Will Defense improve enough?

Jules

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Was it skill by Rodgers in 2010 that in week 17, DeSean Jackson broke the heart of the Giants with a last-second punt return TD to beat and eliminate the Giants?
How about the Lions, who were still terrible and hadn't won a road game in about 2 years, winning at a 10-6 Tampa Bay team? Had that not happened, Tampa Bay, not the Packers, would have gotten that 6th playoff seed. We had no control over that.

Also, when we beat the Eagles by 5 in the wildcard game, their Pro Bowl kicker happened to have a rare off day. He shanked to normally-chip-shot field goals. Had he only shanked one of them, they could have beaten us at the end with a FG.... and they still almost beat us. I admit and recognize there was some luck there.

Then against the Steelers, we benefitted from 3 turnovers, and still barely won. Turnovers are much skill, but there's certainly an element of luck to them, as we keep finding out when we play the Giants in the playoffs, or the Cardinals when they had Warner. No turnovers for us. Same teams, just different outcomes and different bounces of the balls.

Anyway, one can't win a Super Bowl on luck alone. Gotta be a very good to great team as well. And we are, thankfully. As long as we don't get bad luck with the injuries, we're gonna contend for Super Bowls for quite awhile!
We're very fortunate.
Also a bit lucky that Rodgers slid to us in 2005! That was a gift on a silver platter and it was great for us that Teddy Ballgame had the Ballz to make that pick in his first ever draft as Packers GM!

You can sometimes say some teams seem like "a team of destiny". Which probably goes back to the topic of luck, not Andrew.
 

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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. Sometimes you have plain, pure dumb luck, but most times, what we might consider to be luck is really preparation meeting opportunity.

While DeSean Jackson's infamous punt return, followed by Detroit beating Tampa Bay to win their first road game in years in 2010 were dumb lucky breaks for us, the fact is we set ourselves up and gave ourselves a chance to take advantage of the opportunity provided to us. We were given the opportunity to secure a playoff spot, provided we could finish the season with 3 straight wins, and we took it and capitalized on it. You can say it was luck all you want, but luck doesn't help us if we're not in a position to do something with the opportunity.
 

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I disagree. It was certainly good enough to win the SB unless you want to give all the credit to Eli and their offense. I don't think their D was good in during the regular season but by the time they hit the playoffs they were playing some pretty good D. The Giants as a whole just peaked at the right time, much the was we did the year before.

The defense had tons in injuries....from the Patriots game on. The system was too complex for 3rd stringers. They got healthy at right time. They simplified the system too.
 

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