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Ty & Bob Pod: History against Matt LaFleur getting the Green Bay Packers to the Super Bowl
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Ty & Bob Pod: History against Matt LaFleur getting the Green Bay Packers to the Super Bowl

You won't want to miss this two-hour discussion on the state of the Green Bay Packers and Minnesota Vikings after their demoralizing playoff exits.

So, what now?

The Green Bay Packers entered the 2024 season with realistic Super Bowl expectations, and they now exit without a true signature win. This team suffered yet another disheartening playoff defeat. Yes, they’re young. Yes, they’ll fully expect to get more opportunities. But nobody in history has taken sharper autopsy views of Packers seasons quite like Bob McGinn, our Hall of Fame scribe.

We’ve got quite a two-hour episode for you in the wake of Green Bay’s 22-10 loss at Philadelphia and Minnesota’s 27-9 loss to the Los Angeles Rams.

McGinn shares a stat that’ll boggle the mind. Only five head coaches have won a Super Bowl from their seventh year or beyond with a team: Andy Reid (seventh with the Chiefs, after 14 title-less seasons with the Eagles), John Madden (eighth with the Raiders), Hank Stram (10th with the Chiefs), Tom Landry (12th with the Cowboys) and Bill Cowher (14th with the Steelers). When a coach wins a Super Bowl, he usually does it relatively quickly with a team.

(Note: Technically, Vince Lombardi was in his eighth year when he won his first Super Bowl in the 1966 season. Of course, he had already won three NFL titles. Stram won the Super Bowl in the fourth year of the game’s existence. Landry won the Super Bowl in its sixth year of its existence.)

Pressure is building.

LaFleur enters Year No. 7 with the Packers in 2025.

We discuss exactly where this franchise has gone stale and whether the Packers can freshen things up. A bold swing is needed. Miscalculations were made by many parties all season long from the head coach to the general manager to the quarterback.

Meanwhile, after winning 14 regular-season games, the Minnesota Vikings sure expected a lot more than such a reprehensible defeat. All season, we’ve been singing the praises of Sam Darnold. Two humiliating defeats should drastically change the direction of the QB position in Minnesota. We figure out what Kwesi Adofo-Mensah and Kevin O’Connell will do at the most important position in sports.

The theme of the show? Playoff losses have consequences. Always.

If you don’t change something — substantial — you can fully expect the same results year… to year… to year… to year. In these two losses, there are lessons to glean for all 32 NFL teams. Thank you for making the “Ty & Bob Pod” your weekly NFC North fix all season long.

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