Oct 19, 2026 11:00 AM
Behind the scoreboard, sloppy penalties and costly drops marred a disjointed Green Bay Packers performance.
The Green Bay Packers improved to 4-2, but this is yet another one of those games where they'll want to have a lot of things back.
It's no fun being negative about a 23-13 win over the Dallas Cowboys, but this team still has a ton of soul-searching to do, even with back-to-back victories at Lambeau Field.
If the Packers want to be legitimate Super Bowl contenders, they need to clean up the penalties, stop dropping the ball, and fix this run game.
The impending return of Josh Jacobs could solve one of those problems, though he could quickly vanish with whatever else is going on behind the scenes.
Penalty-wise, this is one of the most undisciplined Packers teams in recent memory.
When it comes to the drops, it was a rough night for Jordan Love as his receivers dropped a pair of touchdowns, and that was only the tip of the iceberg.
Drops continue to haunt this team
Green Bay decided to kick a field goal to go up 20-7, but by that point, Love should've had an extra pair of touchdown passes on the year.
A few possessions prior, Matthew Golden dropped a wide-open ball that hit him in the hands, and then Christian Watson dropped one in the endzone.
For Watson's sake, the ball may have been tipped, and there were about four defenders around him, but this is a Packers team that will undoubtedly lead the league in drops coming out of Week 6, and that simply can't happen.
Packers simply can't run the ball
Love was sacked three times in this one, and it was a game that was filled with pressure from the Cowboys.
Their defense held the Packers to just 59 yards on the ground, but that was somehow still more than what Dallas had.
In the end, Green Bay only averaged 2.5 yards per attempt, and MarShawn Lloyd remains a huge issue. Pierre Strong ran circles around him in this game, so where will that leave Lloyd when Jacobs returns?
Matt LaFleur needs to get his team under control
It's impossible to point the finger at Matt LaFleur for all of these penalties, as some were rather questionable, to say the least, but this is yet another game where the Packers continue to be their own worst enemy.
Both teams had 10+ penalties on Sunday Night Football, and the Packers' 96 penalty yards were fewer than the Cowboys' 108, but there's simply no excuse for this to keep happening on a weekly basis.
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