From the Green Bay Packers’ games I’ve watched over the last two years, I’ve formulated a theory. It’s the mistakes the teams make, as much as the good plays, which determine a game’s outcome.
I’ve gotten the impression that on about one of every four plays, the Packers screw up: costly penalties, dropped passes, turnovers, preventable sacks, badly missed tackles, bad clock management, busted coverages, players not knowing the play call, players failing to go out of bounds, or stay inbounds, as called for, personal fouls after a play is over, delay-of-game penalties, too many men on the field, and on and on.