Ladies and gentlemen, welcome once again to the Packernet podcast.

I am your host and resident fanalyst as always, Ryan Schlipp.

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Find me on Twitter pack underscore datam. Well, I'm actually pretty excited to talk about

the Eagles and Cowboys game. I'm sure for some people, this is a Packers podcast. I only ever

want to hear about the Packers. That's never going to be the case, and I'm so sorry to give you

that information. But it's the first game of the year.

I'm excited to dig into something different that we haven't been able to do in,

I mean, let's just call it a year.

There's so much fun data and little tools and things that we can look at,

not to mention, we can start talking about our competition.

And as I've said, a thousand times the Packers don't play football in a vacuum.

They play against other teams.

And I was not aware of this, but apparently some people believe our only competition are the bears, the lions, and the Vikings.

I tend to disagree.

I look at the regular season as a competition between the Packers and the rest of

the NFC, because that's kind of what it is. And so I'm especially interested in other NFC teams that

actually have a chance. I'm less interested in the Giants, as I am with the Eagles. And let's just

call it Dallas, because who knows, they are one of those weird teams that some years they're really

good, and some years they're just, they're worst. Two years ago, super scary. Last year, just a joke.

But I want to start with this. I got an email over at Packron, and I just figured i'd address it because i find it um i don't know

i guess somewhat interesting i guess you could put this in the negative packer fan category i'm not

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