It's deja vu all over again.

Same old story. Too few playmakers. Too many key penalties. Too many turnovers. Too many missed opportunities.

The Pack is 1-7. What more to say? That we may be lucky to win 4 more games this season and finish at 5-11? Or, as other pundits (not that yours truly is a pundit, of course) suggest, the Pack might be lucky to finish 3-13?

Sherman's gone. Brett may or may not be back. But the rebuilding time -- as former coach Jimmy Johnson suggested on today's Fox pre-game show -- has probably come. Settle in for a couple more years of mediocrity, folks. And through it all, looking at the NFC North, our response will probably be much like that of John Kerry last year in his campaign versus Bush: "I can't believe I'm losing to this guy!" Indeed.