Great teams blow out bad ones regularly, and unlike the Lions, great teams don’t need trick plays to do so. The Packers are not yet a great team. They have the ability to be. I hope they make that jump.

"The issue is, they haven’t always played like a top seed during their seven games to this point."

Question is Dan, in the NFC...who has played as a "more of a topper seed" than the Packers so far.

Crazy season to date!

Love has entered the MVP conversation. Any real chance of his winning is now predicated on him continuing to string masterful and elite performances. Falling short against teams like Carolina will disqualify him from further MVP consideration.

I've been perfectly fine with GB not peaking too early in the season. Teams that do rarely can carry it through the whole arduous slog.

But I wouldn't mind seeing the boys start ramping it up, now. And I think they will.

I just want to see them continue to win. They do not need to blow anyone out at this point.

In my mind, they are still trying to find themselves and will keep working on improving.

Hopefully, as the season goes on they will improve and peak at about the time of the playoffs.

If they blow everyone out now, I don't believe they can maintain that peak throughout the Super Bowl.

We need to relax and let them play!

This game against Carolina is not going to define the Packers one way or another. The Philly game will offer a clearer insight, as will the Lions game of Thanksgiving Day. There's a few more as the season heads into the final third where actual contenders that will clear things up, unless unfortunate events occur.

I am very pleased with this Packers team and believe in the saying that it's "one game at a time". No looking ahead please. Beat Carolina with all three phases and continue to get the younger guys experience and reps. Any given week an upset came happen as evidenced when Patriots beat Bills, Jags beat the Chiefs, and Giants beat Eagles. Also, a healthy team is a must in the NFL today to keep a winning streak going.

Well, we have a different DC than the last time we played the Panthers, so I'm trusting Hafley won't allow Bryce Young to have a career game like he did in that 2023 game...And we'll see if MLF learned any lessons from the Steelers game and put the ball in Jordan's hands a little more often.

I was thinking about Love and the 20 straight completions. Really he had 21 in a row when counting the 2 point pass I believe it was to Doubs. But extra point passes don't count completion numbers, am I correct?

Packers need to show intensity in every game, not just the 'big' ones. There is recent history of 'playing with their food' with perceived inferior teams such as the Browns, Bengals, Cardinals, etc. Coaching needs to stay high level too. If they are winning by a large margin, keep their foot on the gas and let the second stringers get play time.

I like to divide the season into 4 quarters with 4 games in every quarter. The last game is probably, for all intents and purposes, the first round of the playoffs.

The first quarter, we were 2-1-1. The second quarter, we're 3-0 with a great chance to go to 4-0, making us 6-1-1 halfway through. That's a great position to be in.

Home games are more important than road games, and we're 3-0 at home. Games within the division are more important, and we're 1-0 in those. Our only loss was outside the conference.

If you want to be the best team in the NFL, then you need to prove it every week. Let's just get a win, look good doing it, not pick up injuries. Then we'll be 6-1-1 halfway through. I certainly didn't expect to be here.

I don't want to be responsible for any excessive enthusiasm, but I did want to share this nugget.

Bryce Young, in 2 and 1/2 seasons has started in 35 of 41 possible games, and in that time, he's only won two games on the road in his career, and one of those was the Jets, so I'm not sure it should count.

But seriously, if this guy comes into Lambeau and looks like a freakin HOFer, stock up on toilet paper, because the end of the world is near. Watch out for pigs overhead.

So we all know that the first half offense has been a s l o w burn since the J Love era began. It's been a contest source of frustrations for all us Packer fans. That frustration is magnified when the 2nd half offensive performances have been completely opposite. More times than not, the offense under Love has looked like a true SB contender.
With that said, I feel that this Steeler game may have opened the eyes of MLF interns of play calling.
Give Jordan those quick release short passing game that allows Love to get easy completions and let our talented WRs and TE make plays. This strategy allows Love to get into an EARLY groove and keeps his jersey clean with quick releases. It's a win/ win that I hope to see starting this Sunday.
One more thing .... my challenge to MLF is to just get 13 points in the first half from here on forward. I guarantee if they do that , they'll win the division and be right there for the #1 seed !!!!
GPG!!

It's great to have Packers football to look forward to on Sunday. For some funky scheduling reason, the Packers can only play the team scheduled as their opponent each week. I'm planning to watch the game and hopefully enjoy it. No one needs to have break out game, make a jump, take the next step, or even be elite. It doesn't need to be a defining moment for any player, coach, team or organization. I'll watch the game without the added festering juice of prop bets or any other brainworms from the ghouls at FanDuel, DraftKIngs, ESPN et al. I'll watch the game in spite of the NFL.

Sometimes you’ve gotta play with your food a few times before you really develop a taste for it. New foods especially need to be offered multiple times before they are tried. The Packers are developing an appetite for winning, and it might take a few tries before we can really savor it. In the meantime, enjoy the game.

I'd be happy with stress less 10 pt wins that don't require digging out of a hole to start.

Each week is a new challenge. Goal is 1 and 0. GPG!

In the two articles that are listed right before this one:

"Despite being the youngest team in football,..."

"25.23 Years. That is the average age of the 2025 Green Bay Packers. The youngest team in the NFL for the second consecutive year,..."

Now you tell me they also play with their food?

That really is something kids do. Up until now I've hated all these references to the youth of the Packer team. Now I just don't know anymore.