With Green Bay Packers having the Sunday off due to a Thursday night game, the team had a chance to see which NFC opponents may have hurt them or help them with their quest to be the best team in the NFC. The good news is there are no longer any undefeated teams. They are many with one loss with four games into the season, but it appears some things are coming to more of a bubble. Which hurt or helped Green Bay the most?

HURT/HELP: In the division game between Detroit and Minnesota, we saw the Lions score a rare road victory over the Vikings. This is Detroit’s second road victory after they took care of New York earlier this season. Lions are now 3-1 which to some including me is a surprise. Vikings drop to 2-2, and they’ll be without Dalvin Cook who completely tore his ACL. I’m not sure where Minnesota will get their offense from besides Stefon Diggs. Minnesota heads to Chicago for Monday night affair while Detroit takes on Carolina at home.

HELP: Atlanta fell to the upstart Buffalo Bills in what was a surprise to most of us. Bills came in as an eight-point underdog and beat the Falcons. Much of which could have been due to Atlanta losing Julio Jones and Mohammed Sanu to injury during the game. Matt Ryan did not seem like the same quarterback. Good news for the Falcons is they have off next week.

HELP: Some may put this in the hurt category, but Dallas falling to Los Angeles was a telling game to me. First thing is the Cowboys can put up some points with the best of them. Dak Prescott is having an under-the-radar amazing start to the season. But their defense is woeful especially in the secondary. They haven’t stopped a damn thing this season including an aging Carson Palmer then let Todd Gurley run and catch all over them this week. Aaron Rodgers has to be licking his chops for Sunday. Some may be a bit concerned for Sunday as it now becomes more of a ‘must-win’ for Dallas to avoid being 2-3.

HURT: Los Angeles Rams, Carolina Panthers and Philadelphia Eagles are all 3-1. I don’t know if you expected to see any of the them at this record with the month turning to October. Green Bay will only play Carolina out of that bunch later in the season. If the Packers were to struggle, these might be teams contending for a playoff spot. It’s still very early in the season. Panthers and Rams both have great tests next week.

Overall, it was a pretty good Sunday for Packers fans.

Charlie.