With Mike McCarthy now out, what expectations do you have for next year?

If the Packers don't make the playoffs is it a bust?

A winning season?

I will be bummed if the Packers miss the playoffs next year but understand that the team has been in rebuilding mode for over a year now and it will take time and some luck to get back to greatness.

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New coach needs to get in and have success with getting Rodgers back on track and the offense clicking on all cylinders. Time for another 2011 prolific offense. Anything less and we might as well have just kept McCarthy.

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With a couple first round picks, one in the top half of the draft, and a GM that isn't afraid to sign FAs, I expect GB to turn it around fairly quickly.

With an offseason's rest for Rodger's knee (it may be feeling pretty good now but it's hard to imagine it doesn't affect him at all), and another year removed from the collar bone injury, I would expect him to have a rebound year. Especially if they hire a smart offensive coach that can use him well/challenge him.

I think there's some promise on defense as well if they can manage to stay healthy overall (a big if).

Another losing season won't be terribly surprising, but it will be disappointing. Signing a new coach is a crapshoot at the best of times, so it will be very interesting to see how it unfolds.

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I tend to doubt we'll ever see a return to that kind of offensive dominance in Green Bay, even though the current defensive milieu in the league provides an optimal environment for offensive production. That 2011 offense just caught lightning in a bottle and ran away from the league. The problem with that team was that the defense was beyond dreadful, so the offense practically had to score 30 points a game to keep the team in contention -- with predictable results in the postseason. Frankly, I'd rather see a return to a top-five or top-ten offense in concert with a top-five defense. That would set the Packers up for much better odds of success in the postseason, and I think it would be overall more fun to watch, too.

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A new head coach! 😝

I think it depends a bit on who is bought in and what their system is, etc.

But improvement and making it looks like all the healthy guys are playing close to their potential... I mean, if players play to their maximum potential and still have a losing season, the coach has done his job, other than maybe getting on the GM to do their job and getting better players...

Right now the Packers sure don't seem to be playing to their offensive potential...

The defense is struggling too, but they've lost Daniels, Perry, Wilkerson, Ryan, Haha, Whitehead, Brice, King, Breeland, etc... when say 7 or 8 of your 11 starters are out injured, you're kinda expected to suck.


How about the expectation is to find someone to keep most people healthy?

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