Packers Talk

Jordan Love just walked out of Ford Field with four touchdown passes, an NFC Offensive Player of the Week award, and the season sweep over the Detroit Lions…and now the suddenly grown-up Green Bay Packers are staring down a December double-header with the division-leading Chicago Bears. On this week’s Cheesehead Radio #376, CD Angeli, Kelly Hodgson, and Jersey Al Bracco break down how a team that started the year searching for its identity might now be the most dangerous kind of contender: one that finally knows how to win ugly.The gang opens the show revisiting the Thanksgiving win in Detroit—not with a dry recap, but with one big takeaway each. Al dishes out flowers (pun absolutely intended) for Matt LaFleur’s ultra-aggressive game plan, CD breaks down how Jordan Love has shifted from sideways throws and bubble screens to slicing up defenses in the intermediate zones, and Kelly raves about Jeff Hafley’s emerging “grown-man” defense powered by Micah Parsons and a suddenly nasty pass rush. This isn’t the fine