Packers fall to Chiefs in Love’s first start: The good, bad and grade

Packers Loss to Chiefs: The Bad: Special Teams, third downs, adjusting to the blitz, offensive line

At least some portion of the Packers’ special teams finds its way into this category every week–this time it’s the entire unit. This unit gave the game away on Sunday thanks to a 38-yard punt that set the Chiefs up for their first and only touchdown of the game, a blocked field goal, a missed field goal and a punt that Amari Rodgers failed to field and it ended up hitting Malik Taylor before being recovered by the Chiefs at the 10-yard-line. I didn’t think it possible, but this unit is worse than a season ago.

Green Bay also had its fair share of struggles on offense. They were 2-12 on third downs and didn’t convert those two until late in the game. That made it difficult for them to stay in rhythm and keep the Chiefs’ offense off the field.

Kansas City sent blitz after blitz after blitz (I think they’re still blitzing him) at Jordan Love and the offense had no counter for it. Not only did they struggle to block, they didn’t have any hot routes. The solution seemed to be Love throwing a ball up for grabs off his back foot and seeing if his receiver could make a play. Outside of the touchdown to Allen Lazard, this strategy didn’t work