It turns out Green Bay is more of a vacation destination than a championship factory after all — for a week, anyway.
As starts to an NFL season go, this wouldn’t be categorized as merely sub-optimal or less than perfect for the the Green Bay Packers. It also wasn’t just a few missed opportunities or miscues for Aaron Rodgers. And the defense, which is very much the same as last season’s imperfect unit, wasn’t just struggling.
It was all sideways. Top to bottom, with little-to-no silver lining. Worst-loss-of-Rodgers’-career awful.
“We played bad — I played bad,” Rodgers said in his postgame news conference.