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The Packers were on the receiving end of a thorough beating on Sunday afternoon as the Cardinals defense battered Aaron Rodgers to the tune of eight sacks and three turnovers on their way to a 38-8 victory.

It was Green Bay’s first loss since Thanksgiving night, but their three victories in the interim were followed by differing levels of criticism about the offense. Some of that criticism came from Rodgers, who said the unit lacked direction after the Week 15 win over the Raiders. Rodgers took a different path after Sunday’s loss, however.

Rodgers accentuated the positive instead, saying the Packers still have everything in front of them and that the roster is made up of players who will get the team back on track for next week’s game against the Vikings for the NFC North title.

“This was a playoff-style game for us and we obviously played terrible,” Rodgers said, via the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. “But we’ve won a lot of games here. When you play long enough you’re going to be on the wrong side of this sometimes. But I have confidence in those guys and myself that when it matters for all of the marbles we’re going to show up.”

Coach Mike McCarthy admitted that there are things “we haven’t done very well at pretty much the whole year,” but said he was “not concerned” about the Packers responding after such a lopsided loss. The messages are in a similar vein to ones we’ve heard before from the Packers, but it’s a little late in the year to spell out relax and expect everything to suddenly come together.