The Green Bay Packers are looking to make a deep playoff run heading into the 2024 NFL season, and they have a pretty significant advantage that can help them in their quest: only seven legitimate road games.
The Packers are opening up their regular season against the Philadelphia Eagles in Brazil on Friday night, which counts as a “road” game for Green Bay even though it’s being played at a neutral site.
So, essentially, the Packers are playing nine home games compared to only seven away from home this year, which Bleacher Report’s Brad Gagnon thinks is a bit unfair.
“Shouldn’t a team that plays a neutral site game that counts as a road game have eight actual road games that season? It only seems fair,” Gagnon wrote.
Well, Green Bay will gladly accept the handout it has been given from the NFL.
The Packers are considered dark-horse Super Bowl contenders in the NFC, even though they went just 9-8 last season.
However, Green Bay went 6-2 over its final eight games in 2023 and then proceeded to upset the Dallas Cowboys in the Wild Card Round of the playoffs.
The Packers then took a lead into the fourth quarter against the San Francisco 49ers in the Divisional Round, but ultimately bowed out.
Green Bay certainly seems to have found its next franchise quarterback in Jordan Love and provided him with a massive contract extension this offseason. The Packers also boast a very young and talented receiving corps, and they added two-time Pro Bowl running back Josh Jacobs in free agency.
Yes, Green Bay does have some question marks, and it plays in a pretty tough NFC North division. But there is no doubting that the Packers are loaded with talent on both sides of the football, and if they pick up where they left off from last season, they should be a legitimate threat to play football deep into January and possibly even February.
Green Bay has not made the Super Bowl since the 2010-11 campaign, when Aaron Rodgers led the club to a victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Since then, the Packers have made the NFC Championship Game three times, most recently doing so in 2020-21.
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