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Packers look to recover in offseason

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PHILADELPHIA, PENN. — The Green Bay Packers’ 2024 season came full circle with a 22-10 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles — also the team’s first loss of the season in  Sao Paulo, Brazil. 

The NFL Wild Card Round loss knocks the Packers out of the running for the Super Bowl, but will also give a physically dilapidated team a few more weeks to recover in the offseason. 

Despite suffering the loss of integral players due to injury throughout the season — notably Jaire Alexander and Christian Watson — the Packers final game saw early exits for guard Elgton Jenkins, wide receivers Romeo Doubs and Jayden Reed, as well as center Josh Meyers. 

Green Bay Packers Head Coach Matt LaFleur said that he is looking forward to seeing how his team bounces back and goes to work over the next few months. 

“Hopefully we can use this as fuel to have a great offseason and come back next year ready to rock,” said LaFleur. 

Even though the plans the Packers had for the offseason ended prematurely, LaFleur said that he was proud of his team’s efforts on the field. 

“I thought our guys competed really well. It’s just that when you come into somebody else’s house that is just a really good football team, you can’t start the way we did,” said LaFleur. 

“It was obviously too much to overcome, but I appreciate the heck out of those guys in the locker room. Those guys show up everyday with a great attitude and great energy and compete.”

One aspect of their game that LaFleur said they failed to produce on was their ability to play complimentary football. 

“Defensively, I thought we played winning football — it’s just offensively and on special teams we had too many mistakes.”

A fumbled opening kickoff return by Keisean Nixon, missed field goal by Brandon McManus and three interceptions by Jordan Love left much to be desired from their offensive and special teams performance. 

Packers Quarterback Jordan Love said that his performance leading the offense against a competitive and aggressive Eagles defense was not up to his expectations. 

“It just comes down to executing and making plays out there and it just wasn’t good enough,” said Love. 

Though the season-ending loss did not play out as they had hoped, Love said that he believes that he has seen significant growth as a professional athlete this season. 

“I think there’s areas that I improved on and the team improved on and there’s some stuff that I’d want to clean up and be better at for sure. Thats the nature of the game. It’s never going to be perfect and there’s always going to be things to get better at and improve on. That will be part of the offseason,” said Love. 

However, knowing that he won’t see the field again for the next few months has been a difficult realization for Love. 

“It’s tough,” said Love. “It’s the end of the season when you lose a play off game. It sucks. We’ve been here before and it’s not fun. It’s not fun being in the locker room after the game,” said Love. 

According to defensive tackle Kenny Clark, the team’s loss to the Eagles was not the result he was expecting based on the team’s defensive performance. 

“Tough loss. I don’t really have the words for it. Proud of how everybody fought. We stuck together throughout the whole game, but at the end of the day we’ve got to be better,” said Clark. 

“There’s so many lessons that we can take from this season going on to the next.” 

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