The Green Bay Packers lost to the Detroit Lions 20-17 on Sunday, and if you listen to Packers fans, you might think the fix was in, or that their team was just plain awful. The take from Green Bay faithful seems to be split: either this was karma for years of beneficial officiating, or their team was objectively worse in every single way. Honestly, without some crucial fumbles their defense did not even cause, this thing would have been a two-score game minimum.
“Get Over It” Is The Vibe
Remember Madden NFL 2003? The Playstation 2 was king, and you were probably trying to figure out how to rebuild the Lions, because they were just perpetually bad, right? You’d be scrolling through the EA Trax menu, ripping Torry Holt from the Rams, Ricky Williams from the Dolphins, and you couldn’t get enough of “Get Over It” by OK Go. That track played four or five times an hour. Well, fast forward to Sunday’s 20-17 Lions win, and guess what all those memories and this game have in common? Manipulation! Corruption! Cheating! Or, as the song says, “Oh, it’s such a drag, what a chore. Oh, your wounds are full of salt. Everything’s a stress, and what’s more, well, it’s all somebody’s fault.”
Packers fans had a rough Sunday and Monday, and it will be interesting to see if they keep spinning tales about officials, the Lions, and the NFL conspiring to defeat their beloved team. Here is the cold, hard truth: Honey, your football team just is not very good.
The Rushing Attack Is In A Time Capsule
It is nobody else’s fault that Green Bay sports the least efficient and productive rushing attack in the NFL since, wait for it, 1994. Think about that for a second. The Packers’ 2.9 rushing yards per attempt is the first time a team has been under 3.0 rushing yards per attempt in over thirty years. That is not just bad, that is historically bad.
With “Thursday Night Football” on the horizon, the Packers better figure out if they want to keep blaming everyone else or actually fix what is broken. That rushing attack is a glaring red flag, and it is going to take more than conspiracy theories to get past it.
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Originally reported by Pride of Detroit.
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