Chris Lempesis empties the mailbag after the Broncos loss, tackles the Micah Parsons injury fallout, offensive adjustments, and debuts “Blitz and Prey,” plus Facebook F***ery.
Chris Lempesis is back in the basement Packer room for another Tuesday night edition of Emptying The Bag ’25, beer in hand, emotions barely held together with duct tape — and yes, he’s still furious, still gutted, and still not remotely over what happened in Denver.
He opens the show by trying to put words to the emotional swamp he’s been living in for the last 48 hours since the Broncos game — and, in classic Lemps fashion, he does it with a completely unrelated Milwaukee driving story involving a bad lane change, a road-rage maniac, and curly fries getting thrown at his car like it was a drive-thru food fight. It sounds absurd (because it is), but the point lands: the feelings are the same — disbelief, anger, helplessness, and the sick realization that even when someone apologizes, the damage still gets done.
From there, Lempesis dives headfirst into the mailbag — Twitter, Blue Sky, Facebook, email, Instagram — working through the fanbase’s collective therapy session after Green Bay’s brutal loss and the season-altering gut punch of Micah Parsons’ ACL injury. The central question hanging over everything: what does this team look like now, and how does it survive when the one player who made everything easier on defense is suddenly gone?
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It’s angry, it’s funny, it’s exhausted, and it’s painfully honest — the exact kind of Tuesday night release valve Packers fans need when the football gods decide they haven’t suffered enough.
Grab a beer, open the bag, and try not to get hit with curly fries on the way in.
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