Unlike last week, when the Green Bay Packers could reasonably blame the referees for taking a win away from them in their tie with the Minnesota Vikings, they can blame themselves for the result of Sunday’s game in Washington.
Then again, the referees reared their ugly heads again with a terrible roughing the passer call on Clay Matthews for the second straight week, but most of the Packers’ wounds today were self-inflicted. The team was flagged ten times for 105 penalty yards, and no phase of the game was spared. There were a multitude of holding penalties on offense and special teams as well as pass interference penalties and the aforementioned roughing the passer call on defense, which followed a play that was far worse but that went uncalled on Washington the drive earlier.