Even when the Green Bay Packers won 13 games in three straight seasons under Matt LaFleur, too often they cower in the face of adversity.
When the Packers are on the wrong end of a long touchdown, a brutal turnover, or they go down multiple scores, mistakes snowball, and things spiral out of control. The gameplan is abandoned. They’re beaten down with swift blows that drastically shift momentum.
Sunday, in what might be their Super Bowl this season, the Packers got up and fought back in a back-and-forth overtime thriller that saw Green Bay edging out a 31-28 win against the Dallas Cowboys and their former Super Bowl winning head coach Mike McCarthy.