Everywhere Bryan Bulaga turned, he was told the sky was falling.
The defense couldn't stop anybody. The offense was too choppy.
And Green Bay was at a crossroads.
Amazingly, this wasn't last week. It was 12 months ago. And many believed the 5-3 Packers were on the road to nowhere.
"I hate to compare year to year because they're different teams," Bulaga said. "But a lot of people were writing us off last year and we did a pretty good job of bouncing back. This feels kind of similar."
Indeed it does.
The 2014 Packers trailed Detroit for more than two months.