Dude, you gotta hear about the Packers’ Week 2 win. They somehow walked out of a rainy MetLife Stadium with a 20-17 overtime victory against the Jets. No joke, it was one for the history books, but for all the wrong reasons. Green Bay just became the first team in the entire Super Bowl era, since 1966, to snag a win with under 200 total yards, an insane 199 to be exact, *plus* 10-plus penalties, which clocked in at 14 for 133 yards, and *still* zero takeaways. Seriously, teams in that exact mess before Sunday were 0-38. That’s a 0-38 record for teams playing that sloppy. It’s a miracle they aren’t staring down a 0-2 record, and frankly, that alone should have Coach Matt LaFleur feeling some serious heat.
Winning Ugly: A Historic Mess
Sure, their six-game losing streak, which went all the way back to Week 15 last season when All-Pro edge rusher Micah Parsons tore his ACL, is finally over. But let’s be real, that win wasn’t thanks to LaFleur’s genius offensive scheming. This entire game was an absolute clinic in how *not* to play football. The offense couldn’t even move the chains for a first down until the last play of the first quarter. At halftime, they were 0-4 on third down, already racking up six penalties for 75 yards, and fumbled twice, though they did recover both. By the final whistle, they were just one of nine on third-down conversion attempts and fumbled a mind-boggling five times, recovering four. They had Jordan Love, tight end Tucker Kraft, wide receiver Christian Watson, and their 2025 first-round pick Matthew Golden on the field, even after wide receiver Jayden Reed (neck) and right tackle Zach Bako-Bewele (knee) were carted off early. But that talent just wasn’t showing up.
Skyy Moore Magic Masked a Broken Offense
So, if it wasn’t LaFleur’s offense, who saved them? It was return man Skyy Moore, plain and simple. Moore absolutely balled out, racking up 92 punt return yards on four returns, including a massive 63-yarder that set up Trey Smack’s game-tying, 34-yard field goal with only 3:03 left to play. He also added an efficient 116 kick return yards on four returns, including another big 43-yarder. Without his heroics, this team would be 0-2 right now. The offense was just too much of a mess, with penalties like Kraft and left tackle Jordan Morgan both getting hit for holding on a single drive, and fill-in guard Donovan Jennings giving up a strip-sack. Even when a Jets illegal hands-to-the-face penalty gifted them new life, LaFleur’s offense still couldn’t move the ball and punted. Honestly, the most maddening sequence came in the fourth quarter, when linebacker Edgerrin Cooper sacked Geno Smith on third-and-17 to force a punt, and still, the offense couldn’t capitalize.
Now, Green Bay gets to host the Atlanta Falcons on “Thursday Night Football.” After a miraculous, historically ugly win like that, what LaFleur’s team shows up for that game is anyone’s guess. But if he wants to stay comfortable in his extended contract, he better hope it’s not the sloppy, penalty-prone squad we saw in Week 2.
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Originally reported by CBS Sports.
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