Former HC Sean Payton on Aaron Rodgers, Packers: 'Right now they're not a good team'
These are strange times for Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers. This is an organization that's not used to losing all that much and a quarterback who is coming off two-straight NFL MVP awards and has four total under his belt.
The Packers aren't all that used to be bad, but at 3-6 and riding a five-game losing streak, there's no better word that can be used to describe this team.
Just ask former NFL head coach Sean Payton, who has been brutally honest about Green Bay during this losing skid.
Recapping Green Bay's loss to the previously one-win Detroit Lions this past Sunday with Colin Cowherd, Payton was clear that he doesn't see a way "out" of this mess for Rodgers and the Pack.
"We've repeated this. We've seen Sundays repeat [themselves], and right now they're not a good team," Payton said in the wake of Green Bay's 15-9 loss to the Lions.
That may seem like an obvious statement about a team that has twice as many losses as it does wins, but the way Green Bay has lost over these past five weeks has been just as bad as the losses themselves. Keep in mind, this season aside, Rodgers is one of the best quarterbacks of all time.
Still, against a Detroit defense that came into this game as the worst in the league, he was only able to lead his offense (as injury depleted as it is) to nine points, and en route, he threw three interceptions — two of which were terrible throws in the red zone.
This is not the Packers offense we're used to and it's certainly not the quarterback we're used to, but Payton is right. There are no more "get right" games on the schedule for Green Bay. The Packers have lost all of those games, and they're staring down the barrel of another big loss with former head coach Mike McCarthy and the Dallas Cowboys itching to come to town to provide the proverbial knock-out punch.
"Woof", Payton said about the prospect of a 6-2 Dallas team heading up to Lambeau to get revenge on a quarterback and team that it has every reason to want to stomp.
"They're a little better than Detroit," Payton said as he and Cowherd broke down in chuckles.
And the downfall of Rodgers and the Packers rolls on...
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