Patrik Walker over at CBS Sports listed four teams that made the postseason last season that will not make the postseason in 2020.
That list included one team from the NFC North: the Green Bay Packers.
This would be a huge disappointment for the Packers, who finished with a 13-3 record last season and advanced to the NFC Championship.
Plus, there will be seven teams making the postseason from each conference this season instead of six.
Here’s a bit of what Walker wrote about the Packers:
All the Packers had to do was the right thing but, by most accounts, they did the exact opposite. It’s a team that surprised many in the first year under head coach Matt LaFleur, who led the team to a 13-3 record and an appearance in the NFC Championship Game. It was clear why they fell short against the San Francisco 49ers in that affair, being much the same reason they couldn’t defeat Kyle Shanahan’s and Robert Saleh’s defense earlier in the season — they couldn’t put up points. The Packers scored only eight points in the first contest and 19 in the second, far more important one, and that was a bad sign for on everyone in the receiving corps not named Davante Adams.
The Packers didn’t give quarterback Aaron Rodgers any help on offense. Instead, they drafted his likely replacement which doesn’t make any sense for a team trying to compete now. But that’s what we thought when the team drafted Rodgers with Brett Favre was still on the roster, so we’ll see.
Green Bay did sign Devin Funchess this offseason, but Funchess has opted out of the 2020 season.
You can see the other three teams that Walker predicted will be out of the postseason here.