Kyle & Brust

It’s technically a Victory Monday on Kyle & Brust, but nobody seems ready for a parade. The Packers escape New York with a 20-17 overtime win, snapping their six-game losing streak despite finishing with fewer than 200 yards of offense, piling up penalties and needing the Jets to stumble late. Kyle calls it the most disappointed he’s ever been after a Packers victory and says Green Bay looks nothing like the championship contender he expected entering the season. The biggest fallout is Kyle finally saying he has lost all faith in Matt LaFleur. He and Ben question the offense’s lack of discipline, LaFleur’s play calling and another sequence where Green Bay followed a huge Skyy Moore return by running the ball twice and killing its momentum. Meanwhile, Tucker Kraft delivers a similar warning from inside the locker room, saying the Packers can’t allow a win to mask their problems. Plus, the offensive-line situation somehow gets even stranger. Kyle reacts to LaFleur revealing the Packers briefly considered putting Tucker Kraft at tackle when injuries left them with only four available offensive linemen, and argues putting one of the offense’s most valuable weapons in that position while he’s returning from an ACL injury would have been an enormous risk.

The 3PM hour of Kyle & Brust checks the receipts from Friday’s biggest Packers-Jets questions, and Kyle’s prediction immediately comes back to haunt him. He thought a Packers win would make Jordan Love Monday’s headline, but instead Matt LaFleur dominates the conversation after another frustrating offensive performance. Kyle explains why he’s lost faith in LaFleur and believes Green Bay’s offense has become the weakness of a roster built to contend. The offensive line isn’t helping. Injuries continue to pile up, and Jason Wilde joins the show to say the Packers are in “dire straits” up front. Wilde questions both the development and construction of the line, wonders why Green Bay has been hesitant to play Jagger Burton and points out another alarming problem: 26 penalties through two games, the most by the Packers through two games since penalty tracking began 85 years ago. There are reasons for optimism, though. Skyy Moore has transformed the return game, Lukas Van Ness finally delivered the type of performance Green Bay envisioned when it picked up his fifth-year option, and Micah Parsons is already providing leadership from the sideline. If LVN keeps producing and Parsons eventually returns to the field, the Packers could have something dangerous brewing on defense.

The 4PM hour of Kyle & Brust asks whether Packers fans are emotionally prepared for what could be a very long season. Kyle admits the overtime win over the Jets has him feeling better, but believes every game could become a four-quarter grind. That leads back to Matt LaFleur, as Kyle questions why the offense lacks the clear identity and energy Green Bay appears to have on defense and special teams. The K&B fam brings some historical perspective, comparing today’s frustrations to the Packers teams of the 1970s and ’80s. Kyle admits he’s been spoiled by three decades of winning football, but argues that makes watching a talented roster underachieve even more frustrating. One longtime fan who lived through those lean years agrees there’s a major difference now: this Packers team has talent and expectations. Then Bryan Bulaga joins the show to diagnose an offensive line decimated by injuries. Bulaga saw some improvement against the Jets, but says blown assignments remain and Green Bay still has a long way to go. He also explains why Caleb Johnson deserves more carries, why stupid personal fouls may require benching players and why he would have preferred Matt LaFleur attack the Jets after Skyy Moore’s huge return instead of going conservative with run-run-pass.

The 2PM hour of Kyle & Brust turns the page toward Packers-Jets and asks the question hanging over Green Bay: can this really happen again? Kyle admits another loss is possible after the offensive line’s disastrous opener, but says a repeat performance would force serious questions about Luke Butkus and the entire operation. Josh DiMaggio joins the conversation and actually picks the Jets, leaving Kyle to declare that he’s going down with the Packers ship rather than abandoning them after one game. The guys also debate whether Matt LaFleur can do anything Sunday to change how Packers fans view him. Kyle says simply beating the Jets won’t earn LaFleur any extra credit after Green Bay’s six-game losing streak and repeated inability to finish games. The expectation is to win, protect Jordan Love and prove the Week 1 collapse didn’t expose problems that will define the entire season. Plus, Kyle delivers the pregame speech he wishes LaFleur would give the Packers, while Sean Rhyan keeps his actual message much simpler: protect Jordan Love and move the ball. After Love was hit 18 times against Minnesota, Kyle wants to see Green Bay’s offensive line respond with some attitude and finally show an edge against the Jets.

The 3PM hour of Kyle & Brust puts the guys on the record with their five biggest questions entering Packers-Jets. Can Trey Smack handle potentially ugly kicking conditions? Will Green Bay’s offensive line actually hold up? Kyle predicts Jordan Love will take fewer than 10 hits and believes the protection will at least be good enough to win, while Ben remains unconvinced. The guys also expect changes up front, with Kyle predicting Aaron Banks and Anthony Belton will become the new starting guards. Then comes the most important question: will Kyle still be in “Packers psychosis” on Monday? Ben bets Kyle $20 on Green Bay failing to cover the 3.5-point spread, adding another layer of potential pain to a game Kyle insists the Packers desperately need to win. Rain could complicate matters even further, especially with Green Bay struggling to run the football while the Jets feature Breece Hall and Braelon Allen. Plus, Guess Who? revisits Kyle’s wildest comments from a week spent processing the Packers’ sixth straight loss, from blaming Green Bay’s offensive-line development on seemingly everybody to explaining why Ben secretly enjoys watching him suffer. And yes, that infamous “Baby, I can’t right now” clip makes another appearance.