With the season nearly one-quarter of the way done, the Green Bay Packers have reason to believe they possess a championship-caliber offense and defense.
Special teams? That’s a different story.
Breakdowns in the area of the game the Packers call “we-fense” have helped cost them victories each of the last two weeks. Those special-teams issues help explain why the Packers (2-1-1) fell out of the NFC North lead heading into their bye week.
“I think if we can just clean up those catastrophic errors — which, you know, that’s a big ‘if’ — we’ll be in a lot better spot,” Packers coach Matt LaFleur said this week.