GB Press Gazette Article : Packers need to take it up a notch

[Mark87]

http://www.packersnews.com/story/sp...16/07/25/packers-need-take-up-notch/87524922/

After their followers' annual rite of angst and hand-wringing through yet another uneventful offseason, the Green Bay Packers open training camp right about where they’ve been the last five years.
They’re one of a handful of Super Bowl favorites.
In fact, according to Bovada.lv, their 17-to-2 odds for winning the Super Bowl are second-best in the NFL, behind only New England (6-to-1). Their quarterback, Aaron Rodgers, is a 4-to-1 favorite to win league MVP.
This is the Packers as they’ve been for most of their 12 years now under general manager Ted Thomson. No sudden movements. Steady as she goes.

But when you have a Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback – Rodgers already has done enough to warrant induction – the standards rise.
If Rodgers really is one of the two best quarterbacks in the game – it’s not easy to find a scout who doesn’t rank him and Tom Brady as the league’s best – the Packers need to make deeper playoff runs.
Over the last seven years, they’ve won a Super Bowl and been to a second NFC championship game. Even with a Hall of Fame quarterback, that type of success isn’t a given.
But better is more than possible, even if difficult.

You can read the whole article at the link above but I agree with Pete ...the Window is closing and it's put up or shut up time in Titletown IMHO.