Packers Talk

Chris Lempesis is back in the basement Packer room in Milwaukee to break down what can only be described as… a football-shaped shrug.If you sat through the entire 2 hours and 45 minutes of Green Bay’s 16–3 loss to the Minnesota Vikings at U.S. Bank Stadium, give yourself a gold star, a warm blanket, and possibly a small tax credit. Because “meaningless regular season finale” doesn’t even begin to cover what this was. This was a glorified preseason game with Clayton Tune, a bunch of backups, an announcing crew that felt like CBS’s Z-team, and a vibe so sleepy that someone on BlueSky claimed even Larry McCarren sounded disinterested — and folks, if you’ve lost Larry, what hope is there for the rest of us?The Packers sat damn near every key player, prioritizing rest over rust to avoid a Week 18 repeat of last year’s nightmare (Christian Watson ACL, we remember). And hey — mostly mission accomplished… except for the part where Javon Bullard somehow stayed in long enough to tweak his knee (why?) and Bo Melton also