Packers season comes crashing down

Packers don’t measure up against Eagles

The Packers could not get the victory in Philadelphia as the youngest team in the NFL was eliminated from the playoffs. QB Jordan Love finished 20/33 with 212 YDS 0 TD and 3 INT. RB Josh Jacobs had 18 carries for 81 YDS and scored the lone touchdown. Green Bay suffered numerous key injuries and turned the ball over 4 times in what was a truly disappointing result.

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Packers season comes crashing down in Philadelphia

CHTV co-founder Aaron Nagler chats with Packers fans worldwide after the Packers 22-10 Wild Card playoff loss to the Philadelphia Eagles.

Eagles 22, Packers 10: Game Balls / Lame Calls

And so the Packers’ season ends as it began, with a loss to the Philadelphia Eagles, this one sending Green Bay into the offseason night with big questions to answer and significant holes to fill.

Similar to the opener in Brazil in September, the Packers contributed heavily to their own demise. Only this time, they wasted perhaps the best performance of the year by the defense. Instead, offensive miscues and poor play calling resulted in a 22-10 defeat.

Already missing Christian Watson, it certainly didn’t help that Elgton Jenkins, Jayden Reed and Romeo Doubs were forced to the sidelines with injuries. But the Packers started the game off with a Keisean Nixon fumble on the opening kickoff and didn’t play much better the rest of the way. Interceptions, drops, and devastating holding calls helped keep Green Bay out of the end zone until the fourth quarter. Yet when Josh Jacobs scored the Packers were somehow still in the game until, down 19-10 with 5:44 left, on a third and three, Matt LaFleur inexplicably called for Emanuel Wilson to run into the middle of the Eagles’ defensive line, one of the best in the NFL. When that was stuffed, a bad fourth down pass by Jordan Love to Malik Heath on a quick out made it difficult for Heath to keep both feet inbounds, and the Eagles took over on downs and put the game away.

There will be plenty of detailed, post-mortem analysis of this Packers season, but the top-line reality is this: Green Bay went 0-6 against the three best teams in the NFC; they lost their last three games with dismal performances, and they played one less playoff game than last season despite adding key free agents and changing defensive coordinators. It will be, and should be, a long winter of reflection at 1265 Lombardi Ave.

Check out the final Game Balls and Lame Calls of the 2024 Packers season.

The Good, The Bad and the Ugly: Packers vs Eagles

Aaron hands out the Good, the Bad and the Ugly from the Green Bay Packers 22-10 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles.

Packers Snap Counts vs. The Eagles: Week 19

The Packers did not elevate anyone from the practice squad. The team earlier signed QB Sean Clifford to the 53-man roster. WR Christian Watson, S Zayne Anderson, OT Andre Dillard were inactive due to injury. TE Ben Sims and QB Sean Clifford were healthy inactives. Since Clifford was signed to the 53-man roster, he would have been allowed to play as the "emergency quarterback" had both Love and Willis been injured. Sims being inactive is a surprise. Monk and Willis did not play. Elgton Jenkins (stinger) and Devonte Wyatt (lower leg) left the game early and did not return. Doubs left the game after banging his head on the ground while Jayden Reed suffered a shoulder injury late in the game. Josh Myers was carted off the field late in the game with a leg injury, but word is that he might have a hairline fracture. Myers will be an unrestricted free agent in 2025.

Check out the Packers Snap Counts from the Wild Card game against the Eagles.

What a rough night…

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The Lass Word: A Merciful End

By the time this game ended I felt more relief than disappointment.  Stop the carnage. Put this poor team out of its misery.  By game’s end the Green Bay Packers resembled a wounded animal trying to find its way home.  Playing against the league’s best defense, even a totally healthy Packers team was going to struggle.  By the middle of the fourth quarter, Green Bay was playing without its top three receivers, it’s Pro Bowl running back,  its starting left guard and starting center. 

It seemed appropriate that Jordan Love’s final play of the season was a forced, underthrown bomb into triple coverage that was intercepted.  That kind of encapsulates his second season as the starting quarterback.  The desperation of that pass was a perfect metaphor for the dire straits the team put itself in.   

The thing that makes you shake your head is, despite a litany of mistakes and blown opportunities, despite a parade of key players going down with injuries, with eight minutes to play, Green Bay trailed by just six points and the game was still winnable.  But there would be no miracle comebacks on this chilly day in Philly.  It was unrealistic, perhaps, to expect that, after ending the regular season with two very poor games, the Packers would throw some sort of switch and play with poise and execution and consistency in the playoffs.  Instead they remained true to form, getting off to a terrible start, working their way back into it, and then falling short at the finish.  The same old culprits did them in.  Foolish penalties, inaccurate passes, receivers who struggled to get open, and the added problem of four turnovers.  There is much to work on over the next seven months…

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