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The Sports Junkies

The Sports Junkies: Best of January 12th - January 16th

The Sports Junkies

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Sports

4.31.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2026

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Welcome to The Sports Junkies best highlights from Monday, January 12th through Friday, January 16th. Have a great weekend!

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0:00.0

Probably the best game of the weekend was the Bears Packers game, and the Bears put up 25 points in the fourth quarter to come back to win that game.

0:09.8

They played each other three times in basically a month, and all of the games came down to the wire.

0:18.0

The one that the Packers won, the Bears could have won. Remember, Caleb was rolling left, tries to hit Cole Komet in the end zone and underthrew him a little bit, gets picked off. Packers win that game. But they came back to win the other two games, and they have really leaned into the rivalry, and Ben Johnson has leaned into the rivalry and Ben Johnson has leaned into the rivalry.

0:40.5

Ben Johnson doesn't like Matt LaFleur.

0:43.4

Matt LaFleur doesn't like Ben Johnson.

0:45.5

You can tell at the handshakes all three of them this year.

0:49.8

And then after the game...

0:51.3

Where's that come from?

0:53.0

Don't know.

0:53.5

It's so funny because Matt LaFleur says, I have no relationship with the guy. That's part of the reason that I don't like him. So just like a professional jealousy or... I mean, where's it come from? When Johnson was hired, I think it was in his introductory press conference or one of his earlier press conferences where he said, I freaking hate the Packers, love beating them. I'm paraphrasing. I think it started with the Lions. The Lions played the Packers all the time. He specifically said, I kind of enjoy beating Matt LaFleur. Right. Yeah. He said that, like, and that's just weird because Matt LaFleau, I think, is known for being a pretty decent guy and has no beef with him. I don't have a problem with rivalries. That's cool. I like rivalries. I don't even... You know, whatever. I don't really care. It's just that he's just such a... It comes from somewhere, though. It comes from somewhere. I mean, maybe Matt LaFleur talks smack about him and he... I don't believe that. Maybe there's something behind the scenes and we just don't know. We just don't know. I don't have no idea. We don't know them. Here's what I do know. He's a classless douche. Like anytime, and a lot of guys are like this. It's not unusual. I've seen it a million times. I've been around sports my entire life. But the handshake bit, just the whole F the Packers, F the Packers, the bid he was doing in the locker room. But he's in the locker room. Hold on, slow down. It's fine in the locker room. He knows his cameras there. Believe you. I've been around it all the time. That's closed stuff because you have to have class.

2:35.6

I guess you don't care about class. No, but I've seen Dan Quinn drop F-bombs in the locker room. It's not cursing. You can't, there's subtleties. That's different. Just sit back and learn. That's different. Cursing. You can sit back and learn too. cursing. No, I've got this situation covered. Lots of bitterness right there. I mean, cursing is nothing. I love cursing. I'm the king cursor. It's disrespecting your opponent is beyond the pale. And if you do it behind closed doors to your team, which all coaches do, literally all of them. F them, F the Cowboys, F the Giants, F them. That's all normal. It's when you do it for the cameras where, and it's just crossing the line. Now, do you have a First Amendment free right to do? Of course you do. You do you, buddy. I'm just glad you're not my coach. He's firing up his players. I don't have a problem with it I don't have a problem with it because it just makes it more interesting going down the road if a floor does stay with green bag

3:12.4

it's just it's beyond the pale his players love it they've leaned into the cheese grater of course they do I mean if you watched a post game um when they won the first game yeah and DJ Moore was wearing the cheese grater like they're just leaning into the rivalry with the Packers. And I think the head coach is fueling the fire. To me the handshake etiquette is way worse than him saying F the Packers like in the locker room. No, hold on. F the Packers in the locker room, do it all day long. I think when you do it with the cameras are on is where you're crossing a line. We can agree to this degree. Usually there's closed locker room and then they let you in. The cameras are on 100% of the time. At least I know the commanders, every one of Quinn's post-game speeches were on film last year because I used it for the book.

3:58.3

Every one of them.

3:59.0

But like, but they know that.

4:02.2

They know that.

4:03.0

But Johnson knows there's a camera there.

4:04.6

That's different.

4:05.6

I just think you're, look, he's not worrying about you.

4:09.9

He's worrying about his players and his players love it.

4:12.5

It's not about me.

4:13.5

His players love it. It's just disrespectful. Just handle yourself with a certain class. That's all. Have class. He doesn't have class. What I do know is he's a very smart guy, very immature guy. That I know. The way he handles the handshake. Now it makes all the sense in the world why he rubbed the skins the wrong way. And believe me, I never wanted that douche ever. I did. I thought he was a, I definitely wanted. I thought he was a little squeamish little douche two years ago. That's how perceptive I am. Just handle yourself, especially at the handshake like Siriani and Shanahan did.

4:48.5

Like, man up.

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