Can Packers repeat history in matchup with Eagles?

The Green Bay Packers have been here before.

It’s Week 12, Thanksgiving weekend. The Packers are set for a road matchup with the Philadelphia Eagles in primetime.

Green Bay needs a win or it’s season over.

I’m not talking about the present day, but 2016. The Packers had lost four in a row and their playoff hopes looked gone. Unless they could run the table.

Then everything changed.

The 2016 Packers had allowed 89 points in their previous two games, but against Philadelphia, the defense stepped up with four sacks and one interception, holding the Eagles to 13 points.

The offense? After a rough season, everything clicked.

Aaron Rodgers hit his MVP best, completing an impressive 30 of 39 passes for 313 yards and two touchdowns, both going to talented young wide receiver Davante Adams.

It proved to be a season-changing performance. It gave Green Bay the confidence to run the table.

The team entered Week 12 on the back of four straight defeats. But after a victory in Philadelphia, Green Bay would win its remaining five regular-season games to take the NFC North title.

From 4-6 to the NFC Championship Game.

Fast forward to the present day.

It’s Week 12, Thanksgiving weekend. The Packers are set for a road matchup with the Philadelphia Eagles in primetime.

Green Bay needs a win or it’s season over.

This team hasn’t lost four straight, but five of its past six. Sitting at 4-7, it’s now or never.

Like in 2016, the Packers need Rodgers to rediscover his MVP form. They need another young wide receiver — Christian Watson, perhaps — to step up as he has the past two weeks.

They will need their best performance of the year to defeat the Eagles. But if they can, maybe it can spark a late-season turnaround, just like it did six years earlier.

Can history repeat itself for the Packers?