NFL Playoff Picture: 5 Reasons Packers Are Doomed to Fail in NFC Hunt

The Green Bay Packers have the best record in football right now at 14-1, but they are certainly beatable and should not be the all-on favorite to win the Super Bowl this year.

For a number of reasons, you can't trust this Packers team to just storm through the playoffs and into the championship again.

Things are a lot different this season, and it’s highly doubtful the Pack even makes it out of the NFC.

Here’s why.  

Green Bay came out of nowhere in the 2011 playoffs.

They were a mediocre 10-6 in the regular season and barely made it in the postseason as a sixth seed due to tiebreakers over the Giants and Buccaneers.

They had a “nobody believes in us” vibe going in the locker room and rallied around being an underdog.

Now that they are the favorites, everyone knows they are the team to beat.

Look what happened to the Saints a year after they won a bowl. A 7-9 Seahawks team knocked them out in the first round.

Expect each team they face to give their best shot and muster up an excellent performance. 

The Kansas City Chiefs helped out a surprising amount of potential foes in the NFC by showing exactly how to beat the Packers.

Nearly everyone expected the Chiefs to be nothing more than a minor speed bump in the Packers pursuit of perfection, but interim head coach Romeo Crennel came up with a phenomenal game plan.

They basically exposed the Packers' running game, guarded Jermichael Finley with a cornerback and only send a handful of pass-rushers.

It earned them a win and gave future opponents a way to beat the Pack.

There hasn’t been a back-to-back Super Bowl champion since the New England Patriots pulled it off back in 2004 and 2005.

By playing all of these extra postseason games and having to perform their best because of the bull's-eye on their back, the Packers are wearing down.

They haven’t been able to coast at all this season, and they certainly won’t catch a break once the playoffs begin.

If the Packers eventually meet up with the Saints, it’s going to be very tough for them to get another win.

They met in the first game of the season and barely won because of a goal-line stand in the final seconds.

This time, they’ll meet a team that is rolling on all cylinders and primed to beat anyone they come up against.

Even if the potential rematch is outside at frigid Lambeau Field, you cannot discount Drew Brees and their potent passing offense.

If Green Bay runs into the 49ers, they are going to have their hands full versus a team that is made for cold weather.

Home-field advantage may not be a blessing when they go up against a team that can manage the clock, run the ball and defend anything thrown their way.

San Francisco isn’t letting anything up on the ground, and the Packers don’t have a running game.

Coach Jim Harbaugh will take a page out of the KC playbook and force the Packers to beat them in freezing weather by airing it out.

The odds of Green Bay succeeding? Slim.