How Packers Fans Answered Our Polls in 2019
Matt LaFleur and Aaron Rodgers didn’t get consistent results in 2019, and voters seemed uncertain about the Packers’ offense as a result.
Polling Packers fans is one of our biggest ongoing projects at The Power Sweep. Every week during the season, we ask our followers on Twitter a selection of questions about the Packers, charting their responses week to week.
Below are the full results of a few of the polls. How did Packers fans feel about their team this year? Read on to find out.
Packers approval ratings show big swings
The main thrust of our weekly polling is the approval rating, and you can really see how people’s opinions change over the course of the season.
Mike Pettine, in particular, experienced some wild swings in fan approval. He touched 100% approval in Week 4, but dropped all the way to 18% after the Packers’ Week 12 loss to the 49ers. He climbed all the way back to 90%, but two lackluster defensive showings pushed him all the way back down to just under 15% to end the season.
Aaron Rodgers also went through some big swings, especially in the second half of the season. After the Packers’ Week 11 bye, Rodgers only saw his approval rating rise in consecutive weeks one time.
On the opposite end of the approval spectrum is Brian Gutekunst. After Week 1, his approval rating never dipped below 80% for the rest of the season.
Voters never figured out how to feel about the Packers’ offense
We also made it a point to ask how voters felt about the Packers’ offense, defense, and special teams. Those voters responded by...never really seeming to decide how they felt about the offense.
While you can see some macro trends about the team overall and the defense, our voters were all over the map on the Packers’ offense. That, in itself, is probably a statement on the Packers’ offense, but it’s still curious.
Packers fans believed their team was a winner
In 2019, our voters were extremely optimistic about the Packers’ chances of coming out with a win each and every week.
I don’t know exactly what the threshold for predicting a win is, but people who voted in our polls didn’t seem predisposed to think the Packers were going to lose. The least optimistic our voters got was in Week 4 and Week 15, when just 57% of them predicted the Packers would beat the Cowboys and Bears, respectively.
That’s right, our voters were more confident that the Packers would beat the 49ers in the NFC Championship than they were that they’d knock off the then 7-6 Bears. Hope is a heck of a drug! (Never change, Packers fans.)
