Howdy? I'm Ben Solak. This is the Play Sheets. A weekly episode we do on Wednesdays, and it is a video pod.

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The opening script, Packers might have done it again. The Packers are 5 and 6, and they've won three of their last four games.

That might not feel like a big deal, but it is. Firstly, it's just a big deal because the Packers

like aren't used to losing and they weren't coping with it well. Matt LaFleur, their head coach,

is one of the winningest coaches in history because of how successful they were with Rogers.

He's still like pretty high up on the leaderboard. But when the Packers were two and

five, he was very clearly frustrated. You're not accustomed to dealing with having a losing season.

So when you, when you just win three or four games, like it, it's a mouthwash moment. It's a

cleansing moment. You feel like the ship has been righted. The coaching staff, the players, the front office, everybody is reaffirmed and re-remembers that, yeah, like, we can do this, we can be a good team, nice. Now, when one of those three wins is against

the division leading Detroit Lions, divisional rival, on a short week, on the road,

now you start to feel like, hey, we might actually be good. And that's the second reason why the

Packers hot streak matters. They might actually be good enough to make the playoffs. At 5 and 6,

Impredictable, which kind of predicts team futures off of the betting markets, they have the Packers at a

52% chance to make the NFC wildcard race. Like this team is alive. So that's cool. It's good news for everybody, making playoffs feel nice. But this is like a short-term consideration, do the Packers make the playoffs or not.

The important thing in Green Bay is the long-term consideration of quarterback Jordan Love.

Is he our starter or not? This is the first year of Jordan Love as the starter. And it's serving

as an audition year, but Jordan Love isn't like most first year starters. He's already in year four of his NFL career, and he's young, he's 25, but with only one

season left under contract after this, Love's audition this year is critical. If he doesn't

seem clearly the Packers' starting quarterback of the future, then the Packers have to start

planning for his replacement like this upcoming offseason. They have to do it right now. Meanwhile, if Love looks good enough

this year to be the Packers starter of the future, then pretty quickly the Packers have to

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