The Green Bay Packers are staring at a collapse that keeps getting harder to explain.
Sunday’s 39-22 loss at Minnesota was the latest punch in a six-game losing streak that ESPN’s Rob Demovsky said dates back to last season and includes the playoffs. It’s Green Bay’s longest skid since 1990-91, and four of those six defeats came after the Packers held second-half leads of nine points or more.
That list got a fresh entry against the Vikings. Green Bay was up 22-17 with 13:11 left, then watched Minnesota rip off 29 unanswered points after Matt LaFleur passed on a made 40-yard field goal and chose to go for it on fourth-and-1.
Demovsky’s four-game list of blown second-half advantages starts in Week 15 at Denver, where the Packers led 23-14 in the third quarter before falling 34-26. Micah Parsons tore his ACL in that game.
A week later in Chicago, Green Bay was ahead 16-12 before surrendering 10 straight points in the final two minutes of the fourth quarter and losing 22-16 in overtime.
Then came the wild-card game at Soldier Field, where the Packers built a 21-3 halftime lead and still walked out with a 31-27 loss. In both of those Chicago meetings, the Bears never ran an offensive play while trailing.
The other two losses in the streak came in the regular-season finish. Baltimore beat Green Bay at Lambeau Field in Week 17, and Chicago clinched the NFC North the next day. The Packers then lost 16-3 at Minnesota in Week 18 with backups playing against Vikings starters, getting outgained 363-121 before entering the playoffs as the No. 7 seed at 9-7-1.
After the wild-card defeat in January, Xavier McKinney said everyone had to look in the mirror and find ways to dig deeper.
Green Bay finished 2025 at 9-8-1. The pattern began in Week 3, when the Packers gave up 13 straight points in the final four minutes of a 13-10 loss at Cleveland. That one does not count the 40-40 tie at Dallas, where Green Bay had led 13-0.
The Packers head to the New York Jets next Sunday at noon CT.
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