Whatever is said about the Packers it is rarely adequate in describing their dominance, especially on offense. Aaron Rodgers has emerged as the premier quarterback in football and the attack looks unstoppable far more times than not.
As for the Packers defense, it is a bend but don’t break type of unit but very opportunistic as coordinator Dom Capers has done a masterful job at getting the unit to force turnovers. The Green Bay defense was helpless before Capers arrival in 2009 but has taken off to become one of the best clutch units in the league.
The big question for Green Bay would seem to be focus, very similar to what they went through in 1997 when they set out to repeat on their 1996 Super Bowl championship. The Packers suffered an inexplicable loss to a terrible Indianapolis Colts team that season but rebounded to make the Super Bowl as two-touchdown favorites only to be upset by the Denver Broncos. This year the Packers lost to a bad Kansas City Chiefs team as they were unfocused and didn’t take the Chiefs seriously. Now the question remains whether they overcome that bad game or if they will have a similar fate to the 1997 team.
The obvious choice for a team to upset the Packers in the playoffs would be the New Orleans Saints as they nearly upset the Packers in week one of the 2011 season with a game winning drive stopping just shy of the Green Bay goal. New Orleans would seem to match up with Green Bay as they have the same type of prolific offensive style and an opportunistic defense. The big issue would be playing in the freezing cold of Lambeau Field rather than indoors at their home in the Louisiana Superdome.
Green Bay has become football’s model organization as general manager Ted Thompson has built a near perfect team for the modern era of today’s high tech offense oriented game. Beyond that, the Packers stay out of the papers except for the right reasons and are a model example for being good citizens that make their fans proud. Not only are the Packers the NFL’s best team and favored in 2012 Super Bowl odds, they are doing it the right way.
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