GREEN BAY — Xavier McKinney’s answer came immediately. For as important as the Green Bay Packers’ back-to-back-to-back victories over NFC North foes had been over the past three weeks, the veteran All-Pro safety wasn’t about to shortchange Sunday’s game against the Denver Broncos.

“I mean, it's definitely a playoff game,” McKinney said before the NFC North-leading Packers (9-3-1) departed for Denver for their matchup with the AFC West-leading Broncos (11-2). “They're the top team in the AFC. And you know, we believe that we are a top team in NFC. So it's going to be a clash of two really good teams. And I think this is going to be a good pre-test before the real test.

“We know how much this game is going to mean moving forward. We're just setting the tone of who we think we are. And, yea

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