Packernet After Dark: These Are The Times That Try Packers Fans' Souls
Packernet Podcast: Daily Green Bay Packers Podcast
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4.7 • 524 Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
The callers brought the fire tonight. With the Micah Parsons injury still fresh, Packer Nation called in not to mourn but to rally. This might be the most fired-up After Dark episode of the season.
Randy from Minnesota dropped a Thomas Paine quote from 1776 that stopped the show cold: "These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country." The parallels to fair weather Packers fans hit hard. Kyle from Madison made the case for Jeff Hafley to unleash an entirely new aggressive defensive scheme against Chicago since the Bears have zero tape on a Parsons-less defense. Beer Cheese Bane and Chris from Alabama delivered passionate speeches about why this team still has everything it needs to make a run. The conversation also covered Matt LaFleur's substitution patterns, why quarterbacks keep having career games against Green Bay, and the reality that Saturday's Bears game is essentially a playoff game for the NFC North title. If the Packers win, they're back in the driver's seat with the easier remaining schedule. Time to lock in.
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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 call her, prank call it! |
| 0:16.2 | Ladies and gentlemen, welcome once again to Packernet After Dark. |
| 0:21.3 | This is the call-in show of the Packernet Podcast Network. |
| 0:25.5 | If you'd like to call in, if you'd like to participate in the show, please feel free to do so. |
| 0:31.6 | The phone number here is 60850107-18. |
| 0:34.6 | New callers go directly to the front of the line. We don't have any new callers today, |
| 0:39.8 | and we are going to be going backwards trying to get through as many of these calls as we can. |
| 0:45.4 | But we've got, what, 29, 28 to get through? So probably going to have some left out. Fortunately, |
| 0:52.3 | though, the man that always gets left out, |
| 0:54.8 | apparently, Craig is pretty early on the docket. So pending too much talking, we should have |
| 1:00.9 | plenty of time for that. Let's get started with Mr. Jared, the Uber driver. |
| 1:05.0 | Hi, this is Jared, the Uber driver from Texas. Good morning. So I was saying Jeff Halfley's speech about, you know, Michael Parsons. |
| 1:15.6 | Oh, hey, honey, let's put that back over there. |
| 1:19.6 | Yeah, okay. |
| 1:21.5 | Seeing a speech about, she's taking a nap on you, okay? |
| 1:28.6 | Oh, my gosh, okay. |
| 1:32.2 | Classic. |
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