Packers Twitter is always a cesspool of negativity after a loss, but this week we reached close to peak negativity. Following the loss, normally rational fans and analysts were already writing off Jordan Love and Matt LaFleur. Podcasts and articles galore explored the possibility of hiring a new head coach, drafting a QB with the…
Matt LaFleur’s record out of bye weeks hasn’t been particularly good. That’s an opinion you’ll probably hear a lot this week, and it’s true that in the first game following a bye, the Packers haven’t played very well in LaFleur’s tenure, in the rest of the games that season, however, the Packers have been great.…
Part of fandom is overreacting to everything that happens. After the first two games in this Packers season, Jordan Love was a future Hall of Famer and after the last two games Twitter is full of people doing mock drafts and trying to figure out how to replace him. That means that right now Packers…
I was personally on the forefront of the anti-running back train. I remember thinking that if Mike Shanahan could get thousand-yard seasons out of Orlandis Gary and Reuben Droughns it would make no sense to spend a high pick on a running back. The past year or so has slowly changed my mind. Christian McCaffrey…
We knew this was going to be a young Packers team with a lot of ups and downs. We didn’t know they would put together entire halves of broken-down, cold-piss, high-school level play. The first half of this game was embarrassing for the Packers. Embarrassing enough to be down 24 to the Lions of all…
I know, it’s too early in the season for articles like this. But, do you really want to read another article on Joe Barry or AJ Dillon or David Bakhtiari? How about we have some fun and discuss Packers trades? Budda Baker Budda Baker is the most obvious candidate. He plays the Packers’ biggest position…
Lost in the debate this off-season about whether running backs are worth paying as much as Cole Kmet, was exactly how much impact true franchise players at RB can have. Christian McCaffrey made it possible to give up on a QB the 49ers spent 3 firsts on after 2 years, Jonathan Taylor broke Jim Irsay’s…