Packernet Podcast: Green Bay Packers

Ryan rips through the latest NFL news on this loaded edition of the Packernet Podcast — from the Vikings' assistant-GM-of-the-week parade to Aaron Rodgers' expected landing spot in Pittsburgh, with contract talks reportedly hovering around $30 million per year. Then it's time for the main event: a full-throated demolition of a clueless Bears-fan journalist who tried to argue the Rams shouldn't have drafted Ty Simpson — and used Jordan Love as his "evidence." Spoiler: it doesn't go well for him. Key topics covered: Aaron Rodgers and the Steelers reportedly closing in on a deal — and why $30 million isn't actually crazy in today's quarterback market The 2027 NFL Draft class is being hyped as potentially generational, validating Green Bay's decision to stockpile next year's picks A point-by-point takedown of the absurd argument that the Packers should've drafted T Higgins instead of Jordan Love — and why that fantasy timeline collapses the second you actually think about it Rotowire's "most hated NFL team" ra

Brick Lombardi opens the mic on another Tuesday where three more things became illegal to say by Thursday — and Tundra FM is the show that doesn't fill out the form. Five songs deep, this one runs the full spectrum: from satirical rage at the ever-shrinking dictionary to the quiet, heavy weight of loving a team that doesn't always love you back the same way. What's inside this episode: "Canceled" — A blistering alphabet anthem about the words that vanish overnight, the committees that approve the messages, and the handbook that updates on Tuesdays. "Could You Be Love (Part Two)" — A reggae-tinged second verse for Jordan Love, because the question keeps getting bigger and the answer isn't done yet. "Lambo's Nightmare Two" — The blame storm returns. Players? Coach? Scheme? Every Packer fan is fighting a different war in the same stadium. "Lonely / The Heaviest Crown" — The closer. Decades of standing in the cold, counting seasons instead of trophies, and the cost of a love that keeps asking for m

  Pack Nation, Big Sal from Peshtigo is fired up — and this time it started with a headline. The Chicago Sun-Times ran a piece calling the Bears "stable by comparison," and brother, that is the rallying cry of a team that has already accepted third place. Big Sal reads it word for word and tears it apart brick by brick. The Bears' beat writer called Caleb Williams' year-three ceiling "making questions a little less acute" — while Jordan Love is 26 years old, healthy, and surrounded by a full arsenal. Big Sal explains what that gap actually looks like on a cold November Sunday. Garrett Bradbury and a non-premium safety. That is the offseason that earned the "stable" headline. Big Sal is not trying to be mean — he just needs you to see it for what it is. Micah Parsons is coming back. Jonathan Gannon is building a defense on purpose. And the projections — buried in the same article celebrating stability — have Chicago finishing third. Big Sal noticed. Patrick Finley should save this episode. Subs

Pack Daddy is back and the phone lines are wide open — and Uncle Rico shows up three times to absolutely destroy everyone's brain. Tonight's After Dark goes deep on whether the consensus big board is actually worth anything, why AI and robotics might end employment as we know it, and what happens when the economy runs out of humans to pay. It's the philosophical crisis you didn't know you needed on a Monday night. Uncle Rico goes on a trilogy run — questioning the value of consensus big boards, attempting to unpack the UBI/robotics economy loop (and nearly succeeding), and wondering aloud why Chase Claypool chose the Packers over literally anyone else The Gannon media blackout gets discussed — why he's reportedly been kept quiet, and the tension between wanting insider access and what's actually best for the team Batman drops a hot take that Pack Daddy agrees with on tomorrow's podcast: GuteKunst has quietly had a masterclass offseason and the fanbase just refuses to give him credit because it wasn't flashy

Ryan Schlipp is fired up — and he's got the math to back it up.

Pack Nation calls in HOT on this edition of Packernet After Dark, and Ryan doesn't hold back either. What starts as a pile-on against ESPN's take on Lucas Van Ness snowballs into one of the most honest conversations about football media literacy, fan psychology, and why so many people refuse to evolve their thinking — even when the evidence is stacked against them.

Big Sal came in with notes — written on a grocery receipt, because that's who he is — and he was ready to torch the Tyrod Taylor signing. A 36-year-old journeyman. Seven prior teams. One and three with the Jets last year. This was supposed to be easy. Then he looked up the actual numbers, and now he's standing in Peshtigo holding a receipt that says this might actually be fine.

Big Sal from Peshtigo is screaming at the ceiling fan, and Pac Nation, this one is keeping him up at night. The Giants just fumbled the bag on DJ Reader, and Brian Gutekunst's phone should already be lighting up. In this fired-up rant, Sal lays out exactly why Green Bay's defensive line is missing its foundation:

Ryan resists the urge to "do stupid every day" and instead grinds through a loaded slate of NFL news, Packers updates, and a brutally honest deep dive into the free agent market. With 318 names floating in free agency, Ryan walks through why most of them can't help Green Bay — and where there's still one real itch the Packers haven't scratched. NFL News & Notes: The Disney/ESPN vs. Comcast standoff over NFL Network and RedZone, the Colts declining Anthony Richardson's fifth-year option, Calais Campbell signing with Baltimore at 40 years old, the Browns' Watson/Shedeur circus, and Russell Wilson retirement/TV chatter. Packers Updates: Minnesota favored to host the 2028 NFL Draft, Malik Muhammad's now-viral non-reaction to being drafted by the Bears, the Trey Smack trade-up details, five of six rookies signed (Brandon Sayer the holdout watch), and a hard reality check on the Chase Claypool tryout hype. Free Agency Deep Dive: Why Ryan keeps circling back to edge rusher as the one true need — Joey Bosa, Haa

Brick Lombardi cracks open the vault for a four-track journey that starts in the trenches against Cleveland and somehow ends up in a Lambeau trap house. Thirty years in radio and he's still finding new neighborhoods inside this frozen cathedral. Pull up a stool, the signal's strong tonight. Inside this episode of Tundra FM: Dog Pound Showdown — A cold-war anthem revisiting that defensive slugfest with the Browns, where the only thing that traveled to Lambeau was the green-and-gold armor. Nerds in Lambeau — The spreadsheet samurai finally get their theme song. EPA per drop back, CPOE, success rate — basement mic statisticians, this one's for you. The Lambo Beast / When the Stars Align — Cinematic mythology stitching together the Reggie-and-Favre era, the Rodgers-Woodson-Matthews awakening, and the question every cold Sunday in Wisconsin keeps asking: does Jordan Love wake the beast next? Pond D, Frozen Tundra — Packers trap music. It shouldn't work on paper. It works. If something hit you right tonight, s

Sit down, Pack Nation. Pull off the road. Tell the wife to hold dinner. Big Sal's got a Sal Story Time so dark it kept him up at night and had him staring at the bird feeder for two hours before he could even eat his sandwich. Every team in the NFL has skeletons — but the Green Bay Packers hold a record nobody wants and nobody talks about: we are the ONLY franchise in league history to draft a confirmed serial killer. In this episode, Sal breaks down: Pick 428 of the 1974 NFL Draft — a Portland State wide receiver named Randall Woodfield, whose juvenile arrests were buried by his high school coaches and whose warning lights were flashing like the dashboard of a thirty-year-old pickup How Dan Devine cut him in camp because the indecent exposure didn't stop in a Packers uniform — but Woodfield stuck around Wisconsin, played semi-pro for the Manitowoc Chiefs, and worked at Oshkosh Truck before going home to Oregon The I-5 Killer spree that followed his 1979 parole — one confirmed murder, at least eighteen lin

The Green Bay Packers exercised the fifth year option on Lucas Van Ness — and somehow ESPN thinks that's the dumbest move of the offseason. Ryan breaks down the tape, the cap math, and the logic (or lack thereof) behind the wave of criticism coming from multiple ESPN Milwaukee and Madison personalities who seem convinced the Packers just made a catastrophic mistake. The $14 million myth: Ryan methodically dismantles the idea that Van Ness' fifth year option is some massive, reckless investment — when the top pass rusher in the NFL is making $50 million a year, this is literally bottom-third money for a legitimate contributor The sack obsession: ESPN's analysts lean entirely on Van Ness' three sack total while ignoring his 15% pressure rate, 76 PFF overall grade, and the fact he played only 300 snaps — Ryan does the math they refused to do The Rashawn Gary false equivalence: One ESPN host tries to draw a parallel between Gary's contract situation and Van Ness' option — Ryan explains why that comparison falls