Read Before Kickoff, Week 17: Packers vs. Lions

Nik Kovac
When the 7-8 Green Bay Packers travel to the 8-7 Detroit Lions this New Year’s Eve, it will be the last calendar day of 2017 and the last day of both teams’ 2017 seasons. The Lions were in the hunt longer, not...

Read Before Kickoff, Week 16: Packers vs. Vikings

Nik Kovac
Ten weeks ago the Packers were 4-1, Aaron Rodgers was the odds-on MVP favorite, and the 3-2 Vikings had, in the two weeks prior, lost at home to the Detroit Lions, then barely survived the limping Chicago Bears...

Read Before Kickoff, Week 15: Packers vs. Panthers

Nik Kovac
In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters… God saw everything...

Read Before Kickoff, Week 14: Packers vs. Browns

Nik Kovac
Sunday noon on the south shore of Lake Erie will be Brett Hundley’s Super Bowl. And he knows it. If he loses this one game, then Aaron probably won't be able to win the next seven (a loss drops our likelihoo...

Read Before Kickoff, Week 11: Packers vs. Ravens

Nik Kovac
There was never going to be a good time for Brett Hundley to start his football career in Green Bay. From the moment he was drafted, his purpose was to look good in training camp so that he could be traded afte...

Read Before Kickoff, Week 10: Packers vs. Bears

Nik Kovac
Watch the game at Linneman's this Sunday at noon. Nik and Keith will be calling all the action on the stage, next to a nine-foot screen. There will be enough chili and beer to go around. On his way to the Il...

Read Before Kickoff, Week 9: Packers vs. Lions

Nik Kovac
Next up for the Green Bay Packers is the one divisional opponent who has not broken our quarterback's collar bone. It's hard to hate these Detroit Lions. Even back when Ndamukong Suh was a Lion and was stomp...

Read Before Kickoff, Week 7: Packers vs. Saints

Nik Kovac
The four times that Mike McCarthy has faced a Sean Payton offense since they both started head coaching in 2006, the Packers have given up 34, 51, 34, and 44 points. In one of those games, Aaron Rodgers and Ran...

Read Before Kickoff, Week 6: Packers vs. Vikings

Nik Kovac
As the Packers make their second journey to the evil, bird-killing, Darth Vader helmet-shaped monument to taxpayer plunder, it might be worth remembering the snowstorm that led to the lowering of the prior roof...

Read Before Kickoff, Week 5: Packers vs. Cowboys

Nik Kovac
For the fourth time in five games, a retired Dallas Cowboy quarterback will be providing color commentary for the national TV broadcast of a Packer game. Some of you are claiming that Tony Romo wasn't so bad th...

Read Before Kickoff, Week 4: Packers vs. Bears

Nik Kovac
In all three seasons since Randall Cobb ran by Chris Conte on December 29, 2013, the Chicago Bears have finished last in the NFC North every time. It's almost as if they still haven't gotten over this division-...

Read Before Kickoff, Week 3: Packers vs. Bengals

Nik Kovac
The grudge matches are over. In the first two weeks of this season the Green Bay Packers were forced to confront teams that directly stopped Super Bowls in 2017 and 2015. Next on the docket is an obscure fra...

Read Before Kickoff, Week 2: Packers vs. Falcons

Nik Kovac
Where are you watching the game this Sunday night? Nik Kovac and Keith Gaustad will be providing live play by play and color commentary from the famous backroom stage at Linneman's, with all video action on a s...