2024 Season Preview Series - The Green Bay Packers

Dangerously well-rounded

Football is back, and it’s time to act like it.

No sport is more difficult to predict. 18 weeks, a 17-game sample size, 55-man rosters, 20-person coaching staffs, 60-minute games, and an average of only 63 snaps per week, per side-of-ball, per team… go figure that parity in the NFL is as consistent as it is.

Any given Sunday is the term, I believe. And it’s true. It’s fitting. If aliens came down from outer space right this instant and decided that the accuracy of my forecast for the 2024 NFL season was to decide the difference between life and death for the human race, I’d tell them to cut to the chase and fire the death beam now. I’m no Iguodala.

That is how confidently unconfident I am, and it explains why each publication in this series will be titled a ‘Team Preview,’ rather than ‘Team Prediction.’

With that being said though, let me be clear: Prediction is what I am here to do. Division by division, team by team. Starting this week with the NFC East, and finishing in time for Week 1, Chiefs-Ravens, on Thursday, September 5, 2024.

I’ll try not to be too long-winded in any one section for any one team, but I will attempt to be thorough. If, say, the quarterback is the primary story for a particular squad, expect me to assign a disproportionate amount of my words toward that subject. If it’s coaching that matters, then coaching I shall target.

Let’s explore these squads one by one, and then compare. You can expect the remainder of this article to be formatted as follows:

TEAM:

• Overview

• Quarterback monologue

• Rapid-fire unit notes

• 3rd down team, or 1st down team?

• Ceiling, floor

• One-score game grade

• Injury grade

• Final record prediction

At the end of my 4th preview per division, I’ll drop a complimentary podcast to round everything out. You know, the good stuff— ranking team offenses in the division, defenses, coaching staffs, futures, etc.

Sounds good? Good. Let’s jump right in.