For how much potential we got on the team JL is really getting fucked over. Everyone better be hitting jugs machines for a few hours after every practice. We "wasted" prime rodgers and if this continues we're gonna "waste" prime love, too

We need a new kicker right?

Here’s one fans opinion on the Green Bay Packers
frustrating 20-17 loss in Detroit week 7:

The Good:

- J.Love (27/45 274yds 2TD 1INT)
He has been on this list the entire season, Love’s been playing at an MVP level and keeping this offense afloat through all of the turbulence thus far.

- J.Jacobs (11car 36yds / 5rec 55yds 1TD)
Yes he had that unfortunate touchdown drop late in the game, but all things considered Jacobs looked good in his return game and will very likely get back to his anchor role going into the midseason stretch.

- I.McDuffie (11TOT’s / 1 Fumble Recovery)
I liked the way McDuffie stepped up and filled in without Zaire Franklin and Edgerin Cooper. His performance was up and down much like our defense as a whole this game, but he was flying around the field to the best of his ability and our defense held Detroit to 20 points and 2 turnovers.

The Bad:

- Pass Catching
This has been a problem all season long and is still persistent despite players, coaches, fans, and media all harping on this issue lately. It’s unacceptable as a team to lead the league with 20+ drops not even half way through the season…

T.Smack (1/3 FG / 2/2 XP)
Just two weeks ago I was calling out Smack for missing kicks against Chicago. Then last week I gave him credit for bouncing back and putting on a great performance in Dallas. Now fast forward to this week he proceeds to miss a 26 yard field goal early in the game and then gets a 35 yard field goal blocked late in the game that was clearly going to miss anyways. I get that Smack is a rookie and I know he’s been impressive from 50+ yards so far, but he needs to lock in and convert the easy scores on a weekly basis or those will come back to bite us later in the season when it really matters.

- R E F S
Boy I don’t even know where to start with the refs and I won’t dive too deep as I’ve already seen it all over social media and discussions. I would also like to make it very clear that we should have won that game despite the horrible calls that were made.
With that being said, the officiating was down right horrible on Sunday. From the insane roughing the passer calls, to the fake intentional grounding call, to Amon Ra’s manufactured DPI call on Cisse which overturned the INT, and I’m still speechless about Wyatt’s unnecessary roughness call for playing until the whistle is blown??? I don’t have anything good to say about the refs this season so I’ll leave it at that.

Overall Analysis:

Despite everything that was just laid out, good and bad, most of all the officiating, the Packers should have won this game. There’s no excuses I will hear for Smack missing 2 kicks inside of 35 yards. The second one a defender got a finger on the ball that replay showed was going to miss regardless.
Josh Jacobs played a good game and then dropped the easiest go ahead touchdown score opportunity we’ve had all season long.
The defense was so short handed and inconsistent in defending the run and the pass, not to mention there was little to no pressure on Goff all game. They still handed us the game by going for it on 4th down from their OWN 20 YARD LINE, and we couldn’t punish them for that…
The Packers are now sitting at 4-3 with a quick turnaround Thursday night at home vs Carolina in week 8. They’re coming off a bad beating against Tampa Bay this weekend so I’m hoping to see us take advantage of this opportunity to get right back on track in our division.

Go Pack Go! 🏈

How little brother do you have to be to run to your rivals subreddit to try and talk trash?

I remember watching the game and seeing the PI flag on Cisse's interception come very late and from off camera and it seemed super fishy. So I watched the All-22 of the play and realized that the ref that called the PI, didn't even start reaching for his flag until Cisse had made the interception. Almost as if, he wasn't going to call one then suddenly it was picked off and then decided to.

In the first photo I uploaded, Cisse had already made the break for the ball so apparently the PI had already occurred. The ref is at the top of the screen, by the pylon. A peculiar angle by the way to see Cisse's hand "turn" St Brown.

In the second photo, Cisse has made the INT and only then did the ref start reaching for the flag in his pocket.

Take this as you will, but it makes me wonder...

Is this just more rage bait click bait or are they really able to fine TB? If that’s even a discussion…… this is pretty pretty…. Broken

The refs.

I am here to discuss the refs, the god-awful, blind as fuck, scatterbrained and inbred delinquents of society that the NFL employs, who should be jailed for what is clear and blatant rigging of NFL games for what is either personal bias or personal profit. In the words of X, “A lot of shit that doesn’t make sense.”

There is a clear bias currently, and especially this year but in previous years since Rodgers left the team, against the Packers. Before this season, however, it was the regular things occurring with most teams: missed but clear as day holds and easy to call PIs that the ref crew simply thought was ’hand fighting‘.

This year has been egregious, however. You cannot touch the QB. It will be flagged. You cannot show extra effort and make sure a player is down. It will be flagged. Handfighting and taunting? Only a penalty if the Packers do it.

I do not agree that the Lions should be flagged for celebrating, but I believe that if one ref crew calls flexing an excess celebration that warrants a fine and flag, it should be called evenly across the league. Other leagues, like the NBA, have shown this as an issue and are working to correct it by outlying and outlining more clearly what should be points of emphasis in the rulebook. We hear none of this with the NFL refs.

At this point, I am considering watching only Packers games and ‘boycotting‘ the rest of the league (not that does much). Some action has to be taken: the product is the NFL is being cheapened out, and arrests need to be made eventually because there is clear gambling going on here. I am aware the Packers have many issues involving players and the team, but we cannot fight a battle both with the opponent and the refs and expect to win.

Go Pack Go!

I’m a diehard Vikings fan, and generally don’t come in peace. With that said you guys are getting fucked over in ways I couldn’t fathom as recently as last year. I don’t get it. I’ve watched nearly every pack game this year. In week 1, I remember thinking we got at least 75% of calls that game and it sticking out as odd. We had several drives get extended by Ticky Tack calls (lord knows this offense needed them to function, too)

Then I watched the next week when you guys got all these phantom calls against you again. Then last week with the phantom RTP call(s). So many drive-extending calls against Green Bay. This week against the lions was a masterclass on one-sided officiating. What the hell, man? ANOTHER phantom roughing the passer call? What’s with the jumping offsides Lions dances? I started laughing because I figured they’d get called for team celebration and they’d pull a Lions and miss the FG by taking the neutral zone infraction, then moving back 15. But nope. All good, I guess!

I don’t mind seeing you lose, but not like this.

I’m not saying anything you all aren’t also screaming about, but it’s not just been one or two games, and it’s not getting better or regressing to the mean. This year’s NFC North is awesome and I don’t want it spoiled by weird officiating.

I know we are all pissed about yesterday’s game for multiple reasons, but I wanted to highlight one point of positivity — we held the leads highest scoring offense to 20 points, 11 less than their lowest score so far this year. Two scores lower. That ain’t bad.

That’s without Zaire or Micah who will both be back sometime soon.

I was practicing field goals at the local school practice field after yesterday's game. I can make about 50% from 20 yards and getting better. If the Packers kicking game gets any worse, I'll be ready for a league minimum contract.

All jokes aside, give the young kid some room to grow. We spent a draft pick on him and for this year, we are invested in him. Mason Crosby even had a year where he struggled.

To start off let me say I was frustrated as hell last night. (Probably going to have to take back what I said about being done with the NFL.) But here are the problems I saw, and why I'm optimistic anyway.

After the first few games, did anyone think we'd be above 500 going into week 8? That's enough to be happy about right there!

If you're playing a decent team, football requires you to be damn near perfect to win, and the pack lost (and damn near won!) on the culmination of little things. Yes, they have multiple small problems, but there is a lot to be optimistic about.

The refs screwed the Packers. A LOT! And they still almost won. We all saw it. And enough has been said about that in this subreddit.

What I will add is, MLF speaking out publicly against the refs will only put a bigger Target on the Pack's back. I get it, part of me wants to hear him rip them apart, but that's something you handle through the proper channels to the league and refs. And I think the players said just enough yesterday without going over the top. I respect the composure.

Jacobs makes the TD catch if he had been at practice the last 6 weeks. You could literally see him improving through the game.

Golden's hands will get better. Just look at Watson and how much he has improved. (By the way, The faster you are, The less time you have to secure the ball as you move.)

Smack needs to adjust his technique on short kicks. I'd way rather have a guy who needs to work on short kicks than long kicks.

Look at how much better the o-line is playing. Speaks for itself. (That's coaching by the way.) Shout out to John Williams for being a dog! No reason to think they won't keep improving.

Jordan Love is a beast and a role model. The guy is playing lights out, top five quarterback. You're getting hit like that all season and still totally composed? Role model. Absolute bad ass. Ask yourself, out of all the other top QBs, who is playing this well compared to the performance of their o-line?

One of the, if not the, best defensive players in the league comes back in a few weeks. With the way the rest of the defense is playing, I'd be scared to be an NFC North quarterback. Nearly picked off Goff a few times, and Goff does not throw interceptions.

I get it, we have justifiable reasons to be frustrated. But focusing on the negatives won't improve your life and it certainly won't improve the team. (And we can all still be happy with how they embarrassed Ben Johnson)

GO PACK GO!!!!

Refs hate him, receivers doing him no favors…continues to control everything he can at a very high (dare I say the E word?) level. I feel very lucky to have this guy leading us every week, hopefully his time in the twilight zone ends soon

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

It was a helmet-to-helmet hit. He had eyes on him all the way in and the ball was well out of Goff’s hands. I’d say it was subjective, sure. Not egregious, not game ruining. It was a reasonably flaggable call from an officiating perspective and Goff helped make that call with a bit of Mahomes style selling. That’s what makes him elite. (/s on the last sentence)

Edit: apparently packers fans just want to hear about how they’re right instead of being objective about what could make their team better. 🤷‍♂️ guess that’s why you’re last in the division. Shown a photo of helmet-to-helmet contact and still deny reality. Good luck this season I guess.

Again, you have to think of where we were at after week 3. I thought this team would be mediocre at best and win maybe 7 or 8 games after that abysmal home opener. 4 weeks later, and the packers have won 3 of 4 with their one loss being on the road against the lions in a game they absolutely could’ve won. It would’ve been different had we gotten blown out, but after losing to them by a walkoff field goal Detroit doesn’t scare me. Dan Campbell practically gifted us the game at the end and we couldn’t capitalize, Jacobs dropping a td and Smack missing a chip shot.

The defense has played really solid football the past 4 weeks despite all the injuries, holding teams to 20 points or less in 4 straight games. Jordan Love is playing at an elite level this year despite constantly being under pressure, having no run game, and Packer receivers leading the league in drops by a mile. The offensive line has slightly improved from historically bad to regular bad, who knows maybe in a few weeks they can be considered average if we shuffle the lineup around. Drops are another thing that can be fixed.

Division will be very hard to win now unfortunately, but even if we are a wildcard team the nfc looks wide open this year. The packers can go toe-to-toe with every team in the nfc.

Try to stay cautiously optimistic :)

We are flying in for the Thursday night game and staying close by the stadium. How early do people start hanging around the stadium for these games? Are there things to do that there normally wouldn’t be for a Sunday noon game?

Thanks for any help or advice!

NGL, I thought we'd be cooked after we had a rookie guard who never played a snap at center came in as the emergency 3rd stringer, and the first series he was in did not build confidence.

However, after that he seemed... solid. Perhaps we got something going here? Do we got any PFF or PFF-type grades on him yet?

Thoughts?

Hi everyone! My friend and I are coming from the West Coast of BC in Canada for TNF. We’re both HUGE Packers fans and it’s our first time coming to GB. We’re looking for tips and tricks of how to enjoy our day in GB. We’re staying in Appleton and it’s a quick fly in Wednesday evening and leave Friday morning kinda trip. But any tips/tricks/advice would be appreciated on how to have the best experience!!

Didn’t see this hit get talked about much, but isn’t he leading with his helmet and then hits Kraft’s helmet?

All I can do is laugh at how unserious the NFL is about officiating. Last week Golden gets flagged for taunting, and then get fined for it. This week the Lions get the Packers in the neutral zone and the entire offense starts dancing. The worst part is, the NFL makes a montage of the whole thing on their official Twitter page. Are the Packers being punished?

The Packers still had chances to take the game yesterday and ultimately didn't execute, but man, its just silly how these refs have been.

They have to play better so the refs cant decide the game.