When the Milwaukee Bucks were tanking a few years ago, my podcast partner Mitch and I would talk all the time about how we wanted to see Milwaukee ‘competitively lose games.’ What did that mean exactly? Well, it meant that the team was competitive for most, if not all, of the game, but they ended up losing in the final minutes. Reason being is you could be still proud of how the team played but the loss was more important to the tank. That’s what we need to have happen with the Green Bay Packers.

Look, I know it would be great to beat the Minnesota Vikings and Detroit Lions. I’m not going to fight you on that because both teams are your rivals, and if Packers were to lose, they would have a 2-4 division record for the season. It would be the first time since 1991 that Detroit swept Green Bay, and 2009 for Minnesota. Still, it’s okay to be competitive in these games and lose. Reason being is Green Bay will move up the draft board with every loss they have. While you may wonder what’s two games, it’s extremely volatile with the parity of the league.

Half of the league has a chance to finish with a record that’s somewhere between 7-9 to 9-7. That’s absurd. Now, will all of them finish in this category? Absolutely not. Some will finish 6-10, others will go to 10-6, yet Green Bay should not lump themselves with the 9-7 group. The more losses this team has the better. I’m not huge on having a defeatist mentality but let’s face it, Green Bay will be shooting themselves in the foot with every win they have in the next two weeks.

Let’s hope for competitive losing for the rest of the year. It’s one thing to loss by two or three points in the final minutes, and it’s another thing to get your ass kicked for an entire football game. Let’s hope for the former.

Charlie.