The Green Bay Packers are set to embark on a long, uninterrupted stretch of football. If all goes according to plan, we’ll have a Packers game to watch every week between now and February — not including a bye week in the playoffs and a week between the conference championship and the Super Bowl, of course.
And after the appetite-whetting first month of the season, we’ve gotten a tantalizing glimpse of what the Packers could accomplish this season. But to reach their highest heights, they’ll need a few players to take on bigger roles.