Musings on the Packer's Dilemma

With the 2025 season behind us, we now have the benefit of 20/20 hindsight in order to assess what went right and wrong for teams all around the league. For some, it’s a pretty simple discussion. For the Green Bay Packers, it’s a bit more nuanced.

The Packers flashed their high end talent all season long. Thinking back to the first two weeks of the season, the Packers seemed unstoppable. Victories over the Lions and Commanders were hard to ignore at the time (though neither would go on to make the playoffs, or even impress all that much).

But the baseline problem for the Packers is just that. They flashed. They were never really quite able to put it all together. Every time it seemed like…