It doesn’t really matter how you win in the NFL, just that you keep doing it.
Power rankings aren’t real. There’s no BCS computer that will determine who’s the Super Bowl champion at the end of the season. There are no style points in the box score.
And yet, I think it does matter how the Packers win this weekend. (If they win, that is. The way their past two games have gone, that hardly seems like a foregone conclusion no matter how much they’re favored over the Bengals.)
A loss, inconceivable though it may seem, would spark some serious conversations about the future of this team. But a win that doesn’t show the Packers have taken steps forward after their disappointing performances against the Browns and Cowboys might do just about the same thing.
This Packers team has clear issues.