Packers Just Finishing Out The Season With Losses vs. Vikings and Lions

Current mood after the Green Bay Packers were completely outplayed in consecutive weeks to end the season...

McCarthy looking surprisingly calm. Like he knew this was coming...

— Jersey Al - GBP (@JerseyAlGBP) December 31, 2017

I would write about their embarrassing loss on New Year's Eve in Detroit except I would say the same things I said about their embarrassing loss to Detroit at Lambeau last month. I didn't have the heart to write about last week's shutout loss to Minnesota at Lambeau last week Saturday because I would have written the same things I wrote about their shut out loss at home to Baltimore. At first I was worried that the Packers were just mailing in their last two games of the season, but they didn't. They've just been this bad for several weeks with this defense and Brett Hundley starting at quarterback.

#Packers safety Ha Ha Clinton-Dix on what went wrong this season to miss the playoffs: "We know what the issue was. We lost Aaron Rodgers. It’s point blank, period."

— Ryan Wood (@ByRyanWood) December 31, 2017

Um, no. A defense that can allow fewer touchdowns and 3rd down conversions would have given the offense a couple more possessions per game. The overall record might have still been 7-9 but they would have made some of these games competitive.

#Packers Defense.

Pressure + Coverage... Good chance they're related!!

RZ Sacks - 0 (32nd)
4th Quarter Sacks - 3 (T-32nd)
3rd Down Sacks - 17 (T-8th)

RZ Completion %: 64.7% (30th)
Completion %: 67.8% (32nd)
3rd Down Completion%: 66.7% (32nd)

— Ben Fennell (@BenFennell_NFL) December 26, 2017

Now onto the what they have to do to improve their team for 2018, other than just getting Aaron Rodgers back to full health.

Packers defensive coordinator Dom Capers, who has been with the team since 2009, is not expected to return to Green Bay next season, per league sources.

— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) December 31, 2017

And that's a start. I've been surprised since the end of the 2013 season (and the end of the 2015 season) that Dom Capers was still in charge of their defense. But that might be the only significant move for a pretty conservative team.