"Memo to Kraft: Please stop trying to leap over tacklers. It’s not worth the potentially disastrous impact on your back, hip and tailbone when you crash land back down to earth. "

And not to mention, your schnutts!

"Looks like Love is determined to throw the ball while back peddling, and that will always result in a grab bag of successes and failures. Watching number ten play quarterback for the Packers will never be for the faint of heart. Just get used to it. "

I disagree. Every quarterback misses what look like easy passes and Love is no different. I think he has been very consistent in these last 6 games or so. Especially if you compare him to earlier in the year.

I don't think there is any getting used to what you are saying. If we did not have him playing as he is, I can guarantee you that our record would not be as good as it is!

And yes, you did strike a nerve as I am in full support of Love!

Merry Christmas to all of my fellow Packer fans and CHTV bloggers, to all the CHTV contributing writers, staff, Nags and Jersey Al.

Also Merry Christmas to all the services members of our Armed Forces, Police, Fire, First responders, Doctors and Nurses.

Everyone have a safe, healthy and Happy Holiday. Go Pack Go! Thanks, Since '61

Ken, an excellent article and one with which I completely agree.
Love’s footwork is a problem imo. He throws off his back foot and often falling away; this has to be the reason (to disagree with Hawk), he misses more pedestrian throws than most.
On the other hand, his sidearm throws are often poetry in motion and reminds me a little of Stafford.
Merry Christmas everyone and…
Go Packers!!!

Credit to The Pack’s receiving corps for nabbing Love’s wildly inconsistent throws. It seems to be taking a toll on healthy receivers- good thing the position has depth. Joe Barry - yada, yada, yada. He’s staying as long as MLF wants him. And MLF stays as long as MM is satisfied with his performance. And as long as the Packers remain relevant going into January, that’s good enough for MM and the Packers’ Executive Committee.

Game balls: Aaron Jones with over 100 yards rushing! Thank you! Tucker Kraft, who is quickly becoming a fan favorite and has stepped up in Musgrave's absence. Bo Melton for having a solid game. I think he is GB's fastest receiver on the field when Watson is out. Would like to see more deep, over the top passes to him. Dontayvion Wicks for his efforts when both Reed and Watson are on the sideline and then Wicks gets injured.

Lame calls: Defense, by Barry, allowed this game to be way closer than it should have been. The challenge by MLF that was lost and cost us a crucial TO. Wonder if it was Barry calling for that challenge? If not, somebody else in that booth has to be chewed out. All the time spent on the review of the Doubs catch where he rolled out of bounds and appeared to let go of the ball. He had the ball in his other hand, on that play, and never lost control of it.

--- Ken, thanks for putting a positive and correct spin on this game because I was totally disappointed, it felt like a loss.
---I get to see other QBs play and they all miss some throws, but the really good ones come back and make throws that score.
--- As good as our WR are they are usually not wide open; I think we get used to watching WR against our D and think that it's normal.
--- Maybe Doubts has been under utilized, but his 8 TDs are easily in the top ten.

Nice article, Ken, maybe too nice!
While I appreciate your position, and understand it, you sound like one of our many "the Packers can do no wrong" fans that will give any of us a Thumbs Down for disagreeing with you. For starters:
"Wins have been hard to come by this season and I am determined to revel in every one of them, and you should too". No Ken, we shouldn't. This was the worst team in the league that we made look like contenders, it was an embarrassment, call it what it is.
"The game certainly did nothing to enhance Barry’s job security, or Matt LaFleur’s for that matter".
Who cares? I have no sympathy for either one, they don't deserve any security and both should be fired. Barry because he's incompetent, and LaFleur for allowing him to stay. We could be 'reveling' in more wins if not for these two clowns, and it's been this way for 2+ years.
"Carlson’s 53 yard field goal and clutch game winner at the end at least gave us some hope for the future."
Yes, but the hope for the future is that they find a dependable kicker, not a "hold your breath, here we go again" kind of guy.
What we saw yesterday was the evidence of Mark Murphy's near complete dismantling of almost everything Bob Harlan had built, a football powerhouse from a Football Corporation. He tore down the structure, installed himself as the dictator, and them ignored it while playing Real Estate Icon, he failed the team and he failed the fans.
It's time for a house cleaning, and it should start with Murphy, LaFleur, and Barry!

The Panthers Are The Clear Winners, and I'm mighty glad. The Carolina Panthers have won the title as the worst team in football. It would have spoiled my happy day if the Packers would have lost that game and put Worst Team In The NFL in doubt, but that was not to be. Ah, the joy of winning and we can enjoy the feeling all Christmas Day and the rest of the week. By the way, Merry Christmas to all of you Packer fans...I thank our team for helping to make it a Merrier one.

Merry Christmas to all CHTV Packer fans. Enjoy the day with Faith, Family and Friends!

This game unfolded exactly as I hoped. I told my wife before the game I hoped Love and Offense would play well...they did!.

I hoped the STs would not help lose the game...just do their job. Kinda did.

And I confess I did not want the Defense to play jaw dropping good D for a change because I feared MLF would use any sign of competence to rationalize a 4th year for bumbling Barry. They didn't and played even worse than their mean.

Good win. We have a QB and his top O weapon back on the field in AJ!

The show "The QB School" on Youtube has some discussions about footwork and Jordan Love. Love's underthows are a product of his footwork, for example. But Rogers learned the proper footwork and then felt free to improvise and throw sidearms and fadeaways with success. I would like to see Love be sound in his fundamentals before trying the funny stuff. Go Pack Go.

Lame call:

Repeatedly kicking the ball short of the endzone on kick-offs. This resulted in returns to the 30,31,33 yard lines IIRC. If this is by design, it's a stupid one. Just kick the damn ball into the endzone and have it come out to the 25 and avoid potential big returns and injuries in the process. You know....kinda like how almost every other team does it.

https://lombardiave.com/posts/matt-lafleur-throws-packers-offense-under-...

When isn’t he “wildly inconsistent with his accuracy”

Barrys bend dont break defense worked great yesterday. He had it planned to thee second, to let them get into field goal range and have the clock tick down to less then one second and the Packers sail off into the sunset with a monstrous victory. No other d coach in the NFL could have planned it to that perfection.

For sure Gutt will be offering him a big contract extension for his job this year. Seven wins is dam hard to come by and they've already set a goal of 8 wins for next year.

Some of the other goals: Jones to play in 7 games, Watson 8, Campbell to finally get over his mystery neck injury by mid season. Stokes will be healthy and able to watch the game while on the field and Jairre will tackle someone with his shoulder and miss many games while jawing on the sidelines how great he is. Bakt will be there to playing in every other game in pre season, not practicing too much and just being saved by LeFleur for........?
Wow 2024 season cant start soon enough. Merry Christmas.

They need game changers-
So it's find a different way.

Here is a pretty simple statement.

If Barry has the defense play the same these final two weeks of the season as they have last three weeks, we will not win either game. Not even the Bears game!

Question: Devonte Wyatt---lots of talent. Brain dead mistakes.

Factoid: statistically, Jordan Love's first starting season is very close to Aaron Rodgers first season. I think Love has answered the question about his ability to lead the offense.

Wide receivers: the rookies have really made the offense good. Who would have thought it?

While the playoffs are likely out of the picture(even with a glimmer of life there) who would have thought going into the season that the team would even have had a shot at the playoffs? If the defense was schemed for success, the Packers very easily could have made the playoffs.

Gute and MLF will need to make some tough, but necessary calls in the off season on veterans and bring in yet another good class of rookies to move forward. Sorry 'fire everybody' folks, the management team stays in place one more season but if there's another .500 season next year change will be at hand. Matt LF must self-analyze to see whether he can game manage at championship level. Think Mike Tomlin.

Ken I watched game as many here. And, by interesting turn out 2 days before Panthers game I was watching one of the 2009 Packers game, wild card game, were I can tell you FPQB had a dozen back foot throws that finished over or underthrown. As with Jordan Love, those throws very often happens when QB is under presure. So, please stop whining abot Jordan Love inacuracy. He has more than 65% completed passes in his last 8 games.

But I agree with you on Joe Barry D. He was visible upset when Young score that QB sneak TD. I wonder why he did not react prior that by calling TO if it was not his schematic position of players...

Man, I was so upset with how D played for 2 and half Q (from second half of 2nd Q to the end!).

Also, when Wicks went out of the game, MLF started to call college playbook schemes, no wonder why Panthers D was able to produce so many 3 and outs!

Love is progressing well in the second half of the season. Thats a huge relief. As the young offense gets more experience along with Love, things will only be trending up.
As far as the defense, new defensive staff is a must.
I don't think any one player selected early can save this mess. All the defense is trending down right now.
The team can't seem to maximize talent on the defensive side.
Offensively they have been making due with mid to late round players. Its time for Gute to start investing earlier on the offensive line and running back.
Finally, don't get me wrong I love speedy players however we are kind of turning into the raiders under Al Davis on the defensive side. Spend high picks on freak athletes with a high ceiling, the only problem is most don't ever come close to that ceiling. We need football players who have good instincts and awareness and can TACKLE for gods sake.

Give this 3 minutes of your time. What kind of vibe do you feel watching Matt? Read the room. I see a combo of first year middle school cross country coach and bad wedding DJ. Wow.

https://www.packers.com/video/matt-lafleur-hands-out-game-ball-after-vic...

Game ball to Bo Melton. Good day for kid plucked off PS on game day. Considering injuries, might wanna keep him on 53.
Lame call: Play selection and execution on our next-to-last possession. It's 30-22. Any kind of score puts the game away. Failing that, at least run some clock and punt them deep. Instead we get: a 5 yard run, a screen pass that gets blown up, and in incompletion. That left Carolina with 5:47. Enough time to damn near take us to overtime. Lame.
The Szotman

Only disagreement with your analysis was the "catch" which MLF challenged. It was effectively the same play as last week when the GB Touchdown was erased ... two feet down, not going to ground and ball was punched out. If incomplete last week should have been incomplete this week.