“The confidence for me comes from within that I feel like anytime I can go on a run, and have gone on runs of playing at a near-perfection level,” Rodgers said. “I know when I’m playing well, I can raise the level of my teammates in the locker room. I’m going to expect to reach that level.”
He added that expecting to win, rather than hoping to win, is another necessary element. That’s not a glaring issue for a team whose veterans have won 13 regular-season games each of the last three years, but he’d only verbalize it if he felt it needed to be said.
Also, the absence of a move at the trading deadline to improve the roster, despite attempts that didn’t work out, finalizes the reality the Packers must win with the players they have. By all accounts, those players believe in one another, which is how they’ve stayed together.
“The people in this locker room all have it,” tight end Robert Tonyan said. “I’m not really too worried about them getting down on themselves or making a big deal about it. I think we have the right men in this room to just go out there, next game, next play.
“It just takes one. It takes one win to get back rolling, get back feeling good, and get everyone back on the right track.”
Rodgers feels the same way. He said it after the loss in Buffalo and again Wednesday.
The Packers need all their pieces, or as many as they can get. It starts there, and perhaps the rest can follow Sunday in Detroit.
“It just takes one game, one quarter, one play that can alter the trajectory of a team, both positively and negatively, and hopefully we make that play, that quarter, that half, whatever it’s going to be this week to put us in the right direction,” Rodgers said.
“There’s a little bit more urgency, I think, as the season gets into November. If we can just get a couple of these, then I think we get to start to become that dangerous team we believed at the beginning of the season we’d be.”
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