Yahoo Sports NFL analyst Nate Tice is joined by fantasy analyst Matt Harmon to discuss why Green Bay’s playoff loss doesn’t mean the team needs drastic changes entering next season. Check out the full conversation on “Football 301” – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
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So to me, I was kind of like, “All right.
There’s stuff they have to fill in between lines, but all systems go.”
They had so many injuries this year.
And I know people are tired.
Yeah.
Of it because they got the seventh seed again.
And that, Again, you can’t always blame that they have the youngest roster.
But they do have the youngest roster.
It’s just a fact.
And most times, we’d use this as an excuse.
I don’t know.
I could talk myself in circles about this, but I just don’t…
I don’t know.
I just don’t think it’s a thing you move.
Away from.
I think it’s something you keep going.
Away, keep going.
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Towards, keep moving forward with.
I, I agree with you, by the way.
And, like I said, I think the defense for LaFleur goes beyond, like, yeah.
The offense is good, has good EPA, and all that stuff.
Yeah.
I think the reality of this team is, uh, Again, I said this to you on the show, the things I think we know show.
Or, like, I know we know… And I think we know.
Um, one of the things I knew was that the Bears’ offense is gonna be fine.
The passing game is going to be fine.
One of the things I saidno, it’s I think I know on that show was, I just think This is not the Packers’ year.
And that turned out to be true because Of theit did.
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… Key injuries.
And by the way, that was…
I think that was before Micah Parsons tore his freaking ACL.
Which was the whole point of that.
We’re gonna get Micah Parsons so that we’re not the seventh seed that gets round of the playoffs.
That’s going to help us take, us to another level.
And maybe they still would’ve gotten bounced by The Bears in the first round of the playoffs, but maybe Caleb Williams doesn’t.
You know, complete one of the best throws you’ve ever seen on 4th & 8.
They have the guy that they got to close those games out.
You know?
That’s a big part of this too.
Tucker Craft, I think, is their best offensive player.
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Yes.
That injury on the offensive line.
I would just run it back next year, and hopefully some young guys take another Step forward.
Golden gave you some good flashes.
Matthew Golden: nothing in regular season, great in the playoffs.
Just like he was at Texas last year, to a little bit of a lesser degree.