The Green Bay Packers are off to a hot start through the first couple of weeks of the 2025 season. Sitting at 2-0 and atop the NFC North, it would be understandable if guys inside the locker room were feeling themselves a bit. But that isn’t the case. Championships aren’t won in September, and nobody understands that better than Green Bay’s star safety.
“I’m not going to sit up here and say we the best team in the NFL. It’s just two games. We’ve got a lot of football to play,” Xavier McKinney said Monday via Dave Schroeder of WBAY-TV. “The biggest thing about being 2-0, you can’t really get complacent, and you can’t feel like you won a Super Bowl. A lot of [teams] start off 2-0, and later in the season they won’t be worth a [expletive]. We’ve got to make sure we know the level of importance of these days and keep working and keep trying to get better.”
The Packers know a little bit about not finishing a season strong. The last two years have ended in early exits from the postseason, and that disappointment has stuck with Green Bay, where just making the playoffs will never be the standard.
“As a team, we need to wake up,” Kraft said during his exit interview on the heels of a loss to the Philadelphia Eagles in the Wild Card round. “Everyone talks about how we’re not ok with just making the playoffs, but we have yet to walk the walk.”
Kraft and McKinney have the exact kind of mentality you want from two leaders on your football team. The Packers are 2-0 right now, with two convincing wins over playoff teams from a year ago, but in the grand scheme of things, they really haven’t done anything of significance…yet.
The arrow is pointing up for Green Bay, but the challenge now is sustaining that momentum. Sunday’s matchup against a 0-2 Cleveland Browns squad may look favorable on paper, yet in reality, every opponent will look to bring their best shot against one of the NFL’s top teams. For the Packers, the mission remains the same—keep stacking wins and prove they are a legitimate Super Bowl contender.
