It wasn’t all that long ago that a Packers team with Super Bowl aspirations faced a Denver Broncos team with an elite defense.

The year was 2015. Despite the preseason loss of Jordy Nelson, the Packers opened the season with a sprint to a 6-0 start, putting up at least 27 points in four of those six wins. Then they had a bye. Then the Broncos took them apart.

Boasting a truly great defense, the Broncos solved the Packers’ offense completely, and in doing so showed the rest of the league how they could be beaten. By the end of November, the Packers were 7-4 and had to scratch and claw to make it to 10-6 on the year.

It’s overly reductionist to say that the Broncos really ruined the Packers that thoroughly. There were plenty of other factors in the Packers’ decline. Nelson’s absence was s

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