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What's going on, Packer fans? Welcome back to an all new episode of the Packaday podcast. I'm your host, Andy Herman. You can follow me on Twitter at Andy Herman NFL. You can follow the podcast at Packaday podcast. Today I'm overjoyed once again to be joined by the one and only Sam Monson. You can find him as PFF's lead NFL analyst. You can find them on X or Twitter at PFF underscore Sam.

Of course, he's the co-host of the PFF NFL podcast, Sam.

Welcome back to Packaday. How the heck are you doing? I'm doing good. Overjoyed. I think that's overselling it a little bit, but I like it. I like it. Strong. Never. Never. Always great talking to you, Sam. I wanted to start off.

It feels like forever ago already that the Packers faced the Lions last Thursday.

A lot has happened since then.

But. I wanted to start off. It feels like forever ago already that the Packers faced the Lions last Thursday. A lot has happened since then, but I thought it was quite, I don't know if it's a, I mean, probably a bigger statement week one when they go into Kansas City and beat the Chiefs. But still, you kind of go into that game. The Vikings and the Bears at the time were 0 and 3. Packers and Lions, both 2 and 1.

Lions had defeated the Packers three straight times, including kicking them out of the playoffs, basically in Week 18 a season ago. It felt like this was maybe going to be a competitive matchup, but it was another huge statement by the Detroit Lions that, as of right now, they're basically Kings of the NFC North. What did you kind of take away from that game?

Yeah, like it was a different type of statement than the week one Kansas City game.

I think they were both important for them for slightly different reasons.

The Kansas City won with no Travis Kelsey, you know, and the issues that the Chiefs had,

they kind of needed to win that one, you know, because if they hadn't been able to beat them without Travis Kelsey and, you know, the other issues that Kansas City had, it would

have been like, well, if you can't beat this version of the Chiefs, you know, you can't win like

that. You can't win a Super Bowl. So that I think was an important win just to get over that

line. But this one was more, you know, the lions have been pretty good, one disappointing

performance in there.

But Green Bay had sort of shown up as the real challenger.

The Vikings have been pretty bad this season and gotten the bad end of luck.

And the bears have just been terrible.

So Green Bay is your threat in the north. And to go in there

and just eliminate that immediately, just say, you're not on this level. We're the better team.

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