They see the time slipping away and understand that nothing except grandma's fruitcake and that stain on your living room wall last forever. This is the NFL, after all, where change is necessary, expected and written into the league bylaws. The older Packers understand this. They don't like it, but they understand it.
Time moves on, and the only constants are unfulfilled expectations.
But the Packers also understand just as fervently that there is no divine order to winning Super Bowls. It's not a lottery, it's not done alphabetically and there certainly are no guarantees that if you were close to winning the ultimate prize one season, you automatically get it the next season. That's one of the first things grizzled defensive tackle Santana Dotson heard when he joined the Packers in 1996 after four brutal years in Tampa Bay. It's a hard road and you have to prepare yourself now. That's why Dotson isn't ready to leap on the Buccaneers bandwagon just yet.