Packers Played Up to Their Abilities on the Year

The dust having settled and the emotions having drained, it’s a proper time to assess the 2016 Green Bay Packers’ season results.

I didn’t believe, at any point in the season, that this was a Super-Bowl-bound team – and that was before a spate of devastating injuries.

In the fourth quarter of the team’s first game, cornerback Sam Shields assisted on a tackle of the Jaguars’ T. J. Yeldon. At the time, this concussion did not look serious, but it turned out to be Shield’s last play of the season. You could view that play as the primary reason the team is not preparing to play in the Super Bowl.

This was perhaps the most costly injury – even more so than the loss of running back Eddie Lacy – in…