NFC North Schedule Reaction: Who's Scared of Green Bay?
Packernet Podcast: Daily Green Bay Packers Podcast
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🗓️ 22 May 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
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.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, ladies and gentlemen, welcome once again to the Packernet podcast. |
| 0:13.2 | I am your host and resident fanalyst. |
| 0:15.3 | As always, Ryan Schlipp, check us out online, packernet.com. |
| 0:20.1 | Find me on Twitter pack underscore data. |
| 0:23.1 | So today, the plan is very simple and straightforward. |
| 0:27.0 | It's even cut into three nice, even segments. |
| 0:32.2 | Learn your words. |
| 0:33.5 | What we're going to do is I want to go through the NFL schedule release, but I want to look at the NFC North. |
| 0:41.6 | Not just going through their games, because that would be relatively boring. |
| 0:45.3 | They play mostly the same games, and it's just in a certain order. |
| 0:48.2 | Who cares? |
| 0:49.5 | The bigger thing that I'm curious about is, what is the overall vibe are they excited are they |
| 0:56.8 | scared is it front loaded back loaded like what is their concern what is their strain what is |
| 1:02.9 | their their good points and bad points about their schedule um and then also a little bit |
| 1:08.2 | curious their feeling on playing the Packers, specifically the Vikings |
| 1:12.1 | Week 1, I found kind of interesting poking around in that. Also, unless I'm missing something, |
| 1:20.0 | which I probably am, I like things like Kalshi, but one of the things that's weird Kalshi |
| 1:26.2 | Polymarket is it's basically |
| 1:30.2 | useless until you get enough money in there. Because early on, any old guy can go in there, |
| 1:36.3 | set it up, put a hundred bucks down, and the numbers are all jacked up. The reason why that's |
| 1:41.2 | important is I was like, well, I wonder what Kalshi said. There was $400 total dollars on Packers Vikings, and it was 50-50. Now, granted, the Vegas odds are not too heavy in our favor, but I still looked at that and thought, okay, this is probably my best opportunity to get 50-50 odds on the Packers. I'm going to go ahead and do it. I found one other one. I forget which one it was. |
| 2:05.5 | But the team had like two and a half point favorite odds. |
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