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Top Five NFL Week 8 Games to Watch, Packers Force Rodgers to Turn Left, Brandon Perna on How the Broncos Confuse their Fans, Plus Green Bay Great Ahman Green Ranks Packers QB Legends
24 Oct 2025
Chapter 1: What if the Seahawks never left the AFC?
Absence makes the heart grow fonder, maybe. I have a lot of great memories from my time there. A lot of great interactions with fans over the years.
Chapter 2: Which are the top five NFL games to watch in Week 8?
I grew up there. I spent 18 years there. I'm 21, 39, so I'm thankful for my time there. Obviously, I would have loved to ride off on the sunset after a Super Bowl win, but that's not the way the league goes sometimes. I knew the writing was on the wall when Jordan was picked. And as a matter of time, I happened to win MVP the first two years he was with us.
But I knew at some point there would be a change, and if I wanted to play, I'd probably have to be elsewhere. So I understand the situation.
Counterpoint, Aaron?
Chapter 3: How does Brandon Perna explain the confusion among Broncos fans?
There might never have been an absence if Seattle had just stayed in the AFC in 2002 when the Texans joined the league, and it might have resulted in a bizarro version of the Malcolm Butler game featuring two would-be Steelers QBs. We now know back in...
Two, the NFL replaced the Oilers, who'd moved to Tennessee with the Houston Texans, and the Seahawks, in the name of balanced divisions, serving as the sacrificial lamb bouncing over to the NFC West. Now, if we keep Seattle and the AFC West, someone's gotta go. Rivalries be damned.
The real losers here, then, are the other members of the AFC South, because the division's new member is the Kansas City Chiefs, who'll be a real tough out once they draft a Texas Tech QB in 2017. But that's still on the alternate reality horizon, so let's focus on the second decade of this century,
where Payton is transitioning from Colt to Bronco, and the AFC Hawks are on the rise with the Legion of Boom and their weak QB Russell Wilson, while over in the NFC, Sean Payton's bounty Gaten Saints aren't enough to stand in the way of Jim Harbaugh, Colin Kaepernick, and the 49ers.
And after coming up just short against the Ravens in Super Bowl XLVII, the Niners make their second straight Super Bowl in chilly New Jersey against the Bronco, you know... Wait a second. If Denver couldn't beat Seattle in Super Bowl XLVIII, why would we assume they would beat them in the AFC title game? We shouldn't. And we won't.
So that means New Jersey is host for the Niners v Seattle Seahawks. In this reality, that's a matchup we've only seen probably three or four times since the Hawks joined the NFL in 76. Now let's give that one to the Niners if for no other reason than it upset the snowflakes who got vapors because a QB took a knee during a song.
Better yet, maybe Bad Bunny can go back in time to play the halftime show there. Next season, the Niners are feeling satiated with that new Lombardi of theirs, and no one gets in the way of the Packers and MVP Aaron Rodgers. So yes, after surviving Dez Bryant's non-catch that was a catch, Green Bay heads to Super Bowl XLIX to play Russ and the Hawks.
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Chapter 4: What does Ahman Green think about the Packers matchup?
Deja vu! Yeah Hawks, Tom Brady, Malcolm Butler, and the Pats are out, but you're still playing a Hall of Fame-bound QB who wears the number 12 and likes putting nature in his body. Speaking of which, Sedona's too close. Rodgers vanishes midweek for a darkness retreat and forgets it's Super Sunday till after high noon. Very high noon.
He makes it just in time to throw the go-ahead touchdown to Jordy Nelson. But with only seconds left and the ball near the Packers' goal line, Russ opts against running and throws it. But Packers DB Morgan Burnett drops a would-be game-ending interception at the goal line.
Chapter 5: Who ranks higher: Brett Favre or Aaron Rodgers?
Marshawn Lynch scores on the next play. And the Seahawks are champs. Time is a flat circle, Aaron. You'll be back. Or you can go to the Steelers. Which reminds me, let's start the show! You know, in that division restructure, I was very tempted to move the Cowboys out of the NFC East and into the AFC South so Dallas and Houston would play two Lone Star Bowls every year.
Either way, let's just move on. Hi and hello, my fellow football Americans. Welcome to Football America, presented as ever by DraftKings.
Chapter 6: What insights does Ahman Green provide about Packers QB legends?
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Chapter 7: How do the Packers and Steelers match up in their upcoming game?
We've got from That's Good Sports, Brandon Perna coming up to help us make our picks in the biggest games and Packers legend, Amon Green on Green Bay and all the rest of it. Welcome to NFL Week 8. Welcome to Episode 19. As always, fellas, Gino and Mike, Mike and Gino, let's figure this out. Which pro football player wore that number 19 best? I'm going to leave the floor to you.
I think the obvious one is, since neither one of you, obviously I'm not old enough to have seen him play either, but at least he's a little fresher in my brain. It's Gianni Unitas. How say you fellas?
We were talking most of this over, and we mostly came up with soccer players, to be honest. Yeah, I mean, the record books say Johnny Unitas.
Chapter 8: What are the predictions for NFL Week 8 games?
Yeah, Johnny Unitas, I mean, it's also one of the great football names. But if you want to go foosball. Yeah, but we're doing foos-a-ball, or fooch-a-ball, or footh-ball. You can do Young Messi before he changes number to 10. Correct, before they sent Ronaldinho to AC Milan, Messi actually wore the number 19, yes. And then we had, speaking with Milan, Clarence Seedorf, the Dutch maestro.
And I think Bradley had one, too. Bradley had Gerd MĆ¼ller, right?
We had Dwight York.
Dwight York.
Dwight York.
Yeah, the pride of the Trinidad and Tobago. Also, Gerd Mueller, a German Bayern Munich legend who also played with Ray Hudson down here at the Fort Lauderdale Strikers. Which is to say that there's not a lot of good 19s besides Johnny Unitas, Dave, as you can tell. Well, there's plenty of them.
Au contraire. Au contraire. I don't know any of the names you just said. I do know the name Moe Damoshek. This must be what Moe Damoshek hears when I talk about football. And I bring that name up because she told a great story about one pro football player, Mike Ditka. Go back and listen to the episode earlier this week.
It was a positively grand time with Moe Damoshek and Jeff Schwartz and our pal from Heed the Call. Mark Sessler, a lot of reaction to that. We appreciate you football Americans for reacting to that and spreading the good word about the show. Keep it up. YouTube and wherever you find your audio podcasts. You guys forgot. You say Messi before he got good.
Joe Montana after his prime had already ended. We did not say that. We did not say that. Messi was already good.
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