The word 'if' is used nine times in this article. Six games into the season, Cory's pointed out a lot of significant questions about the team and the abundance of conditions and circumstances which have to align for the Packers to be successful.

So if you refer to them an 'iffy' team, don't feel guilty about selling them short; it's on the Packers to provide evidence fans can strike through some of those ifs when talking about the team based upon their play and their record.

We knew there would be questions going in this season, but instead of answering them, the Packers have continued adding to them. And that's a sign of a team that has more issues than youth and inexperience going against them.

I don't care how many points they score but if the team stops dropping passes, missing blocks or holes (Dillon), running sweeps to the short side of the field, having Preston Smith cover the other team's best receiver, eating 5 yard runs for a game, taking really stupid penalties, then I'll be happy...or happier. But if a lineman gets hurt and Royce Newman trots off the bench then Lafleur should be fired.

9 players questionable after the bye?

I don’t think they're playing scared.
I think they're playing for shit, and know it.
Why bring up Loves draft status now.
Everyone knew it was a mistake.
(Unless you don’t follow the draft)
But he’s the guy and crying about it
Won’t help anyone now.

Even complaining about the injuries
Isn’t going to help.
Bahk set the tone and others followed.
Mlf can only do so much with these guys.
And the veterans know it.
They believe the negatives.
And there is "No game” in Green Bay.

Love is there only hope!!!!!
MLF back is against the wall.
The guys drafted must step up.
Somebody has to make plays.
Rebuild? - You wanted it, when Rodgers
Was traded.

One of the reasons I was excited to transition away from Rodgers to Love was that we'd get to see more of MLF's offense.

Strangely, we have not. Very little pre-snap motion, bunch formations, or the "illusion of complexity" that we used to hear so much about.

What's even been more baffling is given the offensive line's injuries and poor play, you'd think MLF would have quick 3 step drops and have the ball coming out quickly. He hasn't done that either. It's been eerily similar to the McCarthy days....drop back, hope someone gets open with a slow developing isolation route, go 3 and out, punt, and repeat.

Sean Payton vs. MLF is a very real storyline and the Broncos can absolutely win this game at home. If the Packers win, it's HOW they win that I'll be paying most attention to.....if they play like crap for 3 quarters and then come alive in the 4th, it's just another continuation in a frustrating season of erratic play.

I would think that LeFleur knows exactly what he has in Love now or is about to find out this Sunday for sure if he is waffling. What I would really like to be is the fly in the room when he talks with G Cunt about Love and what the two have to say.
When I looked over Loves three year stats, my opinion, this is a fourth round pick to be a back up somewhere but never starter material in the NFL at any time. How can you toss 17 interceptions in your senior year, your getting worse not better?
If LeFleur hasnt figured that out then we got the wrong coach too. The packer fans deserved better and they could have chosen some top notch GM's but went cheap with G Cunt.

Anyone consider hastening Mark Murphy's departure? 2025 is a long way off and I bet fans have more influence than they realize.
I see the Packers listlessness as a structural problem.

I could while away the hours
Conferrin' with the flowers,
Consulting with the rain;
And my head I'd be a scratchin'
While my thoughts are busy hatchin'
If I only had a brain.
— Scarecrow

I don’t think it’s playing scared or with training wheels. If it were, then Love wouldn’t have the Lowe’s short pass rate as a percentage of attempts among league starters.

It’s a failure to be able to run the ball, based primarily on refusal to trot out an appropriate OL group based upon that as a significant priority more than the injury to Jones.

On top of that failure, increasingly poor protection, our plan has been to pass long in long developing plays. Teams have figured out that even Tom can be moved and our LT and middle even more so. Yet we still have the same basic plan for a new starter.

Look, at some point the obvious smacks one in the face. Here is a nonsensical offensive plan at odds with the realities in the run game and OL and accepted wisdom on how to get any QB into rhythm, let alone a new starter.

LaFleur’s offense last year was a self defeating disaster divorced from resources. This year looks even more clueless conceptually, and just as rigid.

Sometimes the obvious stares one in the face. LaFleur is out if his depth and his coaches are equally so at their respective levels. The product is telling us weekly. So many are covering their eyes and heard to avoid the proliferating, repeated
evidence. It’s not excess caution, it’s lack of a clue.

I understand that the media is obsessed with celebrities and superstars, so I expect coverage to be largely about individuals; but, why doesn’t anyone seem to recall how BAD the Packers were on offense last season? This is an offense that has been regressing ever since 2020, and if Aaron Rodgers along with Cobb, Lazard, Bak, Jones, Lewis, etc. could not even MAKE A WILDCARD SPOT last season, why would anyone expect this offense to look at all competent with a bunch of inexperienced kids? Would another QB be more productive than Love? Probably, as long as it wasn’t a first year starter. But, again if AARON RODGERS couldn’t do almost anything with the offense last year, who may I ask would be able to come in now at QB and salvage the sinking ship?

IF the Packers comes out and score like 3 points AGAIN in the first half, hate to say it, but sit Love down and give the 2nd half engine to Clifford and see what he got. He may be the spark needed to light the fire or he might 'if possible, be worse. No better chance to see except against the worst team statistically in the league.

Cory, you said "Packers coming off a by week with plenty of time to prepare>"
I am definitely zeroing in on the O Line techniques. Would love to see good hard nose drive blocking, opening holes, sustaining holes for the backs. Fundamental head, hands & footwork. Some tough aggressive, pocket forming pass blocking. JL getting time to look, read & throw.
On defense looking forward to Van Ness busting nuts. The guy is starving for NFL coaching on pass rush techniques. He has been pretty much useless wondering around. And I think he has true All Pro potential. Needs nastiness, some violence, tough, smart aggressiveness. Kick ass & take names football.
Am I dreaming, we'll see just what kind of coach MLF is. GPG

It’s going to take at least this season and next before a reasonable assessment of Love’s ceiling becomes clearer. In the mean time a rebuild of the offense will be in order, especially the interior line, better, and show us what you got from last year and this year’s draft. Draft another qb and running back as well as linemen on both sides of the ball. Toss the coaching staff. Maybe deal some of the bigger contracts and clean house upstairs and downstairs, especially Murphy and crew. You know what I’m saying?

“We are five games into Love’s first tour as QB1 and I still don’t know if he’s the future franchise quarterback“

And you’re not going to know…at least this year. Rodgers first year was 6-10 and picks. After Rodgers 1st year …did you say “ ah ha!!! , this is our franchise QB”. No, absolutely not. No way, now how did anyone say Rodgers was a franchise QB after his first season and start laying down ultimatums or ifs to get better.

I do know a few things about football though. A team can have an absolute garbage QB and still go to the playoffs. Providing they have a team and coaching around them. Crappy QBs who made it only because of their teams and coaching….Wilson, Garappalo, Kyle Orton. You give a mediocre QB a running game, a defense, a solid special teams unit and solid TEs…and you can stick anyone in there. GB is not there…The D is less than average, The Oline is suspect at best. I haven’t seen anything special out of special teams and currently the rookie TEs are still figuring out blocking . Last year I said “ Rookie QB….draft high on OT and RB and it fell on deaf ears. An Oline and a class A RB are a Rookie QBs best friends. I said “ Jones gets injured when it’s important…no one listened. Guard and Center are GBs weak spots. Dillon is a pounder, good pass blocker but he cannot get to the outside fast enough. ut it’s also kinda hard when your centers and Guards are getting pushed 2 yards back before the ball is even handed off.
I’ll reserve judgement on love until the run game improves and we get Ol,RB, TE improvements.. I don’t see anything wrong with Reed, Doubs and Watson…or even Wicks. However , more diverse route trees need to be designed for them, and they need to be able to learn them. A #1 and #2 WR needs to have EVERY route tree in the NFL memorized Especially 2nd yr receivers… If it takes more than 2 yrs to develop a WR…that would be coaching and scouting.