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BREAKING NEWS out of the NFL offices — the Green Bay Packers are headed to primetime in a way we've never seen before. For the first time in league history, the NFL will play a Thanksgiving Eve game, and Pack Nation is at the center of it. Jordan Love and the Packers are set to square off against Sean McVay's Los Angeles Rams in what could be one of the most-watched regular season games of the year. We break down what this means for the franchise, the fans, and the road to January. 🦃 The historic significance of the first-ever Thanksgiving Eve game and why the NFL picked Green Bay to headline it 🏈 Matchup breakdown: Jordan Love vs the Rams defense, plus how Jonathan Gannon's unit handles McVay's offensive scheme 📅 Short-week implications, travel logistics, and what this does to the Packers' practice schedule heading into a critical stretch 🔥 Pack Nation reaction and what a primetime stage means for Matthew Golden, the offensive line, and our playoff positioning Subscribe, rate, and review wherever you get your podcasts, and join the conversation across all our platforms. Pack Nation, this one's going to be special — let's get loud. #GoPackGo #PackersNation #NFLThanksgiving #PackersVsRams #ThanksgivingEveFootball #JordanLove #Packernet

Big Sal from Peshtigo is pacing a hole in the carpet and he's got a handwritten list. The 2026 NFL schedule drops tomorrow night at 7 PM central, and Sal has SIX hopes for Pack Nation — and he's reading them to you whether you like it or not. From nine home games at Lambeau to a frozen Caleb Williams in December, this is a man who's been thinking about the schedule for three days straight and openly admits his brain is broken. 🧀 Why all nine home games at Lambeau is already a win — and what Munich would've cost us ❄️ The December Bears game Big Sal NEEDS and his brutal Caleb Williams ice-fishing analogy 🦃 Keeping the Thanksgiving streak alive — Cowboys at Lambeau on Turkey Day storyline potential 🏟️ Micah Parsons' revenge game, a Sunday night opener demand, and one petty Cowboys hope Subscribe right now, leave that five-star review, and tune in tomorrow night for the full schedule reaction show — game by game, prime time slot by prime time slot. Bring the cheese curds, Sal brings the takes. #Packers #GoPackGo #PackNation #NFLSchedule #Lambeau #MicahParsons #BigSal #Peshtigo This episode is brought to you by PrizePicks! Use code PACKDADDY to get started with America's #1 fantasy sports app. https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/PACKDADDY To advertise on this podcast please email: ad-sales@libsyn.com Or go to: https://advertising.libsyn.com/packernetpodcast Help keep the show growing and check out everything I'm building across the Packers and NFL world: Support: Patreon: www.patreon.com/pack_daddy Venmo: @Packernetpodcast CashApp: $packpod Website: https://nfldraftgrades.com/ My Board: https://nfldraftgrades.com/board/83a18c42-7a0b-4590-8d1b-453e49840d02

Brick's scraping the vault tonight — and it shows. Four songs, two of them not even Packers tracks, and somehow it still adds up to one of the more honest hours he's put on the air. We open in the ring with Eight Limbs of War — a Muay Thai sermon with drums, straight out of Ryan's personal stash. Then we walk the division down with Suck It, a cold-cut industrial chant for the three cities that talk more than they win. We sit in the Cleveland wound with Ten to Nothing (Gone to Waste) — September's collapse, scored in boom-bap, and a reminder that the football gods wrote the same script against Unitas back in nineteen sixty-five. Same ending. Sixty years apart. Same exact wound. Then we walk out of it. Green Bay Thunder closes the show with Lombardi's ghost in the rafters and a quest that hasn't ended yet. Four songs. One sermon. No filler. You were never alone out there.

Big Sal is fired up, Pack Nation, and he's putting his contract predictions on the record. Three deals. Three players. Three numbers that are going to define the future of this Packers roster. Kraft, Watson, Wyatt — all sitting on Brian Gutekunst's desk like a stack of bills you keep meaning to deal with. Big Sal is dealing with them right now. 🧀 Tucker Kraft — Why the injury discount window is closing fast and the exact four-year, seventy-two million dollar number Sal is mortgaging the house on 🏈 Christian Watson — Why the long-term deal is NOT happening in 2026, how Alec Pierce is about to reset the market, and the 2027 offseason number Sal is calling right now 💥 Devonte Wyatt — The contract that scares Gutekunst the most, why the interior pass rush market has gone bananas, and the one prediction Sal changed his mind on If Big Sal is right, he wants a parade in downtown Peshtigo. If he's wrong, you can throw it in his face — he's not hard to find. He's the loud one. Hit subscribe, leave a five-star review, share this with one Bears fan in your life. Stay loud. Stay green. Stay gold. #GoPackGo #PackerNation #BigSal #TuckerKraft #ChristianWatson #DevonteWyatt #NFL #Packers This episode is brought to you by PrizePicks! Use code PACKDADDY to get started with America's #1 fantasy sports app. https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/PACKDADDY To advertise on this podcast please email: ad-sales@libsyn.com Or go to: https://advertising.libsyn.com/packernetpodcast Help keep the show growing and check out everything I'm building across the Packers and NFL world: Support: Patreon: www.patreon.com/pack_daddy Venmo: @Packernetpodcast CashApp: $packpod Website: https://nfldraftgrades.com/ My Board: https://nfldraftgrades.com/board/83a18c42-7a0b-4590-8d1b-453e49840d02

The end of 2025 left a bad taste in everyone's mouth — but the numbers tell a very different story than the vibes. Ryan digs into DVOA, EPA per play, success rate, and drop-back efficiency to show that, even through chaos and injuries, the Packers fielded one of the best offenses in football. The real disappointment? A defense that should have been elite under Jeff Hafley and dragged the whole operation down. 🏈 Why DVOA had Green Bay's offense at 12.4% above average — and what that actually means heading into 2026 📊 EPA and success rate breakdowns showing the Packers were a top-five passing offense, not the mess fans remember 💰 McManus released post-June 1: cap savings, the 2027 dead cap hit, and what $18.7M in space says about Gutekunst's plans 🎯 Revisiting the Pittsburgh game — the one time Jordan Love, Tucker Kraft, Christian Watson, and Micah Parsons were all on the field together If you've bought into the doom-and-gloom narrative, this one's going to challenge how you see this roster. Subscribe, leave a review, and join Pack Nation as we get ready for the 2026 season. #GoPackGo #PackerNation #GreenBayPackers #NFL #JordanLove #TuckerKraft #ChristianWatson #MicahParsons #DVOA #NFLAnalytics This episode is brought to you by PrizePicks! Use code PACKDADDY to get started with America's #1 fantasy sports app. https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/PACKDADDY To advertise on this podcast please email: ad-sales@libsyn.com Or go to: https://advertising.libsyn.com/packernetpodcast Help keep the show growing and check out everything I'm building across the Packers and NFL world: Support: Patreon: www.patreon.com/pack_daddy Venmo: @Packernetpodcast CashApp: $packpod Website: https://nfldraftgrades.com/ My Board: https://nfldraftgrades.com/board/83a18c42-7a0b-4590-8d1b-453e49840d02

The garage light is still on. The engine's still off. Brick Lombardi pulls up a chair behind the mic for another late-night ride through Tundra FM — four tracks, four genres, one team, and a Pittsburgh stadium that thinks it has the Pack figured out. From a chopper rap that drops names faster than you can write them down to a hair metal power ballad burning the noise to the ground, this one hits every frequency Pack Nation lives on. 🎤 Chopper Wrap 92nd Street Chicago — Love, Kraft, Jacobs, Golden, Gary, Parsons, McKinney all flying at warp speed against the Steelers' six-game home win streak 🌎 Fan Primero (Reggaeton) — A bilingual love letter to the loyalty that doesn't need translation, from San Juan to Milwaukee to Guadalajara 🎷 Cheer (Vocal Jazz Ballad) — Brushed drums, muted trumpet, and the Cleveland heartbreak nobody writes songs about until somebody finally did 🎸 In the Cold Lambeau Night (Hair Metal Power Ballad) — Twin guitars, Hammond organ, and the receipts on every quarterback getting crowned for doing what Love already does Stay for the whole thing. Brick noticed last time. He'll notice again. #Packers #GoPackGo #TundraFM #BrickLombardi #PackerNation #NFL #SteelersVsPackers #SundayNightFootball This episode is brought to you by PrizePicks! Use code PACKDADDY to get started with America's #1 fantasy sports app. https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/PACKDADDY To advertise on this podcast please email: ad-sales@libsyn.com Or go to: https://advertising.libsyn.com/packernetpodcast Help keep the show growing and check out everything I'm building across the Packers and NFL world: Support: Patreon: www.patreon.com/pack_daddy Venmo: @Packernetpodcast CashApp: $packpod Website: https://nfldraftgrades.com/ My Board: https://nfldraftgrades.com/board/83a18c42-7a0b-4590-8d1b-453e49840d02

Big Sal from Peshtigo is fired up — and Pack Nation, this one has been brewing for two solid years. Jordan Morgan is finally — FINALLY — being handed the left tackle job he was drafted to play, and Sal is here to tell you why this might be the single most important position battle on the entire 2026 Packers roster. 🏈 The musical-chairs saga: 1,035 career snaps, only 51 at left tackle, and the rusted-grain-silo analogy that explains everything 🛡️ Why Jordan Love's $220 million blindside hangs on number 77 — and why there is NO Plan B behind him 📊 The Arizona tape nobody's talking about: 37 starts at left tackle, two sacks allowed in 787 snaps, and an 87.3 PFF grade in 2023 🔥 Sal's bold prediction: Top-ten left tackle in the NFL by season's end — bookmark it If you like Big Sal getting fired up about offensive line play with deer-rifle analogies and a healthy dose of Darlene yelling from the other room, smash subscribe, leave a five-star review, and tell a friend. GO PACK GO! #Packers #GoPackGo #JordanMorgan #PackerNation #NFL #BigSal #LeftTackle #JordanLove #Packernet This episode is brought to you by PrizePicks! Use code PACKDADDY to get started with America's #1 fantasy sports app. https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/PACKDADDY To advertise on this podcast please email: ad-sales@libsyn.com Or go to: https://advertising.libsyn.com/packernetpodcast Help keep the show growing and check out everything I'm building across the Packers and NFL world: Support: Patreon: www.patreon.com/pack_daddy Venmo: @Packernetpodcast CashApp: $packpod Website: https://nfldraftgrades.com/ My Board: https://nfldraftgrades.com/board/83a18c42-7a0b-4590-8d1b-453e49840d02

Pack Daddy is running on fumes after Mother's Day food coma — so Pack Nation steps up and carries the show with some absolute heaters. From punchable faces in sports media to the Jordan love slander that just won't die, this one builds to one of the most legendary caller rants in After Dark history. Buckle up. 🎙️ TJ from Alabama opens it up dunking on the Danny Parkins / Nick Wright industrial complex and the unearned arrogance of national talking heads 🦵 Brandon McManus officially cut — Beer Cheese Benny and TJ break down why Trey Smack is the right move and why the playoff misses sealed McManus's fate ⚖️ Drew from Green Bay digs into the new NFL referee CBA — the league quietly won this negotiation with accountability measures and a developmental bench of refs 🔥 Chris from Alabama goes SCORCHED EARTH on the Jordan Love slander, the "should've drafted a receiver" crowd, and stamps Love as your 2026 NFL MVP Plus Aaron from Idaho asks the hard question — how do you actually quantify "clutch"? Is the Love-isn't-clutch narrative fair, or just lazy Bears-fan cope being recycled by Packer fans who should know better? Hit subscribe, leave a review, and call the show — 608-501-0718. Pack Nation, we ride at midnight. #Packers #GoPackGo #JordanLove #PackernetAfterDark #PackNation #NFL #BrandonMcManus #TreySmack #NFLDraft #PackerNation This episode is brought to you by PrizePicks! Use code PACKDADDY to get started with America's #1 fantasy sports app. https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/PACKDADDY To advertise on this podcast please email: ad-sales@libsyn.com Or go to: https://advertising.libsyn.com/packernetpodcast Help keep the show growing and check out everything I'm building across the Packers and NFL world: Support: Patreon: www.patreon.com/pack_daddy Venmo: @Packernetpodcast CashApp: $packpod Website: https://nfldraftgrades.com/ My Board: https://nfldraftgrades.com/board/83a18c42-7a0b-4590-8d1b-453e49840d02

Ryan goes deep on a post-mortem of the 2025 Green Bay Packers offense — and what he finds is even worse than memory suggests. There was exactly one game all season where the Packers got close to full strength on offense (Week 8 vs. Pittsburgh), and even that came without Jaden Reed and with a rotating right guard. Every other week was a new patch job. 🏈 Week-by-week injury chronology — Watson, Tucker Kraft, Reed, Zach Tom, Elton Jenkins, and Josh Jacobs all missed significant time, often back-to-back-to-back, with no chance for the offense to gel 🏈 The Jordan Morgan position carousel — 51 snaps at LT, 191 at LG, 358 at RG, 219 at RT. A first-round pick asked to play four positions all year 🏈 Sean Ryan, Anthony Belton, Aaron Banks, Darian Kennard, Jacob Monk — the offensive line dysfunction underneath the headline injuries 🏈 Why judging the 2026 Packers on the 2025 product is intellectually lazy — you don't apply that standard to Detroit, Chicago, or Minnesota, so why apply it to Green Bay? If you want to evaluate this roster honestly, you have to evaluate it healthy — same as every other team. Subscribe, share with the Packers fan in your life still doom-posting from December, and join the conversation @Pack_Daddy on Twitter. #Packers #GoPackGo #NFL #PackernetPodcast #JordanLove #ChristianWatson #TuckerKraft #JadenReed #JoshJacobs #ZachTom #EltonJenkins #JordanMorgan #NFCNorth #2026NFLSeason This episode is brought to you by PrizePicks! Use code PACKDADDY to get started with America's #1 fantasy sports app. https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/PACKDADDY To advertise on this podcast please email: ad-sales@libsyn.com Or go to: https://advertising.libsyn.com/packernetpodcast Help keep the show growing and check out everything I'm building across the Packers and NFL world: Support: Patreon: www.patreon.com/pack_daddy Venmo: @Packernetpodcast CashApp: $packpod Website: https://nfldraftgrades.com/ My Board: https://nfldraftgrades.com/board/83a18c42-7a0b-4590-8d1b-453e49840d02

Big Sal is in the driveway at midnight staring at a snow blower he still hasn't fixed — and he's got something to tell you. Yesterday was the excited list. Today is the OTHER list. The five things making Sal pace around in the dark wondering "...but WHAT IF" about the 2026 Green Bay Packers. 🚨 Matthew Golden stepping into the WR2 spotlight with no Romeo Doubs safety net and the entire NFC North studying his tape 🚨 The offensive line depth after Elgton Jenkins walked out the door — and Darian Kinnard as the net under the tightrope 🚨 Two first-round picks gone for Micah Parsons and a thin draft class with no reload button 🚨 Zaire Franklin's coverage exposure against NFC North tight ends and pass-catching backs 🚨 The first four games of 2026 without Micah Parsons on PUP rehabbing his ACL Pack Nation, this is the honest version of Sal — not just the hype version. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Leave a five-star review on Spotify. Tell him he's wrong about something. He's begging you. Go Pack Go. #GoPackGo #Packers #PackerNation #PackernetPodcast #BigSal #LetMeTellYouSomething #NFL #GreenBayPackers #MicahParsons #JordanLove #MatthewGolden #ZaireFranklin #JonathanGannon #NFCNorth #2026NFLSeason This episode is brought to you by PrizePicks! Use code PACKDADDY to get started with America's #1 fantasy sports app. https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/PACKDADDY To advertise on this podcast please email: ad-sales@libsyn.com Or go to: https://advertising.libsyn.com/packernetpodcast Help keep the show growing and check out everything I'm building across the Packers and NFL world: Support: Patreon: www.patreon.com/pack_daddy Venmo: @Packernetpodcast CashApp: $packpod Website: https://nfldraftgrades.com/ My Board: https://nfldraftgrades.com/board/83a18c42-7a0b-4590-8d1b-453e49840d02