Clay Matthews missed four full game, Nick Perry has missed five, and the Packers defense has struggled without both of them in the lineup at the same time.
The Green Bay Packers' season is on the brink. Two wins in five days puts the Packers back in the drivers' seat. Two losses and the playoffs are effectively impossible. The microscope falls on Mike McCarthy and his ability to rally his troops to play as greater than a sum of their parts.
The Packers have dropped three in a row and are on the brink of falling out of the NFC playoff race. Joining us LIVE will be Tom Silverstein, beat writer for the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.