Packers Talk

Chris Lempesis is back in the basement Packer room, beer in hand, emotional fog fully engaged, trying to explain the unexplainable after Green Bay’s soul-crushing 22–16 overtime loss to the Chicago Bears at Soldier Field.He opens the show with brutal honesty: a day later, he’s still got nothing. No clever hook. No witty opener. Just disbelief — and that alone tells you everything you need to know about how catastrophic this loss really was.Lempesis walks listeners through how the Packers’ collapse didn’t actually begin with the botched onside kick or the overtime disaster — it started much earlier. He lays out, in painstaking detail, how five red-zone trips produced just nine points, and why that failure set the table for everything that followed. Along the way, he takes direct aim at Matt LaFleur’s decision-making, questioning red-zone play calls, fourth-down aggression, and whether the head coach lost his nerve when the moment demanded killer instinct.From there, the focus shifts to the final unraveling — t