It’d be an understatement to say the Green Bay Packers are struggling. The Packers are 4-6, third in the NFC North, and have dropped four straight. Aaron Rodgers just doesn’t look like himself.
Rodgers, however, has not lost his confidence. Earlier this week, he said he thinks the Packers can run the table, winning their final six regular season games. 10-6 sounds really nice to Green Bay fans, but is that prediction anything close to reasonable?
Who knows? What we do know is, Green Bay head coach Mike McCarthy loves his quarterback’s unflinching confidence.
“I love it,” McCarthy said, according to Ryan Wood of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. “It’s an expression of confidence. That’s a statement that he made. I read about it just like everybody else. I think it just shows what’s going on internally, but the fact of the matter is we have to win the next game.”
The Packers are tied with New England for the longest active NFL playoff streak. They’ve both made seven straight postseason appearances.
Green Bay, however, is two games back in the Wild Card hunt, and unless the Packers pull it together very soon, they will miss the playoffs.
After starting 3-1 with wins over two good teams (the Lions and Giants), Green Bay has struggled. The Packers’ defense has gotten blown up in recent weeks, giving up 153 total points (38.25 per game) during their four-game losing streak.
Rodgers and company will have their next opportunity to get back on track in this week’s Monday Night Football matchup at Philadelphia.
