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Why Packers' win-and-get-in game may be different this time

MINNEAPOLIS -- The loudest, most celebratory moment after Sunday's win over the Minnesota Vikings came on the way into the visitors locker room when Romeo Doubs and Christian Watson mobbed Bo Melton, the most unlikely of the Green Bay Packers' pass-catchers to have the team's first 100-yard receiving game of the season.

But for as long as the memory of Melton's six-catch, 105-yard, one-touchdown performance will live in his mind, things quickly turned more serious.

After the normal locker room rah-rahs that follow a win, coach Matt LaFleur offered a reminder of what's to come and what could happen if his 8-8 team doesn't follow up this 33-10 domination with something similar in Sunday's season finale against the Chicago Bears at home (4:25 p.