Emptying The Bag '25: Wild Card Edition l LempsTalkinPack #249

The season is officially over — and yeah, this one is going to sting for a while.In Emptying The Bag ’25: Wild Card Edition, Chris Lempesis cracks open the final mailbag of the 2025 Packers season after Green Bay’s gut-punch, season-ending 31–27 loss to the Chicago Bears at Soldier Field. A game the Packers should have won. A game they had won. And a game that somehow slipped away in the most familiar, frustrating way possible.This is a classic LempsTalkinPack mailbag episode — raw, long, cathartic, and fueled by listener questions from Twitter, BlueSky, Facebook, Instagram, email, and everywhere in between. Lemps works through 22 listener submissions covering everything from Matt LaFleur’s future, Jordan Love’s ceiling, coaching accountability, playoff collapses, roster construction, fake Packers social-media nonsense, and whether this franchise is truly comfortable being “just good.”Along the way, Lemps reflects on the grind of the season itself — 36 shows in 140 days, the best season of the podcast so far, and the community that keeps the basement lights on. There’s gratitude. There’s exhaustion. There’s humor. There’s Miller Lite. And yes, Facebook F*ery makes one final appearance**, because of course it does.This episode digs deep into the uncomfortable truths facing the Packers:A blown 21–3 playoff leadFive straight losses to end the seasonThe recurring lack of killer instinctWhether Matt LaFleur has already hit his ceilingWhy “players liking their coach” doesn’t mean a damn thingWhat real championship standards should look like in Green BayAnd why this all feels like Groundhog Day with different namesIt’s not a meltdown.It’s not hot-take radio.It’s the sound of a fanbase — and a host — reaching bitter clarity.Lemps also looks ahead (reluctantly) to the offseason: coaching decisions, contract timelines, roster questions, the draft, free agency, and the uncomfortable reality that if nothing changes, we may already know how this movie ends.This is the final mailbag of the season, a temporary goodbye before a short break — and a reminder that while the Packers may be down, they’re not gone.Neither is Lemps.🎧 Listen now on PackersTalk.com, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and wherever you carry the G. And yes—grab a beer first. You’ll need it.Support the showWebsite: Lempstalkinpack.comSubscribe/Rate/Review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify & iHeartTip jar: Venmo & PayPal links on the site (help fund the victory brews!)You can follow Chris on twitter at LempsMKE (@ItsJustChrisNow)LempsTalkinPack is a part of the Packers Talk family of podcasts, serving up five distinct podcasts to satisfy the most fervent of Packer fans. Variety is the spice of life, so subscribe to Packers Talk on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. You can also follow Packers Talk on Twitter and Facebook.