Welcome back to Packers Therapy, where Chris and Dave celebrate Thanksgiving week the only way they know how: by taking a perfectly enjoyable Packers win and dissecting it like a frog in freshman biology. The boys wade into a 23–6 takedown of Minnesota — a game that somehow managed to be both an old-school beatdown and an emotional endurance test for fans with traumatic Viking-related childhood memories.
Chris admits he spent the opening drive panic-pausing his TV like a man defusing a bomb, while Dave confesses he needed multiple podcasts and maybe a Xanax to understand why the Packers insisted on running the ball 42 consecutive times like Mike Sherman possessed Matt LaFleur’s body.
But it all starts to make sense (well, Packers Therapy–level sense) once Andy Herman’s theory surfaces: Jordan Love’s left shoulder is basically held together with stubbornness and painter’s tape. So Lafleur decided, “Hey, let’s win this game 1954-style.”
They dive into:
- *The Zayne Anderson Special Teams Awakening, (aka the play that broke Minnesota’s will to live)
- *Micah Parsons’ official inauguration as a one-man natural disaster
- *The bizarre moment Devonte Wyatt nearly linebacker-slammed Keyshawn Nixon into the afterlife
- *Belton the Behemoth, and how the O-line’s newest truck-sized human might explain the run-run-run-run-run-run-run-play-action illusion
- *The ever-expanding crisis known as “Matt LaFleur’s Permanent Conservative Phase”
- *Why the Lions will absolutely not cooperate with 17–9 rock fights
- *Jordan Love’s increasingly nerve-wracking tendency to throw “YOLO balloons” into triple coverage
- *Dave’s belief that if the Packers lose because of conservatism, LaFleur will need to go into witness protection
Then it’s time for the Ha Ha Clinton-Dix Picks, where the guys discover the horrifying truth that five-year-olds, spouses, house pets, and Russian bots are consistently outperforming the adults in the room. Judy rules the week. Richard suffers humiliation at home. Tom Freeman writes a limerick about Beano and casino plumbing. Klaus checks in from Norway, presumably during his six-hour work week.
It’s Packers Therapy at its best: unhinged, overcaffeinated, strangely poetic, and held together by sarcasm, questionable metaphors, and deep football trauma.
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Posting its first show in 2005, Packers Therapy is the longest-running Packers podcast on the Internet. Hosts Chris and Dave began the show as a way of capturing the spirited chats the two co-workers had about the team around the office. The two have no pretense about being experts: they are just two opinionated shareholders who love the team, follow it closely, but don’t always see the Packers fortunes eye to eye.
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