How the Green Bay Packers defense can effectively end the Minnesota Vikings season in Week 12

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🗓️ 20 November 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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The Vikings offense has been a mess. The Packers defense isn't coming off its best game, but their focus on not giving up explosives makes it the perfect foil for J.J. McCarthy and Co. Locked on Vikings host Luke Braun joins us for a Crossover Thursday to talk about the divergent QB storylines, key matchups, and more.

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0:00.0	It's the Packers.
0:01.9	It's the Vikings.
0:03.0	An NFC North showdown, the Packers,
0:05.5	desperate to win this division for the first time since 2021.
0:09.3	The Vikings just plain desperate.
0:11.5	It's a crossover Thursday.
0:13.1	Locked on Packers, locked on Vikings.
0:15.3	Let's go.
0:30.6	You are locked on NFL crossover. You are lockeded-on NFL crossover, part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day.
0:39.3	Welcome inside another crossover Thursday and NFC North crossover Thursday. Peter Bikowski from Locked on Packers. Hey, that's me.
0:42.0	Luke Braun from Locked on Vikings joining me in today's crossover Thursday presented by
0:46.1	our friends at prize picks. Download the prize picks app today and use code Lockdown NFL
0:49.6	to get $50 in lineups after you play your first $5 lineup. Luke, the Vikings coming off a brutal loss to the Chicago Bears where it seemed like
0:59.7	they had just gone down after a tough, tough, tough, tough day to score the game winning
1:06.2	points.
1:06.6	And then a kickoff return turns into a what, a nine-yard drive for the Bears. Yeah, right. Pretty much right in a field goal range and game ends on special teams there. And JJ McCarthy, social media calling for him to be benched at halftime. Where are we right now with JJ McCarthy? Because that seems like the big thing to be talking about with the Minnesota Vikings. Yeah, well, if you're on social media, I think you live in a different reality than a lot of us. But that's not a place where intelligent discourse goes down. And I don't think it has been for some time. It's true. In the building where actual decisions will be made, it's pretty difficult to, I think, maintain the patients they want to maintain, right? Here's a deal. McCarthy is playing a lot worse than you ever hoped, right? Coming into year two, had a year on the, in rehab, right? This is not a year working on mechanics and footwork, but you're still in the classroom and you're trying to get that. And he is very much drowning. I think the Vikings have made things harder on him than they have to be.
2:03.4	And I think he's made things too hard on himself as well.
2:07.0	But it is not working.
2:08.1	This is one of the worst offenses in the league.
2:10.5	And it has been really consistently, even without McCarthy in the lineup.
2:13.7	So you know, it's not all him.
2:15.3	Right.
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