GREEN BAY, Wis. -- If the Green Bay Packers can’t win a game when they intercept a future Hall of Fame quarterback twice, block an extra point and watch their rookie running back easily top the 100-yard mark, they may never win one without Aaron Rodgers.
That might sound like a bleak outlook for Brett Hundley, but the first-time starting quarterback couldn’t have been put in a much better situation for a debut on Sunday against the New Orleans Saints.
Yet Hundley couldn’t make the one big throw the Packers needed in clutch situations, and the 78,380 who watched the 26-17 loss had to leave Lambeau Field wondering if this will be a repeat of 2013, when coach Mike McCarthy’s team went more than a month after Rodgers’ last broken collarbone before they won a game.