Packernet After Dark: Breaking Down the Blown Lead and What Must Change
Packernet Podcast: Daily Green Bay Packers Podcast
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4.7 • 524 Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
The phones are melting down and the pain is real. Packers fans flood the lines to process one of the most devastating playoff losses in recent memory as Green Bay blows an 18-point lead to the Bears and watches their season end in heartbreak.
Callers unleash raw emotion as they dissect what went wrong in the second half collapse. Ray from Tennessee questions whether Matt LaFleur can instill the discipline this team desperately needs. Aaron from Eau Claire shares the agony of watching surrounded by celebrating Bears fans. Multiple callers demand coaching changes, with special teams and McManus's missed kicks taking heavy fire. Beer Cheese Benny reminds everyone that draft season is the time to dream again.
Ryan breaks down the uncomfortable truth: Jordan Love threw four touchdowns with zero interceptions, the offense moved the ball, and there's no logical reason this game should have been lost. The EPA numbers show Green Bay was better in almost every category except special teams, where the Packers posted a brutal -9.9 compared to Chicago's +9.9. The question nobody can answer: what needs to change to stop the January collapses that have defined this era?
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| 0:00.0 | You feel this nervousness on the phone there? |
| 0:04.1 | Sir, I've been trying to make an urgent phone call up there. |
| 0:08.0 | I don't think it's something I want to do on an overseas phone. |
| 0:10.8 | You got to make some phone calls? |
| 0:12.8 | Hanging up the phone. |
| 0:13.7 | Prank caller! |
| 0:14.2 | Prank call her! |
| 0:16.3 | Ladies and gentlemen, welcome again to Packernet After Dark. |
| 0:20.8 | This is The Call-In Show, the Packernet Podcast Network. |
| 0:25.1 | If you'd like to call in, if you'd like to participate in the show, please feel free to do so. |
| 0:30.6 | The phone number here is 608501-0718. |
| 0:33.2 | New callers go directly to the front of the line. |
| 0:36.2 | We do, in fact, have another new caller, loving |
| 0:38.5 | all the new callers, keep them coming. Um, new caller, what's going on? New caller, what is, hold up, |
| 0:46.4 | going on. Hey, this is Ray from Tennessee. What's up? I've never called before. I've listened to your show for years. |
| 0:57.3 | Listen, this whole thing with, first of all, |
| 1:00.2 | let's talk about special teams for a second. |
| 1:02.4 | People keep calling for Richard Vasatchez's head, |
| 1:04.9 | and I'm not saying that he deserves to keep his job or anything, |
| 1:09.0 | but we've gone through five special teams coordinators since LaFleur took over. |
| 1:15.6 | And he tried to hire Darren Rizzy back then. |
| 1:19.0 | Obviously, we don't know what would have happened. |
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