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As always, Ryan Schlipp.

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Well, I want to start off today. Obviously, it's game day. I feel like we've covered a lot of

the different things in terms of the game. I do have a couple little tidbits, you know.

We can cover those in a little bit.

But I want to start off with this because, again, we're kind of in playoff times,

although the odds of us not getting into the playoffs are relatively low.

So we don't need to necessarily worry about it or panic unless and until we started losing.

But still, it's interesting to look at and also not only for the Packers, but different scenarios.

Chances to not only be in the playoffs, but chances to have a buy week and beat the lions out or

whoever else it may be. All these kind of things are in play. Also, I just kind of want to look

at the most impactful games this week that are going to help and hurt us. And part of the

reason why I want to talk about, especially this week, is because it's a very weird week.

And what I mean by that is there are three teams that I, and some of you, have been rooting

against a lot that we may need to root for this week.

Number one, and this is not necessarily true, and we'll get to why, but you can make a case

for it, you may actually want to why, but you can make a case for it.

You may actually want to root for the lions.

Now, it's very unlikely that the bears mount some kind of a massive comeback, especially considering they have another Packers game, they have a Lions game, they have a Vikings game,

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