Predicting the 2024 season, Nate Davis of USA Today believes the Green Bay Packers will lose to Aaron Rodgers and the New York Jets in Super Bowl 59 in New Orleans.
Davis predicted the Packers would go 13-4, win the NFC North and secure the No. 2 seed in the NFC playoffs. In the postseason, Davis predicted the Packers would beat the Detroit Lions in the divisional round and the San Francisco 49ers in the NFC Finals, while Rodgers and the Jets would make the AFC playoffs and defeat the Cincinnati Bengals and Kansas City Chiefs in what could be a great Super Bowl.
With Jordan Love in his second year as a starter since Rodgers’ departure and four-time MVP and future Hall of Famer Aaron Rodgers returning to face his former team in a big game after missing most of last year, the storylines could be endless in a Packers-Jets Super Bowl.
Davis clearly believes that adding more talent to a young and improving team has the Packers in Super Bowl contention.
Here’s Davis’ analysis of the Packers heading into 2024:
QB Jordan Love’s impressive comments in his first year as a starter since Rodgers left the team have propelled the league’s youngest roster to the brink of an NFC Championship Game appearance in 2023. This core of talented players should continue to grow with the rising expectations of rookies and free agent additions such as RB Josh Jacobs and S Xavier McKinney. But the real change here may come thanks to new DC Jeff Hafley. Hafley is tasked with changing the strategy and turning around the fortunes of a team that has not lived up to expectations despite having seven first-round draft picks. A new ring in Titletown? Maybe.
Of course, predictions are just that: predictions. Last year, Davis predicted the Packers would finish 7-10 and miss the postseason. He also predicted the Philadelphia Eagles would beat the New York Jets in the Super Bowl.
No one knows what will happen in 2024. The Packers have been a Super Bowl favorite for many prognosticators entering the year, but a lot is still going wrong for a young team with a quarterback in his second year as a starter. All the pieces seem to be in place, but as the Packers well know, making a Super Bowl appearance is an increasingly difficult task no matter who is playing quarterback.