Packers hit the bye week with new questions to answer

Revisiting the Burning Questions of the Offseason

With the NFL essentially a quarter of the way through the NFL season (23.5% through technically, thanks to the seventeenth game) an assessment of the 2025 version of the Green Bay Packers is bound to be a confusing one.

Through the first two weeks, the Packers defeated the Detroit Lions in resounding, convincing fashion. The defense stole the show with an extremely high level of play, the offense was looking well-oiled behind a healthy Jordan Love, and the special teams… hadn’t screwed anything up yet? Fast forward another two weeks. In back to back games, the offense and defense took turns: one looking completely inept while the other looked like a world-beater.

As the Packers enter their bye week with more than a few wounds to lick, it’s time to take a complete look at the first month of football as a whole.

If we had to sum up the 2025 season to this point, there’s only one word that comes to mind: "volatile.” We’ve seen the highest of upsides from both sides of the ball, and the supreme lows. We’ve also seen what they are capable of when both the offense and defense show up to play. This is a moniker that the team needs to grow past, however. How many times in the past few years have we heard the same song and dance? The insane upside, always just out of reach. The team being hampered by mental mistakes.

When Brian Gutekunst spoke on “urgency” at the beginning of the offseason, he issued a challenge to himself and the team as a whole. Time is running out for this team to keep using youth and inexperience as an excuse to not put it all together, on both sides of the ball.

Our money is on the team figuring it all out, and going on a deep playoff run in the winter. When you look at these burning questions, it paints a picture of a team that could be the best in the league. They’ve got every opportunity to do so for the next thirteen weeks before the playoffs begin.

Packers Drop 40 but Leave Us Frustrated

CHTV cofounder Aaron Nagler sits down with Andy Herman (Pack-A-Day Podcast) to unpack a truly meh feeling after the Packers tie with the Cowboys. The Packers put up 40 on the road — Jordan Love delivered clutch throw after clutch throw — yet it still felt disappointing. They dig into why.

Packers 3rd Down Offense is Historically Good

After four weeks of the 2025 NFL season, the Green Bay Packers have had some really great moments as well as several very frustrating moments. The great moments include convincingly beating two of the final four NFC teams last year in Detroit and Washington.

There was also scoring 40 points against the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday and answering almost every Cowboys score with one of their own in the second half and overtime.

The lows range from blocked kicks, allowing Dak Prescott and the Cowboys to score at will, and two back-breaking turnovers from quarterback Jordan Love.

For all the ups and downs so far in just four weeks, the biggest strength of the team has arguably been its 3rd down offense. Currently the Packers lead the NFL in 3rd down conversions at a staggering 53.7 percent. On Sunday against the Cowboys, the Packers were 11 of 15 on 3rd downs. It is a big reason why they scored a touchdown or field goal on all five possessions after halftime.

To put in perspective how good 53.7% would be for an entire season, only 10 offenses have been over 50% on 3rd down conversions for an entire season since 1992.

That’s pretty good.

Packer Transplants 305 — Some questions answered, new questions asked

CHTV co-founders Aaron Nagler and Corey Behnke are back for Packer Transplants LIVE! The guys try to make sense of a 40-40 tie down in Dallas as the team heads into the bye week.

Few Packers Have “Carried the G” Like Kenny Clark

It was beyond surreal to see Kenny Clark in a Cowboys uniform on Sunday night, but the sight did get us thinking about what an incredible legacy Clark left from his time in Green Bay.

Clark was a captain and a leader for the Packers. He will undoubtedly be selected for the Packers Hall of Fame soon after his playing career ends. Every teammate and coach speaks highly of him, and he continues to reciprocate that love. It would’ve been easy for there to be some animosity between Clark and the Packers after he was shockingly traded, but instead, it’s all love.

“I’m forever grateful for Kenny. Coming from being a college head coach to back to the NFL to being a coordinator again, you never quite know what you’re going to get, and he was the vet. And just having him around, being able to lean on him, being such an unbelievable pro, an unbelievable person, and the buy-in, I just — I’ll forever be grateful for that,” said defensive coordinator Jeff Hafley. “He made it a very easy situation, and there are just not many guys out there like him. I appreciate everything that he did for me. I know the Packers appreciate everything that he’s done for the Packers, and I’m a huge Kenny Clark fan. Always will be.”

A person doesn’t have to look very hard to find quotes raving about Kenny Clark. It was all love between Clark and his former team before the game, and he had teammates lining up for pictures after the game. Unfortunately, Clark only had one jersey for the infamous jersey swap. Rashan Gary was the lucky winner, but Clark said before the game, “If I could get a jersey to all of them, I would.”

Watching Kenny Clark play against the Packers was bittersweet. It’s always a pleasure to watch Clark play football; it’s just hard watching him play for a different team. Seeing Kenny Clark wearing anything but green and gold will always feel wrong. He might not wear the uniform anymore, but he’ll always be a Packer, through and through. “I have nothing but love and respect for the organization,” Clark said last week. “They drafted me and believed in me. I can’t have enough words to say about that.”

Very few have “Carried the G” like Kenny Clark.

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Packers Vs. Cowboys - 3 Plays That Make You Go Hmmm

After re-watching the Packers game each week, Jersey Al gives us three plays that made him go hmmm, for various reasons. In general, he either focuses on a theme, more nuanced observations, or just things he didn't notice watching live. These can be but are less likely to be "highlight" plays.

First up, Javon Bullard - Something Al noticed about Javon Bullard over the first four games of the season is that he has a sneaky way of avoiding big offensive linemen looking to take him out, usually out on the perimeter on a screen pass. Bullard doesn't just accept his fate and wait for the blocker to come annihilate him. Instead, he aggressively attacks and dives (or slides) so close to the ground the big lineman has a hard time getting his hands on him. He's careful not to actually hit the blocker's legs, which would be a penalty. We’ve also seen him blow up wide receiver screens in previous games using this same technique.

Check out an example of what Al is talking about and a few other observations that may make you go hmmm.

The Truth About Green Bay’s Special Teams Disaster

Aaron is joined by Justis Mosqueda to dive deep into the Green Bay Packers’ ongoing special teams nightmare. Two weeks in a row, blocked kicks and botched returns have cost the Packers wins—and fans are pointing fingers at Rich Bisaccia. But is this really a coaching issue… or a roster management problem that falls on Matt LaFleur?

Mark your calendars!