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Real football is coming, and it’s bringing the weight of expectations with it.
As training camp dwindles to nothing, the Packers’ Week 1 matchup against the Detroit Lions looms, as do the demands of the regular season. The regular season is where players have to turn potential into action. It’s one thing to be the talk of the town when the reps are primarily against your own team and you can build a positive narrative out of things like “potential” and a few good practices. But once the game really counts, the pressure is on to actually deliver.
There are more than a few Packers facing quite a bit of pressure this year, too. Jordan Love’s big contract is a sign the team believes in him, but it’s an albatross in its own way; Love has a lot of dollars to live up to. Once-promising prospects like Quay Walker, Devonte Wyatt, Lukas Van Ness, and others, meanwhile, have to show the promise they once carried wasn’t a mirage.
Even Matt LaFleur faces pressure of his own. In the long history of the Green Bay Packers, only Bart Starr worked as a head coach longer than LaFleur without delivering a title. Lafleur says and does virtually all of the right things, but can he turn those actions into a championship? The regular season — and the playoffs that follow — are where we find out.
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