It was said multiple times this week that the Carolina Panthers were a dangerous team for the Green Bay Packers and that their 4-4 record was not indicative of what they were capable of.

Heck, Packers head coach Matt LaFleur himself was screaming about focus on the Friday leading up to the game, yet his team came out uninspired, unfocused and once again played down to what should have been an inferior opponent.

The end result was an extremely disappointing 16-13 loss to the Panthers on a last second field goal that felt curiously like Green Bay's 13-10 loss to the Cleveland Browns earlier this season that also came on a missed field goal.

There were disappointment aplenty in this one. In fact, it's going to be hard to narrow it down to just three.

Let's try, anyhow.

Micah Parsons is getting a ton of money per game to be the best player on the field, every game. His three sacks against the Arizona Cardinals were great. Watching him sack Aaron Rodgers was, an experience, to say the least.

Those are all moments in the past, though. The NFL is a "what have you done for me lately?" league, and Parsons did nothing for this Packers defense against a Panthers' passing offense that was not much of anything heading into this game.

Bryce Young completed 11-of-20 passes for 102 yards and an interception without a touchdown, and it still felt like he dominated this team because the Packers weren't able to get any pressure on him. 

Not a single iota of pressure.

Parsons had three tackles, including a tackle for loss, but the Packers paid him $186 million over four years to get sacks and pressures, and he finished with only one pressure on the game.

We were having legitimate conversations about Jordan Love being in the MVP conversation heading into this game.

Those conversations will now have to end after this game against the Panthers, and they may not come back if he doesn't turn it around in a big way.

Love completed 26-of-37 passes for 273 yards, no touchdowns and one interception. He, frankly, could have thrown multiple interceptions in this one.

Like, what the heck was this?

Love is a great quarterback when he's "on". He has the physical tools to be a multi-time MVP much like Brett Favre or Aaron Rodgers.

Unlike Favre or Rodgers, though, Love has too many "brainfart" moments that led to disastrous plays for the Packers.

He's going to have to burn this game tape when all is said and done.

As it stands, LaFleur will never get this team to a Super Bowl.

In hindsight, if he couldn't do it with an MVP-level Rodgers in 2019, 2020 and 2021, perhaps it's silly that we ever expected it from him here in 2025.

Even when they're playing well, this team is never focused. Penalties plague these Packers, and they play very undisciplined football. Against the Panthers, they committed seven penalties for -42 yards. 

The offensive line is seemingly consistently holding, the defensive secondary is consistently out of position and having to hold or interfere as a result, and the special teams is abhorrent. Speaking of, the Packers may have made a bad decision by rolling with Brandon McManus post-injury after Lucas Havrisik literally hit the franchise-record field goal make.

McManus missed another field goal against the Panthers, and he's now 11-16 on the season.

Perhaps most disappointing in this game, though, was the Packers' inability to stop the run. They came into this game knowing that the rushing attack was a strength of the Panthers and that Carolina head coach Dave Canales was going to pound the rock, yet the Packers still allowed 163 rushing yards, including 130 yards and two touchdowns to Rico Dowdle.

A lot of the blame belongs to defensive coordinator Jeff Hafley for that, but ultimately the buck stops with LaFLeur and that was just another example of him having his team ill-prepared for a game that they really should have won.