Aaron Rodgers: Packers, at 4-6, can close with 6 straight wins

“I think they’re still running the ball but they’re missing Eddie Lacy”.

This year’s Packers are trying to defy the team’s history, in which they have finished with a winning record and qualified for the playoffs only once during 10 seasons they had a four-game losing streak since the National Football League expanded the schedule to 16 games in 1978.

Rodgers and Nelson also improvise well, several Eagles said, which allows them to make plays when Rodgers escapes from the pocket.

“My time in the National Football League you’re going to face different adversities”, safety Morgan Burnett said. “They’ve lost some shootouts, but they’ve still been scoring”. Not anymore. There was a time they were a confident team. The defense can’t stop anybody and nobody is getting open for quarterback Aaron Rodgers to throw the ball to.

Jenkins said the defense watched a clip of Rodgers rifling a 70-yard pass in the air this week, which reminded players of the two-time MVP’s arm strength. He has really developed. “That’s been the focus of playing him there this year”.

So many things seem to be pointing the Packers way, now can they actually execute a game plan and get it done. With 360 yards on 71 carries, he remains their leading rusher by far.

“We’ve had to be creative with a lot of things without a real running back for a number of weeks”, Rodgers admitted. Ertz has averaged 6.6 catches and 62.3 yards per game the last three weeks.

Rodgers is doing that, at least.

Given the state of the Packers defense, that is undoubtedly true. This game’s over/under comes in at a combined 47.5 points.

Many analysts locally and nationally see Green Bay in a free fall and are taking the Eagles. The week before that, the Indianapolis Colts came in and scored 31 at historic Lambeau Field. The Packers’ offense has been fairly productive even during Green Bay’s losing streak, but the Eagles have allowed only three touchdowns in four home games and the home-field advantage has been a powerful weapon this year for the Eagles. I don’t think I’ve ever been part of a team here where we went into a game thinking there’s no way we’re going to win this game. “We’ll see what that means going forward”. They will have to outscore every opponent because the defense is playing awful and isn’t going to get any better before the season ends. But we all know. “We’ve just got to fine-tune our details and we’ll be all right”.

The Eagles have one of the top defenses in the league, which will make it very hard for the Packers offense to score points.

Improving rookie right tackle Halapoulivaai Vaitai is expected to miss multiple weeks with a knee injury. The Eagles will play without running back Ryan Mathews and with uncertainty at wide receiver because of starter Nelson Agholor’s crisis of confidence.

However it plays out, rookie Wendell Smallwood is ready for an increased workload. “I think we have to be honest and realistic”. We’ve kind of gone through some different variations of offense. That’s all it is. “We’ve talked about this since the day I arrived here”.

McCarthy said Randall is getting closer to returning to action, perhaps by Monday night, when the Packers end their three-game road swing against the Philadelphia Eagles.

“This is all about what [pain] you can deal with”, Sproles said.

“We are still in the thick of things and have to stack up one win at a time and obviously fix the mistakes that we make”, Philadelphia safety Malcolm Jenkins said.