GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — The Green Bay Packers had several opportunities to match up with the NFC’s top teams this season.
They couldn’t pass any of those tests.
Green Bay generally won the games it was supposed to win, but it lost all six times it faced a team that went 11-6 or better in the regular season. That included a 22-10 season-ending setback at Philadelphia in the wild-card round of the playoffs.
“Good teams beat good teams,” rookie safety Javon Bullard said Monday as Packers players emptied their lockers. “You can’t consider yourself to be one of those elite teams if you haven’t beaten them.