The Packers’ 2024 season expired yesterday, and with it one of the great excuses used by those that talk about this team — and sometimes even the team itself.
“They’re young,” we’ve said of the Packers over the past couple of seasons. “They’re inexperienced and still growing.”
And you know what? It’s been true. They have been young. They have been inexperienced. They have been green and growing, to borrow a phrase from an ancient Milwaukee Bucks promo song.
But that excuse, if it was ever exculpatory, had a shelf life. Eventually, these young, inexperienced Packers were going to be neither young nor inexperienced, and I think that time has come.