Green Bay Packers did not play their best game on Saturday evening. Aaron Rodgers said after the game that if ‘Packers play like this in the playoff, they’re not beating anyone.’ He might be right. But the defense was pretty solid. The game hit a lull and never got out of it. Thankfully, Green Bay built enough of a cushion so it did not matter that much. Packers were victorious but maybe not at the level anyone would have watched. Let’s review the best and worst players in the game.

FIVE STARS
Krys Barnes – This dude is a stud. Barnes might be the middle linebacker that Packers fans have been yearning for in the last several years. The undrafted rookie was given the green dot on his helmet which means he relayed the calls from the coaches. Barnes did a great job in the middle including a huge punch out of Teddy Bridgewater at the goal line causing a huge fumble. Barnes did hurt his eye in the game, but it appears like he will be ready to roll for next week.

Other Five Stars: Aaron Jones

FOUR STARS
Adrian Amos – What a night for the Packers’ safety. We talked about him on the recap, but it’s worth discussing here as well. Amos looked great out there. He had six tackles, a sack, a TFL, and three pass deflections. Amos played great in this one. After a subpar start to the season, Amos turned it on in the past few weeks. He’s playing good football for Green Bay. Mike Pettine has two very good safeties with Amos and Darnell Savage which is making the whole team better.

Other Four Stars: Dean Lowry, Aaron Rodgers

THREE STARS
Kevin King – The three-star standard. This was such a Kevin King game it hurts. Made a few nice plays, a big fumble recovery but also had some bad plays as well. I need to know who is responsible for playing King with such a cushion on short yardage. Is that his decision? Is it Mike Pettine’s choice? What’s going on there. He did alright versus D.J. Moore and Robbie Anderson but nothing that blows your mind.

Other three stars: Robert Tonyan

TWO STARS
Second-half play calling – I have a weird theory about this one but work with me. Matt LaFleur is playing Tennessee next week. The game doesn’t mean much when it comes to seeding. But LaFleur is playing a bunch of guys who might know his tricks. He kept it vanilla and didn’t let too much out this week. Maybe that’s me overthinking it, but Green Bay seemed content with parking the bus after the 21-3 lead. Let’s hope that’s just a Carolina thing and not a regular thing.

ONE STAR
Lucas Patrick – I didn’t think the offensive line was very good for most of that game but Patrick was the worst one. He got his lunch money taken from him so often in the middle. It was tough to watch. Patrick had a good season, so, I’m not going to overreact to one game, but he needs to be better moving forward.

Charlie.