Packers Waste Another Game: New Opponent, Same Script

Packers fans have seen this story before: penalties, poor play-calling, and wasted chances that define another painful loss.  Somewhere between the penalties, the play calls, and the empty promises, this team forgot what fight looks like

I’m gonna be honest here: it took me a solid few minutes to even start writing this article because I had to comprehend whatever it was we just saw, once again, from this Green Bay Packers team. All week long, Packer Nation has echoed that even if we lost, “as long as it was a competitive game, you can feel some comfort moving forward.” 

Another Packers Offensive Dud

The game was close, but no one should feel good about this team after watching it. The only members of the team to feel good about right now are the defense and Josh Jacobs, because they are the only ones who got up for this game and actually did the job they are paid to do. 

For the longest time, Matt LeFleur has had my support, and while I still think he can be a great play caller, he clearly has lost his confidence and aggressiveness as a coach. What may be even worse is that the plays this team runs in some situations are the kind you’d see at the high school level.

The stubbornness to run the ball on first and second down, to force a third and 4+ generated boo’s tonight (finally) from the Lambeau faithful. All week, everyone was fed this nonsense that they were taking this as a revenge game and had circled it on the calendar as soon as the schedule came out. They must have circled it as vacation time because if that is what they call a revenge game effort, they are in huge trouble.

There is a fine line between confidence and arrogance, and this team flirts with it week in and week out. They get so confident that they “play with their food” by playing down to other teams and committing an encyclopedia’s worth of penalties. 

Love Has Another Mistake: Trying to Do Too Much

This team thinks they have enough talent to win on talent alone, and, to be frank, they DO NOT. They need to start playing as a team, as a unit, and put together a complete football game for a change. The defense was almost perfect tonight, allowing only 10 points. The play calling all night, combined with another Jordan Love “the heck was that?!” moment, had fans all over the world ready to blow a gasket. 

The Love fumble at the end of the half is an inexcusable mistake that ultimately was the difference in the game, as they could have had a shot at a field goal and had a lead going into the half. Instead, Love holds the ball too long, gets wrapped up, tries to toss it forward, and completely loses control and coughs up a costly fumble.