Packernet Podcast: Green Bay Packers

Tundra FM is off road tonight. Brick Lombardi opens the vault — personal tracks, unfiltered commentary, and music you will not hear anywhere else. This one isn't just about football. It's about what it costs to keep believing. Four songs. Four truths. A BJJ anthem written mid-season that still hits harder than any loss recap — because some wounds don't care what month it is Baby Steps — the Bill Murray coping strategy disguised as a rap song, built for every Packer fan who's ever had to talk themselves off the ledge after a third-quarter collapse Someone's at the Front Door — the saga of Alexa, a hot mic, and a raccoon who got more acknowledgement than half the callers I'm Forever Going to Be a Positive Mother... — a man called in at 5:45 AM to defend this team and this fan base slowly dismantled him, brick by brick, until he had nothing left Brick closes it out the only way he knows how: thirty years in, still doesn't know how to quit. Neither do you. That's why we're here. Subscribe, rate, and review

Big Sal from Peshtigo has had enough. It is April, the draft is weeks away, and the Packers backup quarterback room looks like a refrigerator with nothing but mustard and half a string cheese. Jordan Love has missed starts two seasons running. This is not a surprise. This is a pattern. And Sal is not waiting until week eight to have this conversation. Rodgers and Wilson get the full Peshtigo generator treatment — reputation without reliability, and Sal is closing both topics permanently The case for Jimmy Garoppolo: system familiarity, affordability, and a guy who already knows the menu LaFleur is cooking from Tyrod Taylor deserves more credit than he's getting — 15 seasons, a 94 passer rating in recent limited action, and he won't hand the season to the other team Anthony Richardson is still a Colt and might cost a mid-round pick — but is Sal crazy for wondering if LaFleur could do to Richardson what he did to Malik Willis? Sign Garoppolo. Take a developmental swing in the draft. Do both. Do it now. Sal

Every offseason, like clockwork, someone swoops in to tell Pack Nation the sky is falling — and this year, NFL writer Mike Tannier stepped up to the plate with a Substack piece calling the Packers' offseason an "unmitigated disaster." Ryan isn't having it, and he goes line by line to dismantle the whole thing. Javon Hargrave "injury prone"? Ryan digs into the snap counts and shows this label is completely fabricated — Hargrave was let go for cap reasons, the 49ers tried to re-sign him, and he bounced back with a strong 2025 campaign in Minnesota Sky Moore a "special teams disaster"? Two muffed punts on 67 total returns, and Tannier offers zero elaboration — Ryan unpacks what the actual concern might be and why it doesn't hold up Losing Malik Willis and Jeff Hafley — Ryan acknowledges these are real losses, but explains why neither rises to "disaster" level, and why replacing Malik is literally impossible for any team, let alone one working within a budget The bigger pattern — Ryan dusts off the "Jordan Love

It's another late night at Packernet After Dark, and Pack Daddy and the Pack Nation crew are going deep on all of it — draft strategy, roster construction, AI taking over the world, and somehow, Uncle Rico's pitch to rebrand Lambeau Field. No topic is safe and no caller goes home empty-handed. TJ from Alabama fires off a sharp take on last year's offensive line being the real reason the Packers' season fell apart — and Ryan breaks down why Watson, Reed, Craft, and Jacobs finally playing healthy together could flip the script in 2025. Then the debate gets philosophical: is best player available actually just need-based drafting with extra steps? Ryan makes the case that the two strategies are more alike than anyone wants to admit. The receiver room fit question: does Gute draft by prototype or just take the best available Packer fit? Tight end depth, corner scarcity, and why you're going to be disappointed by the draft no matter what Tundra FM is already getting people in trouble at the gym — Randy from Min

The Draft Room is back and catching up on everything that piled up during the brief hiatus — and there's a lot to get to, Pack Nation. Ryan leads off with Dominique Orange ("Big Citrus"), who held a private workout attended by 10 teams — including your Green Bay Packers — and showed elite lateral movement before pulling up with hamstring tightness at the 35-yard line. Is he a Day 2 lock? And just how serious is the NFC North's trench arms race? Then it's a full tour of the draft landscape: Defensive Tackle: Peter Woods disappoints at his Pro Day; Xavian Harris goes under the knife and craters to a late-round grade Offensive Tackle: The Fano vs. Maui Noah debate at the top, Caden Proctor emerging as a potential left tackle solution for the Lions, and why the Chiefs may hold the key to the whole board Cornerback: Mansoor Delane drops a 4.38 at LSU's Pro Day, erasing speed concerns — could he go as early as Pick 7? Tight End: The class is in trouble. Max Claire, Joe Royer, and Michael Trigg all raise red fl

It's 11:30 on a Tuesday night, and Brick Lombardi is sitting in a cold truck in the driveway — engine off, silence doing what silence does. Thirty years behind a microphone. Thirty years of winning football and the other kind. Tonight, he puts all of it to music. Four original songs. Four different angles on the same wound. The Collapsing Machine — the confession every Packers fan has been afraid to say out loud: we keep building castles and we keep watching them fall, every January, right on schedule Out of Excuses — Brick had the LaFleur defense memorized. 76 wins, young core, two NFC Championship games. He doesn't have it anymore — not out of anger, but out of something quieter and harder to shake Is Your Name Tom — a late-night song written at 2 a.m. for a caller Brick couldn't stop thinking about, standing in a dark kitchen in the middle of the night Do You Have the Heart — four Lombardis on the shelf. They don't care how you feel. The only question is whether you belong here or not This is Tundra F

Big Sal from Peshtigo sat down on a perfectly good Wednesday, got sent a link, and now none of us can have nice things. A Chicago Bears YouTube channel dropped a video claiming Ryan Poles "sent a message" this offseason — and Sal watched every single minute of it so you didn't have to. The verdict? It's not analysis. It's optimism in a trench coat. Hayes from Bears Central calls Devin Bush — the guy Pittsburgh walked away from — one of the most underrated signings of the offseason. Sal has thoughts. Loud ones. Shamar Turner played five games and recorded six total tackles. Ryan Poles says he was supposed to be right there with the rest of the rookie class. He was not right there. The video argues T.J. Edwards should stay AND that Devin Bush is the future. Sal explains, slowly, why you cannot do both. One man. One lane. And the Green Bay Packers are waiting at Lambeau — twice — while Chicago hits the loading screen. Subscribe, leave a rating, and pass this one to every Bears fan in your life. They need it.

Pack Nation, the Packers' pre-draft visitor list just got longer — and some of these names are worth paying very close attention to. Pack Daddy breaks down six newly surfaced top 30 visits, running the full scouting report on each prospect and what their presence in the building might signal about Green Bay's draft strategy heading into April. Anthony Smith (WR, ECU): A 6'3" track star with elite deep speed, 1,053 yards in 2025, and a 92 PFF grade on deep targets — a classic boom-or-bust vertical threat with a Gabe Davis pro comp and likely UDFA landing spot Caleb Proctor (DT, SE Louisiana): A walk-on turned SLC Defensive Player of the Year with a 90 pass rush grade and elite combine athleticism — the production is real, but the competition level questions linger Christian Miller (DT, Georgia): Possibly the most important visit on this list — an elite run-defending tackle with 90 PFF run defense grade and a Jonathan Gannon connection through Jordan Davis that's hard to ignore Jayden Duggar (LB, Louisiana):

Brick Lombardi is behind the mic and the full Tundra FM broadcast is live — and this one's got everything. From the elation of snapping a losing skid to the quiet devastation of a 24-second collapse, this episode hits every frequency Pack Nation runs on.

Big Sal from Peshtigo has been sitting on this story for two days. He tried to be a bigger person. He failed. And he feels absolutely fantastic about it. The Chicago Bears — a franchise with 105 years of history in the city of Chicago — may be packing up and moving to Hammond, Indiana because the Illinois state legislature couldn't pass a property tax bill. Sal breaks down the full, glorious, historic collapse of this situation and he is not holding back. How does a franchise that already OWNS 326 acres in Arlington Heights end up in a different state? Sal walks through every step of Springfield's stunning failure to show up Indiana passed their stadium bill 24-0 in February. Governor Braun signed it before the month was out. Illinois canceled a hearing and checked their phones The Bears are still paying off the 2003 Soldier Field renovation — over half a billion dollars — on a building they can't wait to leave The Packers angle: while Chicago spends six years arguing about ZIP codes, Green Bay is quietly

Green Bay's pre-draft process is in full swing, and the top 30 visit list is starting to take shape. Ryan breaks down all eight prospects the Packers have officially brought in for visits — from a viral Senior Bowl standout with zero college offers to a 335-pound interior lineman who dropped 20 pounds and dominated his pro day after getting snubbed from the combine. Ted Hurst (WR, Georgia State): The zero-offer, brother-got-him-recruited story culminates with a 6'4" boundary X with a 4.42 forty and a one-handed grab that broke the internet at Mobile Romelo Height (EDGE, Texas Tech): The potential second-round crown jewel of the visit list — a Micah Parsons-mold pass rusher who fits the Gannon front four scheme perfectly Charles Demings (CB, SFA): Six-foot-one, 32-inch arms, 4.41 forty, 42-inch vert — an Eric Stokes comp who went from mowing lawns to torching the combine Mike Washington Jr. (RB, Arkansas): 6'2", 228 pounds, 4.33 forty — the most electric athlete on the list, but the draft slot math is compli

Pack Nation, Andy from Kansas is back and he is absolutely locked in tonight. Ryan and Andy go deep on one of the most important — and most misunderstood — conversations in Packer fandom right now: what actually happened during that brutal five-game losing streak, and why the hot takes coming out of national media are missing the point entirely. Joe Thomas gets called out for his oversimplified "unleash Jordan Love" take — Ryan and Andy dismantle the argument with historical QB comparisons, from Elway under Shanahan to Brady's system mastery to Peyton Manning needing help before winning it all The losing streak gets the breakdown it deserves — Denver without Parsons, Thomas Booker's dirty hits on Jordan Love, Edrian Cooper's absence turning the Bears playoff game, and a decimated Malik Willis-led offense in the final week Player ego vs. coaching authority — why Andy's "stages of grief" framework perfectly captures where most Packer fans are stuck right now, and why the team is better than the ending suggest

Brick Lombardi fires up the transmitter for another night on Tundra FM — the only place on the Packers internet where the commentary comes with a full backing track. Randy from Minnesota sent in the first-ever song request before the show even went live, and honestly? That tells you everything you need to know about Randy. Welcome to the family.

Ed Policy put it in writing — a true alternate uniform is coming to Green Bay as part of the NFL's NFC North rivalries package — and Big Sal from Peshtigo is not sitting down about it. This is either the greatest thing to happen to this franchise's visual identity in thirty years, or it is going to start a war in Wisconsin. Sal is fired up, he is breaking it all down, and he has a lot of feelings about the word uniqueness. Policy confirmed the alternate will "celebrate owners and emphasize uniqueness" — and Sal explains exactly why that phrase should mean everything to 185,000 shareholders A full walk through Packers alternate uniform history: the navy and gold era, the brown helmets, the Classic uniforms, and what comes next Why the community ownership story is unlike anything else in American professional sports — and why any uniform that doesn't honor that will be met with loud, prolonged consequences Big Sal's warning to Nike and the organization: do it like you know who you are Subscribe,

Jonathan Gannon's defense doesn't need an overhaul in Green Bay — because the Packers may have already built it for him. In this deep-dive episode, Ryan breaks down the "Anchor vs. Hunter" framework that defines Gannon's edge rusher usage, tracing the blueprint from his time in Philadelphia and Arizona all the way to the current Green Bay roster. Anchor vs. Hunter defined: How Gannon deploys two distinct edge rusher archetypes — and where Van Ness, Micah Parsons, Brenton Cox, Sorrell, and Colin Oliver currently fit on that spectrum Round-by-round edge targets: Full breakdown from Round 2 through Round 7, including Romelo Height (Texas Tech), Joshua Josephs (Tennessee), Danny Dennis Sutton (Penn State), George Gums (Florida), Mason Rieger (Wisconsin), and more The Hassan Reddick comp you need to hear: Why Romelo Height may be the most scheme-perfect speed rusher in this class for what Gannon wants on the weak side Hidden gem alert: Wisconsin's Mason Rieger posts a 15.4% pressure rate and back-to-back elite

The Packers aren't just tweaking their offensive line — they're rebuilding it with a completely different philosophy. Pack Daddy breaks down the evidence behind Green Bay's deliberate shift toward a bigger, more physical interior built for gap and power run schemes, and then goes prospect by prospect to find who fits that mold in the 2026 NFL Draft. The Philosophy Shift Is Confirmed: From Gutekunst's own words at the Combine to film room breakdowns showing the Packers' rise in gap scheme efficiency, this isn't a coincidence — it's a coordinated rebuild around duo, power, and pulling linemen that's been building since Josh Jacobs arrived. Guards Galore: Pregnan and Besantis are likely gone, but Keelan Rutledge (953 RAS, 505 forty), Jalen Farmer (984 RAS), and late-round maulers like Jaden Roberts and Micah Morris give the Packers real options at every round — with Morris drawing the loudest excitement as a seventh-round steal at 6'5", 334 lbs with a 997 RAS. The Center Question: Connor Liu's ACL and frame ar

Pack Nation, it's another wild night in the After Dark bunker — and the callers brought the heat. From Caller Roulette chaos to deep NFL system takes, this one goes all over the map in the best possible way. Uncle Rico takes over the lines — multiple calls covering stadium naming rights, the value of the Combine and pro days, and whether scouts are wasting their time watching stopwatches from the nosebleeds Batman drops a full ref reform manifesto — breaking down why NFL officials making $250K to work Sundays should be full-time employees hired on merit, not seniority, and why technology needs to do more of the heavy lifting The Rooney Rule sparks a fiery debate — a caller from Green Bay brings up the Florida AG's legal threat against the NFL, leading to an unfiltered discussion on race-based hiring policy, Caucasian anthropology (yes, really), and whether the rule is even coherent James from California delivers an elite Jordan Love segment — third-down brilliance, MVP ceiling talk, Matthew Golden's breakou

Pack Daddy breaks down five Pro Day workouts in one loaded Draft Room session, covering Texas A&M, Nebraska, TCU, Houston, and Mississippi State. With 32 NFL teams scouting these schools, the talent is deeper than the rankings suggest — and a few names are quietly forcing their way onto Day Three boards right now. Texas A&M leads the group with 13 draftable prospects, headlined by WR Casey Concepcion and a deep distribution of Day 2–3 value. Keep an eye on RB Levy'on Moss as a potential steal if his durability concerns fade — teams are already buying dinner. Nebraska's Emmett Johnson cemented himself as a legitimate fourth-round back with strong Pro Day times, while safety Deshaun Singleton's 39.5" vert and length profile are drawing serious Bengals, Saints, and Titans interest. TCU's linebacker duo of Nnamdi Obiaze and Caleb Bor stole the show in a rare night session, with Bor posting a 4:47/40 and 40-inch vert that had Colts, Broncos, and Cowboys LB coaches buzzing. Mississippi State's ZICO — in

Tundra FM is back on the Packernet Podcast Network, and Brick Lombardi isn't wasting a second of your time. Five original tracks. Five different moods. One show that hits harder than a Javon Bullard open-field tackle. Pacula kicks things off like every great monster movie — you think it's over, then the hand comes out of the dirt. That's this team. That's this song. Bulls on Parade is a full Jevon Bullard breakdown set to music — two national championships, 85 tackles in year one, played in a boot, played with a cast, and still answered every call. #58, remember the name. Desert Hearts is Brick doing something few hosts will — respecting the other fanbase's feelings for real. Cardinals fans felt something that day. This song honors it. Record Rules goes straight at the playoff seeding structure. Brick agrees with the Lions' proposal. Fourteen wins, seven seed. He said what he said. Not Here closes the show cold and honest — 38 men held the line when one walked. This team chose to build past the damage. Thi

Big Sal couldn't sleep. It's two-thirty in the morning in Peshtigo, Wisconsin, and one YouTube rabbit hole later — cheetahs, stolen bases, curvilinear sprinting — and the man tweaked his back getting out of a recliner and came away more fired up about the 2026 Packers than he's been in six months. This one's about speed. Real speed. And why almost everyone is measuring it wrong. Track fast vs. football fast — Big Sal breaks down why a 4.21 forty doesn't automatically make you dangerous on a football field, and why Xavier Worthy's sophomore season proves the point Jayden Reed is being slept on — His three-cone drill puts him in the top 10% for receivers at the combine, and Sal is done calling this man a backup generator when he might be the whole power grid Jordan Love + a feel receiver = plays that look like magic — When your QB processes as fast as Love does, pairing him with receivers who find fast isn't a luxury — it's a weapon the league hasn't fully accounted for Matthew Golden walks into the perfect s