Dominate the division leader, 2nd sees in the NFC on the road, in front of a national audience, showing progress and in control of their destiny to make the playoffs after a down start to the season
I’m not suggesting they’re shoe ins or contenders. But even being in this position is noteworthy and worth celebrating after many thought us dead going into Pittsburgh.
Didn’t Grupe hit like 5 kicks last week? Why is NO looking for a kicker?
Our final stretch has one of the easiest strength of schedules in the league. Most of the teams that beat us have turned things around. Steelers were good when we played, Lions are good, Broncos have a 5 game win streak including vs the Chiefs, Bills, and hanging 29 on the Browns defense. Raiders had McDaniels so that hurts but we were so close to winning that game. Falcons are technically the leaders of their division lol. But anyone who plays the NFC South has a cupcake schedule lol
Well it’ll probably be 3-5 here in a couple weeks with whatever the hell is going on at QB. Still sorry about Cousins…
How do those teams not control their destiny? Is there really a scenario where Green Bay is 11-6 and misses the playoffs lol
I know nobody wants to hear it, but if the Packers sneak into the 6th seed by going say, 5-1 the rest of the way, Lafluer needs a nod at least. Youngest team in the league at 2-5 and ends up 10-7 to go into the playoffs? Proves he didn’t need Rodgers to be a good team.
Exactly why I made this post!
There is only two ways to win the division. Absolute total collapse by the Lions or the Packers win out and get help from three of these 5 teams: Dallas, New Orleans, Minnesota OR Chicago, and Denver. There are a few other scenarios, but it gets super complicated. Most likely the Lions finish 12-5 and Green Bay finishes 10-7 at best.
I’d say they’re probably the only team outside of the Chiefs I’m worried about, they have an offense that can boom or bust at any time with a lot of good players on defense, they just have shit for coaches.
Last year though we had to play a dangerous Dolphins team, an upswing Lions team, and a division leading And healthy Vikings team. This year the hardest two games on the schedule are in Minnesota and home vs a not-so-great Chiefs team. We have 4 other games we should be favored in. We were underdogs in every game to finish out last season save for the Rams. We also had Rodgers but were barely holding on. Now we’re getting better with games that should boost morale and confidence and guys are getting better rather than being who they were. It’s a similar scenario, but 1000x better because if we go 9-8 and barely miss the playoffs nobody’s talking about missing the playoffs they’re talking about being over .500 after what we had earlier in the year and the youngest roster being better than the Rodgers led team last year. And If we do make the playoffs, in Loves first season? With all the picks we have coming up? Holy hell the narrative couldn’t be more different.
But no 25 other teams have as favorable a schedule AND H2H wins over the next likely 4 teams in the hunt, plus 2 games against teams in the hunt ahead of them.
Awesome! Just another way we control our own destiny this season. And if we lose any of those other games we don’t deserve to be in the playoffs anyway
For anyone wondering, Doubs has -2.2 fantasy points as of now, thank frick I’m playing an AFK guy starting 5 bye players lol
Had a TD, awful throw, Rookie can’t stay in bounds. Bear gets hurt. What the fuck is this game?
Stroud and Love as the best QBs per play when losing is incredibly interesting. And people say Love can’t play, smh.
Hopefully Wicks, Jaire and Ford are back, Jaire and Valentine can easily lock down KCs bad WR core, Rudy and Quay need to lock in on Kelce and shadow him the whole game. I’d like to see them line up LVN and Gary on the same side to get some thunder and lightning to confuse the Guard and Tackle. Biggest issue is going to be whether Kenny and Slaton can stop Pacheco. Offensively the Line needs to hold up against that front especially on blitzes and Love needs to get the ball out quick. Drags, slants, and screens to Watson, Reed, and Wicks. Cannot try to sit back in the pocket against that defense. If Kelce can be limited and the line holds up, we have a good chance.
I think the thing Rodgers did 100x better was his ability to hit every single throw at every level, even early on he was pinpoint short, deep, and intermediate. Love’s accuracy isn’t there yet. But his accuracy issues stem from his footwork and drop, not his arm. That means they’re mostly correctable, as we’ve seen it start to improve. I think love can be special, but it’s going to take longer than Rodgers, and likely but get to the level.
I’ve been saying, they aren’t this juggernaut we need to be scared of. If the line can hold up like they did vs Detroit, the game is ours to lose.
The crazy thing is that with hindsight idk if JSN fits Matt’s offense at all but Reed definitely does, and I’ll take Wicks and Brooks over Branch in the long run if they continue to develop (Wicks has serious WR2 potential and Brooks looks like a dangerous 3rd down threat on the DL).
LETS GOOOOOO