet dot com find me on |
| 0:19.8 | twitter pack underscore that app well a little bit more |
| 0:25.7 | news and notesy stuff going on first of all we got some video out of uh I don't know why |
| 0:31.2 | this is on video but some video out of Micah Parsons doing some rehab back in Green Bay so that's |
| 0:36.0 | good to see. |
| 0:39.2 | Get the process started. |
| 0:40.7 | It's, I'll be honest. |
| 0:45.5 | I think, I think, uh, I think not putting the video out would have been better because seeing him like struggle to move his leg and everything, it's like, oh, God, I don't like this. |
| 0:52.0 | But he's, uh, he's back to work, so that's great. In other news, we got Falcons |
| 0:58.8 | requested an interview with Bears assistant GM, Ian Cunningham. Again, sort of general interest, |
| 1:07.5 | number one, the Bears losing people, but also considering we have people, |
| 1:11.4 | John Eric Sullivan, that I would rather not lose. I like to see other people get hype like that. |
| 1:20.6 | Matt Eberfluse, which was expected, was fired by the Cowboys. That was always going to come. They were very unhappy, obviously, |
| 1:29.5 | with that situation. How much of that had to do with them taking Michael Parsons away, |
| 1:34.8 | I think is worth asking, but what can you do? And we got the commanders. This was kind of an |
| 1:40.8 | interesting thing because it was reported earlier today that the commanders |
| 1:46.3 | and offensive coordinator Cliff Kingsbury mutually parted ways. And my mind immediately went to, |
| 1:51.6 | okay, but it probably wasn't mutual, so I wonder what direction it went. And I thought it was |
| 1:58.6 | possible that Cliff Kingsbury went to the team and, |
| 2:02.7 | you know, he's pursuing head coaching opportunities. Maybe he wanted to step. But, you know, I don't |
| 2:06.7 | really know. Five minutes later, commanders fired defensive coordinator Joe Whit Jr. So if I had to guess, |
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