GREEN BAY, Wis. – If there’s a five-alarm fire that stands in the way of the Green Bay Packers’ path to Los Angeles for this year’s Super Bowl, it’s situational football.
While turnover margin and passer-rating differential are the biggest keys to success, so is what’s done on the money downs. Can you move the chains on third down or force the opponent to punt? Once the ball is advanced inside the 20, can you punch it into the end zone for six points or hold the opponent to three?
Cumulatively, the Packers are terrible in those phases – what’s called situational football.