Packers Add Diggs, Bodies at Corner, and the Data Says Don't Give Up
Packernet Podcast: Daily Green Bay Packers Podcast
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4.7 • 524 Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
The Packers claimed Trayvon Diggs off waivers, and while there's no rational reason to expect him to save the season, maybe it's time to embrace the irrational. We break down the salary cap implications, the circumstances of his Cowboys departure, and why the "we need bodies" argument might be the only one worth making.
Beyond Diggs, we dive into all 14 roster moves, including intriguing practice squad addition Damien Martinez—a physical downhill runner with elite college production—plus the return of Desmond Ritter as QB4 depth. We also examine the first injury report of the week, where Jordan Love appears as a full participant and an illness continues spreading through the locker room.
The real surprise comes from DVOA trajectory analysis comparing this Packers team to historical squads with similar seasonal paths. The results? Three of the four most comparable teams won the Super Bowl, including the 2008 Steelers, 2022 Chiefs, and 2010 Packers. Sometimes mediocre teams get lucky—why not us?
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| 0:00.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, welcome once again to the Packernet podcast. I am your host and |
| 0:13.6 | resident panelist, as always, Ryan Schlipp. Check us out online Packernet.com. Find me on |
| 0:19.2 | Twitter, Pack underscore. Well, today's going to be a little bit more |
| 0:24.1 | of an interesting day than I expected it to be. First of all, I had mentioned yesterday that there was |
| 0:29.2 | another question that I thought about asking in terms of just kind of looking at some of the |
| 0:33.1 | data of our team and the trajectory and all that, but we didn't really have a lot of time, |
| 0:38.3 | so I'll just save that for tomorrow. |
| 0:43.3 | That yielded way more significant results than I was expecting. |
| 0:46.4 | I had to double and triple check those because I'm like, that doesn't even make sense. |
| 0:51.9 | And then even more unexpected things happened. |
| 0:59.5 | They added Mr. Trayvon Diggs, which I was just about to get started recording, and I see that, and then I see that they added, they also added another quarterback to our roster. |
| 1:05.0 | So I'm going to take a look at all that. |
| 1:07.4 | We don't have to look a ton into the Diggs thing because we already did. |
| 1:10.2 | Obviously, as I mentioned, I'm not necessarily over the moon about it. And I don't think anyone |
| 1:15.6 | necessarily should be. But I think one of the things that I saw yesterday when I was kind of going |
| 1:23.9 | through, you know, the fans saying a lot of stupid things or whatever that's annoying. The only one that I could possibly get behind is people saying, well, |
| 1:33.5 | whatever, we need bodies. You know, I don't know, I don't know how massively necessary that is. |
| 1:48.0 | It's not the right word. What am I looking for? I don't know how beneficial he's going to be. I mean, compared to whatever practice squad guys are out there, |
| 1:52.7 | he's probably as good or better. He's certainly got more starting snaps, which is a benefit |
| 1:58.4 | as a guy that knows how to play football. |
| 2:04.0 | But I don't know. |
| 2:05.0 | I just thought that that was maybe the best argument that there was. |
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