Schedule will test Packers as they hope to avoid another trip at the finish line

The Green Bay Packers struggled to close out the 2024 season and have a murderous schedule to close 2025. Even if they lose some games, they have to play better.

Tucker Kraft said he could “feel it brewing.” Unlike the 2023 season, which saw the Green Bay Packers soar into the playoffs off three straight wins, the 2024 crew scuffled in a first-half no-show against the Minnesota Vikings before a collapse at home against the Chicago Bears to close out the regular season. Injuries, turnovers, and mistakes by players and coaches alike hardly carried positive momentum into the playoffs. The 2025 season closes with an even tougher schedule, and even if the Packers lose some of them, Green Bay has to find a way to head into January feeling good about the way it’s playing.

Vibes aren’t everything, but they’re hardly nothing. The youngest team in the league plays with reckless abandon, with swagger, but poise has been in shorter supply the last two years. When Green Bay has gone down, though, the team has fought back. Against the best teams last year, it was simply too little, too late.

The end of the ‘25 season schedule is the calendar version of, “They might have a worse record, but will be a better team on paper,” or at least the Packers have to hope so.