Cheeseheads in Chicagoland

The Green Bay Packers beat the Mike McCarthy and Dak Prescott led Dallas Cowboys 48-32, but it wasn't actually that close. Kyle Shanahan said he started scouting the Packers midway through the second quarter, and we started entertaining the thought of playing the 49ers after the second drive. Jordan Love was basically flawless. The defense was solid. Anders Carlson missed an extra point. Two of these things are regular occurrences, one is unusual. We hope the unusual one shows up again on Saturday night. The Packers were projected to be rebuilding. They won a playoff game. We'd like it if they won a second playoff game because this team is fun to watch and we'd like to keep watching them. Stay cheesy, drink beer, watch football. You don't have to be nervous about the game on Saturday. It's all found money at this point.

The Packers beat the Bears to squeak into the playoffs, where they'll face off against Mike McCarthy's Dallas Cowboys. Matt LaFluer has still not lost to the Chicago Bears yet. The ownership of the Bears has transferred to Jordan Love, we'll see if he inherited the ownership of Jerry World on Sunday. Mike & Matt discuss their least favorite but most memorable experiences with the public at work and chat about how maybe it's time for Bill Belichick to hang up the sleeveless hoodie. Don't do TV Bill. Matt went through some of the earlier episodes from this season and found some of the takes Mike was right about. Jayden Reed does have sauce, the Packers did finish with 7 to 9 wins, Jordan Love's accuracy issues were overblown, and Sean Payton is a bad coach. Batting 1.000 on things selectively chosen to make us feel good about our predictions. Stay cheesy, drink beer, watch football. You don't have to do anything if you don't want to. You can just not do it.

The Packers won two games over the holidays! Mike and Matt watched from all over the United States as Joe Berry's defense did its best attempt at losing against the Panthers and the Vikings offense successfully beat themselves. Jordan Love looks like a superstar. Jayden Reed looks like a superstar. Matt LaFleur should win Coach of the Year for what has happened with this offense. But all of that hinges on the "Win and You're In" game against the Chicago Bears in Week 18, in a poetic Yin-Yang version of the 2022 season. Is Kyle Shanahan in the Mike McCarthy "Pooping Their Pants in Big Games" tier yet? And at what excruciating point of this postseason will the 49ers take a big stinky poo poo dumpy in their diaper? Or will they finally cross the Rubicon and go potty in the big boy potty? It's another highly educated and smart and genius and brilliant episode of Cheeseheads in Chicagoland. Did you know Rasul Douglas is tied for the most touchdown catches from Justin Fields at Lambeau Field? Stay Cheesy, drink beer, watch football. You don't have to be a genius superwizard. Just do the things that have been effective for years, and it'll work out alright.

Matt got a concussion. Mike got a head cold. The Packers are getting ahead of the playoff race. A lot of head-based things have occurred over the last few weeks. The Jets laid Tim Boyle to rest. We didn't talk about it much, but RIP Tim. We loved you. Have fun outside of the NFL buddy. The Packers are good? Jordan Love is finally getting the respect he has deserved all season? Shohei Ohtani to Green Bay? Stay cheesy, drink beer, watch football. You don't have to write new relatable things if you can just re-release the old relatable things you already made.

The Green Bay Packers won the game vs the Los Angeles Chargers. The Chargers worked harder to lose it than the Packers did to win it, but the W still shows up in the column. Jayden Reed is the best healthy running back on this roster (?). Jordan Love looked great. Valentine & Ballentine combo did something to make Keenan Allen drop two touchdowns. It was definitely their doing. How young is too young to get into the Grateful Dead? Is it ok to pour your Pappy Van Winkle over diet cola? Can our tastebuds understand the luxury of $3000 whisky? Stay cheesy, drink beer, watch football. It's ok to trade for a solid backup quarterback. You shouldn't have to start Tim Boyle.

Look, the Packers' defense just looked like it prepared for a different team on Sunday. I wish we could say we took their lead and talked about a different game, but we didn't. Christian Watson has been ineffective at best and the defense was confoundingly bad but at least Jordan Love and Jayden Reed looked good. Stay cheesy, drink beer, watch football. Get the cheap beer at the store by your house and drink one while considering what a down lineman is.

The Green Bay Packers lost to the Las Vegas Raiders, took a week off, and then lost to the Denver Broncos. They don't look good, but thankfully we have other things to talk about. When did slice shops get Instagram hype? Why is Mario so fun? Why does everyone have a pinball relative? Why can't the Packers score in the first half? Jordan Love looks fine. The defense looks passable. The team is young, and young teams are usually bad. Stay cheesy, drink beer, watch football. You don't have to wait in line for a pretty good slice of pizza just because you saw it on Instagram.

The Green Bay Packers got walloped by the Detroit Lions on Jeff Bezos' Thursday Night Football. Thursday Night Football is a bad product and it makes football even more unsafe for the players. The Packers still played poorly on their own. Mike and Matt are the sleepiest they have ever been in their entire lives. They discuss the Lions game, the Bears discovering new ways to lose in front of our eyes, and hydroponic strawberries (Cheeseheads in Chicagoland's legal representation has advised us to state the following: Mike and Matt did not know that hydroponics existed or would allow you to grow better and more special produce.) Blake Martinez, we would like to extend the opportunity for you to come on the show and explain how you differ from the people showing Matt banned "adult" Yu-Gi-Oh cards at his old job. Stay cheesy, drink beer, watch football. You don't have to be the meatball sub headed man from Fox Sports.

The Green Bay Packers beat the New Orleans Saints 18-17 in a frenzied 4th quarter comeback, starting the quarter down 17-0. Jordan Love looked like a leader, Matt LaFleur called a great game, and even the defense looked great in spurts. Mike & Matt discuss the Packer's victory, learning to win, getting tricked into allowing yourself to be suplexed as a child, and the matchup of the century in Sean Payton's bad Broncos vs Matt Eburflus's flustered Bears. The Packers take on the Detroit Lions in a Thursday Night primetime game, and the deciding factor may be the young Packers rubber bones. Who knows. Tune into Jeff Bezos's Amazon Prime Thursday Night Football Broadcast or stop by Jeff Bezos's Amazon Twitch Stream to watch the game. Jeff will be so happy you tuned in. Stay cheesy, drink beer, watch football. You don't have to get hit with the Stone Cold Stunner to know that you're not supposed to get hit with the Stone Cold Stunner.

The Green Bay Packers lost to the Atlanta Falcons 24-25 in week 2 of the 2023-24 NFL season. Bijan Robinson did things he will do in this league for a very long time. The Packers offense looked young, and the defense looked discombobulated. Is it players or is it coaching? Mike & Matt discuss the Packers' loss, learning to lose, growth in the offense, AJ Dillon looking like his feet are made of cement (but the line didn't give him much help), and the very bad week down in Chicago that somehow didn't culminate in the Bears loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (technically it did, but the rumors are funny.) Stay cheesy, drink beer, watch football. It's okay to go to the bar that is too bright with a kitchen full of fried Sysco food. It's what life is all about.

The 2023-24 NFL season is upon us as the Green Bay Packers beat the Bears 38-20 in a Week 1 game that somehow felt over when the score was 10-6. Jordan Love makes his debut as the starting quarterback of the future for the Green Bay Packers and continues his predecessor's tradition of beating up on the Chicago Bears, and the Packers' defense puts existential dread into the Chicago locker room and front office. "Is Justin Fields the Guy?" "What does all this mean?" "Should we even be here?" Mike and Matt ponder which Packers great will commit the next big crime. We hope it isn't Jordy Nelson or Makinton Dorleant, but if it's Dean Lowry no tears will be shed. Stay cheesy, drink beer, watch football. You don't have to worry about if Jordan Love is the future right now, you can just have fun hoping.

The Packers beat the Bears. Everyone went on vacation for a week, and now they're back. Everyone should get a winter vacation. Summer vacations are a little silly. It's nice out! Why are you going anywhere? Winter is like, it's cold. Go somewhere warm if you want/can. But if you go somewhere nice, you have to wear a coat to the airport and then you land somewhere nice and it's silly that you have this big warm coat. And do you wear it to the airport when you come back and it's like hot outside on the way there? So do you have this big parka in anticipation of the winter that lies ahead of you and everyone else is in shorts? Or do you pack it and have to dig it out at your destination?  Whatever. Lots of wardrobe questions for the Packers who got to take the week off after beating the Chicago Bears. This week, they play the Rams and newly signed Baker Mayfield on Monday Night Football.  Christian Watson is good. The Bears are doing a bad job helping their highly drafted quarterback. What's new? Stay cheesy, drink beer, watch football. You don't have to like the Bears. Music: 53 by OverNightMike. Buy the album.

The car is on fire, and there is no driver at the wheel.  The Packers beat the Cowboys because they're just not very good, then lose to the Titans because the Packers are just not very good, and then lose to the Eagles because the Eagles are pretty good and the Packers are pretty bad.  Skiing vs Skydiving, danger levels vs enjoyment levels vs injury risk The Chicago Bears are up next in a rivalry battle between two bad teams!  Stay cheesy, drink beer, watch football. You don't have to be a good football team to have fun. Or maybe you do. 

The Packers lost. What did you think was going to happen? The Bills are really good. Josh Allen is a super human, and the rest of the team is just as super-powered.  Matt & Mike run through this game, try and find some positives, and then take a lovely stroll through the rest of the NFL. The NFC North made some big trades at the deadline, but the Packers didn't. We think that was totally fine.  The Packers play the Lions next, and it's (hopefully) a get right game for the offense. We get to watch Jamaal Williams play against the Packers! It will be a sad day. He's the best.  Stay cheesy, drink beer, watch football. You don't have to cheer against Jamaal Williams.  Music: 53 by OverNightMike. Buy the album.

Taylor Heinicke deserves a deal with Heineken. Remember when you could smoke inside? That was wild. This game felt like sitting in the non-smoking section. The Green Bay Packers lose to the Washington Commanders in a very bad loss.  Matt & Mike are tired.  Does anyone have a beer they can share with us? Stay cheesy, drink beer, watch football. You don't have to expect a Packers win.  Music: 53 by OverNightMike. Buy the album.

Have you ever seen a small hill, maybe even just a mound, or a bump in the landscape, and said "I could climb that, but I don't want to. It isn't worth the effort"? That was this game. The Packers struggle in every dimension and lose to the worst team not named the Bears they'll play this year. Are the moon rocks and fossils in museums real? How much space do they have on spaceships? Will an Alien visit Wisconsin, and if they do, will they give the ball to Aaron Jones? Will they drink a New Glarus with us?  Taylor Heinicke should sign a sponsorship deal with Heineken.  Stay cheesy, drink beer, and watch football. You don't have to believe in ghosts.  Music: 53 by OverNightMike. Buy the album.

Better late than never. Mike was very busy and Matt was on vacation so this episode comes a little late. Did you want to think about these games anyways?  The Aflac mascot is actually a duck, not a goose. Matt would like to formally apologize. As a podcast, we hope the duck lives a long and fruitful life. He didn't take them to the playoffs, but Brian (Axel) Hoyer was 10-6 in his 2 year career as a starter for the Browns. That is basically a Super Bowl in Cleveland.  Stay cheesy, drink (Chicago) beer, and watch football. You don't have to make football happen in London. Music: 53 by OverNightMike. Buy the album.

Have you ever played the game Getting Over It With Bennett Foddy? You play as a muscular man in a cauldron with only a hammer at your disposal, and you must use that hammer to climb a mountain. The mountain doesn't make any sense. Swing by swing, you look around and think "This isn't what a mountain looks like. This isn't what climbing a mountain is like. There's not haphazard wires, and houses, and garbage cans strewn about. You don't climb a mountain with only a hammer."  The game is built on failure. Hard, unrelenting, absolute failure. You fall, and fall, and fall, and every trip back down the mountain feels like the last time you'll ever look at this big buff idiot in a cauldron wielding a hammer. But you keep going, because you're not going to be defeated by this stupid mountain made up of chunks of steel and rocks. The Packers are the big dumb idiot with a hammer who finally climbed the fake trash mountain. They did so by failing consistently.  Anyways. Stay cheesy, drink beer, and watch football. You don't have to play Getting Over It With Bennett Foddy.  Music: 53 by OverNightMike. Buy the album.

Week 2 of the Green Bay Packers season is a 27-10 win over the Chicago Bears. Mike and Matt talk about that a whole lot. The Packers offense looked much smoother in this one, and we're excited that we knew the obvious answers why. More Aaron Jones is good!  We look ahead to next week vs the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, a team the Packers have had trouble with in the past, and take a look around Week 2 in the NFL. We didn't mention the Geico Gecko, but I want to make our stance clear. He should be evaporated in The Large Hadron Collider at CERN.  Stay cheesy, drink beer, and watch football. You don't have to fight Marshon Lattimore.  Music: 53 by OverNightMike. Buy the album.

Oh gosh oh golly.  Allstate, call us. We're hatching a plan to guillotine the Geico Gecko with State Farm. You're gonna wanna get in on this. Mike and Matt talk Week 1 across the NFL and stumble unwittingly into a recap of the Packers Week 1 loss to the Minnesota Vikings. There were some positives there! We promise! Most of it was bad though.   We don't talk about Brett Favre's welfare fraud. Matt gives an ASMR play by play on a one year old can of New Glarus that has been in a box in his closet. This one is free, but next week you have to Venmo him $5.  Stay cheesy, drink beer, and watch football. You don't have to commit welfare fraud. Music: 53 by OverNightMike. Buy the album.