The new terms these days is retooling. In most cases that's a line thrown out there to placate the masses, because often teams who use that phrase are in reality rebuilding. But here it's applicable, at least on paper. As long as they have a healthy Rodgers and since they're already begun rebuilding the D, the Packers may not be as far away from getting right back in the swing of things as some feel. Rodgers of course is the key. If his trajectory continues as it has this season, the Packers are in for a long dry spell. But if he bounces back to his previous superman years, then the Pack will return to the hunt.
I'm trying to give him the benefit of the doubt, but he sure does look like someone whose best days are behind him. Like you said, he ain't no Brady or Brees, two ageless wonders. He seems to have lost something - not sure what it is, but I refuse to blame it all on just his sore knee. It's more than that.
