Despite SNF Win, Green Bay Packers Offense Has Yet to Find Its Rhythm

The Green Bay Packers offense is good, but it’s not great. When a team has the NFL’s best quarterback, its offense is expected to be great. 

While it’s debatable whether Aaron Rodgers is still the league’s best quarterback, there’s no question he’s counted among the game’s top signal-callers. As such, the Packers should enter every contest with an inherent advantage. 

Instead, that automatic advantage appears to be nullified even despite Sunday’s 23-16 victory over the New York Giants. During the contest, the Packers offense looked much like it has throughout this season. 

Entering the Sunday night affair, Green Bay’s offense didn’t rank among the league’s top 10 in any of the major categories. Rodgers’ crew ranked 11th in points per game (25.0), 16th in rushing offense (100.3), and 29th in both passing (193.3) and total offense (293.7). 

The Packers boosted those numbers in their latest victory, where Rodgers passed for 259 yards and the backfield ran for 147 more. But Rodgers’ offenses finished outside of the top 10 in total yardage only once from 2008-14. The group sat at 29th overall through its first three contests. 

Despite a 3-1 start, there’s added concern about a lack of complete performances, as Sports Illustrated’s Greg A. Bedard alluded to: 

Is the loser of this game the current state of the McCarthy/McAdoo offense?

— Greg A. Bedard (@GregABedard) October 10, 2016

The Giants have their own set of problems, but Green Bay needs to play a full four quarters offensively. 

After scoring two touchdowns within the first 24 minutes, the Packers became stagnant. The group moved the ball but couldn’t find the end zone in the second half.

“We’ve got to do a better job in the red zone,” Rodgers said, per the team’s official Twitter account. “We had some opportunities, we’ve got to cash those in.”

This isn’t the first time this season that the Packers sputtered after a strong start. Two weeks ago, the entire unit returned to form in the opening half against the Detroit Lions only to score three points …

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