NFL Week 18 Preview: Vikings-Lions will break me, Packers fans RELAX, Bucs dangerous? | PFS

[@shinineagle23]

As a packers fan, I don’t like the part of the fanbase that is constantly negative. You would think we are 5-11 instead of 11-5. I’m enjoying this ride as I’m sure Paul and ziggy are enjoying the ride as Vikings fans! Should be an exciting playoffs. May be the best team win! Go pack go

[@thewizardofoz511]

Well the reason that your fan base is so negative is because people like Paul and ESPN put you guys in such a high regard before the season and throughout that when reality actually hits it's a lot difficult for a lot of your fans to take.. I don't think some of these analysts or podcasters aren't realistic with Packers fans or even Vikings fans for that matter but especially Packers fans.. so when you put a team on such a high regard and they don't reach it then you have a lot of fans not believing and the team.. I don't think I've ever seen a negative segment about this team on this particular channel.. it's ridiculous...🙄

[@plastkhero]

The fan base is negative because GB has not proven they can overcome good teams. Games against SF still haunt this fan base. I personally fell into the belief that GB would be back in top of the division. It's not the losing it's having hope that kills ya.

[@shinineagle23]

@@plastkherobut there is still hope. Goal is to just make the playoffs and hope you get hot. Just like when the packers won Super Bowl 45. No one expected the packers to win that year as the lowest seed yet they did

[@thewizardofoz511]

@@plastkhero yeah I get that and all but people like Paul and some ESPN analyst need to be more realistic with Packers fans to begin the season.. there were a lot of people who knew this was the case in the beginning but to not give an Outlook that that could be a possibility.. the possibility of the Packers just may not be as good as the other upper echelon teams of the NFC.. like everything on this channel is like they're afraid to have a bad segment about this Packers team.. you're pumping false hope into the fan base.. So in reality all I'm saying is that this should have been a possibility of theory before the season even started.. but they wanted to crown the Packers as a division winners and talking about they're going to win the Superbowl and all.. and that's just unrealistic compared to what this team has shown

[@plastkhero]

@@shinineagle23 That team had a more talented QB and a lot more veterans on it to hold it together. This team doesn't inspire any confidence they won't buckle under the pressure. The only improvement I saw this year was the run DEF. A few pieces and a few years away.

[@dietblacksupreme]

Since David Montgomery went down, Jahmyr Gibbs has rushed for 100+ yards each game and 150+ all purpose yards. Not including the yards from our other backs. We drafted Jahmyr Gibbs in the first round (number 12 over all) for a reason. The narrative that the Lions lost anything in our run game without David Montgomery is HIGHLY false.

[@camerondent5222]

Exactly this bro. Sick of people acting like Gibbs ain't himothy.

[@mrsmartypants_1]

The upcoming Vikings Lions game is by far the best NFL game of the season. Epic. Rooting for Minnesota. (Packers fan).

[@TaliaRandolph-w5b]

Rooting for Detroit. (Packers fan).

[@mrsmartypants_1]

@Talia Did you just get married yesterday?

[@bradpirochta9293]

couple notes: - Darnold looks like a franchise QB to me. He looks like Goff 2 years ago with better escapability. He makes 1 or 2 brain fart plays a game, but that can be cleaned up. Goff is a smidge more accurate.... but I'd trust Darnold to run the Lions offense. - I'd take the Lions secondary over the Vikings. Branch and Joseph are pro bowlers. Branch is so versatile. Ifeatu Melifonwu returned last week, and while I'm sure you guys don't know who he is, he's actually a really good Safety/Nickel. He's our blitzer. He was gonna be our starting Nickel but was injured for the first 15 games. You'll see him and Branch swap positions throughout the game. - Lions LBs are where our D is breaking down... but I think we'll be getting Anzalone back this week. That's huge. It'll be a good game. I'm not gonna make a prediction. I could make an argument for either team. GO LIONS!

[@wblake22]

I’ll tell you guys a little secret. Some of us Packer fans hate other Packer fans 🤫. Those Packer fans that cry too much make us all look bad. The Packers have what it takes to beat anybody

[@thorkagemob1297]

The same is true for us Vikings fans

[@dooners4274]

No they don’t

[@wblake22]

@@dooners4274 no who don’t?

[@TaliaRandolph-w5b]

Then why don't they?

[@Cart-w8z]

@@TaliaRandolph-w5bLast time I checked they are about to have a 12 win season….. 😂 pretty sure that’s basically beating everyone

[@dj2k460]

As a packers fan I just wanted the confidence. To be 0-5 is 0-5 no matter how much moral victory you put on it and we will be on the road and unless we get help from Dallas we have a path to the superbowl that goes through 1. Philadelphia, 2. Detroit then 3 Minnesota or the Rams and the only team that we beat in that equation the rams we only beat them because they weren't healthy at the time. Ik were a young team and maybe there's time to grow but if the 2010 packers SB run taught me any is that you don't take opportunity for granted because after 2010 in all of Rodgers time in green bay we never got back, for whatever reasons. I just feel like we're in that window to strike and get 1 because you never know how what can happen

[@donDubP]

Next year with good cap space in free agency & another season together for our nucleus the window is well open! Enjoying this year for everything we can squeeze out of it coz there’s better teams than us in our division.. Grateful we didn’t relapse like young teams sometimes do

[@plastkhero]

Last year was playing with house money. This year is such a let down with all the new talent coming to GB. I personally am so sick of watching the non existent pass rush. I'm excited to see if more talent comes to GB.

[@thewizardofoz511]

@@dj2k460 you know damn well that's not the order 🙄.. you guys need to get it together.. keep hatin tho..

[@AustinJoseph898]

Yep if you have a playoff spot you have a chance. People are putting way too much into one bad game. They’ve been playing great the second half of the season. If anything, that bad game will inspire them to be better come playoffs. Not giving up until the seasons over. 12-5 is a great season if they win next week.

[@iron-farmer]

Keep it up guys. This is some of the better nfl / detroit podcast action tbh

[@birdietwine]

Fellas fellas fellas. I don’t know how many packers fans you’re talking about who are “giving up on the team this year” but as a born and bred green bay dude, i can tell you none of the fans I’m talking to are giving up hope. On the contrary, we’re stoked as hell to go in and beat the eagles. We know what team we CAN BE. Now, I’m not hating on you guys at all. This is one of my favorite NFL podcasts out there. But I suspect your sample size might be small. fair enough?

[@birdietwine]

call me crazy, but I see GB taking the NFC and then beating the Bills in the super bowl.

[@I_Am_L_3]

Go lions!

[@benjaminririe2009]

The Vikings and Lions better come ready, because this game has the makings of an all-time-great regular season game. I want a 36-35 nail-biter where it comes down to a walk-off two-point conversion.

[@MidwestMountainMan]

I want both teams trying to lose it with all the classics. Interception from throwing across the middle. Chip shot going wide left. Hands to the face in the final seconds.

[@mrsmartypants_1]

@@MidwestMountainMan Ha ha ha. You were the youngest of 6 kids right?

[@mrsmartypants_1]

Only Dan Campbell’s Lions would go for a 2-pointer for the win. The 31 other NFL teams would kick the extra point and go for overtime.

[@juancarlosb9781]

Been listening to you guys for weeks now, just realized I was never subscribed, you guys are a hidden gym that will inevitably blow up big.

[@jaredmyers8357]

Packer fan here. Good show boys.

[@mendelspalter282]

I think Goff is significantly better than Darnold

[@joryprosen]

Thanks guys great coverage, solid and realistic analysis that makes sense to most football fans. I think some Packer fans just are not levelheaded, they go to extremes either we are winning the Lombardi or we are getting blown out of the playoffs. No middle ground, you guys bring it back to reality and I appreciate that as a Packer fan. I am looking forward to the Vikings and Lions game. I like to watch good football games it's silly that I have to hate other teams, who said so? I just love my own team, the Packers more. GPG!

[@mrsmartypants_1]

Fan is short for fanatic so by definition a fan is manic depressive 😏

[@colton6630]

I was saying to my buddy’s dad after the loss to the Vikings that the loss won’t matter because Packers are winning the Super Bowl anyway… safe to say he didn’t wanna hear that in the moment 😂

[@JamesGrimm-t3s]

As a Packers fan don't see how we overcome the atrocious pass defense and lack of a pass rush😢

[@johnkohls9591]

The fumble by Jacobs was a huge turning point in that Vikings game.

[@mrsmartypants_1]

Dude he fumbled on the opening set of downs.

[@shoeless1137]

@@mrsmartypants_1 but genuinely that matters. Watch how MLF coaches and play calls with a lead vs how he does it from behind. He's basically a different coach, he is so fucking terrible play calling from behind its baffling. He gets panicky, sometimes he abandons the run entirely, he loses his cool entirely on the sideline. When he gets behind or his scheme isn't working MLF completely loses his cool

[@JC0055]

I’m still very confident in the pack idk y some pack fans r like that (Ik they’re trying to be realistic) but cmon keep the faith till the end

[@davidkeljik7558]

Bless you Ziggy

[@robertmills3333]

I’d like to thank you guys for being more supportive of the Packers than a lot of the fanbase at the moment. It’s been a fun season and the potential for the team is pretty high from my perspective. Enjoy hearing y’all’s thoughts each week and I look forward to more in 2025

[@yoyoyoyoadrian]

My fantasy team won because of two players Baker Mayfield and Amon St Brown. Both consistently outplayed projections almost every week

[@dooners4274]

Before last week the last time the Vikings beat a playoff team was sept 29 at Green Bay (same team as last week.) There schedule has been week it will be a good game for sure but Minnesotas record reflects there easy schedule outside of the division

[@uriclothbrok2682]

The issue with your guys take about the packers and there being hope is this: Yes I believe we can beat any team in the NFL, yes Love can get hot and take over a game. BUT we will likely have a path to the SB of Eagles, Lions, Vikings. The three teams we have lost to 0-5 record. The storyline is insane. We could need insane consistency that we have not shown this whole year. Love could heat up, but have yet to see proof we can go 3-0 against 3 of the top 5 best teams in the NFL.. back to back to back.

[@Jd303qwkipl]

The Packers, "close" games against the vikings were really not that close. They are having a good season, but they just aren't good enough to win the super bowl.

[@kim-jong-poon]

Not only am i relaxed, im hoping we play Minnesota in the playoffs.

[@jakehileman5374]

Love the pod! I do think you guys saying Darnold and Goff are 50/50 is just wrong. Goffs experience in big games and his numbers this year are all better than Darnolds, with a more difficult schedule. Darnold has been a great revelation but simply has not played in an environment like what Ford Field will be like on Sunday night. I think Jefferson by far the best receiver on the field, but Addison just isn't comparable to St. Brown and is closer numbers-wise to Williams than people think. Vikings run game doesn't even compare to the Lions either, not in the same stratosphere.

[@larrycaseboltjr9498]

Vikings need to play through. No letting up, no matter what the score is. The playoffs should he wild this year. Can we at least get a SB for the NFC?

[@Wolffmania]

Being a Packers fan, I think it is reasonable to be a little negative right now. Going into that game against the Vikings, I honestly thought that we should win. We obviously didn't and now we will likely have to play 3 of the top 5 teams in the entire NFL on the road to even make it to the Super Bowl. All teams that we have lost to (our only losses but still). I'm just not as optimistic as I was a couple of weeks ago on how far we will be able to make. If we do make a run, it will be straight out of a movie - beating the teams that you lost to earlier in the year to make it to the Super Bowl to possibly stop a team's chance at the first ever NFL 3 peat. If that does happen, this could be the best story of a team's journey in I don't know how long.

[@WesVikis]

Good luck this week, Paul and Ziggy. I hope it's healthy first and foremost and referee influence free. May the best team win 🍻

[@brianprice9818]

Go Pack Go, all I wanted to see this season was for more cohesion and even through the early Love injury and the way that we have been in all but one game this season shows that we are swinging well with the other teams. We have a bright future and locked in the playoffs well before we did last year and that should be seen as improvement. I can't wait to see the playoffs this year they all feel like they will be interesting (sans maybe the Texans and Broncos if they are not able to hold it all together).

[@Honestly__now]

Goff is better than Darnold but the Lions defense is trash

[@bigben2469]

Glad to hear you guys say that kick shouldnt have counted

[@davidkeljik7558]

Paul, the Lions offense is superior to the packers offense. I hate to tell you the Lions will win. Sorry, bro.

[@Why_u_Mad-b5c]

Packers playoff run about to be generational 🧀

[@thewizardofoz511]

If you stay realistic, as a Packers fan it won't be so devastating when the Packers are eliminated.. it's okay to stay positive but you also want to have realistic understanding.. why do you think a lot of Packers fans have been devastated by the team this season already.. it's because national media and people like Paul has put them on such a high regard where they're not even nowhere near..

[@plastkhero]

Love has regressed, Love can't run (not sure why he's no longer mobile) and Love still want to play hero ball on 3rd and short. So much 1st round picks wasted on DEF. GB will go as far as their soft coach will take em.

[@Why_u_Mad-b5c]

@@thewizardofoz511 shut the hell up we gonna see

[@NYCfrankie]

Packers are one and done

[@Why_u_Mad-b5c]

@ wanna bet?

[@leehemmersbach8018]

The way to beat the lions is press the line of scrimmage and get your hands on the wr/teams and reroute them. Their short passing game needs to be thrown off of their timing. I know Goff can make all the throws, but rarely passes the ball more than 10yds downfield

[@celestialprophet2013]

As a Packers fan our fan base is very ungrateful and have their expectations too high always. Because of the history Vince Lombardi, Farve Rogers. All of the Green Bay Lore there is alot to live up to. And the fan base tends to overreact

[@brianshorrorcorner9890]

If the Vikings lose this game, it will break me

[@LaKenduhJussyPuicey]

Broken Brian S

[@vikingsnewstoday]

SKOL!!! 💜💛🏈

[@Matthew.Wade27]

As a Packers’ fan, I actually think the Vikings are better than the Lions.

[@mrsmartypants_1]

Me too but only because of all the Lions injuries. If the Lions defense wasn’t decimated by injuries imho they were the elite team of the NFL by a comfortable margin.

[@GoPackGoshsh]

As a packers fan I’d rather play eagles than bucs

[@CharlesHaske]

Nobody is talking about the fact that each week that passes the lionz have injured players coming back

[@rev.tlazer]

Paul and ziggy CHOOSING to be Vikings fans is psychotic to me

[@seanmurphy9103]

Goal for Packers should be to beat one of the greats in the playoffs and that’s a good season. SB optimism went away last Sunday

[@mrsmartypants_1]

Vince Lombardi would block you from ever entering Lambeau Field.

[@RichardPiccerillo-c4o]

I’m concerned of Detroit coming back after we get a lead them having the ball last,and overtime

[@paulshelton6831]

I think Jordan Love can hang with any team. However, I think Nixon and Stokes can get TORCHED by anyone.

[@EvanHendrickson-hq1vf]

It’s called Entitled Town for a reason. I don’t understand the doom and gloom segment of Packers fans. They might say they’re just being realists, but they’re discounting how well this team can play. Only one team wins a superbowl each year. It’s hard to do. Just root for your team.

[@mrsmartypants_1]

There are realistic Packers fans - me for instance - who think our chances of making it to the SB this year is close to zero and yet root like crazy for them during the games. This is NFL football - crazy things like major upsets happen regularly. Do 4 advantageous upsets in a row happen to one team in the playoffs? No. One game at a time.

[@Jim-uy8ou]

Detroit is getting Alex back and rammond back so not so fast Ziggy thinking the Vikings are going to put up a ton of points on us darnold might be on his ass alot

[@NYCfrankie]

What is ziggy talking about that in the last 4 games the Lions are 2-2 the lost to Buffalo beat green bay chicago and san francisco

[@Jim-uy8ou]

Don't forget about our fans the Vikings will be getting a lot of pre snap penalties

[@marcsantoro6651]

Need to stop the Lions a couple times --on the other side the Lions need just a few game-shifting turnovers and/or sacks. Which they're good at. Anzalone returning could be big. The game will come down to who is better at getting those few stops/turnovers ---maybe a missed kick, etc.

[@marcsantoro6651]

I think home field advantage here will be material. I don't think Darnold will have ever played in such a loud, intense, playoff -like environment. Fans will probably disrupt a play or two.

[@stephenklug4961]

Lions & Vikings fans are so cute!!!

[@braedenfielding5928]

The only time I’ll be rooting for you guys this year, Sunday Night from 7-10. Remind Detroit who they are. This game will decide Coach of the Year.

[@LaKenduhJussyPuicey]

Who cares about coach of the year? Or really the division or seeding? Lions are winning the SB this year. It is inevitable. You want to remind them to work harder? Ok bro. Best of luck.

[@plastkhero]

Love is playing hero ball on 3rd and short, isnt mobile anymore becaue his knee still i guess, and i can see this NFL trams can see it. Im sure Love will get bwtter but his ceiling is clearly not as high as i once believed. He may end up in a few year being the 4th best QB in the NFC North.

[@roryanderson8667]

Minnesota Vikings defense will get to golf a lot more than he wants us to that's the difference in the game Sam darnold will keep up on scoring I promise you but we will stop the Lions offense more so than they on us

[@dooners4274]

He lit up Minnesota last time with plenty of pressure on him 22-25

[@MrBrockAttack]

i cannot wait to watch the show next week when they are crying about the 5 seed

[@uriclothbrok2682]

As a packers fan, I hope the Vikings win this week. I don’t think the packers line up well against the Lions, and I hope they lose to the Bucs. Vikings I think both games have been closish, and when the rest of our defense comes back, I think we match up well against the Vikings.

[@LaKenduhJussyPuicey]

I think the Vikings are decent. I expect them to beat Lions this week. I expect Vikings to lose their first game in playoffs & I expect Lions to win the SB.

[@Big_Dogfire]

If you are a Packers fan that says the season is over because we lost 5 games then you are not a real fan! Holy shit guys come on! If you really think the season is over please stop commenting because you are making us look bad!

[@slotowntrev]

Lets go Lions! Kirb is gunna get 2 picks. I hope leaf plays..I hope Anzalone plays ..our special teams is better than the Vikings. Our OC is better.. 🎉

[@stephenklug4961]

All I hear is, “we are going to lay it all on the line & injure our teams to try to win 1st in the division… not in the entire league, but, the division…. And this is our Super Bowl, we will not in a playoff game…

[@Toddnesbitt]

Thanks! I don't think they're the bucks are that good the Lions beat them three times last year, and they lost in that second game real early in the season with the lions were playing that good., they look good but they're not, I wouldn't give that quarterback too much praise. Actually I think the bucks are the weakest team in all of the NFC, maybe the command might lose to them. They suck.

[@ThePaulFarringtonShow]

Love the progression to “they suck” in the comment haha. Thanks Todd, always appreciate your engagement with the channel!

[@camerondent5222]

Ziggy the lions are 3-1 in those last 4 games not 2-2

[@LaKenduhJussyPuicey]

13 of our last 14

[@GoPackGoshsh]

The packers have the chance to do the funniest thing in beating the eagles 2nd seed then the lions or Vikings 1 seed and then the lions or Vikings 5 seed all just to lose to mahomes in the super bowl

[@stephenklug4961]

All these teams need to do, is win 3 games in a row against the 3 best teams in the league!!! lol😂

[@TaliaRandolph-w5b]

I"m not a negative fan if I believe the Packers are not as good as the Vikings or Lions. I hate the Vikings more than anyone in the world and root for the Packers through thick and thin. Any Packer fans who root for the Vikings against the Lions is probably a band wagon Packer fan. They probably don't know the history of the Viking/Packer rivalry and don't know very many Vikings fans or players.

[@DannyLiveClipz]

BREAKING NEWS: Jaire alexander underwent arthroscopic knee surgery. could be back if packers make the SB

[@bob_ohms2low75]

Viqueens didn't beat the Packers, the refs did buddy. Enjoy losing in the first rd.

[@willelkins8225]

Romans 10:9-10 "That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved.

[@Eli-t2r]

Jack sucks

[@blakefowler21]

Darnold is gonna get destroyed on Sunday.