Packers' Season Struggles and Potential Postseason Rally

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00:00Let's talk about this first, the Packers. We were just talking about them earlier in

00:09the show of where they are right now. They're the last team in.

00:13They're the last team in and a lot of their mistakes have been kind of self inflicted.

00:19A couple of bad passes out of Jordan Love, obviously the knee injury, then the groin

00:23injury that he's been kind of dealing with. They've had, you know, he's got 10 interceptions

00:28so far on the season. They've had some special teams gaps as well. Some of them they've been

00:32able to overcome, some of them they haven't. You look at the game against, say, Minnesota.

00:37That was his first game back, Jordan Love's first game back after the knee injury. Did

00:40not play well in the first half. Had they had five more minutes to go in that game,

00:45I think the Packers might have pulled that game out. The game against Detroit that they

00:49lost, they had three turnovers. You're not going to win the game turning the ball over

00:52three times and giving it to Detroit and one of those being a pick six.

00:55So some of the stuff that they've done is kind of in self inflicted and that was the

00:58concentration during the bye week for Matt LaFleur. And if he can get that right, then

01:02I think this team is pretty capable of doing some damage in postseason.

01:06So they've played basically, am I right? They played the Vikings and the Lions in division.

01:14That's it right to this point. And they lost to both of them. Are you concerned about any

01:20of that?

01:22I'm not. Only for the fact that last year Detroit came into Lambeau Field and they beat

01:25him and they beat him in kind of dominating fashion. And then everybody remembers on Thanksgiving

01:29Day when the Packers went over to Detroit, played that first game on Thanksgiving morning

01:34and just dropped them in Ford Field. So I'm not worried about them going on the road.

01:38As a matter of fact, Matt LaFleur's got a pretty good road record as a coach. To me,

01:42it's all about the quarterback getting healthy, getting on his reeds and also keeping his

01:47footwork because when he's thrown off his back foot, he's on the run. He's not nearly

01:50as good, especially when you've got a bum knee and a bum groin. So if he gets that healthy

01:54and gets back to his footwork with Tom Clements, his quarterback coach, I think things will

01:58be pretty good.

01:59And if you just eliminate a few of the penalties and just a few of the dumb mistakes, it's

02:02a good football team. I think defensively speaking, they've climbed, they have ascended

02:06steadily in a lot of the statistics. They're right around the top 10, top 11, top 13 and

02:11a lot of those crucial categories. The one category they need to fix is pass rush. If

02:16you go with pro football focus, they're ranked 25th in pass rush and they've got to get

02:20more pass rush. If they do, then the secondary is going to get better. Remember, Jair Alexander

02:24has been down for a little while as well. So I think they're going to be okay, barring

02:28any kind of mass injury. I think it's a good team. I just think that they just need something

02:32to kind of bring it all together and maybe going into Chicago this weekend against the

02:35Craptastic Bears, maybe that's the elixir they need to get off the shine.