GREEN BAY — Turns out it was all for nothing.
All that fretting throughout the NFL regular season over the Green Bay Packers' improving-but-still-porous defense? Wasted energy.
All that angst regarding the bumbling, last-in-the-NFL Packers special teams? Didn't matter.
Indeed, the ever-increasing brilliance of the Packers offense has rendered virtually every ounce of concern about the team's Super Bowl chances null and void.
In the Packers' playoff-opening, 32-18 victory over the Los Angeles Rams Saturday at noisy — yes, noisy — Lambeau Field, the offense went up against the best defense the NFL has to offer and controlled the game from start to finish.