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The Green Bay Packers’ return to Earth coincides with a heartbreaking, season-ending 20-16 loss at Lambeau Field.  Cracks in the armor of a team tend to reveal themselves in the heat of the playoffs – Green Bay’s win-and-in scenario presented to them after a four-game winning streak was squashed in a contest that held playoff-like atmosphere…


The Packers’ mirage, the hallucination that Green Bay might be a team figuring it out and preparing for a stretch run, lasted all of about four days.   If only the sweet, thrilling victory over Dallas could have lasted a little longer before a familiar foul taste brought Packers fans back to reality, reminding us…


And just like that, the Packers’ season is effectively over. A team that couldn’t pull out a win against the Lions or Commanders and couldn’t move the ball this game with the season on the line in the fourth quarter now has to win basically every game left on the schedule just to have a…


It’s been years since a Green Bay Packers loss was this disheartening.   It’s not because the 23-21 loss vs the previously 2-4 Washington Commanders dropped the Packers to 3-4. Several other perennial NFC powerhouses like Tampa Bay, San Francisco and Los Angeles sport the same disappointing record.  It’s not that the Packers lost to…


Earlier this season I wrote about all the reasons Matt LaFleur deserved to win the coach of the year award. In that post, I also detailed the argument against LaFleur for COTY: Really, the case against should be that when faced with a bottom of the league special teams and middle of the league defense…