By Jimmy Carlton Sportswriter Published Sep 18, 2017 at 7:06 PM

New year. New season. New stadium. New girlfriend. Same old result for Aaron Rodgers and the Packers, as the Falcons handed Green Bay its first loss of the season, 34-23, down in Atlanta. And when you lose a game to last season’s best team in the NFC and the almost Super Bowl champions, the only rational response is to call for everyone’s firing. Mike McCarthy? Gone. Aaron Rodgers? Cut. Ted Thompson? Kicked to the curb. The refs? NOT EVEN ALLOWED TO PLAY A GAME OF MADDEN. Burn this team to the ground and salt the ashes; the 2017-18 Green Bay Packers are through.

But, in this episode of OnMilwaukee’s Postgame Tailgate, what if we posit … no?

Sports editor Jimmy Carlton, pop culture editor Matt Mueller and special guest Andy Tarnoff, OnMilwaukee’s publisher and co-founder, discuss the devastation from last night’s prime-time pounding, how much fun it was to watch Mike McCarthy swear on the sidelines, how little fun it was to watch his offense and more.

But why let a bad Packers team ruin all the fun when there’s a really good, playoff-hunting Brewers team to chat about? So we also talk about the Brewers’ impressive 2017 season, why fans aren’t seemingly jumping on the bandwagon and what we predict as far as the playoffs approach.

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Born in Milwaukee but a product of Shorewood High School (go ‘Hounds!) and Northwestern University (go ‘Cats!), Jimmy never knew the schoolboy bliss of cheering for a winning football, basketball or baseball team. So he ditched being a fan in order to cover sports professionally - occasionally objectively, always passionately. He's lived in Chicago, New York and Dallas, but now resides again in his beloved Brew City and is an ardent attacker of the notorious Milwaukee Inferiority Complex.

After interning at print publications like Birds and Blooms (official motto: "America's #1 backyard birding and gardening magazine!"), Sports Illustrated (unofficial motto: "Subscribe and save up to 90% off the cover price!") and The Dallas Morning News (a newspaper!), Jimmy worked for web outlets like CBSSports.com, where he was a Packers beat reporter, and FOX Sports Wisconsin, where he managed digital content. He's a proponent and frequent user of em dashes, parenthetical asides, descriptive appositives and, really, anything that makes his sentences longer and more needlessly complex.

Jimmy appreciates references to late '90s Brewers and Bucks players and is the curator of the unofficial John Jaha Hall of Fame. He also enjoys running, biking and soccer, but isn't too annoying about them. He writes about sports - both mainstream and unconventional - and non-sports, including history, music, food, art and even golf (just kidding!), and welcomes reader suggestions for off-the-beaten-path story ideas.