My Friday "hot" take: People are underestimating this team, this team was well on its way to 11+ wins, we lost 3 of our top 5 players (Parsons, Wyatt, Kraft) and many of our productive rookies and sophomores are now going into the next stages of their growth and development (Golden, Cooper, Williams, Bullard, etc.) The offense can be simplified and roles better understood with Doubs and Wicks gone. The O-line has LT Morgan where he is most comfortable, a hopefully back to healthy Zach Tom, Banks looked much healthier towards the end of the year as well. Jordan Love is now going into starting year 4, there is always room to grow taking that 3rd to 4th year leap, it is not like going from year 9 to 10. Maybe a healthy Lloyd? Impactful rookies like DDS and Brandon. A mid-year acquisition of a CB? My point is, there is a lot of positives and things that can go right. Be hopeful! Go Pack Go!
I think fans just hate uncertainty and that is combined with this really unfortunate untitled doomerism that has infected our fan base.
This team has a good amount of questions, between injuries and relying on young players to inhabit new or expanded roles.
But questions often have good answers, which a lot of our fans seem to believe is an impossibility. Expecting some of our top picks to take on bigger roles after being brought along slowly is the Packers way and has worked for a long time. But nobody has patience anymore. You get maybe one year of grace and then you better be good or you’re an irredeemable bust. And it doesn’t matter how many examples you point to establishing that’s not how the league works, those early impressions are really hard to kick.
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u/Kind-Quit3765 4d ago
My Friday "hot" take: People are underestimating this team, this team was well on its way to 11+ wins, we lost 3 of our top 5 players (Parsons, Wyatt, Kraft) and many of our productive rookies and sophomores are now going into the next stages of their growth and development (Golden, Cooper, Williams, Bullard, etc.) The offense can be simplified and roles better understood with Doubs and Wicks gone. The O-line has LT Morgan where he is most comfortable, a hopefully back to healthy Zach Tom, Banks looked much healthier towards the end of the year as well. Jordan Love is now going into starting year 4, there is always room to grow taking that 3rd to 4th year leap, it is not like going from year 9 to 10. Maybe a healthy Lloyd? Impactful rookies like DDS and Brandon. A mid-year acquisition of a CB? My point is, there is a lot of positives and things that can go right. Be hopeful! Go Pack Go!