Let’s not forget Jolly falling on OT Colombo’s leg in the first quarter.

Huge. (play and butt.)

The Packers stay alive and well in the wild card picture. And I win another one in my fantasy league to stay in first place (by a healthy margin). :)

Most important, Aaron Rodgers didn’t get beat up too bad and get injured.

Watch the game today and I didn’t. I live in Oklahoma and I’m surrounded by Cowboy fans and the last 2 years has been crappy around here… But

HOW ’BOUT THEM PACKERS! Definitely wearing my packers beanie this week!

Shout out to Brad Jones who I think led the team or was in 2nd in tackles. He was Kampman’s replacement and it seemed like he did a much better job than kampman on dropping back and being in coverage. Kudos to him.

I know many people are still on the Oline..yeah 4 sacks is bad, but it wasn’t the all out jailbreak that we had against tampa and minny, so maybe when Tauscher gets back they will get a little better still…

But the story was the defense…we never layed a finger on favre remember and Freeman the rookie last week went virutally unscaathed. different story this time. If we pressure the QB, our secondary becomes all the much better and you get big plays, fumbles interceptions etc.

IF we can somehow get a pass rush, which we have not had since really the first half of 2o07 (really since the decline and end of KGB), then we can really have a strong and dangerous team all the way through.

No doubt, Chuck for MVP, President and Mathews is going to be a beast for years to come.

But if the Oline can continue to grow from this performance, look out, we could be dangerous.

Woodson is awesome.
Rogers is good.
DLine is great.
OLine still sucks.
That is all.

we don’t get too high on ourselves after this. The players have been critical of Capers this year and now that something good (even though we really have been good for essentially the whole year) has happened, hopefully we don’t lose that edge we seemed to have.

That was the most fun I’ve had watching a Packers game in years, maybe since that Monday night game against Denver a couple seasons ago. The defense finally played up to its potential and the offense was a little disappointing, but they controlled the clock for once, which I think was a big part of the domination on D. I’ll take Rodgers throwing for around 200 yards and having almost double the time of posession in the 4 quarter than the 3 and outs with occasional quick scoring drives.

Here’s hoping they can continue this. The Vikings normally choke and I like the odds of that happening with Favre at the helm. Even though I don’t think we’ll get the division and getting into the playoffs is all that matters, I’d say we still got like a 15-20% chance at the division and that’d be pretty sick.

4 teams to beat.

Can we do it?

Thank you defense ! the defense were great yesterday, finally their efforts paid of, now of course, it did help with the Cowboys loosing two linemen.
The defense didn’t give up a 3rd down conv until about the midle of the 4th q, they didn’t give up significant yardage or any points until late in garbage time, even though this technically wasn’t a shut out, I would like to call it one, the Cowboys “comforter” of a TD came with 38 sec left.
The defense were awesome !!!!!!!
Dom Capers know what he’s doing, it doesn’t always show, but he does.

The offense, well they were far from great, but didn’t do any big mistakes either. The offensive line was half decent, and we might have something in Lang.
The offense had the ball for 36 minutes, now alot of that was because a lot of penalties, and replayed downs, but still they controlled the ball, but with that much time, they should have scored more points.
Rodgers startet to do what I’ve been screaming about for weeks and months, set-up then THROW! now you see what happen when he anticipates and thrust his guys to get open, it was especially clear on those big 3rd down conv. to Jennings and Lee late in the game. Still he has a lot to learn, and has to take the blame for two of the sacks, and parts of the 3rd. some can be done presnap.
They also got very lucky on a couple of plays, like that sack/fumble that got erased by ill.hands to the face by a Dallas cb.

Penalty wise, this still needs to be fixed, they will not be this lucky every week, 12 pen for 100 yds + quite a few that got declined. the one holding call on Nelson was cheap, the defender got overpowered, AND gave up at the end of the play, that should not be called, the FM on Harris, ok, his hand was in his face/on the helmet, but from the replay I saw no actuall grab and twist, but from the field, that might have been visible. But they also got a bit lucky, there was a missed hold on Lang (Grant long run).
 
Mike McCarthy, well, his playcalling seemed a bit better, one good challenge, and one really bad one, that spot close to the goal line was quite obivously short, and the challenge acutally ended up costing half a yd, as the ball was moved back from about the half yd line to the one. On another side, isn’t somebody supposed to take away the HC red flag after he has used his challenges ??? McCarthy seat is a little cooler now, but he should not be of the hook yet, I will give him no credit what so ever for this win. It was 99% defense.

Back on the LOS with a hand in the dirt, getting after the QB and our Packers will be better for it….

1. Blitzing was ratcheted up. I think Capers must have visited this forum or something because the blitzing Packers were back. I saw corner blitzes, LB blitzes, safety blitzes, they were coming from all directions and it worked…props to the DLine for doing their job!
2. Screens and slants made an appearance. While the announcers hadn’t noticed (numerous comments about how the “Packers run the screen more than any team in the league” which was true 5 years ago…hello) the Packers basically abandoned the screen all year. It wasn’t always pretty but the screens and slants help keep the flow moving quickly.
3. Slightly improved special teams. While it still wasn’t great, it wasn’t as dreadful as it was the past two weeks.
4. No turnovers. Rodgers is continuing to show that he isn’t Favre by minimizing INTs. I love that aspect of him…
5. Rush D was stifling. The run d continues to play really well…under the radar.