5 NFL teams that made playoffs last year but won’t make it back in 2020

If any team in the NFC who made the playoffs last year who will not make it this year, the clearest choice has to be the Green Bay Packers. Who cares if they went 13-3 and played in the NFC Championship game? They were humiliated by the San Francisco 49ers in Santa Clara. Aaron Rodgers isn’t getting any younger, which might have led to the Packers having the screwiest draft of the spring by taking a developmental project in Jordan Love out of Utah State in the first round.

While head coach Matt LaFleur may want to adopt a power-running game, his team needs to get light years tougher for that to even happen. Green Bay continues to make weird decisions in the war room that don’t involve doing everything in their power to get Rodgers back to the Super Bowl. Hello, it’s been over a decade. What are you doing, in all honesty? It doesn’t make sense.

Not only are the Packers continually doing weird things as an organization because they are not held accountable by a majority owner, but they don’t have the best roster in their own division. That belongs to the Minnesota Vikings who will surely be back in the postseason. If the Chicago Bears get their quarterback situation figured out, maybe they’re in the mix, too?

Of all the first-place teams in the NFC, they are the least likely to win their division again. Even if the world hates Drew Brees and the New Orleans Saints these days, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Atlanta Falcons aren’t the Vikings. Green Bay is too talented to not be in the playoff mix, but this feels like another season where the Packers waste yet another year of Rodgers’ prime.