Cheeseheads in Chicagoland

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.

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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. 

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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.