Sign seen in the Packers locker room this week:

"REMINDER: NFL Games Last 60 Minutes"

I'm worried there are structural issues with the team's organization and preparation that are going to be hard to overcome without serious reflection, backroom screaming, and tough decisions. First, the O-line shifting....totally agree with you. Especially going from left to right side, that's tough to do. People are dumping on Morgan but he was clearly rattled by this move and that is on coaching.

Razer made this point on a comment, but La Fleur is probably not cut out for both game management and OC. He is slow to adjust and gets wrapped up emotionally in situations (red flag warning). I personally think La Fleur is a good OC but few can do both well.

The lack of discipline from special teams play has been chronic for years and does not change with coaches. So that has to go back to La Fleur and demanding attention to detail and accountability.

Finally, I think Jordan Love might be a choker. Good friend of mine who is Ute's fan said as much when we drafted him. "Great talent, but not great in big games". Not sure how to fix the person. Sports psychologists have helped some athletes (Tom Brady). An OC can try and take the ball or need for a big play out of their hands. But yes, there was the interception, but he also missed two dump passes towards the end that might have put the game away.

We will see....but as always hoping for the best!

Packers vs. Cowboys

"i just look at this like it's just another game....." - Micah

I love ya Micah, but i gotta call BS on that one!! 😲😏

It’s always easy to second guess after the fact, so I am hereby pledging to do all my second guessing BEFORE the fact. Gotta start thinking outside the box.

After reading many articles and watching different videos and reading comments here I have these things to say about the game and the loss. Yes you can blame Love for throwing the interception and end it there but there is more.

First mistake goes to offseason. Gute signed Banks to a big contract to play guard and then move Jenkins to center when he could have replaced Myres with a center and paid less. Yes there was one out there the Bears got him. Jenkins and Banks are some of the worse OLs in the NFL after three games. Oh and the Bears center is doing very good.

The offensive and special teams coaching was terrible in this game but it is no surprise that the ST coaching was bad because it has been bad in the three games. I will say this here there is no excuse for 14 penalties. That goes to the player and the coaching. Yes playing Tom was a mistake. That goes on Tom, the medical staff, and MLF. A team has only 46 game day players. Playing Tom took up one of those spots because he was in for one play. Moving Morgan to RT was a mistake as Al stated he has not practiced there. Maybe that contributed to his penalties.

I believe it was Nick that made the comment that why did they run a play right before the end of the 3rd instead of letting the quarter run out. I was dumbfounded when I saw that. I know what probably happened. MLF told Love that if he saw something good run the play otherwise let the quarter run out. Love is not a QB you can put in that position. He will take the chance because he thinks he can win. MLF should have had the team on the sideline and let the quarter run out.

Overall I am not going to critisize the play calling except for they probably should have called more screens and passes to the flat to the best ball carriers. The problem is when they did there were many that they did not capitalize on. I believe Love missed the throw to a player (at least 2 of them were to Jacobs) on 3 passes to the flat. He has a history of missing in the flat. Usually that is a result of his feet not being set.

Now to the interception. Very short here because it has been covered extensively. Yes MLF should have called a run and punt the ball. Love should have changed the play to deep routes. Love telegraphed his throw. If love would have looked at Kraft he would have seen he was going to be open. I noticed that during the play.

Now for the blocked FG. The Browns were putting 6 on the line opposite of the hash they were on. On the last FG attempt the Packers were on the right hash. It appears during the game that the left side of the Packers line was the weaker side. It might have been a different result if the Packers were on the left hash. Not sure if the Packers could have switch sides of all the LM but that should have been a consideration.

" A bit odd considering the Browns had nine more minutes of possession than the Packers."

You mean the Packers had nine more minutes of possession than the Browns.

Before the game, I heard at least one or two people mention Jordan Morgan as a potential replacement for Zach Tom at right tackle, in keeping with the "best five" line of thinking. Of course, the assumption was that if they put him in there, he would be prepared to play the position, which he clearly wasn't.

The loss looked more like the result of underconfidence rather than overconfidence, at least at the end. The Browns wanted this game more, and the Packers were unable to counter their push in the final minutes.

When Al said he was going to Idaho I thought it meant no "Pollution" for this week along with his 3-things, and I was starting to go into withdrawals. Got my "FIX" now. Thanks, AL!

There's nothing with this Packer team that can't be fixed with some good blocking up front. I can't believe we're talking about this going into week 4. I truly believed we had a new and improved O-line before the season started and through the first two games thought that along with the injuries that they'd get the kinks worked out in the running game because until the Browns' game the pass protection was ok even with the backups in.

Seems to me that this has been an issue that has been ongoing since David B. was injured many seasons ago. This is really troubling me.

Offensive line issues really throw a wrench in the spokes of this team. We want to run the ball and Jacobs is a very good RB but the line get no push and there ain't much daylight coming through the holes. Injuries aside, you gotta wonder why we don't have one decent interior linemen to fill-in for injuries. Here we are scrambling to retrain a college tackle to play inside. Also curious why we didn't draft a decent center to start the grooming process. Who is the next man up at center? The O-line design and coaching philosophy on this front has me worried.

Great insights, Al! I have to say that I listened to this game on XM (Browns broadcast) during a long drive home from a wedding weekend. I'm not sure what it looked like on TV but I can say this, it sounded as bad/ugly as it probably looked. LISTENING to your team commit 16 penalties (14 accepted) may be more difficult than having to watch it. I'm sure about their bias, but the Browns announcers were complaining about non-called penalties! The Browns have a legit/legit D and will give a ton of teams a lot of trouble....but the Packers pulled defeat out of the jaws of victory in this game. We can easily point to Love's terrible INT, MLF's ineffective gameplan ( with 10 days to prepare), our kicking unit (Special Teams, my ass!), the highly questionable decisions made on the OL (Tom plays 1 down? Morgan plays 3 different positions?), some of these things are now an unfortunate MLF/staff trait.
But at the end of the day, the unforced errors from sloppy play are what bother me the most. By Week 3, there should some resemblance of cohesiveness and this game was as far from that as you can get. Outside of our D, which played another outstanding game and is shaping into a force, lots of "clean up" is required.....
MLF and his staff will have all eyes on them this week against an inferior Dallas team....he needs an emphatic team performance on all levels. We know that Mr. Policy didn't extend Gutey or MLF after this year.....well, Gutey has done his "prove it" job.....it's time for MLF to do his....

On the bright side, you got to go to Idaho!

I would hope the legions of angry Packers fans would go to Tom Silverstein's column in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. Perhaps it would help enlighten a fan base who thinks the Packers should win the Super Bowl after three games.

People like to act like the sky is falling and I am glad I was on vacation to start the week to miss it. People want to question play calling but the playbook sort of gets tossed when you lose your LT on the 1st play and you have to shift things around and play one of the best DLs in the NFL. On top of that your QB is having the yips today and can't even hit a screen pass. Why did it take so long to put the screen pass in Al ask? Love missed that throw twice at least during the game. He was off all game and that is sadly who he is sometimes.

When the opponents are creating havoc your offense becomes very limited. The weak link of the Packers appears to be the OL at the moment. The good news is if you drop a game and non division non conference opponent is the best one to drop to. Season is still young and the OL will have time to work things out.

GB moves so slowly to make important coaching changes (firings) can someone in the Brain Trust at least fire Bisaccia?

"After last week praising the Packers playing complementary football, reducing penalties and Love knowing when to throw the ball away,"

Three games is a small sample size, but the penalty count was 4 vs. Detroit, 10 vs. Washington, and 14 vs. Cleveland. Let's pump the brakes on the penalties thing. Prior to 2023, the Packers were a more mature roster and among the least penalized in the league. Since then, the young Packers have been among the most and have struggled with penalties pre-snap and lining up. We'll see how this plays out (of course) but it's looking as if this is a roster in need of some growing up on the penalty front if it doesn't want to be playing from behind that 8-ball on a regular basis.

By the way, when 1 got called for offsides twice late in the game, do we think that maybe Jerrah was winking at his TV screen?

The defense played winning football on Sunday: at least, good enough to win against an offense like the Browns, who--if they feature this Judkins kid and lean on their defense might win a few--really didn't threaten the Packers until they were staked to a possession on the 4 yard line. This was exactly the kind of game script the Browns needed if they were going to win...and they capitalized on it.

The offense is too streaky at this point and it's handcuffed by a beat up OL. When Love dropped back and got the ball out on rhythm, the Packers moved the ball...they just couldn't do much else. And that's exactly what the Browns were expecting on the late INT: they didn't respect the downfield route (Kraft) and squatted on the quick slant to Wicks.

In the end, this team will only go as far as the OL will take it. They need to cobble something together for this week and beat Dallas....some are saying that Cleveland blueprinted the way to beat the Packers, but they really didn't do much that Detroit and Washington didn't try to do, and there are only a couple teams in the league that can bring a defense like Cleveland's. It's silly for a beat up and undermanned Dallas defense to think they're going to to that to the Packers...I hope they try. But this offense needs to get its legs under it and get to the bye 3-1.

...a good offense keeps STs on the sidelines.

"As to be expected, there was plenty of jumping up and down and screaming and other assorted vitriol after this loss from fans on the internet. Everyone sucks and needs to be fired, of course"

The sourpuss off-season narratives always re-emerge at this point whether they're relevant to what happened on the field or not.

"Micah Parsons is pretty much held on every pass rush, sometimes quite obviously."
I don't get how he doesn't draw a lot more holding penalties. He is held on almost every play.

"As to be expected, there was plenty of jumping up and down and screaming and other assorted vitriol after this loss from fans on the internet. Everyone sucks and needs to be fired, of course. For my part, I was feeling a bit like the Packers may have been a bit overconfident going onto this game. Perhaps this is an early wake up call to never take anything for granted in the NFL. And if they're going to get a wake up call, better it happens now and not against a division opponent. It's a long season."

I definitely hope this is the wake up call the team needs. They came off 2 great games against 2 tough teams. Then they had what should be a let down against the browns. I want to see them come out on fire against the Cowboys.

"Question: Why did it take until the third quarter for the Packers to realize they could combat the pass rush with a screen pass and a designed Love keeper?"

Good question, Al. I have wondered what the OL coaches devised for a game plan against the KNOWN: the Browns consistently productive pass rush.

The Browns D had a great game plan. Fearing the Packers pass game far more than the run game (they should!), they invested in creating consistent pressure on Love up front and take their chances playing eyes on the QB read and react zone pass D. It worked because they also swarm to the ball and tackle really well.

Did the Packer O coaches not expect this? Because the OL players played like they didn't.

After the first two wins.
An aura of invincibility was shattered by a surprising defeat.
It was a tremendous sigh of relief to the rest of the league.

But the momentum shift might be internal now.

The fear the league felt with the addition of Parsons.
Just became wasted and No longer exists.

And that is the true damage of the lost to the Browns.