The late-season run resembled the ‘Run the Table’ mantra the team embodied a few years ago. And yet, the Green Bay Packers found yet another way to disappoint when the perfect opportunity was ripe for the taking.
It’s not that they lost to the Detroit Lions, it’s that they lost to the Detroit Lions when all they needed to do was win and they would have earned the seventh and final seed in the NFC playoff bracket. The perfect opportunity to turn a 4-8 season into a postseason-bound season was right in front of them, and all that stood in front of them was a Lions team that was eliminated earlier in the day.