“I think they’ll finish with the most wins of any last-place team in any division.” “This is not a bad team,” Risdon asserts. The Lions writer closes out his assessment, damning with faint praise. “Love will have to do that behind the division’s shakiest (with David Bahktiari’s age and durability concerns) offensive line and with relative greenhorns all over the receiving options,” Risdon writes. Jeff Risdon of Lions Wire shares another common theme in assessing the Packers’ chances this coming season– Jordan Love and his questionable supporting cast. “Green Bay’s defense will keep them somewhat respectable,” Barbieri added, “but they’re primed to take a significant step back after an already underwhelming 8-9 season.” Not to mention, Love hasn’t done anything to inspire confidence he’s the long-term solution.”īarbieri, however, does express a commonly shared belief that the Packers’ defense will keep them competitive.
“With Aaron Rodgers now with the Jets, the pressure is on Jordan Love, who has the weakest supporting cast in the division.
“As for Green Bay, it starts at the quarterback position,” writes Alyssa Barbieri of Bears Wire. Still, according to a panel of writers covering the NFC North and asked to comment by USA Today’s Packerswire, the Packers were the overwhelming favorite to finish last in their underwhelming division.
In short, even a team riddled with question marks has a shot at winning the division. To the Packers’ benefit, though, is that they exist in the mini-bubble of the NFC North, a division made up entirely, at least this season, of teams in flux and/or teams without much of a chance of sustained elite-level performance.
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