The thing that disturbs me the most isn’t even the defense. It has been a few years of this crap, and plenty of scar tissue on those wounds.
But this team going where it needs to go absolutely, 100% depends on learning the most important lesson of the second-half of Rodgers’ tenure: when the games matter most, late in the year, in difficult conditions, throwing 35-40 times is going to get you beat, even with Rodgers. Jones and Dillon are either going to be equal partners to Rodgers in this system, or they’re going home early again. I thought the team had finally figured this out, but early returns are not encouraging.