Last year, that earned them a trip to Dallas, where they disposed of the Cowboys rather easily before falling in the Divisional round against San Francisco. The Philadelphia Eagles beat the Packers in the opener and finished As it turns out, McCarthy did his best. Meanwhile, LaFleur and his team forgot one key detail. They had to beat the Bears for anything that happened in Dallas to matter.
Injuries, inconsistent play and mistakes piled up. Some harsh grades are coming out of the loss to the Bears, with the worst going to the highest-paid special teams coordinator in football. Something is off here. Jordan Love has looked jumpy in the pocket and is not seeing the field well. When he is seeing the field well, receivers are not breaking open. Perhaps coach Matt LaFleur is saving his best passing concepts for the postseason.
The reality is the Packers are paying their quarterback a lot of money to play well at the end of the year. That has not been there in the last two weeks. Love was 6-of passing for 53 yards in the first quarter, with 19 of those yards coming on a play in which Luke Musgrave made a sliding catch. Outside of that play, there was little to write home about.
Things went from bad to worse in the second quarter. Love rushed to the line of scrimmage to catch the Bears with 12 defenders on the field but was immediately under duress. As he was going to the turf, he banged his elbow on a push pass to Josh Jacobs and exited the game shaking his right hand. Once Malik Willis was in the game, the passing offense found some life, albeit due to some good fortune.
A yard pass from Willis to Jayden Reed looked ticketed to be an incompletion due to how far the ball was underthrown. The clock is about to strike 10 p. Do the Packers know where their passing offense is?
