Aaron Rodgers wasn’t great against the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday. The problem for the Green Bay Packers is that he needs to be about perfect.
The Packers had a great ride to the NFC championship game, then face-planted in Atlanta. The Falcons won 44-21, and that was after they took a 31-0 lead. A Falcons blowout against a flawed Packers team wasn’t all that unpredictable.
On Sunday the Packers looked like a barely average team with an all-time great quarterback. Some of Green Bay’s deficiencies are due to injuries. Some aren’t. The secondary was torched by Matt Ryan, just as it had been torched most of the previous five games.