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Well, I think things are being set up probably the right way. It's being set up in the most annoying way possible, but probably the right way.

Continually, the lions and the Vikings and all these teams just keep not losing.

And I don't mean to say winning,

because they're not winning so much as they're not losing.

These teams are not playing well.

They're nearly losing to not super good teams.

And then the team that's beating them or should beat them

gives the game away. The Bears absolutely should have beat the freaking lions. Arizona should

have beat Minnesota. That didn't happen. The game was just given away. The reason I say that things are being set up

exactly as they should is, let's be honest, I don't think it should be the Bears and the Cardinals

that expose these teams. It should be the Packers. So here's the deal. You got to do it. Right? If you can continue being the team that you've been

the last two weeks and the Lions continue to be the team that nearly loses to a bunch of

to bad teams, I don't see any reason why you can't officially plant your flag at the top of the NFC North.

And it doesn't even matter if, well, if you beat them, they were still not in first place.

It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter.

What you need to do this coming Thursday is make sure everybody is fully aware of the fact that the Packers are the best team in the NFC North.

And that's fine. I think it's better that way. I think it's better. It would be nice if they had

lost maybe, you know, the Lions had lost maybe the last two games. We come in, make it three,

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