When I take the chair as Curds author once a week, I usually keep the fourth wall up. This is a news roundup series. Readers come here for links to the latest stories about the Green Bay Packers, with a light sprinkling of analysis and opinion.
But it’s hard to keep up appearances after sleeping on that embarrassing loss the Packers suffered to the Falcons last night with the whole world watching.
I host a weekly in-season podcast about my favorite team, and a common tongue-in-cheek refrain I use on that
show is this: Free yourself from the burden of expectations.
Well, folks, let me tell you. There has never been a better time to do just that.
This team is bad right now, and few of the problems just aren’t fixable in-season. Free yourself from the burden of expectations.
The offensive line is a mess. ZBB is lost for the year. The unit is green and poorly coached. Some guys are out of position. Some of them just aren’t very good. And help is not on the way. Free yourself from the burden of expectations.
Between the offensive line and this current stable of backs, the running game is historically bad. Josh Jacobs, if he ever comes back, is not saving the run game. Free yourself from the burden of expectations.
Jordan Love is an excellent player. But he’s going to look bad, get hit, and possibly even hurt, because opposing defenses have precisely zero respect for the run game. Free yourself from the burden of expectations.
Jonathan Gannon’s new-look Packers defense is actually interesting and, I think, deserves optimism overall. But they’re not going to win every week, and Micah Parsons may only improve that slightly. Free yourself from the burden of expectations.
It’s going to be a long season, so I suggest fans steel themselves against anguish and accept that this year’s Green Bay Packers are going to be hard to watch.
Packers report card: Lots of F’sAs you might expect from a 35-14 loss, it’s nothing but bad grades for the Green Bay Packers. Just how bad? Find out in our weekly report card.
‘LaFleur will be fired’ drawing lots of wagers on marketSites like Kalshi are seeing skyrocketing wagers in favor of Packers head coach Matt Lafleur being fired during or immediately following this season.
A brutal reality check for PackersThe Green Bay Packers got a real reality check on Thursday night as Lambeau Field turned against them
WATCH: Packers had ‘no reason’ to extend LaFleurMike Florio discusses Green Bay’s recent struggles under Matt LaFleur, calling his contract extension into question.
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