5 NFL teams on the brink of falling apart in the 2023 offseason

4. Green Bay Packers

The Green Bay Packers had such a great shot at making some serious noise in 2020 and 2021 when Aaron Rodgers was playing some of the best football we’ve ever seen from him. Rodgers had back-to-back MVP seasons for the Packers, Davante Adams was still in Green Bay, and this team had one of the top up-and-coming defenses in the league.

The Packers may have thought their window to compete for a championship was bigger than it was.

As of right now, there’s a chance this team could be saying goodbye to Aaron Rodgers and moving on to Jordan Love in the very near future. Is that a bad thing, inherently? No, not necessarily, but it’s hard to anticipate exactly the same thing happening with Love taking the reins as happened when Rodgers took over for Brett Favre.

The Packers did get a really great year out of Christian Watson despite a rocky start. They have some promising pieces and this is a team with a lot of players who have had a lot of NFL success, but if Rodgers walks out the door or is traded or retires or whatever happens there…things could get really bad for Green Bay really quick.

It would be a true test of Matt LaFleur’s coaching abilities, and it would certainly put the Packers under the microscope similar to how we saw the Seahawks under the microscope after trading Russell Wilson. We saw Seattle obviously do really well, even without Wilson, but would the same be true for the Packers without Rodgers?

It just feels like things are bubbling over in Green Bay, and it’s not good.