Green Bay Packers: Five Best Second-Half Surges

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Published: November 15, 2009

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... of the season, and appear hard-pressed to make a playoff push with a difficult second-half schedule.

However, in an attempt to keep the faith, here are five Packers squads that had things come together in the second half of the season.

Perhaps the 2009 edition can follow their lead.

 

1984

Lynn Dickey and Co. made a ferocious second-half surge, winning seven of their final eight games, losing only at Detroit on Thanksgiving.

The Packers feasted on a relatively weak NFC Central division, winning five second-half games against division rivals, including a Week 16 road win against a Chicago Bears team that would peak a season later in their Super Bowl Shuffle campaign.

The bad news?

They started the season a dismal 1-7 and failed to make the playoffs in one of three straight 8-8 campaigns under Lombardi dynasty-era members Bart Starr and Forrest Gregg.

Outside of a strike-shortened playoff season in 198...

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