The Packers have started the last three seasons with two losses in their first three games and one of the team’s goals for 2015 is to get out of the gate on better footing.
Coach Mike McCarthy said that the team needs a better start this time around because an early losing record “not going to cut it this year.” His plan for making that happen is to get younger players up to speed earlier than in past years with the team’s returning veterans stepping up their mentoring to make sure that everyone is ready to go from the opening bell.
“We’re challenging the older guys to bring the younger guys up and then coach those younger guys in more of a one-on-one fashion,” McCarthy said, via ESPN.com. “It’s just finding as many different ways as you possibly can to motivate and continue to grow as a program.”
The task of hitting the ground running should be made easier on the offensive side of the ball by the return of all their starters after leading the league in scoring in 2014. And if all the kinks haven’t quite been worked out come September, the Packers can take solace in the fact that they’ve been able to win the NFC North in each of the last three years despite the early losses.
