Christmas Day at Soldier Field: Packers-Bears Just Got Personal
Packernet Podcast: Daily Green Bay Packers Podcast
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🗓️ 14 May 2026
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
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.
🎄 Week 16 Christmas Day at Soldier Field — why the NFL handed Ben Johnson's Bears this stage and what it tells us about how the league views Chicago heading into 2026 🏈 The trap-game factor — late December, road environment, hostile crowd, NFC North implications, and a Bears team coming off a Wild Card win over Green Bay 📊 What the schedule placement reveals about Green Bay's overall slate — Cowboys and Texans at Lambeau, the Rams trip, and how the back half of the season sets up 🎯 The NFC North title picture — can the Packers steal one in Chicago in Week 16 and set up a Week 18 division showdown?
Smash that subscribe button, drop a rating, and tell us in the comments — Packers win Christmas Day or do the Bears spoil the holiday? Pack Nation, let's hear it.
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| 0:00.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, we've got some more sexy breaking news. |
| 0:17.9 | Green Bay Packers at Chicago Bears Week 16. That is a Christmas Day game, 1 PM, Netflix. |
| 0:29.0 | Now, I say Christmas Day, I don't know if it's Christmas Day. It's Christmas as in the, in the same way the Packers have a Thanksgiving game. |
| 0:36.3 | I don't know what day that is. |
| 0:41.7 | People are saying Christmas, Christmas Day. So unless they're not being careful, this literally means the 25th of December. This is also a Netflix game. So Packer fans, make sure you |
| 0:50.4 | have a Netflix subscription because this is the second game that we have that is |
| 0:57.4 | officially a Netflix game. |
| 1:00.0 | By the way, might as well touch on it since I didn't do breaking on the others. |
| 1:04.1 | It has been, I believe, more or less confirmed that the day before the Rams will be the buy week. Also, week two at New York Jets, |
| 1:16.8 | and then also the final week of the season, week 18 at Detroit. So, and I think that was |
| 1:23.0 | figured out by default because these are always divisional games, which I thought week one was basically |
| 1:29.3 | that way, but Chicago has some random like Carolina Panthers week one. So it sounds like, |
| 1:37.1 | first of all, I'm very happy we're not playing the Bears week one. And one of our Bears games |
| 1:43.3 | is coming week 16. So again, just hoping that those early |
| 1:47.1 | weeks, so far we just have the Jets, and I don't want to downplay any game because I know we can |
| 1:51.1 | lose to anybody. But if we're not going to have Micah, I'd like to kind of take it easy early |
| 1:57.0 | and then maybe try to ramp it up as we go along. But anywho, that is your latest breaking news. |
| 2:03.6 | By the way, please go subscribe over on YouTube, Packernet Podcast, the one that has over |
| 2:11.5 | 4,000 subscribers, not the one that has like 100 subscribers, just so that you're in the right |
| 2:16.1 | place. |
| 2:16.4 | I am as rapidly as I possibly can, |
| 2:18.8 | trying to build a little live stream that's going to show all the updates for the Packers |
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