Packers cannot endure another repeat of disappointing 2015 season

Mike McCarthy will be coaching for his job in Week 8 when the Packers travel to Los Angeles to face the best team in football. And again in Week 9 when Green Bay heads back on the road to face the Patriots. This team doesn’t have to win those games — in fact, they shouldn’t be expected to — but they can’t have their pants pulled down ... again.

The 2018 season sits cantilevered on a precipice for McCarthy and Co. at 1265 Lombardi Ave. We’ve seen them shake off slow starts to seasons in the past, namely in 2010 and 2014, the two best recent vintages of the NFL’s most storied franchise.

If this team falls however, and they’re more in danger of slipping than at any time in the McCarthy era, the…