
The Packers have a big area of concern to fix ahead of an NFC Wild Card showdown against the division rival Chicago Bears.
Back in Week 15, Green Bay fell to the Bears, with the division championship within reach, after Chicago recovered an onside kick and went on to win the game in overtime.
While injuries have derailed a season that once offered legitimate Super Bowl aspirations, and made the road to Santa Clara far more difficult than anyone in Green Bay expected even a month ago, there is another major issue lurking that could rear its ugly head if head coach Matt LaFleur and staff don’t fix it in time for Saturday night’s game.
The Packers’ red zone offense has been woefully inadequate this season.
With the regular season coming to a close, Green Bay finished the 2025 campaign ranked 14th in the league, converting just 57.6 percent of trips inside the 20-yard line into touchdowns.
Far worse, over the final three games, Green Bay is cashing in trips into the red zone into touchdowns just over 12% of the time.
“That’s certainly been our Achilles heel as of late,” Packers offensive coordinator Adam Stenavich told reporters, recently. “When you’re talking about offensive production and scoring points. I think what we do in the red zone is extremely important, as important as anything we’ve done. So we definitely need to be better there. We need to execute better down there, make sure we’re not getting into negative plays, make sure we’re not turning the ball over. We had a couple of turnovers down there. Where we get opportunities to score points, and score seven points, we’ve got to make sure we do it, especially when we’re playing really good teams.”
In Green Bay’s loss to the Bears, the Packers were held scoreless inside the 20-yard line. That kind of red-zone futility, again, could lead to an early postseason exit and an offseason’s worth of questions in Green Bay.
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