Too many times already this season the talk has been about this player or that player bouncing back. To see that scenario now following veteran kicker Mason Crosby after the worst game of a decorated career shows no one is immune. Every player on the roster needs to find some level of consistency and reliability in his game for the Packers to get things back on the right track.

On their bye week, the Bears stayed atop the NFC North at 3-1 while the Lions got back in the thick of things at 2-3. The 2-2-1 Packers could be in better shape, could be in worse, but what matters is where they go from here.

"I still like our chances even though we're 1-1-1 in the division now," Rodgers said as the Packers completed their first run through the division opponents.

"Maybe this is the kind of year everyone knocks each other off for a while, and if we can hang in there through the middle stretch of our season, we can be right there."

Sounds like as good a plan as any, but the Packers' current pattern isn't the way to accomplish it.