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Emptying The Bag ’25: Vikings Edition | LempsTalkinPack #247

Episode Summary

Chris Lempesis empties the mailbag after the Packers’ meaningless Vikings finale, reflects on BJ Raji’s legendary Bears moment, breaks down Packers-Bears Wild Card keys, roasts Facebook nonsense, and previews a chaotic Saturday night at Soldier Field.

Episode Notes

Another Tuesday night, another bag ripped open—and this one is stuffed with Bears hate, Vikings apathy, playoff anxiety, and top-shelf Facebook bulls**t.

Chris Lempesis is back with a brand-new edition of Emptying The Bag, answering everything he didn’t get to after the Packers wrapped up an essentially meaningless regular-season finale against Minnesota. And for once, Lemps doesn’t even bother with the usual “godd**n Vikings” routine—because honestly? That game just wasn’t important enough to earn it.

Instead, the show opens with a heartfelt, nostalgia-drenched ode to BJ Raji—Packers legend, Bears killer, and certified folk hero—whose iconic pick-six in the 2011 NFC Championship Game still gives Lemps chills nearly 15 years later. From Raji’s disappearance into real-life Keyser Söze territory to vivid memories of that magical day at Soldier Field, Lemps reflects on what it means to be a Packer for life—and why that bond between legends and fans matters.

From there, the mailbag officially reopens.

Topics include:

• Why covering a meaningless Vikings game was still absolutely the right call
• Whether rest is actually rust in disguise heading into the playoffs
• Why Soldier Field on Saturday night is going to be absolute chaos
• The Packers’ maddening Jekyll-and-Hyde season and why anything feels possible
• Matt LaFleur’s ongoing mystery relationship with the challenge flag
• The one real reason to feel optimistic heading into Bears Week (hello, Jordan Love)
• A brutally honest look at the defense—and who Lemps trusts way more than Rashan Gary right now
• Trade hypotheticals involving Malik Willis, cap gymnastics, and the nuclear “what if” surrounding LaFleur’s future
• And, of course, an all-time classic entry of Facebook F*ery**, featuring unnamed rookies, imaginary Appleton nightclubs, and some of the finest fake reporting you’ll ever hear dismantled in real time

Lemps also lays out the clearest blueprint yet for how Green Bay can go into Chicago and rip the Bears’ hearts out of their own building—while fully acknowledging that this team could win by two scores, lose by two scores, or do something completely unhinged in between.

The verdict?
Play clean. Protect the ball. Don’t get sloppy.
Do that—and Lemps likes the Packers’ chances. A lot.

The Bears still suck.
The bag is emptied.
And Saturday night can’t get here fast enough.

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