How Lane Johnson’s Retirement Will Affect the Eagles and More Questions for Week 5

KapadiaIt wasn't enough to inspire Packers fans to say, we're back, baby. No, you know, where this is just like previous years, but it was enough to win the game. And I think that's gotta be their mentality this weekend and going forward. To me,

Pelisserothere's a big Jonathan Gannon game too, because the Packers defense, up until last week when they're facing an under -after -rookie quarterback in his first start, they hadn't played well. Again, Micah is a big deal. You take the best player, the highest -paid player off any defense in the league, it's going to have a trickle -down effect.

PelisseroThat's just the way that it works. Last week, they seemed to put it together a little bit more, but now you've got Ben Johnson coming into town, who not only takes this matchup very personally, but is also one of the most brilliant coaches in the NFL. He's had a different starting quarterback three weeks in a row, and if anything, It's looked like with Case Keenum and Tyson Bajan, he's opened up the playbook because he knows he doesn't have guys

Pelisserowho can go. And when the first couple of reads aren't there, goes and makes magic happen. That's definitely not Case Keenum. It's really not Tyson Bajan, although he's a really, really good quarterback. And I wouldn't be surprised if he's starting somewhere in 2027, depending on exactly how things play out, whether the Bears would move him and all those different things.

PelisseroBut Ben is going to come in with a plan to attack whatever weaknesses he sees on film. They're going to have their hands full. I don't think you can go in saying, yeah, we'll beat them 17 -14 again. I know that happened against the Vikings in the rain a couple of weeks ago, and they were able to just play that grinded -out defensive game.

PelisseroBut it's a great chess match, I think, especially Ben going up against Gannon. And let's see, without Cooper, as you mentioned, without Parsons, exactly what Green Bay has in store. We've also got Raiders at Patriots this week, which it's a rematch of the weirdest game of the 2025 season. and I know we've talked about it.

PelisseroI was there week one. Raiders beat the Patriots in New England. Mike Farable's first game as coach and everyone goes, what's going on? Pete Carroll's reviving the Raiders. Raiders lost basically every game after that. Patriots basically won every game after that. And it was a complete flip after week one. Now you got a Raiders team that even in losing last week, Sheil looked pretty good.