A couple of months ago, the Green Bay Packers were on top of the world. After starting off 2-0 by beating down the Detroit Lions and Washington Commanders, it was hard to find someone who didn’t think
the Packers were going to be a top-three team in the NFL, based on power rankings. Then the Green Bay offense fell completely off a cliff.
In the Packers’ three losses this season, the Green Bay defense gave up a combined 39 points (13 points per game). In 2025, the rest of the NFL is 62-5 in games when they’ve given up 16 or fewer points in an individual game. The Packers are 1-3.
Meanwhile, head coach Matt LaFleur believes that rushing for 3.5 yards per carry, which would be the worst season-long rate in the NFL, is considered to be “efficient.” This team is beyond cooked right now, but let’s check in on what analysts are saying after Week 10’s action.
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“They still have one of the best defenses in the NFL. But what exactly has happened to Jordan Love and the offense the past two weeks?”
FOX Sports’ Ralph Vacchiano is the highest on the Packers this week. Here’s what happened to the Green Bay offense: The team’s first loss of the season was to Jim Schwartz, known for his man-coverage-heavy, aggressive defenses. In more than two decades as an NFL play-caller, he had only called one game in his career where he played more two-high safety looks than he did against the Packers in Week 2.
Basically, Green Bay’s offense reverts to checkdown passes and running the ball when LaFleur sees two-high safeties. The Pittsburgh Steelers tried to replicate this three weeks ago, but tight end Tucker Kraft had a historic day in terms of yards after the catch. Then Kraft, who had more YAC yards than the rest of the Packers’ receivers and tight ends combined, was lost for the season with an ACL injury.
The Carolina Panthers and Philadelphia Eagles were able to get Green Bay to stall out, scoring just 20 combined points over two games, by deploying the same strategy. It’s not like the Browns, Steelers, Panthers and Eagles are world-beaters on defense this year, either. If an average team just lines up in a certain way on defense, LaFleur’s brain melts. Based on LaFleur’s comments about the run game versus Philadelphia, I’m not even sure he knows the team is failing on offense.
“I thought teammate Matt Verderame did a great job of pointing out what cannot be ignored: This team can’t operate without multiple tight end sets, and the Broncos’ nabbing Marcedes Lewis in free agency shortly before the trade deadline leaves Matt LaFleur without many options on that front. The Packers lost the thread of their offensive identity on Monday night and will be floating until LaFleur can cook something up.”
Almost every week, SI’s Conor Orr has been the lowest on the Packers throughout the season. The haters said Green Bay couldn’t do it. And they were correct. Honestly, great call from the haters.
This is a borderline playoff team right now. We sold off multiple first-round picks and leveraged the next few years of cap space to field this team. We’d probably be like 2-7 if we didn’t make the Micah Parsons trade. It’s not a good spot to be in.
