The 2025 Packers are good enough to win a Super Bowl ... assuming they can stay healthy

There have been plenty of years the Green Bay Packers have been "contenders" but with serious flaws. The 2025 team isn't perfect, but they're good enough to win it all.

A quarter of the season doesn’t provide sufficient proof of Super Bowl worthiness, but it usually hints at leaks in the boat. Roster flaws reveal themselves as the season slogs ahead, but even before the season starts, there’s often an understanding of where teams have weaknesses. For the Green Bay Packers, it looked like cornerback, but even with a tough performance against the Dallas Cowboys — that was more about Dak Prescott than the corners — this passing defense has stars to affect the game at all three levels. And the offense hums through a quarterback playing like a top-five player at the position. They’re good enough to stop anyone and good enough to score on anyone. The Packers can beat anyone. They just have to stay healthy.

The Jordan Love evolution cannot be understated, even from those of us who insisted last year’s relative lack of growth stemmed more from injury than stagnation. Love has taken an enormous leap forward in accuracy and decision-making. Performance in a clean pocket is one of the most stable QB metrics, and Love has been the single best player from a clean pocket in the world through a month of the season.

When Love has had time to throw this season, he’s been the best quarterback in football, and it’s not particularly close. He’s first in completion percentage at over 87%, adjusted completion percentage (just under 90%!), yet he’s leading the league in depth of target. That’s bonkers.

Critics will point to the late-game interception against the Browns, but ignore the game-winning drive that wasn’t thanks to a blocked kick. In fact, Love has been stellar as a situational decision-maker this season. He led four game-tying or lead-changing drives in the fourth quarter and overtime against the Cowboys. Sure, that game ended in a tie, and Love’s brainfart at the end, checking the ball down, contributed to it, but he toe-to-toe with a quarterback who was playing like he’d taken the Mario mushroom.