How multiple failures in the passing game conspire to doom the Packers.
Of all the baffling, hair-pulling, rage-inducing things about the Packers this year, the relationship between the offense and the middle of the field is near the top of the list. Because it’s broken, and encompasses so much of what has killed this season for Green Bay.
Game after game, it’s been easy to see how much the passing offense is tilted toward the outside. Sideline routes, quick outs and various forms of screens to the flats have been the primary diet. With a few exceptions, play-calling for the middle of the field has been largely checkdowns to a back leaking out over the middle, or slants.