As Ric Flair used to say, "To be the man, you have to beat the man." Tough games? Of course. But I said it earlier, and I'll repeat it: this seems to be a repeat of 2010. Regular season records don't mean a thing, except where you'll be seeded in the playoffs. And, as the Giants proved twice, all you need to do is become the "hot team" at the right time, and you can win the SB. Right now, the Packers are hot. They still have a long way to go, but this is a team that won't be taking anyone lightly, or looking at their record and feeling they have already accomplished enough. This is a team that knows they have underperformed, and are now playing their best ball of the year. And, to close, there is that quote from Kevin Greene to Clay Matthews the last time the team made the SB: "It is time."

GB can only control what they can at this point. We have played the Cowboys and Eagles and Vikings. SF seems to always be our Achilles. They are without Deebo now who was the player who beat us last year along with ourselves. ML needs to involve the rookie WR more and they will need to grow more ... and faster if we are to do anything in the post season. AR will need to spread it around even more and always just move the chains. This is where Gute, not putting picks on the table at the trade deadline really comes back to haunt us. Our offense would have a couple mature receiving weapons along with a couple Rooks...That would be pretty hard to stop.
But no...Draft picks cary something special...EGO...if you yourself pick a good player you are lacking, of course a season or 2 too late to make a difference...NOW. Timing is everything and I'm sure we missed our opportunity, but I will hope for the best.

Now there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run, there's still time to change the road you're on.

You can win the division, which guarantees you a playoff game at home.

You can hope to have a better record that most of the other 11 teams. The bottom 9 in each conference stay home, where they belong.

If Barry plays Jefferson the way he did in game 1, this could be a sour ringing in the New Year.

Even when Jefferson is covered in man to man, his ability to get open is unbelievable. Cousins is having a good year, mostly because he just plays catch with Jefferson. Cousins has a good enough arm to hit the open man and Jefferson is perfect for a non elite QB.

Please weld Alexander to Jefferson. Great matchup!

If we scrape in at 9-8 (which of course, I'm hoping for) it should be tough.
At least, we have a shot at the playoffs still, and I hope I can still say that after the Vikings game.
Thing is, can the Browns beat the Commanders? We may need that to happen.

I’m a packer fan living in SF. The niners have GB’s number. It’s still waaaay optimistic to think the road goes there, but if it does, it stops there.

BTW this is out of topic but looks like Hackett has been fired by the Broncos. How many of you would be ok with the idea us brining him back as the offensive coordinator and moving stevanich back to Oline coordinator?

I mentioned in another article a before the Miami game that either path for the Packers led to a failure, with both hurting the future, in ways argued ad nauseam already.

Winning any games erases the better draft selection, and getting in the playoffs will not lead to an SB, which is a failure for on top of the loss draft position.

Can this team achieve the near impossible again, sure, if the true top 6–8 teams beat each other and then fall down on the field, but that isn't happening.

This Packer team isn't the Fool's Gold it looked to be a few weeks ago, but it is still a folly to think there is a victory within the two paths mentioned first. One is already evaporating, and the other will remain so far, even the validity of the dream will be questioned.

Some will defend the playoff spot as a success, it isn't, but rather a delay in the dealings that need to have taken place, with the last games being the platform to conduct and evaluate what comes next.

With every win that comes, I will smile with pain that the FO again didn't see the better path.

When I was a young boy, an old man asked me "If you saw a Lion, a Bear, and a Viking
all coming at you, and you only had two shotgun shells, what do you do?" It wasn't until I was older that I realized the answer was shoot the Viking and the Bear and the Lion would leave. Or better yet, shoot the Bear twice, club the Viking with the gun, and the Lion would leave.

Do you realize, for all the drama, and the apocalyptic statements regarding competence and malfeasance, that we have a chance to beat the Vikings and make the playoffs, and beat them again? In the process, we can ruin the Lions' season and send a message to the Vikings that We'll Be Back. What a beautiful world. And all we have to do is club the Vikings into submission in six days.

The Viking defense is no better than Miami's. If we can hang onto the rock, move the clock, and put 26 points on the board, we're going to beat these guys like a rented mule.

To all the people who were willing to throw this opportunity away weeks ago when we were 4-8.........see what you would have missed? The Packers have rallied, it's all on the line, and we just played the best half of football we've played all season. After the season, we can talk about after the season stuff, but I'm really enjoying this 3 game, do-or-die win streak, and it does remind me of 2016.

Perspective.

With the highest paid player in NFL history on the roster, we beat a horrible Bears team at home, a horrible, injury riddled Rams team at home, and a Dolphins team in the midst of a 4 game free fall losing streak to climb out of a 4-8 hole.

I wish I could get on board with the excitement of possibly securing the 7th seed in the playoffs, which until last year didn't even exist, until the latest money grab from the NFL.

Yippee!

While all the national sports media dopes have been slathering on about how the Packers can MAKE the playoffs, someone pointed out the other side of their chances. That side of the argument is brutally simple.

This Sunday, if the Vikings beat the Packers and the Lions beat the Bears the Packers chances are finished. El finito, done-ski.

While I will remain an optimist those two game finals are VERY possible, as well. But again, we'll see with "Any Given Sunday".