The Packers and Vikings are where they are because of how they handled their QB situations

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🗓️ 21 November 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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The Packers are heavy favorites against the Vikings because Green Bay picked a QB when it didn't need one, and Minnesota didn't. Plus, the two stats that will define Sunday's NFC North matchup. And the injury report isn't what it seems for the Packers.

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0:00.0	The Green Bay Packers are heavy favorites on Sunday because of the way they handle quarterbacks as a franchise.
0:07.7	And the Vikings, well, they're underdogs because they don't do it like that.
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1:13.0	The biggest reason why the Packers are favorites and why they are expected to win on Sunday
1:20.2	and why they will win in all likelihood on Sunday is they have Jordan Love.
1:27.9	And Jordan Love, I don't know if you guys know this, is better than J.J. McCarthy.
1:32.6	Or at least has been better than J.J. McCarthy.
1:34.9	We'll see what J.J. McCarthy becomes in his NFL career.
1:40.5	I said on our squad show, I said to Lou Braun, I don't know how talented J.M. McCarthy is.
1:50.2	He was, I wouldn't say an afterthought. That would be disingenuous. That would be unfair to McCarthy.
1:59.5	But when you have a slew of quarterbacks go, four quarterbacks
2:04.7	go in the first handful of picks, you have Michael Panics go. Like, the NFL is telling you
2:13.8	you what they think of J.J. McCarthy's talent. And it's not just that he only
2:18.2	threw a couple passes in the national championship when Michigan won their national championship.
2:23.0	Yes, he is technically a national championship winning quarterback. But what the Vikings did was
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