Ladies and gentlemen, welcome once again to the Packernet podcast. I am your host and

resident panelist. As always, Ryan Schlipp, check us out online, packernet.com. Find me on

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Well, we've got some decisions to make here, folks, because things have changed rapidly.

This was supposed to be a real simple, hey, here's everything you need to know about Baltimore.

Um, but the unexpected happened, and we should mention it. The Packers are going to the

playoffs. We did it. Oh, all that hard work, huh? Who'd have thought? You go 0 and 2 the last two weeks,

and, gee, golly, if we didn't get rewarded for all the hard work, huh?

We did it.

We really, you know, you just, there's a lesson in there.

You just put your head down and you work.

You know what I mean?

It's not about wins.

It's about everybody else losing around you.

You know, it's not about being good.

It's just about being better than the Vikings and lions who suck. That's, that's it. That's, that's the lesson, you know? You don't have

to do anything. And the great news is now they don't have to try for the next two weeks. So

wonderful. I'm kidding. They do have to try. And we'll talk about that. But Packers officially went from having two more weeks left in the season to three more weeks left in the season. Let's go. I will say the NFL is going to have to think long and hard about this. I mean, I doubt they'll change their mind. But it's kind of dirty to have

Christmas Day games. Christmas Day games, right at the time, by the way, teams are fighting

for their playoff lives. You had the Vikings, the lions, excuse me. The freaking lions,

oh, it's such a beautiful thing. On Christmas Day, they are

officially eliminated from the playoffs and in doing so sent the Packers to the playoffs.

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