For a few years there, the Packers and Keisean Nixon had a good thing going. After spending the first two of years of his career with the Raiders – both in Oakland and in Las Vegas – Nixon came over to Green Bay and immediately changed the trajectory of his career.

There were plenty of plays the Green Bay Packers could have made in the final 59 minutes, 53 seconds of their playoff loss last month. That punch, the contact of Oren Burks’ helmet smacking Nixon — Burks would later be fined for the unpenalized hit — was the unofficial knockout. This young Packers team wasn’t coming back from that fumble.