Green Bay Packers: 3 Big takeaways from loss vs. Redskins in Week 3

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The Green Bay Packers had 11 penalties for 115 yards on the day. Take out the aforementioned roughing the passer call, and you still have 10 penalties for 100 yards. That’s inexcusable. The Packers had three offensive holding penalties called. Any holding penalty basically stops a drive in its tracks and that was the case on Sunday. It’s also hard to win games when you give your opponent free yards.

The Packers shot themselves in the foot on numerous occasions because of penalties they could have easily avoided. This has to be cleaned up fast or numerous penalties per game will become a weekly thing.

Some offensive holding calls can be fixed by getting the ball out of Rodgers’ hands faster when the defense blitzes. On other holding calls, like on a run play or during a catch and run, you just have to focus on the fundamentals of blocking. The Packers receivers used to be good at blocking, but it has since become a lost art in the gameplan.

Pass interference calls are much harder to control, but they killed Green Bay in the first half against Washington. Sometimes you have to grab or interfere with the receiver to save a touchdown. You have to be smart when you do it, however. Never do it in the end zone also, but that happened on Sunday.