A post on Reddit sent me down a rabbit hole from which I can’t return

Today is December 20th, 2024. On this day in 1997, the Packers played the Buffalo Bills in Green Bay. It was 21-0 at the end of the first half and the team’s two biggest stars in Brett Favre and Reggie White got benched to get some rest for the playoffs. But this isn’t the game that I’m writing about. In fact, it took me two hours to find that out.

Let me back up.

Earlier today, the top post on the Green Bay Packers subreddit...

Musgrave has two more weeks to be activated off of the injured reserve

Little changed on the Green Bay Packers’ injury report on Friday, which isn’t a surprise considering the team is going fairly light this week. As head coach Matt LaFleur noted in his post-practice presser today, the team has yet to practice with full pads in their lead-up to their game against the banged-up New Orleans Saints on Monday Night Football.

Starting middle linebacker Quay Walker (ankle) and slot defender Javon Bullard (ankle) remained as non-participants in practice. Walker would be replaced by Eric Wilson, who has stepped...

Green Bay fans are feeling realistic about the team’s chances of catching the Vikings and Lions with three weeks to go.

The Green Bay Packers are in fine shape heading into the final three weeks of the season. The Packers need only win one of their final three games to clinch a playoff spot, and they appear to be peaking in December coming into this final stretch.

Jordan Love is on a roll, Josh Jacobs is punishing opposing defenses, and the Packers’ own defense has been dialing up the pass rush. It feels like it’s all coming together for this...

14 projected top-100 picks at the Packers’ positions of need will play in the first four games

With college football expanding its playoff to 12 teams for the first time, we’ve decided to give you all a primer on the top draft prospects who will play in the first-round games. Here’s the slant, though: We’re doing it from a Green Bay Packers perspective.

The Packers’ top needs going into next year’s draft will likely be the offensive line, defensive line, linebacker unit and cornerback room, considering how young and deep they are at the other positions. So we can go...

These two teams are in very different places from when they met at Lambeau early last season.

The last time the New Orleans Saints played at Lambeau Field, the gameday temperature was 68 degrees Fahrenheit. The game was Jordan Love’s fourth career start at quarterback, and he had yet to find his Toyotathon-fueled elite level of play early on in the 2023 season.

That game came down to the wire, ultimately ending with the Saints missing a potential game-winning field goal to give the Packers an 18-17 victory. That result would be crucially important for both teams, who finished the...

Here’s a look around at the rest of the NFC North

With the Green Bay Packers playing on Monday Night Football this week, they’ll have Sunday off to watch the rest of the NFC North bat each other around. As we head into another weekend of games, here are some notes and news from around the division.

Chicago Bears

DJ Moore checks out - The Bears wide receiver is under fire for a recent comment. With three games left in the 2024 regular season, Moore responded to a question from the media with “what I’m thinking about? Vacation.” You...

Jacobs and his fellow backs are a great fit for Matt LaFleur’s changing schematic tendencies

The Packers’ ground game has a different feel this year than in the past. For most of Matt LaFleur’s tenure in Green Bay, the Packers’ running game has been defined by Aaron Jones’ slashing speed, his willowy form and explosive burst lending itself well to LaFleur’s outside zone schemes.

But LaFleur’s offensive tendencies have trended slightly away from his zone origins over the last few years, and late the Aaron Jones era in Green Bay, Jones was being used much more as an inside runner...

Jordan Love and Josh Jacobs are both hot at the right time.

The Green Bay Packers are on a roll. Yes, they lost to the Detroit Lions two weeks ago, but in that game — and in the other four games since their bye week in mid-November — the team’s offense has been one of the most consistent and effective in the NFL.

The offense has registered at least +11 Expected Points Added in each of those five games, a stretch that few teams can match. (Yes, the Detroit Lions have done that too.) And not surprisingly, that hot streak...

An AFC West division matchup finds two teams battling for playoff seeding this evening.

Both of the NFL’s conferences seem to have most of their playoff teams already set. Seven teams have already clinched spots, leaving only seven more up for grabs. In the AFC, three of the four divisions are already locked in, with the fourth division leader already locking in a postseason berth.

Furthermore, in the AFC, the 7th-place Los Angeles Chargers have a two-game lead on the next-closest teams: Indianapolis, Miami, and Cincinnati, which are all locked at 6-8. That makes this week’s Thursday Night Football game...

“Ted Thompson had nothing to do with the drafting of Jordan Love”

Earlier this week, Netflix released “Aaron Rodgers: Enigma,” a docu-series covering the career of the former Green Bay Packers quarterback. The most interesting scene in the entire series, which shared little new information for those who have followed Rodgers throughout his NFL career, was one where current Packers head coach Matt LaFleur appeared to have told the film crew that former general manager Ted Thompson believed that Jordan Love was “too good to pass up” in the first-round of the 2020 draft.

At the time, Thompson was working...

I’m bored. All of the commentary is poems this week.

Week 15 is over, and for your old-timey power rankings, Peter has you covered somewhere on this site, but over on this side we’re trying something a little different. This is the unholy alliance of technology and the ancient art of the scribe, and we’re using our best cyber technology and knowledge of Haiku, limerick, and existential contemplation to generate objective rankings that also happen to be beautiful. Power rankings are all about arguing about why they’re wrong, and it’s one thing to be subjectively wrong like Peter, and it’s...

It looks like New Orleans will be out its preferred quarterback and preferred running back this week

New Orleans Saints interim head coach Darren Rizzi told the press on Thursday that running back Alvin Kamara’s injury is “more significant than we initially thought.” He added that it “doesn’t look great for this week.”

That’s the last news you wanted to hear out of New Orleans if you’re a Saints fan, as rookie quarterback Spencer Rattler is expected to make a start at snowy Lambeau Field on Monday Night Football. Rattler is New Orleans’ third option, behind the injured Derek Carr...