How Do You Like Them Apples? | Packers Therapy #511

Chris and Dave are back after a 45-27 demolition in Foxborough that might be the most impressive Packers win in two seasons. Green Bay is 6-3, still last in a brutal NFC North, and holding the seventh seed. Two guys who were ready to bury this team after Atlanta spend the hour trying to square that with what they just watched: Jordan Love’s 153.2 passer rating, Matthew Golden and Christian Watson each going over 150 yards with a touchdown for the first time by a Packers duo since 1942, Trey Smack perfect on seven kicks, and four takeaways from a defense playing with half its linebacker room.

Neither has fully come around, but they’re circling it from different angles. One keeps asking why it took weeks to figure out Kevin Zeitler should be on the field and marvels at a defensive coordinator who walks onto the field during timeouts and seems to actually be coaching. The other throws cold water on the Caleb Johnson enthusiasm by doing the math on his carries, then turns around and argues this defense will finish top seven in yards and points. They both land on the same uncomfortable truth about Jordan Love, the same nervousness about what Micah Parsons will actually look like when he returns, and the same question about whether Brian Gutekunst should spend at the deadline.

Minnesota comes to Lambeau at noon Sunday with the league’s best pass defense and a blitz rate nobody enjoys. One of these two thinks the Packers take it. The other wants to get past this one in one piece.

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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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