Given how dominant the Green Bay Packers were over the first two weeks of this young 2025 campaign, first taking down the Detroit Lions in Week 1 by a score of 27-13 and following up four days later with a 27-18 victory over the Washington Commanders on Thursday Night Football, confidence levels among the players were obviously quite high.
So high, in fact, that fourth-year offensive tackle Rasheed Walker went so far as to predict the Packers could go undefeated this season.
"The goal is to keep it going," Walker told reporters this past Wednesday. "Because I think we can go undefeated, honestly. I mean, personally, I feel like—I always tell people I felt like we could have went undefeated the past two seasons."
"Like, we lost a lot of the games off a couple plays, but I feel like our offense has been playing so good and so disciplined, and our defense has been playing even better, and special teams has been playing great ... pound for pound, I look at these teams and I don't see who is better than us, honestly. That's why I can say that so confidently."
Rasheed Walker's undefeated comments immediately haunt Packers after Week 3 loss
Well, that didn't take long to go bust, did it?
In a shocking upset on Sunday, Walker's dream of an undefeated season went up in smoke, as the Packers snatched defeat from the jaws of victory by coughing up a 10-point lead in the final four minutes of their Week 3 matchup with the Cleveland Browns, ultimately taking a 13-10 loss. And to make matters more humiliating, Walker himself played a part in this monumental collapse.
For starters, the Green Bay offensive line as a whole simply didn't have a great day from an overall standpoint, as the Packers rushed for just 81 yards while Jordan Love took five sacks.
Nevertheless, the Packers were pitching a shutout until the Browns got on the board with a Andre Szmyt field goal with 3:38 remaining, thus cutting Green Bay's lead to 10-3.
On the third play of the ensuing drive, Jordan Love threw his first interception of the season, which ultimately resulted in Cleveland tying the game at 10-10 on a 1-yard touchdown run by Quinshon Judkins.
Despite the momentum shift, the Packers still found themselves in position to win as the combination of a 20-yard pass interference penalty and an 18-yard pass from Love to tight end Tucker Kraft moved them to the Browns' 22-yard line at the two-minute warning.
Following a pair of runs from Josh Jacobs, the first going for one yard and the second going for minus-one yard, Green Bay faced 3rd-and-10, at which point Walker was flagged for a false start. Two plays later, of course, Brandon McManus came on to attempt a 43-yard field goal, which was blocked by the Browns' Shelby Harris and recovered at the Cleveland 47-yard line by Greg Newsome II.
Five plays later, Szmyt came on and connected on a 55-yard game-winning field goal as time expired to give the Browns their first win of the season.
The Packers will now just have to settle for attempting to go 16-1 and will look to get back on the winning track next Sunday night when they visit the Dallas Cowboys.