With 6:57 remaining in the 1st quarter of the Minnesota
Vikings game on October 15, 2017 the Green Bay Packers season ended. With the
exception of the inept Da’ Bears the Packers lost to the Vikings, the Saints,
the Lions, (thank god for Da’ Bears) and the Ravens to drop 3 games behind the
Vikings, 1 game behind the Lions for the North title and 1 game behind the
Lions, Seahawks and Falcons for the last wildcard spot with 6 games remaining.
UPDATE: The Vikings beat the Lions on Thanksgiving.
So technically the Packers could right the ship by “running
the table” to finish 11-5, but no one thinks that’s going to happen, so for the
1st time since 2008 the Packers will not be playing in the playoffs snapping a
string of 8 straight seasons, which tied an NFL record, but that was because
Rodgers was quarterback for all of 9 games out of 128 games. He missed 1 game
with a concussion in 2010. He missed 1 game in 2011 because Mike McCarthy was
afraid Ndomukong Suh was going to hurt him. He then missed 7 games in 2013 with
a broken collarbone. He had started 55 straight games when the Vikings cut him
down.
His highly qualified replacement Brett Hundley has gotten
worse instead of better. Last week was probably the worse quarterback performance
by a Packer since T.J. Rubley on November 5, 1995 against the Vikings. The
shutout orchestrated by Hundley was also the 1st since Mike McCarthy’s first
game ever as the Packers coach against Da’ Bears on September 10, 2006. The
Packers had gone 184 games without being shutout until the man Ted Thompson and
Mike McCarthy stubbornly believe in and won’t bench because the only other
quarterback on the roster they evidently don’t believe in at all did the honors.
On any other team Hundley would have been benched 2 weeks ago, but not in Green Bay . Hundley must
have naked pictures of Thompson or McCarthy or both or both together to keep
his job because it can’t be his play on the field, but I digress.
However, since the unmasking of the Packers former Packers
have lost their luster. Since October 15 eight former Packers have been cut in
the 7 weeks since and one former No. 1 draft pick has been cut twice and 3
times since the beginning of the season
