The Green Bay Packers have certainly navigated some adversity through seven weeks of the 2025-26 NFL season, but as the halfway point of the campaign approaches, Matt LaFleur’s team is currently sitting atop the NFC as the #1 seed with a 4-1-1 record.

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With the Packers just outside the red zone, they roll with Mesh. Mesh is an Air Raid concept that the Packers used to have as a big part of their passing offense. It slowly went the way of the buffalo after 2021, but they’ve been working in back in a little more this year, much to my delight.

Even though the Green Bay Packers continue to win football games to the tune of the NFC-leading record going into Week 8, national analysts don’t seem to be buying the hype around the team. In fact, in the 11 power rankings that we’ve been tracking, the Packers actually fell in 7 of them, were unmoved in 3 and only moved up in just 1.

The Packers have had plenty of success on plays where he pretends to block for a moment, then slips out the back door for an easy reception in space. Those are still very much part of the offense, but there has been more of a concerted effort to target him downfield.

There are only two players in the NFL who have three or more sacks in a game this season. One of them is Micah Parsons, who delivered a big-time performance to

The Packers need their offensive line to jell in the run game if they’re to be the offense coach Matt LaFleur envisions.

On this play, he was way too strong at the point of attack for Arizona's Elijah Higgins, easily displacing and blowing up the run. This tackle for loss was also on the first drive of the game on first and goal, helping to set up Parsons' first sack two plays later.