With the Green Bay Packers at 2-1-1, it’s probably time to start paying attention to the other top teams in the NFC and how their success, or failure, will impact the Packers’ playoff standing.

As of this second, the Packers would be the seventh seed in the NFC, but one of the San Francisco 49ers or Los Angeles Rams, who are tonight’s matchup on Thursday Night Football, SHOULD lose today. As we all learned last week, ties are very much a possibility in the NFL.

At the moment, the 49ers and Rams are in a five-way tie for second place...

We’re close to halfway through the Green Bay Packers’ bye week, so let’s look to the future. What do you think this Packers team needs in the remaining three-quarters of the season?

Personally, I don’t see much room for improvement, from a personnel standpoint, at least not in a way that would be realistic. I don’t think it’s smart for Green Bay to trade a second-round pick for a rental of receiver Chris Olave, like Sports Illustrated suggested earlier this week, for example.

The Packers are still expected to get back receiver Christian Watson, defensive end Collin Oliver and offensive...

Last summer, former Green Bay Packers receiver Sterling Sharpe was enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio, as the one senior addition to the PFHOF for the 2025 class. On Thursday, the Hall announced the 52 senior candidates who advanced to the next round of cuts, players who are hoping to follow the steps of Sharpe into Canton. Previously, the list had been 162 senior candidates, so more than two-thirds of the names that were initially considered for the one senior addition for the 2026 class have already been cut.

Among the 52 candidates are offensive...

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Since we’re in a bye week, let’s take the time to look at the league-wide landscape of the NFL’s new kickoff return. So far, the league has had more kickoff returns through four weeks than any previous year in NFL history. As Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin, a member of the competition committee, put it, the new touchback penalty “is doing exactly what we intended to do.”

This offseason, the NFL moved the penalty for kicks into the end zone or short of the landing zone on the dynamic kickoff, penalizing both kicks that go too long or too...

Last week, we dove into the Green Bay Packers’ passing attack against the Browns (be it ever so humble). After a two-game stretch that saw Jordan Love chucking the ball to the heavens, his ADOT (Average Depth Of Target) plummeted to a mind-boggling 1.9 yards. His overall passing numbers didn’t look great against the Browns. Against the Cowboys? It was a different story.

Per RBSDM, Love had an ADOT of 5.6. That’s nowhere close to the 14.5 ADOT in Week 2 or 11.5 in Week 1, but still a bump over his numbers in Cleveland.

He was efficient, too, effectively...

After a 2-0 start following victories against the Detroit Lions and Washington Commanders, two teams that made the 2024 playoffs, the Green Bay Packers seemed to be on top of the world. They were considered a top-three team in the NFL going into Week 3, and there were clear Super Bowl expectations for the squad.

Then came back-to-back games where the Packers had wins stripped from them in part due to blocked field goal attempts. Now, they’re 2-1-1 going into the bye.

Despite that, Green Bay ranks first in explosive plays allowed on defense and third on offense (first through...

As disappointing as the last two weeks have been, it’s worth remembering just how close to undefeated the Packers actually are. You could change as few as two plays (the blocked field goal against the Browns and the blocked PAT against the Cowboys) and dramatically alter the Packers’ record.

The point is, they still have the makings of a very good team. I won’t go so far as to say they are a good team — or that they’re a bad team, for that matter — but they could become one if they sort out a few of their issues...

On Wednesday, the Tennessee Titans claimed former Green Bay Packers offensive lineman Brant Banks, who was waived by the Packers the day prior. Banks’ last play on Sunday, his only game as a member of Green Bay’s 53-man roster, was when he failed to get a hand on a rusher on the field goal protection unit, resulting in the point after touchdown being blocked and returned for two points in a 40-40 tie against the Dallas Cowboys.

Prior to being signed to the 53-man roster last week, Banks was a member of the Packers’ practice squad and had been with...

After the Green Bay Packers extended wide receiver Christian Watson to a one-year deal, it seemed like the team was poised to move on from Romeo Doubs, who is in a contract year. With Watson, Jayden Reed, Dontayvion Wicks, Matthew Golden and Savion Williams all under contract for 2026, it sort of made sense that the team would move on from Doubs, who has had a series of concussions, to earn the team a much-needed compensatory draft choice.

That is not the case, though, according to ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler. Here’s what Fowler had to say in his Week 5 notebook...

We’re not getting too fancy today. The end goal of offensive football is to score touchdowns, and Green Bay Packers receiver Romeo Doubs picked up 3 of those against the Dallas Cowboys, so we’re going to break them down.

On the day, Doubs had 6 receptions (on 8 targets) for 58 yards. He tied for second in Packers receiving yards with Matthew Golden (Josh Jacobs led the team with 71 receiving yards), but those three TDs are a nice boost in his overall day.

Touchdown 1: 2nd & goal, 10:06 remaining in the 1st quarter

The Packers are in...

We’re officially one month into the NFL season. Fall is here, the shine of the early season is fading, and bye weeks are beginning. There are a million more unknowns than knowns at this stage, but we can see a faint glimmer of who’s good and who’s headed to Cancun in 3 months.

The NFC North is living up to the early-season hype with all four teams sitting at or above .500 thus far. While QB struggles have plagued the Bears and Vikings at points in the first month, both teams sit at 2-2, playoff hopes very much alive. The...