Last year the Packer opponents were a combined 98-110. In fact, the Packers only played 4 winning teams. Of those teams, 2 were on losing streaks when they played. As for the others, they beat the Redskins and lost to Dallas. 7 of the teams they played had a losing record. They faced a team with a losing record 9 times.

This year the Packer opponents were a combined 110-98. The Packers played 8 teams with a winning record and only 3 had a losing record. They faced a team with a losing record 4 times and a team with a winning record 10 times.

This year the Jet opponents were a combined 91-116. In fact, the Jets only played 4 teams with a winning record. 7 of the teams they played had a losing record. They faced a team with a losing record 8 times and a team with a winning record 6 times.

It might be somewhat of an eye-opener, but you don't just go to 13-3.

We got close to beating Dallas, we shut-out Minnesota, We beat Washington, we beat Philly... We even beat the Seahawks in the play-offs by quite a margin and we came close to beating the SB champion NYG while they where already on their hot streak.

I know where this thread is going, but I'm going to blame this on the decline of the O-line and D-line. Where our D-line was our absolute strength on defense last year, it's the biggest liability this year and the O-line is obviously declining. Quarterbacking was very good in both cases.

"Rockmolder" wrote:

"Rockmolder" wrote:

while it might be the minimal factor, I believe it is a factor..

There are a ton of teams that make the CG one year, then the following year they miss playoffs.

I did a break down of those teams a few weeks back, and out of around 10 of them, only ONE had any change at q/b and most had same key parts

So for those teams that did not have to deal with any key losses they still ended up like the packers...and the one key element was the strength of the teams they played

"longtimefan" wrote:

"longtimefan" wrote: