The easy way to explain the lagging defensive performance for the Green Bay Packers starts with quick passes from opposing quarterbacks. The image of Derek Carr slicing and dicing a helpless Green Bay secondary is fresh in our minds. If teams get the ball out quickly, the Smith Brothers don’t have a chance to wreak havoc or force quarterbacks to make throws before their ready, the kinds of passes that lead in incompletions, tips, and interceptions.
With apologies to Occam and his razor, this simple explanation doesn’t cut it, and not because it’s oversimplified, but because it’s wrong.