Tom Silverstein

They still have a ways to go to be the highest-scoring offense in the NFL as they were a year ago, but some of the missing parts are nearing return.

On a frightening evening of football when the wind and rain nearly turned the game into a water polo match, the Packers ate up the Chicago Bears, 33-6, in front of a Halloween night crowd of 47,381 at Soldier Field.

New Orleans -- A lot of people were concerned about the New England Patriots having a decided speed advantage over the Green Bay Packers in Super Bowl XXXI.

Linebacker Blake Martinez was neither trying to make a statement nor pay homage to a former Green Bay Packer when he selected No. 50 as his uniform number.

So many things have threatened to derail Brian Price’s migration to the NFL that being a long-shot rookie free agent sequestered in an auxiliary locker room inside the Green Bay Packers facility on his first day as a professional was like nirvana.

Offensive lineman Don Barclay and linebacker Lerentee McCray needed jobs and Green Bay Packers general manager Ted Thompson was more than happy to hire them.

Packers beat writer Tom Silverstein offers a look ahead to each of the 16 games on Green Bay’s 2016 schedule:

Packers president Mark Murphy hasn’t needed to spend much time thinking about free agency this off-season, but he has had to explain to fans how exactly the team will be better than it was a year ago.

The National Football League’s performance-based pay pool rewards players who outperformed their contracts based on production and playing time that far exceeded what they were paid.

Why would the healthy, strapping young Packers safety who just underwent a second cervical fusion surgery want to risk playing football again? “You just said the key word: I’m healthy,” Richardson said. “Why quit if I’m healthy?”