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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

REACTION: Packers COLLAPSE vs. Bears

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Sports, Nfl Team, Nfl, Nfl Draft, Football, Minnesota, Vikings

4.7958 Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2026

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

Matthew Coller breaks down the Packers falling apart versus the Chicago Bears to lose in the Wild Card game. Plus the Rams advance setting up a possible Seattle-LA rematch. Is Matt LaFleur going to be fired? Is Caleb Williams going to be a problem for the next decade. The Purple Insider podcast is brought to you by FanDuel. Also, check out our sponsor HIMS at https://hims.com/purpleinsider Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of Purple Insider presented by Fandul Matthew Collar here,

0:12.5

and I had to fire up the live machine following the collapse of the Green Bay Packers.

0:20.3

They go from up 21 to 3 to losing to the Chicago Bears

0:26.5

in the wild card round of the playoffs. And which side of this should we start on? The side of

0:34.1

the Packers falling apart or the side of the Chicago Bears showing exactly what they

0:40.6

have in Ben Johnson and Caleb Williams. We can begin with the Packers falling apart in this game.

0:47.6

So they get up 21 to 3 and Caleb Williams is struggling. His accuracy is off. Ben Johnson is clearly tweaking out a little bit,

0:57.2

going for fourth downs that even I don't think on Matt and I would quite go for early in the game.

1:02.7

And you could see they were kind of panicking. This is Caleb Williams first playoff game. It's

1:08.6

Ben Johnson's first as a head coach. And it just felt like,

1:12.2

okay, well, the team that's been here before, the head coach that's been here before, the quarterback

1:17.5

that's won a playoff game before, they all are so much more calm in this environment and ready to

1:23.3

go. But the second half of this game is exactly why the Green Bay Packers may fire Matt LaFleur.

1:30.1

And whenever I've had Packers guests on, they always kind of talk the same way about LaFleur.

1:37.0

Like, yeah, he's a pretty good coach and he's gotten a lot out of his quarterbacks.

1:42.0

But man, when push comes to shove and some of these

1:45.1

playoff games, this guy just comes apart. And that is exactly what happened in the second half of this

1:52.1

game. They're throwing a pass to an offensive lineman, which I know didn't really hurt them that

1:57.8

much, but still bizarre stuff. They're having their starting running back,

2:02.1

return kicks. They could not run the football. They couldn't get their short passing game going.

2:07.5

And at the end of the game, when they had a chance to take a six point lead, although it would

2:12.7

have been better to score a touchdown, they moved down the field into field goal position.

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