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Realistically, Packers Humbling Loss to Browns Provides Youngest Team in the League Good Opportunity to Grow and Improve

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Published: September 21, 2025 7:06 PM CST


"The Packers are on fraud alert!" "They aren't Super Bowl contenders anymore!" ... or so the football geniuses on social media would have you believe.

Everybody: R-E-L-A-X.

In reality, this loss will be a good learning experience for the youngest team in the league. An opportunity to get humbled and get better going forward. Which we have already seen, as evidenced by Rasheed Walker declaring publicly earlier in the week that the Pack would go undefeated, then after the loss saying he was never talking to reporters ever again (per Rob Demovsky).

This is still a highly talented team, one of the best in the NFC, if not the NFL. Don't overreact to one game, especially this early in the season.

The Pack offense as a whole had an awful game, averaging 3.8 yards per play and only 10 points against Cleveland after scoring 27 in each of their first 2 games and averaging 5.7 and 6.4 yards per play respectively. Jordan Love also had a miserable game, getting sacked 5 times (yes, sacks are a QB stat), and a QBR of 45.1 -- his lowest QBR in a game since Week 6 of last year against Jacksonville.

Let's give credit where credit is due though, the Browns defense is legit as hell.

After 3 games the Browns, despite being 1-2, are only allowing 204.3 yards per game -- 57.3 rushing yards and 147 passing yards per game. They have also sacked the QB 11 times in 3 games. Laugh at the Pack all you want, and frankly they probably deserve it and shouldn't have lost, but the Browns are a lot better than people think. Terrible offensively, but fantastic defensively.

The Pack will spend this week humbled and pissed off, and they should. But that's bad news for Jerry's middling Cowboys, because now they not only got a pissed off Micah coming to town in Week 4, they got an entire pissed off and embarrassed Packers team to deal with. Good luck Jerry.