Acme Packing Company’s writers have watched the film on the Green Bay Packers’ 2020 season and compiled our lists of the best plays from last year.
Ten APC contributors submitted votes for the 15 best plays of the season, which we have combined and whittled down to the top ten plays of 2020.
It’s Week 10, and the 6-2 Packers are on ten days’ rest from pummeling the undermanned and diseased San Francisco 49ers on Thursday Night Football.
It seems like this should be a de facto bye for the Green and Gold, and perhaps that was part of the problem.
Let’s start by giving major kudos to the spectankular Jacksonville Jaguars, who barely lost this game and may very well have won it if not for the unreal arm of Aaron Rodgers and incredible speed of everyone’s favorite Packer lottery ticket wide receiver.
In fact, they came very close to taking control of the game early, as on the final play of the first quarter, Aaron Rodgers converted a key 3rd-and-3 from the Green Bay 16, hitting Davante Adams for 6 and avoiding a punt deep in their own territory.
We often discuss how Matt LaFleur uses heavy personnel to create mismatches in the passing game, and this play may be the single best example we have.
Robert Tonyan is just off the line in a wide slot with Davante Adams drawing single coverage at the top of the formation, and Marquez Valdes-Scantling drawing single coverage split out wide at the bottom.
Jones was a second round pick of the Eagles in 2017, and everyone loved his tape coming out of college, but he suffered an Achilles tear during his Pro Day, and he just hasn’t put it together as an NFL player.
Wilson, sensing grave danger, retreats immediately to the deep middle, but Robert Tonyan runs a sort-of-bad skinny post which does just enough to draw Wilson’s attention to the top of the formation.
Jake Luton even had the ball in Green Bay territory, down by four with under 2 minutes to play, and very nearly pulled off a miracle.
The Packers would lose an overtime game to Indianapolis the following week, and that could have made for an ugly losing streak.