Who really is at fault for the Packers’ string of losses?

For weeks now the narrative has been quite simple: Aaron Rodgers isn’t willing to shift with the times, nor is he willing to give the younger guard a chance.

He was heavily criticized for calling out the team and head coach, Matt LaFleur. But was he right to do so? Have recent developments shown that Rodgers is indeed a sage?

That seems to be the new question forming in everyone’s minds right about now, as the narrative slowly starts to change direction.

Is Matt LaFleur’s insistence on moving forward with the younger breed the right direction to take when Aaron Rodgers is still throwing like an ace QB?

Last week’s game shows that there is still quite a dose of fight left in the veteran QB and he isn’t slowing down it seems, despite claims that he is having a bad season. If the throws aren’t caught, whose fault is that?

Not his, many would argue.

According to a piece at Zone Coverage, writer Matt Hendershott suggests that the problems that the Packers are going through may just be placed at the doorstep of the head coach himself, and not necessarily on the team (choose your position).

The piece suggests that it is in LaFleur’s choices of coordinators that in the end may cause and is causing the biggest problems the Packers face, and will face as the season progresses.

That would be specifically former defensive coordinator, Mike Pettine, offensive coordinator, Nathaniel Hackett (formerly of the Jacksonville Jaguars), and special teams coach Shawn Mennenga.

When a team loses, it’s normal for the blame game to start up like a chorus of tired old singers. This is occurring in the CFL right now—specifically with the Saskatchewan Roughriders.

The CFL season for them is over, the Riders not in the playoffs for the Grey Cup, and now in the aftermath, the head coach Craig Dickinson, is doing quite a wee bit of singing of his own, and off key if you ask this writer.

Funny how two of the football teams I cover are kind of going through similar issues, just at different points in their respective seasons.

But four straight losses is nothing to joke about when looking at the Green Bay Packers. But it is funny how the narrative of how those losses happened changes from week to week.

And what does Aaron Rodgers have to say about all of this? After all, he has been trying to warn us that it is perhaps in the team direction and in management after all that the issues have spawned.

Well, the press was once again recently concerned about his thumb…an injury that has been giving him problems since the start of the season essentially. He had this to say on that front:

“I wish I could tell you it was feeling better. But it was more just the necessity of jog-through, and feel like my presence down there was kind of more important today than an hour of rehab,” Rodgers said on Wednesday.

And to further issues, dear readers, as you may have read, the Packers made not a single deal, not even adding any receivers as of the NFL trade deadline. What did Aaron think of that? As it turns out, he looked to the development quite calmly, simply stating:

Maybe, and this is just conjecture, but maybe he’s kind of thinking the Packers are having enough trouble meshing together to get a win, why add any more cogs to the already troublesome machine?

Food for thought, dear readers? I think so.