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How the worst QB in Packers history helped ruin the post-Vince Lombardi era

The Green Bay Packers have a reputation as a gold star franchise built wholly on winning, but the first decade or so right after the departure of Vince Lombardi was a very rocky tenure marked by constant poor play on the offensive side of the ball.

Part of the reason this team didn't achieve a lot of success between Lombardi and Brett Favre was that they rarely had a competent quarterback. Green Bay's inability to put an offense together was exemplified in the fact that they took a quarterback with three career touchdowns high in the first round.