Well the Packers are supposed to be a team that SHOULD win in Lambeau in January. I mean they have two excellent RB's, the best left side of an offensive line in the NFL, and at least the makings of a competent overall O-Line.

I remember that game against Vick... UGH!!! It was a game I just couldn't believe they lost. Not with Brett Favre. Not when it was 35 degrees or colder. It just DIDN'T happen. But it did and it's been happening ever since, at least more than it did before that 2002 game.

Gute has assembled a team LOADED with speed at the Offensive skill position players. Even the two new TEs are considered fast, fast, FAST. They also have a defense that is LOADED with speed. Perhaps Barry can stay out of the way long enough to allow that defense to showcase that speed.

Lets get the team IN the playoffs and winning again. THEN I'll worry about the "Lambeau Mystique".

I suspect this is part of a league-wide phenomenon, although I don't know if anyone has crunched the numbers in a meaningful way. I did some searching and saw that the 3-point home field advantage for betting purposes has now shrunk to about 1.5 to 2 points.

But I think where home-field advantage has really diminished is in the playoffs. Of course the home teams still win most playoff games because they have earned home field by having a better record. But in a playoff game, both teams are equally determined to win, so the home team loses the advantage they get during the regular season, when they want to "hold serve" and put on a good showing for their home fans. I think that NFL teams have probably improved their ability to travel and to make their players comfortable on the road. It's just good business sense.

Unfortunately soft teams seem to falter in the playoffs. Its not just the offense but also the defense that gathered the soft title after the Jets game. There are teams that have that tuff persona like Steelers, 49ers, and teams where the coach is empathizing toughness like the Jets. What I don't see or know if the Packers are on that list.
Just MHO

There’s only one magic formula for recapturing the Home Field advantage we once enjoyed at Lambeau Field: winning.

I think this Packers team assembled stands a better chance of winning games, both on the road and at home, than many over recent years.

THREE 1st Round picks added to a defense in desperate need of quality upgrades & depth in the last 2 years in Walker, Wyatt & Van Ness.

Along with that, a TON of firepower added at WR & TE in that same span. WesHod at packersdotcom shared these comments from Jordan Love:

"We have running backs that can catch the ball out of the backfield, run routes, things like that. We added a couple of really fast tight ends, so just being able to stretch the field with them. And then obviously we have some really fast receivers, too," Love said.

"I don't think we have that one player that right now is like, 'Oh, this is who we have to go to with the ball' and throw the ball to on third down, so defenses might not know who to focus on, on third downs. I think that all ties in and will help us out."

That amount of firepower on O, from literally every skill position could spell a lot of scoring, and along with that WINNING, away & at home.

A winning record begins with winning in Lambeau. We need to have opposing teams fear coming to GB to play a game, again. Remember when the Tampa Bay Bucs were in the NFC Central with us, the Bears, Lions and vikings? Those games in Lambeau had that warm weather team huddled together near the tunnel because they were cold.. Ron Hallstrom played those games in short sleeves. He psyched out the Bucs, that game! We have the best home field advantage, in sports, on our frozen tundra--especially late in December and into January. Win in Lambeau and then sweep the North and we should make the playoffs, again. No sweat! GO PACK, GO!!!

Very ugly to think about, but:
Did officiating play a bigger part years ago?

Now what Packers fan doesn't just love that term "Frozen Tundra".

For purists who will say "Tundra is frozen and so frozen is a deadhead word and is wrong, it may remind them of old Yogi Berra who was famous for his use of words and the phrase "It's deja vu all over again."

Ken, from my perspective, I always considered a trip to Lambeau Field and Lambeau Field itself as great and can't imagine using any other words to describe it. It's a long trip from California to Lambeau, but I make it as often as I can.

I noticed there was very little talk in the article about defense. THAT my friends is what I call the core issue here.
The author is correct in saying the league has emphasized the pass. The Packers have had outstanding offenses for the past three decades. But save for a couple of years(the last Super Bowl win as an example) the Packers defense has been mediocre.
If you notice the teams that have beaten the Packers, most of them have outstanding defenses, or at least enough defense to hold Favre/Rodgers in check. The Packers had less success against those teams on defense.

The 49'ers are a great example. They came to Green Bay in January and, no pun intended, stopped the Packers offense cold. They knew if they generated even a small amount of offense the Packers likely would eventually crumble on defense.

While scoring points is important, it's more important you stop the other team from scoring. That is why Joe Barry's Swiss cheese defense is so frustrating. He has the talent, yet they seem passive and don't assert their collective will very often. Modern fans think all you need is to be able to score 30+ points a game and that means you win. Wrong. If you want to see the real culprit in the Packers lack of success at home, look of the defensive side of the ball.

"Let's Make Lambeau Great Again"

When was it ever not great?

But yes to go with the article, there has been a bit of a change as far as the atmosphere. I have seen many times the last couple of years people basically begging fans to not sell their tickets to rivals.
Obviously costs of tickets and what the owners can get back with selling them for a couple of games can make a huge difference.

"I’m not sure how much crowd noise actually affects a game."
It can have a big impact especially when the home team gains momentum in the game. You can just feel the energy going through the stadium in those moments. You can see that on tv too.

Something that may help the future of the frozen tundra is the youth and speed that they are about to put onto the field. Look at the players they have brought in the last couple of years. We are talking about Walker, Wyatt, Watson, Doubs, Van Ness, Reed, Musgrave, Wooden. That is a lot of youth and speed added to the position groups. The more speed our entire team possesses, the better our team will be, and the better our homefield advantage will become.

Protecting the frozen tundra is a mindset that must be emphasized by the coaching staff beginning on day one. Losing at Lambeau field in January is simply not an option.

Mindset needs to be drilled into the team from the first day of TC.

but...

The key to winning at home in GB WI will always be IN THE TRENCHES!!!

The lines need to be able to impose their collective wills on both offense and defense in terms of RUNNIING THE ROCK when we want to and STOPPING THE RUN and RUSHING THE PASSER RELENTLESSLY when the game is on the line.

TRENCH WARFARE is what carries the day in late season and playoff games. Speed becomes less important on outdoor fields as the weather turns cold.

That is the GB Packer conundrum. To build a team that can dominate in Lambeau in late season and playoff games you seemingly sacrifice the type of team it takes to win early on and in warm weather sites where it is simply basketball on grass (or turf) due to the rule and scheme changes in the NFL over the years. Football is still football and games can be won by being more physical than your opponent, but that type of win is less likely in warm or controlled climates when the opponent has faster more skilled players handling the ball.

"Make Lambeau Great Again"

I'm not in your political issue in US, but I just have to say that I hope this wish will not end up as "Make America Great Again" slogan.

Yes, football change dramtaically in the past decade, as weather do. I believe that we will see less and less frozen tundra during winter, more mud and lot of rain.

Also, as older you become, you are less resistant on cold and that might be the reason why some team full of young players dominated Packers last few seasons on frozen tundra...

Packer fans at Lambeau have something to do with this , they shouldn't have to be told to get loud by the scoreboard or players and coaches on the sidelines, my first game at Lambeau was Packers Bears, I was shocked at how passive fans were even on big plays not standing up and getting loud cheering, this was totally unexpected , some seemed disinterested in the game itself.

If you can accept losing, you can't win.
When Love was taken. You accepted Losing.
When you don't have a DL
The only way to a good Defense is to "buy it”
Cap hell - Never helped a teams fighting ability.
The 12th man was never over-rated.

I have the Gold Package tickets and am embarrassed when I look around see the number of opponents fans. Didn't used to be like that but has been in recent years. No way I could sell my tickets to anyone other than a Packer fan.

'''''They were beaten at home by the Jets, the Titans and the Lions. '''''

Yes. On target. And in those games, we scored 17, 16, and 10 points. This is in addition to road losses where we scored 7, 9, and 17. We also had a win where we only scored 14.

For all the angst and recriminations, the fundamental problem with the 2022 season is that our offense had trouble scoring points. Maybe you remember just a few years ago when we scored 30 with regularity, but last year we only hit 30 three times and one of those required an overtime.

Day Two of the draft: Musgrave, Reed, Kraft. And of course, a new QB. I've been predicting for a while that we're going to be better on offense this year, and I consistently get a couple of downvotes for saying it. It'd be nice if somebody actually wrote a few sentences to explain what they mean, but I don't think that'll happen.

In the Favre era I could see a major flaw in MM not scheming ANY WR's open...EVER. In the AR era, MM was the same at lack of scheming for WR's leading into broken plays, AR bad habits of holding the ball too long, 2 broken collar bones...exciting chunk plays. AR trust issues and ALWAYS looking for the highlight kill shot instead of just moving the chains. A weaker defense who was poorly coached and poorly game planned for active running teams QB's. Recently bottom dwelling ST, OL that are undersized and for a stretch offense that runs sideways instead of strait ahead. Bullied by stronger and higher drafted DL that is out coached by DC with a solid plan to disrupt our offense that has to use TE's to block on every down instead of running routes. ML shutting down the run game after a RB has been hurt and making our team one dimensional. QB1 had trust issues and did not always throw to open receivers not named DA in clutch times when DA was double and triple covered. SF ran our guts into the ground because our DC at the time believed stop the pass first and Gute did not have the DL personnel to stop the run, nor were the edge group practiced enough how to even set the edge against a run team. There are so many reason it just seems that GB is honestly too cheap to bring in top 3 NFL coaching staff on offense and defense and ST to build a good base for all phases. Holmgren was the last real coach we had.

"physicality and toughness"

How 'bout, "MEAN AND NASTY".

Shove the ball down their throats. Then it doesn't matter how many tickets are sold to the enemy. Used to be the only games I could get tickets for were the cold ones. Before the internet (I guess) people sold the tickets to people they knew and never got stuck with them. Do they make more money online now? If you have season tickets, it's a responsibility to make sure you sell to a Packer fan first.

Somone help me out, didn't Favre have a 25+ home winning streak at least one time?

Twice again.

"Really though, I’m not sure how much crowd noise actually affects a game. It’s probably overrated."

I would say that the whole premise of the article - that homefield is a huge deal - is almost certainly overrated.

It's not the field. It's the team. There's usually a reason teams have homefield in the playoffs, namely that they've won a crap ton of games. And if they aren't as good as their record seems to indicate (looking at you, Vikings) homefield won't mean shit.

Sorry, but there is no "mystique" - whatever the heck that is - and there are no ghosts of Vince Lombardi that mysteriously win games at Lambeau. Players on BOTH teams don't even give a crap about what happened last year, never mind what happened in 1966.

Even the weather, altitude and oxygen levels, temperature etc. has been shown to make very little difference. There are a bunch of studies that have looked into this. All of them find only a very slight correlation between home field and wins. Especially in the playoffs, teams win because they're good teams, not because they have some unfair advantage.

Also, let's not brag too much about the Packers being undefeated at Lambeau. If I say that the Packers were undefeated at Lambeau from 1968 until 1994, that sounds massively impressive... until you remember that the Packers sucked so hard they never even had a home playoff game except for ONCE during that quarter of a century. It's easy to go undefeated when you don't actually play, but it's not nearly as impressive as it sounds.

Yeah, they were gangbusters right up until 1967... and why was that? Because they were one of the greatest teams in the history of football. And oddly, they won a bunch more while Brett Favre was winning three NFL MVPs back to back to back.

I'm sensing a trend.

Yes, homefield is a real thing. But it's way, way smaller than people think.

Lets just hope the Packers Great again is better than the USA disaster of 2016-20 Great Again avoided by our Pack!