You get respect through current deeds not history. Players come to know who you are and so do coaches. They don’t care who you were, even if they are actually aware of that. Their focus is on what they face now and have faced, individually and collectively as a team. No past glories matter any more than past failings. Who will our opponents face, how will we play against them are what sets the tone. I don’t think it’s any secret that the Packers, good, bad or indifferent, haven’t been seen as intimidating in years.

We aren’t a team seen as capable of defending fortress Lambeau mentally or physically, even though we have at times been a dangerously talented team. Look to LaFleur if you don’t like it. We are a team that reflects him, even his fans accept that. We tend to finesse, we don’t go for the jugular points wise either. We play percentages and we can be manhandled and have been. Such things get known.

Boo-Hoo. Cry me a river. Remember, the easiest way to have others mock you is by doing something that opens that door. The Packers opened that door by their play the last 5 games. In fact, I believe it was well-deserved for their lack of, well, everything. Don't cry about what happens to you when you've done it to others.

I know I'm not a Packers fan because I believe the slights were deserved. Wah-Wah.

You earn respect, it's not lasting and in football it is looked at differently from one season to the next.
Winning solves a lot of problems. Just win Baby!
JMHO

The funny thing about the cheese-grater hats:

Packers fans wear cheesehead hats because it embraces our America's Dairyland culture.
We can wear them to every Packers game or event.

The graters? They can only reasonably wear them when playing the Packers.
They're a pathetic "wannabe," and "in their heads" emblem.

How sad for them.

This is the first time in a long time, I dont feel we have the right coaches capable or willing to turn this narrative around. If we have most players healthy...which I hope, we will see how this unfolds. I hope we run out of excuse narratives at some point...

Pantz "wasn't me" Burp

*less business decisions, more accountability to the team

"...the one-time hollowed grounds of Lambeau Field..." Make that 'HALLOWED grounds.'
The spelling error is ironic given the topic of the article.

I hope some of the veterans and youngsters the Packers added will bring some grit and mental toughness to this squad.
If coach lafleur and his staff founder this year, maybe Policy/Gute(?) will cut their losses and bring back Anthony Campanile to change the culture.

Everyone R-E-L-A-X

If Guter says it's time to win Championships.

It's time to win Championships.

If Ed Policy believes it, then so should Packer Nation.
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Now....someone pass the kool-aid.

"The Green Bay Packers enter the 2026 season with extra motivation deriving from a place that is quite uncommon based on the recent franchise history. The lack of respect from the NFL is personal."

After finishing 0-4 in the regular season and losing to the Bears in the playoffs after leading 21-3 in the 2nd half, I just can't imagine the Packers players & coaches needing anything additional for motivation. Hopefully this group of players is able to overcome the deficiencies of the coaching staff.

IF this team was to suddenly become a tough, physical, punch you in the mouth and keep punching for SIXTY (60) MINUTES type of team, it would be because of the players. After 7 years under Matt LaFleur, this team isn't suddenly going to get that attitude from their HC.

The Packers have not been a physically tough team for a long time. Their OL and DL have consistently been pushed around by the top tier teams in the league and sometimes even by lessor teams. The Packers need to physically dominate their opponents at the LOS plus they need to tackle more effectively on defense.
If they can do that they will earn some respect back within the league and against their opponents. They also need to reestablish their home field advantage by playing dominant, winning football at Lambeau. If a team cannot defend their home field and lose as they did to the Ravens why should they be respected?

Hopefully the recently hired coaches, especially Gannon, can bring a new tough, physical, mental attitude to the defensive side of the ball. I doubt that MLF and Stenovich will change the offense since they haven't over the last 7 seasons. Finesse can be fine for the WRs and the QB but the OL and RBs must provide dominating physicality for the offense to be effective. At least Josh Jacobs brings physicality to the RB group. The OL needs to become more physical if the Packers want to earn some respect back.

The lack of physicality on the Packers is not a new issue. It has just manifested itself into the cheese grader hats during the Packers 5 game, season ending, losing streak and in particular due to the loss to the Ravens at home and I would say due to the second half collapse in the playoff loss to Chicago.

2026 is a new season and a chance for the Packers to make everyone forget about the cheese graders. But it will take dominating, physical victories to turn things around. We can be sure to see the cheese graders during the first two games of the season on the road. We'll find out pretty quickly if the 2026 Packers have the motivation and the pride that it will take to earn some respect in the league. Thanks, Since '61

Sauce Gardner “dawned” the grater?

May the sun set once more on the cursed grater!

Frankly with what 1 playoff win in the last 4 years ( 23-26 ) and being run off the field by the Ravens last season why would any team have respect for the Packers ? I lost all respect for them after the no guts to try and tackle Henry game . It should’ve been embarrassing to every member of the Packers . Should have provided enough motivation for them to rip through the playoffs , but no it was one and done . I don’t expect it to be much better this season until they prove me wrong .

So perception vs. reality.

Towards the end of last season the Packers were significantly softened by injuries. The bane of any NFL team. Also there were other factors that contributed to the Packers gradual decline - including troubling individual performances - both players and coaches. So there may have been the perception that the mighty has fallen - with attendant celebration. However the 2026 Packers schedule suggests otherwise.

In reality - the 2026 Green Bay Packers have been showcased by the NFL - with a maximum of six nationally televised games, including a franchise-record five prime-time home games at Lambeau Field. This is not 'disrespect' from the NFL. As the NFL is keen to generate maximum fan viewership, entertainment value, and broadcast revenue - they obviously see the Packers as a key part of their success.

There is something seriously wrong with the Packers overall culture and it starts and ends with Matt Lafleur. He isn't a leader of men, and he projects this image of a "pretty boy" with his coffed hair, fixed eye brows, and facials, etc. His Packers teams are the embodiment of him, where they are soft, non-physical and mentally fragile. They don't play hard, make mental mistake after mistake, and don't know how to finish. Most people think the Packers season went off the rails late, when Parsons got hurt. I disagree. Going into the home stretch, you were 9-3-1, because you pissed away games to CLE CAR and PHI, where you ONLY scored 13, 13 and 7 points, two of the losses home. Then you tie Dallas in a game you scored 40!
Inexcusable! They should've easily been 13-0, where the affect of late season injuries weren't so damaging. But that's Matt Lafleur. There were a lot of things with the Packers last year that were damaging, but the one thing that jumped out to me? There were multiple games, DET CHI DEN, where teams took unnecessary cheap shots on Jordan Love and not one player got mad on the Packers and defended him. Cowardly! Packers won't win nothing with Lafleur. I am certain of it.

Simply put, people won’t wear cheese grater hats when you beat them. The question is if the Packers can do that.

if... hopefully... if...if... hopefully.... if if if....hopefully... if if if if if....

16yrs no SB.

Hmmm, I'm not sure the Packers play better when they are disrespected, or underdogs.

Thinking back to their last SB win in 2011, they were the sixth and last seed in the NFC. They won all three road games and went on to beat the Steelers in the SB, again as an underdog.

I think winning a SB is all about the team that is 1) healthy overall going into the playoffs, and 2) playing their best football in the last month of the regular season. There's no magic to it.