2025 Green Bay Packers Thread (2 Viewers)

[packer_junkie]

Week 1 was fun.
Hasn't been a very fun team to watch.
Coach/QB seem off.

IMO thats a fireable offense in year 4 when YOU drafted and PAID the guy 60 mill per.

Next 2 are must wins. No other way around it.

 

[⚡DEADHEAD⚡]

I miss the days of Favre to Antonio Freeman, Javon Walker, Greg Jennings, Donald Driver and Rodgers to also Greg Jennings, Jordy Nelson, Devante Adams and even Watson (who will ever forget the drop to open the 202X season).

Favre lived up the gunslinger moniker for sure, and Rodgers was a student and ultimately an expert at the position, often hitting Jordy for deep touchdowns after catching the defense with 12 men on the field.

Love ain't got none of that. None. Zero. Zilch. Nada. My gut has told me that since the beginning and despite occasional tastes of something sweet, it's all been sour. No thanks.

Sorry. Rant over.

 

[The Kerminator]

The boring conservative offense all comes down to offensive line play. And they have been absolutely terrible. Either due to injuries or just lack of talent. Teams are playing 2 high and daring the Packers to run the ball. And they can't. Which is the problem for Love. They need to be able to run the ball to get teams out of two high to loosen up the passing game. I think that's why LaFleur insists on trying to run the ball. But a little variation in the run game by LaFleur would help. And if you are constantly running on 1st and 2nd down an occasional play fake would help as well.

 

[The Kerminator]

Pressures allowed by offensive linemen

Kinda makes it hard to run an offense. But it's LaFleur's job to figure it out

 

[fatness]

The Packers’ offensive line is only going to get worse

Since the Steelers game, the Carolina Panthers and Philadelphia Eagles have committed to playing split-safety looks against Green Bay, which has led the Packers’ offense to produce just 20 total points over the last two games. Basically, Green Bay’s opponents have learned that if you just line up in a certain way, even with an average-ish defense, you can keep LaFleur’s Packers out of the end zone, because they aren’t efficient on the ground or in the yards after the catch department.
The response many have to this problem is to simply run the football better, but that’s not going to be as easy as advertised, especially in future seasons.
First of all, the Packers are now out their starting center in Elgton Jenkins, who dropped out of the Eagles loss with a fractured leg. Because of Green Bay’s highly leveraged cap situation, Jenkins is likely to be cut next year for $20 million in cap relief. Even with the release of Jenkins, if all of the Packers’ nearly two-dozen unrestricted and restricted free agents leave the roster and Green Bay backfills them with minimum contract players, the team will be right around $0 in cap space after they sign their rookie draft choices. Help isn’t coming.
You have to understand this: This is the most talented the team is going to be for about the next four years. Green Bay’s roster decay starts the day the 2026 new league year begins. The Packers’ current players are only going to become more expensive to keep, and losing out on high draft picks via the Micah Parsons trade (which I would still do today, by the way) isn’t going to help the situation.
This is going to hit the offensive line the hardest and the earliest.
Beyond center Elgton Jenkins, left tackle Rasheed Walker, rotational starter Sean Rhyan and swing tackle Darian Kinnard are all expected to hit the open market in 2026. Again, the Packers have little to no cap dollars moving forward, unless they want to borrow even more from the future, which will just make the rebuild out of “all in” 2025 season even harder.
Out of the Packers’ top eight offensive linemen on the roster, half of them will probably play for another team next year.

 

[Alex P Keaton]

The Packers’ offensive line is only going to get worse

Since the Steelers game, the Carolina Panthers and Philadelphia Eagles have committed to playing split-safety looks against Green Bay, which has led the Packers’ offense to produce just 20 total points over the last two games. Basically, Green Bay’s opponents have learned that if you just line up in a certain way, even with an average-ish defense, you can keep LaFleur’s Packers out of the end zone, because they aren’t efficient on the ground or in the yards after the catch department.
The response many have to this problem is to simply run the football better, but that’s not going to be as easy as advertised, especially in future seasons.
First of all, the Packers are now out their starting center in Elgton Jenkins, who dropped out of the Eagles loss with a fractured leg. Because of Green Bay’s highly leveraged cap situation, Jenkins is likely to be cut next year for $20 million in cap relief. Even with the release of Jenkins, if all of the Packers’ nearly two-dozen unrestricted and restricted free agents leave the roster and Green Bay backfills them with minimum contract players, the team will be right around $0 in cap space after they sign their rookie draft choices. Help isn’t coming.
You have to understand this: This is the most talented the team is going to be for about the next four years. Green Bay’s roster decay starts the day the 2026 new league year begins. The Packers’ current players are only going to become more expensive to keep, and losing out on high draft picks via the Micah Parsons trade (which I would still do today, by the way) isn’t going to help the situation.
This is going to hit the offensive line the hardest and the earliest.
Beyond center Elgton Jenkins, left tackle Rasheed Walker, rotational starter Sean Rhyan and swing tackle Darian Kinnard are all expected to hit the open market in 2026. Again, the Packers have little to no cap dollars moving forward, unless they want to borrow even more from the future, which will just make the rebuild out of “all in” 2025 season even harder.
Out of the Packers’ top eight offensive linemen on the roster, half of them will probably play for another team next year.

Aren’t they still the youngest roster in the NFL?

 

[fabian]

The game against Eagles was maybe the most boring game I have ever seen in my life.

 

[warpig33]

The Packers’ offensive line is only going to get worse

Since the Steelers game, the Carolina Panthers and Philadelphia Eagles have committed to playing split-safety looks against Green Bay, which has led the Packers’ offense to produce just 20 total points over the last two games. Basically, Green Bay’s opponents have learned that if you just line up in a certain way, even with an average-ish defense, you can keep LaFleur’s Packers out of the end zone, because they aren’t efficient on the ground or in the yards after the catch department.
The response many have to this problem is to simply run the football better, but that’s not going to be as easy as advertised, especially in future seasons.
First of all, the Packers are now out their starting center in Elgton Jenkins, who dropped out of the Eagles loss with a fractured leg. Because of Green Bay’s highly leveraged cap situation, Jenkins is likely to be cut next year for $20 million in cap relief. Even with the release of Jenkins, if all of the Packers’ nearly two-dozen unrestricted and restricted free agents leave the roster and Green Bay backfills them with minimum contract players, the team will be right around $0 in cap space after they sign their rookie draft choices. Help isn’t coming.
You have to understand this: This is the most talented the team is going to be for about the next four years. Green Bay’s roster decay starts the day the 2026 new league year begins. The Packers’ current players are only going to become more expensive to keep, and losing out on high draft picks via the Micah Parsons trade (which I would still do today, by the way) isn’t going to help the situation.
This is going to hit the offensive line the hardest and the earliest.
Beyond center Elgton Jenkins, left tackle Rasheed Walker, rotational starter Sean Rhyan and swing tackle Darian Kinnard are all expected to hit the open market in 2026. Again, the Packers have little to no cap dollars moving forward, unless they want to borrow even more from the future, which will just make the rebuild out of “all in” 2025 season even harder.
Out of the Packers’ top eight offensive linemen on the roster, half of them will probably play for another team next year.

They need to get rid of some of those WRs! They have too many. Use that money to help on the O-line. They've got good depth at their skill positions on offense. Trade some off and see if you can't get lucky with some FA bargains.

 

[Snoopy]

The Packers’ offensive line is only going to get worse

Since the Steelers game, the Carolina Panthers and Philadelphia Eagles have committed to playing split-safety looks against Green Bay, which has led the Packers’ offense to produce just 20 total points over the last two games. Basically, Green Bay’s opponents have learned that if you just line up in a certain way, even with an average-ish defense, you can keep LaFleur’s Packers out of the end zone, because they aren’t efficient on the ground or in the yards after the catch department.
The response many have to this problem is to simply run the football better, but that’s not going to be as easy as advertised, especially in future seasons.
First of all, the Packers are now out their starting center in Elgton Jenkins, who dropped out of the Eagles loss with a fractured leg. Because of Green Bay’s highly leveraged cap situation, Jenkins is likely to be cut next year for $20 million in cap relief. Even with the release of Jenkins, if all of the Packers’ nearly two-dozen unrestricted and restricted free agents leave the roster and Green Bay backfills them with minimum contract players, the team will be right around $0 in cap space after they sign their rookie draft choices. Help isn’t coming.
You have to understand this: This is the most talented the team is going to be for about the next four years. Green Bay’s roster decay starts the day the 2026 new league year begins. The Packers’ current players are only going to become more expensive to keep, and losing out on high draft picks via the Micah Parsons trade (which I would still do today, by the way) isn’t going to help the situation.
This is going to hit the offensive line the hardest and the earliest.
Beyond center Elgton Jenkins, left tackle Rasheed Walker, rotational starter Sean Rhyan and swing tackle Darian Kinnard are all expected to hit the open market in 2026. Again, the Packers have little to no cap dollars moving forward, unless they want to borrow even more from the future, which will just make the rebuild out of “all in” 2025 season even harder.
Out of the Packers’ top eight offensive linemen on the roster, half of them will probably play for another team next year.

They need to get rid of some of those WRs! They have too many. Use that money to help on the O-line. They've got good depth at their skill positions on offense. Trade some off and see if you can't get lucky with some FA bargains.

They spent some good coin on Aaron Banks, and he proved to be a bust.

 

[fatness]

The Packers’ offensive line is only going to get worse

Since the Steelers game, the Carolina Panthers and Philadelphia Eagles have committed to playing split-safety looks against Green Bay, which has led the Packers’ offense to produce just 20 total points over the last two games. Basically, Green Bay’s opponents have learned that if you just line up in a certain way, even with an average-ish defense, you can keep LaFleur’s Packers out of the end zone, because they aren’t efficient on the ground or in the yards after the catch department.
The response many have to this problem is to simply run the football better, but that’s not going to be as easy as advertised, especially in future seasons.
First of all, the Packers are now out their starting center in Elgton Jenkins, who dropped out of the Eagles loss with a fractured leg. Because of Green Bay’s highly leveraged cap situation, Jenkins is likely to be cut next year for $20 million in cap relief. Even with the release of Jenkins, if all of the Packers’ nearly two-dozen unrestricted and restricted free agents leave the roster and Green Bay backfills them with minimum contract players, the team will be right around $0 in cap space after they sign their rookie draft choices. Help isn’t coming.
You have to understand this: This is the most talented the team is going to be for about the next four years. Green Bay’s roster decay starts the day the 2026 new league year begins. The Packers’ current players are only going to become more expensive to keep, and losing out on high draft picks via the Micah Parsons trade (which I would still do today, by the way) isn’t going to help the situation.
This is going to hit the offensive line the hardest and the earliest.
Beyond center Elgton Jenkins, left tackle Rasheed Walker, rotational starter Sean Rhyan and swing tackle Darian Kinnard are all expected to hit the open market in 2026. Again, the Packers have little to no cap dollars moving forward, unless they want to borrow even more from the future, which will just make the rebuild out of “all in” 2025 season even harder.
Out of the Packers’ top eight offensive linemen on the roster, half of them will probably play for another team next year.

Aren’t they still the youngest roster in the NFL?

Yes.

 

[Alex P Keaton]

The Packers’ offensive line is only going to get worse

Since the Steelers game, the Carolina Panthers and Philadelphia Eagles have committed to playing split-safety looks against Green Bay, which has led the Packers’ offense to produce just 20 total points over the last two games. Basically, Green Bay’s opponents have learned that if you just line up in a certain way, even with an average-ish defense, you can keep LaFleur’s Packers out of the end zone, because they aren’t efficient on the ground or in the yards after the catch department.
The response many have to this problem is to simply run the football better, but that’s not going to be as easy as advertised, especially in future seasons.
First of all, the Packers are now out their starting center in Elgton Jenkins, who dropped out of the Eagles loss with a fractured leg. Because of Green Bay’s highly leveraged cap situation, Jenkins is likely to be cut next year for $20 million in cap relief. Even with the release of Jenkins, if all of the Packers’ nearly two-dozen unrestricted and restricted free agents leave the roster and Green Bay backfills them with minimum contract players, the team will be right around $0 in cap space after they sign their rookie draft choices. Help isn’t coming.
You have to understand this: This is the most talented the team is going to be for about the next four years. Green Bay’s roster decay starts the day the 2026 new league year begins. The Packers’ current players are only going to become more expensive to keep, and losing out on high draft picks via the Micah Parsons trade (which I would still do today, by the way) isn’t going to help the situation.
This is going to hit the offensive line the hardest and the earliest.
Beyond center Elgton Jenkins, left tackle Rasheed Walker, rotational starter Sean Rhyan and swing tackle Darian Kinnard are all expected to hit the open market in 2026. Again, the Packers have little to no cap dollars moving forward, unless they want to borrow even more from the future, which will just make the rebuild out of “all in” 2025 season even harder.
Out of the Packers’ top eight offensive linemen on the roster, half of them will probably play for another team next year.

They need to get rid of some of those WRs! They have too many. Use that money to help on the O-line. They've got good depth at their skill positions on offense. Trade some off and see if you can't get lucky with some FA bargains.

They spent some good coin on Aaron Banks, and he proved to be a bust.

Honestly, I think Gutey has done a pretty bad job as GM. His draft picks aren’t panning out, he signed Love to a big contract that he frankly doesn’t deserve, and a number of FA moves (Banks, Nate Hobbs) have been bad.

While I’m not a LaFleur fan, IMO Gutey is worse. He did the Parsons trade as a big swing to save his own job.

 

[JohnnyU]

Strange defense. Obviously a good defense that ranks near the bottom in fantasy.