Happy new year, everyone! It's 2023. Welcome into first take.

What a way to start off the year. Christine Williams in here for Molly.

Dan Arlowski is here. Hey, Douglas is here. Amber Wilson is here.

We got a lot of NFL to talk about. I'm going to touch on the CFP a little later with Paul Fibomb.

A lot of good stuff. You guys excited?

Of course. Let's do this. Let's do it.

We start in the NFL 16 weeks after the Vikings blew out the Packers

and their season opener, that bad man, Aaron Rodgers and the Packers

returned the favor. Beating the Vikings 41 to 17 in Green Bay extending their win streak to four games.

And now they are just a win away from an improbable playoff birth following a 1-7 stretch.

Now they're in control of their postseason fate. Here is that bad man.

Christine and Seattle all shakes out, but I know not many people in that locker room

and definitely not many U people believe we'd be sitting here and made with control our own destiny.

Going into week 18. Pretty special.

Alright, Dan. You're up first. What is the bigger reason for this Packers run?

Is it the defense or is it Aaron Rodgers?

Oh, it's the guy we just saw on our screen, Aaron Rodgers.

The reality is this four game win streak Aaron Rodgers has been the CEO of this organization.

And that's really what the goal or the kind of blueprint blueprint was for this year was

Alright, they're going to play like good defense and that's started to happen.

But they wanted that unique balance and offense that in any situation you could throw the ball around the ball.

And to do that, you got to manage the line of scrimmage, you got to be completion driven,

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