Packers’ problems run deep as Matt LaFleur admits offense has lost its identity

Three weeks into the season, the Green Bay Packers are in a bad place. Not only are they 1-2, but they just got their butts whooped by the previously 0-2 Atlanta Falcons on "Thursday Night Football," falling 35-14 at home. Don't believe me? Ask coach Matt LaFleur.

"It was a butt-whooping," LaFleur said after the game.

And it certainly was. Green Bay yielded 498 total yards of offense to a Falcons team that had totaled just 524 yards through its first two games. The Packers allowed Bijan Robinson to tear them up for 194 yards and two touchdowns on the ground, and Drake London to dice them for 194 yards through the air.

They weren't much better offensively, totaling just 194 yards before a pair of garbage-time drives late in the fourth quarter that masked an otherwise miserable day at the office. The Packers ran the ball a grand total of nine times for 17 yards, while Jordan Love averaged a mere 5.8 yards per pass attempt.

It was, frankly, an embarrassing performance — one that brought out the boos from the Packers faithful at Lambeau Field. It was also one that put the Packers' myriad problems squarely on display.

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