Packernet After Dark: The Christmas Day Game That's Tearing Families Apart
Packernet Podcast: Daily Green Bay Packers Podcast
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4.7 • 525 Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
The 2026 NFL schedule is out, and Packernet After Dark is breaking it all down in real time with Pack Nation calling in from every corner of the country. Pack Daddy walks through why this schedule might be the most gracious setup the league has handed Green Bay in years — a soft early runway while Micah Parsons is presumed out, the Bears at Lambeau in Week 5 for his return game, a perfectly placed Week 11 bye, and a five-game home stretch heading into the playoffs. But not everything is sunshine and cheese curds.
🏈 Garrett from Southern Illinois on the Thanksgiving Eve Rams game and why the Christmas Day matchup is going to start fights in living rooms across America 🌍 Drew from Green Bay on the Packers' refusal to embrace international games and Hard Knocks — preservation over expansion 🥶 Nico from Idaho on why overseas games destroy ankles and Mountain Dew-fueled schedule reactions 🦇 Batman, Beer Cheese Benny, and Chris from Alabama on the best and worst schedule release videos across the league 🤖 Pack Daddy's update on building his AI agent secretary and the upcoming Sal Cross-Country Conversations road trip concept
Plus: why the NFL has no business taking over Christmas, the Bears doomsday schedule release video that hit way too close to home, and whether everything is finally lining up for a Super Bowl run.
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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! |
| 0:16.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, welcome once again to Packernet After Dark. |
| 0:20.6 | This is the call-in show with the |
| 0:22.5 | Packernet Podcast Network. If you'd like to call in, if you'd like to participate in the show, |
| 0:28.7 | please feel free to do so. The phone number here is 608501-07-18. New callers go directly to the front |
| 0:37.3 | of the line. We don't have any new callers go directly to the front of the line. |
| 0:38.3 | We don't have any new callers, so let's get started. As soon as my computer on freezes, here we'll get started with Garrett. |
| 0:45.3 | Hey, Pack Daddy, or should I say Rip Van Winkle? This is Garrett from Southern Illinois. |
| 0:53.3 | Hope you are well rested and loaded up on Mars candy bars and ready to go for another |
| 1:03.1 | Packernet after dark. |
| 1:04.9 | I just want to respond to how the NFL schedule will drop and the games that are leaking out. |
| 1:13.3 | And it's Thursday morning, by the way. |
| 1:16.4 | So I haven't got to see too much other than your two breaking news updates about having to play the Rams on Wednesday, and I'm okay with that one because we |
| 1:31.9 | obviously know that they're going to get a bi-week before that game. |
| 1:38.3 | And honestly, it seems like a good time for it to fall. |
| 1:43.1 | It's a little bit later in the season, but not too late. |
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