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A few big things to watch as the Packers complete the first week of training camp and get ready for Family Night and the first preseason game.
The Green Bay Packers are six practices into training camp. The last two, on Monday and Tuesday, featured pads. It’s still early, but Matt LaFleur’s team is starting to take shape.
What’s next? Family Night arrives on Saturday night. Next week, the Packers go to Cincinnati for a joint practice and preseason game against the Bengals. Things are about to heat up.
Here are the most important question marks to monitor as training camp rolls on in Green Bay:
Finding answers to the big question marks of the roster will likely determine the fate of the 2023 Packers.
We highlighted the potential strengths of the Green Bay Packers roster entering training camp, but now it’s time for the other side of the evaluation equation: question marks.
What aspects of the roster assembled by Brian Gutekunst could hold the Packers back in 2023?
Here are the top question marks entering camp:
Breaking down the biggest question marks for the Packers as Matt LaFleur’s team enters the 2021 season.
The Green Bay Packers won 26 combined regular-season games and advanced to the NFC title game during each of the last two seasons. General manager Brian Gutekunst used every salary-cap trick in the book to keep his roster intact and then convinced his three-time MVP quarterback to return for at least one more season, creating what is certain to be a pressure-packed year of football for a Super Bowl-caliber team in Green Bay in 2021.
All teams have question marks entering the season. The best teams come up with the right answers.
Here are the biggest question marks facing Matt LaFleur’s team entering this season:
The Packers will have a new defensive coordinator leading a talent-rich group in 2021. Can Green Bay’s defense take the next step? That and more question marks.
A talent-rich Green Bay Packers defense that jumped into the top 10 in yards allowed (ninth) but regressed in points allowed (19.6 to 23.1) will welcome a new coordinator to an important leadership role in 2021.
Gone is Mike Pettine, who led the Packers defense for three seasons, and arriving is Joe Barry, who didn’t produce top-level defenses during his previous two stints as a defensive coordinator but now inherits the most talented group he’s ever coached.
The change at coordinator is the biggest question mark for the Packers defense entering training camp. What adjustments will Barry make in scheme and player usage? How will his scheme and plan of attack differ from Pettine’s? Is he capable of pushing the group to the next level? Whether or not Barry can hit the ground running during his first season as the Packers defensive coordinator might be a deciding factor for the team’s Super Bowl aspirations in 2021.
Here are the rest of the biggest question marks facing Barry’s group entering camp:
The future of Aaron Rodgers is a huge question mark, but the Packers offense – which led the NFL in scoring a year ago – will have more to answer this summer.
The Green Bay Packers might be the most fascinating team in football entering training camp, which begins across the NFL in late July.
The Packers, with Aaron Rodgers, are one of the favorites in the NFC and legitimate Super Bowl contenders. Without Rodgers, the Packers would begin a brand new era with a young, unproven quarterback guiding a talented roster.
No one truly knows if Rodgers will be at camp. But this Packers offense has question marks that go beyond the uncertainty of the MVP quarterback’s future.
Here’s a closer look at the biggest questions facing the offense of the Packers going into training camp:
