Green Bay Packers: The 20 best players from 2000-09

The Green Bay Packers enjoyed an up and down decade to kick off the millennium, but here are the 20 best players from that era.

Dairyland Express is going to take a decade by decade look at the best players to suit up for the Green Bay Packers during each ten-year span and we’re starting with the 2000-2009 era.

They finished the decade going 95-65 in the regular season and making the postseason six out of the 10 years including four in a row from 2001-2004. During that time span, they recorded seven winning seasons, two losing seasons and one 8-8 year.

They had varying levels of playoff success, making the NFC Championship in 2007 at the height of the decade, but also losing in the Wild Card round in three of their other five appearances. Of course, they also had the nasty 4-12 2005 year- the worst Packers’ record since 1991 and the 6-10 season-the second-worst record since ’91.

The Packers also began the era with Brett Favre at quarterback and ended with the completed transition to Aaron Rodgers.

Amazingly, Green Bay had a great amount of stability during the decade with only two head coaches to match the two quarterbacks. Mike Sherman and Mike McCarthy were the only to coaches to serve the team in the decade.

In between, many players came and went for Green Bay. Some great and some not so great. We are here to preview the 20 greatest Packers’ players from 2000-2009.