Hey, if you’re buying, Aaron Rodgers is still selling the idea that the Green Bay Packers can just flip the switch once the playoffs start.
“I’ve never lost confidence in myself, and our team will be ready to play,” Rodgers said. “I’m confident that there’s a different focus this week. And as much as you wouldn’t want this to be the standard, that you can ‘turn it on and off,’ I think our guys are turning it on this week. And we’re going to play better.”
That’s funny because after the Packers got pummeled by the Cardinals, Rodgers was selling the same rhetoric. After that debacle he told us the Packers would show up when it really counted.
Perhaps everyone was just disinterested with regular season football. Once they sewed up that playoff spot in week 15 they said, “Ah, to hell with these next two games! Let’s just take easy until the playoffs.”
Coach Mike McCarthy seemed to have other ideas, at one time guaranteeing a victory over the Vikings in week 17, but we have a feeling guys stopped listening to him a while ago.
So I guess we’ll see there, big guy.
We’ll see who’s running this show and we’ll see if all of this talk of showing up when it really counts is anything more than just talk.