Playing complementary football is something that every head coach and coordinator in the sport preaches. It’s important to have multiple phases of the game playing well to offset one another — for a defense to get big stops to pick up a struggling offense and vice versa.
The 2023 Green Bay Packers have not been practicing what their coaches preach in that regard. On Sunday against the Minnesota Vikings, the Packers’ offense went 3-and-out four straight times to start the game, but the defense struggled to get off the field, allowing multiple big third-down conversions.