Not sure I'm ready to put AR in the selling category just yet. Although based upon the expectations we all have for him it is clear his performance has been less than expectations. Just trying to understand if he is a step slower so not able to get away and make plays or if his head is just not into the system fully yet.

When he makes confident plays (like the 4th down throw) it looks good, just not very often anymore.

I would just like to see the Packers put players in situations based on what they are, not what someone thinks they should be.

Well, for all their 15 and 1 records and probowlers etc, they didn't do squat to complete the deal. I'll take a team over a few stars any day. This defense is the backbone of the team. If they can disrupt the queens O line and shut them down they will win on Monday. A big mojo play by Lowry can carry energy into the playoffs, just as Tramon lit the Fire in the 2010 run along with Dom. Cousins will come out firing to Smith Jr and Rudolph. I like Sullivan over Campbell in the nickel to make plays. Jaire has to handle Diggs. The wild card is Theilen. How healthy is he?

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We should have started making post-Rodgers plans after he got hurt in 2017. We certainly knew after then we did not have anotherQB we could win with. And Lamar Jackson was available when we drafted. You don’t get a shot at a guy like him that often.

I think Rodgers is far from done it’s the inconsistency of the receivers , let’s hope they have a plan moving forward.

Rodgers is flat out missing throws he used to make more consistently in the past. If he cannot complete over 65% of his passes then the Packers will not go very far, once again, in the playoffs.

He needs to get his passes out quickly and hit receivers more over the middle. Adams, Lazard, Kumerow, and Tonyan need to the receivers out there Monday night.

IF...Rodgers is able to play QB at an elite level for a whole game and lead the Packers to a win on the road versus the Vikings it would go a long way to get this team away from the “ugly win” feeling and make them more a legitimate title contender.

That’s a big “IF” for Rodgers to pull off given the inconsistency he has shown this season. If he pulls another stinker against a good Viking team...like versus the 49ers or Chargers...then it’s clearly time for Green Bay to move on planning for their next QB sooner rather than later.

Yeah David go ahead and sell Rodgers. If you believe this team would be 11 - 3 without him right now then you don't know squat.

Gute has had a heck of a run already, i hope it continues. You can envision MLF and Gute sitting down this offseason, like what happened after Pettine's first year, and identifying the exact skillsets needed on the offense to take them to the next level. Work that kind of magic again and this team will be scary.

Pretty crazy to think that no NFL team even thought highly enough of Nick Perry to sign him to a 1 year prove it deal.

I will FOREVER argue this Rodgers biggest obstacle other than an entirely new offense was lack of WR talent on the roster. Now with that said Rodgers hasn't looked like the guy we hoped we'd see but I'm still thinking it will take a 2nd year to REALLY find a groove in this offense.

Let the guy starting to rebuild the roster with HIS kind of player have another shot at the draft and FA and lets see what Rodgers can do... Even at age 37 by next December. As far as this year I think what has happened in GB is great. 11-3 ANY way you want to cut it is STILL 11-3.

Now wouldn't it just be great if the Packers kick the living crap out of the Vikings on Monday Night Football?

Are you ready for some MEANINGFUL Football? Because it's back in Green Bay Wisconsin! The Bears still suck and so do the Queens!!!

Feed Jake. Speaking of Kumerow, here you go> https://www.ebay.com/itm/333442932547

Nice article, with a lot of the same kind of sugar-coating I see here often.
I'm not fully buying in on either Gutekunst or LaFleur just yet, I'll need to see at least another year.
I'm a Packer fan living in 49er territory, and at this point it would appear that if indeed LaFeur is a "Shanahan Disciple" he must have slept through a lot of meetings when it comes to play calling or designing, he couldn't hold a candle to Shanahan. I am NOT a 9er fan!
I won't even start comparing Mike Petine vs Robert Saleh on the defensive side. The 9ers believe in stopping the opponents at the line of scrimmage while the Packers play 7 - 10 yards deep and are happy to give up yardage, it's week 16 David, and (considering the praise you give the above list) I've torn out most of my hair wondering WHY?
As for Gutekunst, he seems a little too content to let "His Guys" do it despite their sometime (and sometimes constant) failures, maybe it's because he's a TT disciple. He could have done more from a team need perspective. Hats off to the new kick returner, but at the trade deadline, and again this week, the Packers did nothing to make themselves better. At the same time the Saints get Jack-rabbit Jenkins, the 9ers get Emmanuel Sanders, and the Seahawks get T-Sizzle, three good teams making themselves better, and only Sanders cost a draft pick. Any one of the (or all) three could have helped the Packers! Someone PLEASE tell me TT's not still lurking in the shadows somewhere!

I would hold my Gute stock but not buy more. The jury is still out. As for AR, he needs to adapt to the realities of his 36 year old body. Be more like Brady; stay in the pocket, plant your feet, go through your reads, get the ball out, and what the D gives, And lose that jump-throw, if you want to shoot jump shots you can practice with the Bucks and not do it on a football field.

Curious David if you can give some examples of MM being the origin of the toxic culture during his final days? Not a trap question, just genuinely would like to know how he should own that?

"1. Aaron Rodgers- It was an amazing run, but it may be time to start lowering our expectations on what a 36 year old Rodgers can do."

#12 is and will forever be my favorite Packer of all-time, but I've finally come to the conclusion that like almost every single QB not named Tom Brady/Brees, his productivity is starting to languish as he enters his late 30's. I'd still take him before 20 starting QB's in the league, but he is no longer a top five elite level QB in this league. Sadly, during the decade plus where he was the most talented QB on the planet, he had a bone-headed coach who's ego, conservative nature, hair-pulling game management decisions and unwillingness to adapt (till retirement, apparently) held GB back from at least one more (2014), if not two (2011), Super Bowls. Had MM not screwed the pooch during the 2014 NFC championship, #12 gets #2 and the rest is just butter.

Good article....regarding Aaron, he is playing like he has the last 4 -5 years. Very good, but not GREAT. Certainly, not playing the level of his early years when he was regarded as one of the greatest to come along. That being said, when he gets really motivated and has a "chip on his shoulder" like he probably has now, due to the majority of the press no longer believing he is one of the best QB's in the game right now and not giving the Packers much of a chance in the Playoffs, that's when we have seen his best. Even over the past 5 years, when they needed serious runs to get into the playoffs, he shined.

Aaron, isn't a rah, rah, type of personality so you won't see him that way during the press conferences. He is more matter of a fact type of speaker. What I saw in his press conference after the Bears game was similar to other matter of a fact type statements he has made (run the table) when they have made big runs to get to the playoffs. He shows confidence in this team to make a run deep into the Playoffs.

I think this is one of the better teams Aaron has been on in a long time and if Aaron can patch together some of his greatness over the next 5 or 6 games, watch out, here comes the Pack. I for one would never doubt him or his ability to still show greatness.