After a rough start to the 2022 season, the Green Bay Packers’ defense arrived on Sunday against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
The defense got diced up by Justin Jefferson and the Vikings’ passing game in week one, then got slashed and dashed by the Chicago Bears’ run game in week two. Not that the latter ended up mattering much, when the Bears got only 70 yards out of Justin Fields due to an unwillingness to put the ball in his hands and the quarterback’s own ball-throwing deficiencies.
But for the first time this season, this unit resembled exactly what many had hoped for out of it coming into the season: a complete, shutdown force capable of carrying a team to the promised land.