Randall Cobb played a big role in the Packers’ emotional win over the Saints on Sunday.
I laughed when the headline to Kevin Seifert’s game story popped up on my Twitter account Sunday night: “Emotional Packers save their season.”
“Really, Kevin?” I thought. “A season cannot be saved in week four. Calm down.”
I thought Kevin was reaching for a story angle to try and be different, get people riled up and generate web traffic.
But Seifert is an excellent reporter, one that isn’t prone to hyperbole and weird narratives that attempt to push reader’s buttons just for the hell of it. So I clicked on the story, read it, and decided that Seifert might be on to something.
This passage in particular stood out:
At 1-2, the Packers were facing some long odds if they lost Sunday’s game. Since the NFL moved to its current playoff format, 85.3 percent of teams that started 1-3 missed the playoffs. In a league in which most teams have relatively equal talent, the so-called “snowball effect” is very
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