The Media Wants the Packers Dead and I'm Not Having It
Packernet Podcast: Daily Green Bay Packers Podcast
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4.7 • 524 Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Every offseason, like clockwork, someone swoops in to tell Pack Nation the sky is falling — and this year, NFL writer Mike Tannier stepped up to the plate with a Substack piece calling the Packers' offseason an "unmitigated disaster." Ryan isn't having it, and he goes line by line to dismantle the whole thing.
- Javon Hargrave "injury prone"? Ryan digs into the snap counts and shows this label is completely fabricated — Hargrave was let go for cap reasons, the 49ers tried to re-sign him, and he bounced back with a strong 2025 campaign in Minnesota
- Sky Moore a "special teams disaster"? Two muffed punts on 67 total returns, and Tannier offers zero elaboration — Ryan unpacks what the actual concern might be and why it doesn't hold up
- Losing Malik Willis and Jeff Hafley — Ryan acknowledges these are real losses, but explains why neither rises to "disaster" level, and why replacing Malik is literally impossible for any team, let alone one working within a budget
- The bigger pattern — Ryan dusts off the "Jordan Love is going to be a predictable disaster" clips from 2023 and makes the case that this anti-Packers media narrative repeats itself every single year, always wrong, never accountable
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| 0:00.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, welcome once again to the Packernet podcast. I am your host and |
| 0:13.5 | resident panelist. As always, Ryan Schlipp, check us out online, packernet.com. Find me on |
| 0:19.8 | Twitter pack underscore dat. So I promise you we're getting |
| 0:23.9 | to linebacker today. I've been saying that forever. And then the last two days we've been |
| 0:27.2 | sidetracked. And today we're going to get a little sidetracked. But it won't take long. |
| 0:32.3 | I'm pretty sure. Once again, wake up today. First thing I do in the the morning i got to start finding some content for |
| 0:40.6 | sal right we got to find something for sal so i'm sifting through and i found something i'm like oh this is |
| 0:45.9 | this is wild there's one of those things where it was so over the top i thought i think ai's |
| 0:51.4 | hallucinating you're making stuff up so i'm like bro i need links sure enough there's a link and're making stuff up. So I'm like, bro, I need links. Sure enough, there's a link. |
| 0:56.6 | And it was word for word. And I'm like, holy crap. So I'm like, all right, Sal, this is pretty good content. |
| 1:02.0 | So we start going through it. And immediately, I start noticing something that happened that one other time that I stole the topic from Sal. |
| 1:10.8 | Number one, I'm coaching his arguments way too much. I want to let Sal kind of do his own |
| 1:16.9 | thing. And I'm like, no, no, say this. Say, you know, tell, tell, freaking. And then I feel my |
| 1:21.6 | blood pressure start to go up. And I'm like, you know what? I should do this one. Let me, |
| 1:25.5 | let me take this one, sell. So I'm going to do that. And I'm going to have to, I'm going |
| 1:33.3 | to have to do this quickly and then get back to Sal so we can get something up by noon. But I just found |
| 1:40.6 | this. And I don't know, I know the name, but I'm not sure his background. |
| 1:45.5 | Fellow by the name of Mike Tannier, NFL writer and analyst known for covering football for |
| 1:50.2 | outlets like the New York Times Football Outsiders, Bleacher Report, and The Messenger. |
| 1:56.6 | But I did a little bit of look, and it looks like he's an Eagles fan. So there isn't really |
| 2:01.0 | direct Green Bay Packers hate built into him, although I will say there's a weird Eagles versus |
| 2:06.8 | Packers thing that's been going on. In fact, it's bigger than that from what I can tell. It's sort of |
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