Packers: Top three performers from Week 9 loss to Chargers
By Jesse Fry
After cruising along for the last four weeks, the Green Bay Packers hit a bump in Los Angeles.
That wasn’t pretty by any means. After rattling off four straight wins and getting their top receiver back, the Packers came out flat and put up a dud of a game. There was no phase of the Packers team that worked this week.
The offensive line was dominated by the Chargers’ talented duo of Joey Bosa and Melvin Ingram. The receivers couldn’t get themselves open against Casey Hayward and the Chargers secondary. The Packers defense was run over by the combo of Melvin Gordon and Aaron Ekeler.
It was complete domination by the Chargers.
Despite having the crowd on their side, the Packers still committed multiple false starts and pre-snap penalties. For the first time this year, the Packers looked completely outmatched, out-coached and outplayed.
After the game, both the coaching staff and the star quarterback mentioned the team lacked focus and energy. Both were evident from the get go. The Packers had five straight possessions with no points and had only 51 yards of total offense going into halftime.
The only thing keeping the Packers in the game early was an offense that has had problems scoring in the red zone. The Chargers, time and again, settled for field goals instead of touchdowns. Imagine how bad the score would have looked if the Chargers would have traded one or two of those field goals for touchdowns. It might have told a truer story than the one the scoreboard showed in the end.
In this column, I usually choose the top five performers from the game, but it was hard coming up with many positives. So for this week, we will go with the top three performers of the game.