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Packernet Podcast: Daily Green Bay Packers Podcast

Week 18 Breakdown: Meaningless Loss, Rivals Eliminated, Playoffs Ahead

Packernet Podcast: Daily Green Bay Packers Podcast

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Football, News, Sports News, Sports

4.7 β€’ 524 Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 5 January 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

The most meaningless game of the season is in the books, and honestly? It was a blast. While the doom-and-gloom crowd melts down over a fourth-quarter loss with backups, the real story is what happened around the NFC North. The Vikings and Lions – last year's division darlings – are officially done. Season over. Mock draft season for them.

Ryan breaks down why overreacting to this game is a complete waste of energy, highlights the impressive performances from Chris Brooks, Baron Sorrell, and Jacob Monk, and delivers a devastating autopsy on both the Lions and Vikings rosters. Detroit went from "best team in football" to picking 17th overall while dealing with massive roster holes and a questionable coaching staff. Minnesota? An aging roster, a broken quarterback situation with JJ McCarthy, and a defensive coordinator who's almost certainly leaving.

The Packers are heading to the playoffs. Two rivals are going home. Time to get excited.


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0:00.0

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome once again to the Packernet podcast.

0:12.5

I am your host and resident panelists.

0:14.4

As always, Ryan Schlipp, check us out online Packernet.com.

0:18.8

Find me on Twitter pack underscore datam. Well, that game went fine. Pending the results

0:25.8

for Bullard, of which I don't know at this point in time, that went perfectly fine.

0:35.7

Actually, I do have some information here. Matt Lafleur says he is not

0:39.3

certain on Bo Meltin's injury, but he thinks Javon Bullard will be fine. And I know he did walk off on

0:44.1

his own power, which of course is fantastic. So I'm, listen, first of all, thank you to everybody

0:52.1

that joined on Patreon. Appreciate you guys. We had more people

0:56.8

this week than last week. Hopefully, we'll have even more for our first of hopefully many

1:03.3

playoff games. But I was fine with it. I had fun. We all had a good time. I think a lot of guys showed up, showed out, played well.

1:14.5

I think if you're a Vikings fan, you should be embarrassed by that performance.

1:19.4

Their offense could hardly do anything against our defense.

1:23.1

And the offense, I mean, look, the quarterback, he ran a couple times, so that was cool.

1:36.0

He wasn't really capable of doing anything at all.

1:39.8

Despite that, the run game actually was quite good.

1:43.4

The ability to run, I mean, Brooks looked fantastic.

1:46.1

The fact that there was places for Brooks to run was pretty fantastic.

1:51.2

Don't have official PFF grades out yet.

1:54.2

We'll take a peek at what they do have, but it looks like Jacob Monk had himself a fantastic day,

1:59.4

which is great news. I mean, he's a interior

2:02.4

offensive line draft pick that we made that we haven't had an opportunity to really look at

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