With the Green Bay Packers reeling and clinging to their slowly disappearing hopes for the playoffs, the NFC North division has an odd feeling to it.
A surprising 3-4-1 mark in the first half of the season for Green Bay has head coaching rumors in full blast, with Mike McCarthy on the hot seat (APC’s own Jason Hirschhorn talked about that here). The Packers will need to quickly re-route the ship against Miami this week if they are able to make up ground on high-performing Chicago and Minnesota.
As for those Bears, they head into a divisional clash with an ailing Detroit team that made the division’s first coaching change of the season following last week’s loss.