Positive future? The primary thing that made the Packers a playoff team this year was a soon to be 37 year old QB who’s skills are starting to visibly erode. A QB who, by the way, has always been viewed as lacking leadership intangibles and the ability to get along with team mates. Everything that has made Rodgers special is his physical ability. His arm and very good mobility... which he’s now losing pretty quickly. The Packers window is closing.
Their roster, minus the QB, is very uninspiring, and save for a free agent spending spree last off-season, would be nearly devoid of talent.
They desperately needed to take advantage of this trip to the NFC Championship game.
I’m not saying the cupboard is completely bare, but to say the future is bright is rather hopeful, IMO.
Replace Rodgers with another hall-of-fame, once-in-a-generation QB and then the Packers future might be considered bright. Until that happens though, the only thing that made that team special is an old QB who is losing what made him special but retaining everything that makes his team mates despise him.