I was reading an article this week written by long time Packers beat writer Tom Silverstein for the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. It was a column analyzing CEO Ed Policy’s options concerning head coach Matt LaFleur in the coming offseason. Silverstein came up with a point that had not occurred to me, and that quite frankly, stunned me a bit.
He observed that, if the NFL had not expanded to seven playoff teams in each conference in 2020, the Packers would have missed the playoffs the past four years in a row! Green Bay has been the number seven seed for three straight years, including this year, and missed the playoffs altogether in 2022.