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Packers fans are emotional. Myself included! One week it’s time to move on from Aaron Rodgers and the next the team is a shoo-in for the super bowl. Once problems last more than a few weeks, the whole fandom is fit to be tied. Over the first month of the season, all-pro guard Elgton Jenkins…

The Packers beat down their longest termed rival and then last week outlasted potentially the next best NFC team despite the absence of two top receivers and Jaire Alexander (Tampa Bay admittedly had several injuries as well) and, unsurprisingly, Packers fans en masse are worried about the team. Why didn’t they score more against Tampa?…

Last week’s trouncing of the Bears was the most creative game planning of the Packers offense that I remember seeing. The coaching staff utilized both running backs effectively, used plenty of jet motion, back side screens to hold linebackers, and even had a few deep shots lined up. If the play calling can stay this…

Last year Packers fans had a crisis of confidence about the defense. At the time, I wrote, “The Packers defense is bad and it’s a coaching problem…It’s obvious that the defense has talent, but it’s not being put to good use.” After a week 1 game in which Justin Jefferson ran wild, Dalvin Cook got…

Packers’ week 1 games are usually interesting one way or another. In the Aaron Rodgers as a starter era, the team is 10-4 and, importantly, 6-0 against NFC North teams. Each of the four losses, three straight against the 49rs and Seahawks and then last year’s dud against the Saints, came against a team with…

Nothing was more surprising on cutdown day this year than Brian Gutekunst’s decision to keep all four Packers seventh round draft picks. Each of the four players, Tariq Carpenter, Jonathan Ford, Rasheed Walker, and Samori Toure made the team over a player that many fans and reporters felt deserved to win the spot. Let’s discuss…