Aaron Jones confident in Packers' future: 'We're gonna be dangerous. We're gonna be special'

Lost in the immediate disappointment of Green Bay's Divisional Round loss to the 49ers was the makings of a team on the rise.

Packers running back Aaron Jones is among those who feel the Packers have laid the foundation to be major players moving forward.

"I feel like what we're building here is special," Jones told Larry McCarren on Total Packers. "You can feel it. You can see it. The chemistry, the bond, the standard that we've set. I feel like with the standard we've set, we know what our expectations are when we come back next year. Our standard is high. We have no reason not to reach that standard every day because we've shown that we can do it this year, and we've shown we can do it game after game after game, we can put it together. I feel like we're gonna be dangerous. We're gonna be special."

The Packers entered the 2023 season as the youngest in the NFL, having moved on from franchise quarterback Aaron Rodgers and a number of aging veterans offensively.

Green Bay was green, and it showed in the early going.

While Jordan Love and the rest offense learned the ropes, the Packers consistently backed themselves up and killed drives with mental lapses and penalties.

Love and Co. were notoriously slow in the first half of games, and after eclipsing 20 points in the first two weeks, went on a seven-game stretch where they failed to do so.

That, along with an underperforming defense, led the Packers to a 3-6 record at the midway point of the season, after which things began clicking into place.

Love, who didn't have a receiver on the roster with more than a year of NFL experience and whose two primary pass catchers at tight end were rookies, transformed over the back half in tandem with sharper routes from those around him