Upset: Green Bay Packers Beat Cowboys 17-7
by Brandon on Nov 15, 2009 7:30 PM CST
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PrintIf you read my preview, you'll know I didn't expect them to win. Box score from ESPN. So how did they pull it out?
- Protect the QB. 4 sacks and 4 QB hits on 40+ pass attempts isn't a Pro Bowl performance for the offensive line. LB DeMarcus Ware had a big game with 2 sacks, 2 QB hits, and forced at least a couple holding penalties. But as far as this season has gone, this actually marks an improvement. But it's not the reason they won.
- Stop the penalties. The Packers committed 12 penalties costing them 100 yards. Nope, that didn't win them the game.
- Coverage on special teams. The kick coverage was good, holding Dallas to only 60 yards on 3 returns, with nothing over 25 yards. But the kickoffs weren't that deep either which left the Cowboys with good field position. They did hold PR Patrick Crayton to only 8.2 yards/return, with a long of 18 yards. Not great, but at least they didn't start any drives in Packer territory. Better, but it wasn't the reason they won.
- The defensive shutout (almost). The Packers have allowed 38 points in each of their previous two games, which masked the fact the defense had been playing well. The pass rush hadn't been getting to the QB, but defensive coordinator Dom Capers opened up the playbook and the blitz got to QB Tony Romo this week. There's been a lot of talk about QB Aaron Rodgers holding the ball too long, but Romo was guilty of it this week. And the pressure forced the turnovers that had been absent the past 2 weeks. The final 2 Dallas drives created 139 yards of offense and will slightly mask how dominant the Packers defense was. On 8 separate drives, the Cowboys were held to under 20 yards of offense. The Packers D allowed another TD pass in the red zone, it was the 6th one they've allowed in the last 3 games, but it was offset by a big INT by CB Charles Woodson that ended one red zone drive. Another Dallas red zone drive ended with a missed FG. Definitely the reason they won.
The past two weeks have been ugly, but a big win like this turns it all around. We can't expect the defense, no matter how well it's been playing, to lockdown their opponents like this every week. But after 2 disappointing losses in the previous 2 weeks, and 2 tough losses to the Cowboys in the previous 2 seasons, it's a big win. Hopefully that momentum carries them forward through the 2nd half of the season.
As far as MVP goes, LB Nick Barnett had a huge game with 2 sacks and 2 QB hits. But CB Charles Woodson forced 2 fumbles, both recovered by the Packers, had 1 sack, and his INT stopped a sure Cowboy scoring drive.
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The thing that struck me
Play calling was much better. They remained pretty balanced in the second half whereas Dallas became one sided. Also big 3rd and long conversions.
Well I had hoped for a different outcome but after that last fumble deep in cowboys territory I was pretty sure it
was over. My hat’s off to your team, they needed a win pretty bad to keep in the playoff race and they showed that they wanted it more than dallas. Good luck with the rest of the season.
Ignore the Mainstream Media, EMBRACE THE HATE!!!!
We looked good
Our special teams and offense finally helped our defense out, and Caper’s finally dialed up some of those blitzes we haven’t seemed to see since our week 1 game. I don’t care what some people think about Romo or the Dallas offense but the fact remains that they came into this game ranked 3rd in total yards a game and 5th in scoring. We held them nearly 130 yards under their average and more importantly 20 points under their points per game average of 27. Not too mention we limited their run game to only 56 yards, which is nearly 80 yards under their average.
We didn’t necessarily look great on offense but we definitely gave up less sacks then I thought we would. And our run game actually looked pretty good as well, with Grant having some nice runs today.
I’ve been awfully critical of McCarthy’s play-calling and I think he actually did a much better job today. He called a lot of screens, slants, and quick passes to our wr’s, and it worked great.
I can’t to have Tauscher back as then we will only have one below average starter on the o-line in Wells, with Lang replacing Colledge at LG. Watching Wells and Colledge getting tossed around today was painful.
And last but certainly not least, how about Aaron Rodgers? His stats weren’t eye popping but he did enough on offense to get us the win. The 8 minute drive he orchestrated in the 3rd and 4th quarter was beautifully done. Some of the throws he made today were pretty amazing and seeing him take off on 3rd and 5, running for 12 yards and getting the 1st down was really impressive.
It was good to see
I liked the playcalling
and especially the prolonged handoffs. Letting the line rush Rodgers as he give the ball to Grant opened up some space to run
id rather have a 24 year old (human years) dog that has advanced parkinson’s batting for our team than vlad.
-BoeJouma
It figures.
I pick the Packers to win the last two weeks, and they lose both games.
So today, I pick Dallas to beat Green Bay, and what happens? Packers win!
This is what I get for picking against Green Bay this week.
"I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart."
-Anne Frank-
by Vermont Cubs Fan on Nov 15, 2009 8:41 PM CST reply actions
Maybe you should do it more often?
Please?
dickie_thon: Third baseman Bill Hall / Watches the third strike go by / Gamel grabs his glove
Big injury
Let’s not forget Jolly falling on OT Colombo’s leg in the first quarter.
Huge. (play and butt.)
"At times I'm emotional," --Ryan Braun, 7/7/09
by heybatterbatter on Nov 15, 2009 9:06 PM CST reply actions
Good win!
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.
I was determined not to
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!
Goooooo-mez!
by Drew C on Nov 15, 2009 9:30 PM CST via mobile reply actions
Couple of kind of off-beat observations...
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.
How sad
that when we give up 4 sacks I consider that playing really well. In all seriousness though, it was a decent performance by the O-line but the D was the star of the show. Woodson had a sack, two forced fumbles, and an INT. He is amazing. Hard to believe people thought he was finished when we signed him a few years ago. And yes, Big Play Clay is a stud for years to come!
Frye is honestly gotta be one of the top 10 3rd Stringers in all of the NFL right now--colbyb
with this kinda win
It puts the loss to the Bucs in an even bigger light. If we had that seemingly simple win last week, we could’ve sit today at the top of the wild card race.
Never mind. This game was like a negative picture of the first 8 games of the season: good playcalling for the most part, reasonable protection, great pass rush, no special teams breakdowns, good coverage except the last couple of minutes. That gives me hope looking forward, but it will mean nothing if we can’t repeat this kind of level in the following games.
I thought about that too, but without the motivation from the loss last week,
we may not have won this week
id rather have a 24 year old (human years) dog that has advanced parkinson’s batting for our team than vlad.
-BoeJouma
That, and possibly the sting from the previous week's game against Minnesota.
I wonder if those two losses gave the Packers added motivation to beat Dallas.
"I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart."
-Anne Frank-
by Vermont Cubs Fan on Nov 15, 2009 10:18 PM CST up reply actions
the young guys needed a wake up call
and I think Chuck said after the game that this win doesn’t mean anything if they can’t carry it over to the rest of the season. Let’s hope they all keep this attitude going forward.
Well I figured we would have lost this week and won last week. So this puts us back at square one in my eyes.
Additional nice gifts come from the Carolina Panthers and SD Chargers to put us at a tie in the WC so far (although we are still technically outside looking in). But I don’t want to be in a tie or playing catchup, we need to play from ahead.
Looking to buy: General Manager Deputy Badge
by Bush League All Star on Nov 16, 2009 1:08 AM CST up reply actions
I hope
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.
I gotta agree
That controlling the clock helped the defense dominate. Even in the first half with the lousy O we still had better time of possession and it mattered.
Best game I ever attended was the 163rd game last year.
by NorthSidePaulie on Nov 15, 2009 11:47 PM CST up reply actions
49ers. Lions. Bears. Cardinals.
4 teams to beat.
Can we do it?
by Archibaldcrane on Nov 15, 2009 11:07 PM CST reply actions
honestly
maybe it’s just the whole being a Packer fan, but being a die-hard MN fan for everything but the NFL, every team on our schedule scares me (if you wonder why I’m so nervous, see the University of Minnesota football team this weekend). But I think we SHOULD beat the 49ers, Lions, Cards, and Seahawks. I’m not terribly worried about AZ cause they don’t have much of a defense and if our pass rush can get going, Warner will have nightmares.
But that leaves us with @Chicago, @Pit, and home vs. The Ravens… we need at least one of those games and it’s going to take a hell of a performance to do it. We have the potential to run the table the rest of this season, but if the O-Line continues to be the definition of a sieve, I don’t think we can win any of those 3 games and SF will be iffy too with poor line play, no matter how many runs and short passes we call. I’m optimistic and going to say we get 11 wins this year with the only loss being the Ravens
I think Arizona's legit
but we may play them when they’ve already clinched the west and will rest their starters.
Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words—"mank" and "ind". What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.
-Jack Handey
the Cardinals
are legit one week and garbage the next. Sounds like a team that I know pretty well that plays in the NFC North, huh? Point is that trying to figure out what the Cardinals will be like when we play them is too tough. They will probably peak and valley at least two more times before we play.
Frye is honestly gotta be one of the top 10 3rd Stringers in all of the NFL right now--colbyb
That would be great
But I’m not sure if we’ll be able to get 11 wins. I’m really not too worried about the 49ers as they seem to be degressing as the year goes on, and they still barely won last week despite Cutler’s generosity. Cutler was able to throw for 300+ on them and I would like to think our passing game is better then the Bears.
We should beat the Lions and I think we should beat both the Seahawks and Cardinals. The Seahawks are super inconsistent, and don’t have a very good defense. The Cards are good, and whether or not we win will depend on what Cards team shows up and our ability to get pressure on Warner.
We definitely need to win 1 game out of our 3 against the Bears, Steelers, and Ravens. We should really beat the Bears as their season seems to be quickly spiraling down the drain. I just don’t see us beating the Steelers, but we were able to play Cincy close and we saw what they did to the Steelers today. And the Ravens is one of those kind of toss ups for me. I really haven’t been that impressed with them this year, and their defense has definitely degressed from what it has been the past few years. I think if we play how we did today, and can have Tauscher at RT for these games, we could possibly pull out 2 wins.
by packallday555 on Nov 16, 2009 12:10 AM CST up reply actions
Basically
we need to somehow end up with eleven wins. I’m absolutely positive that’ll get us a wild card berth. Ten wins still looks pretty good to be a wild card team, and nine means your probably on the outside looking in.
I don’t see us winning in Pittsburgh, but I’m beginning to think we can win that Baltimore game. Their corner, Dominique Foxworth can really be picked on. The best part about that is that we can stay in a two wide formation and emphasize pass protection because he starts in the base defense.
And man, doesn’t that Cincy loss just get more and more palatable. That defense is really good. Leon Hall and Jonathan Joseph are the Harris/Woodson of the AFC and Domata Peko is nearly immovable.
Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words—"mank" and "ind". What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.
-Jack Handey
Cincy is a GREAT team this year. They are going to give teams fits in the playoffs and they even have some depth. Amazing.
The Pitt game is going to be REAL tough though if Troy is down again, that makes them beatable. Baltimore is VERY beatable…they don’t scare me. They might win but its far from a given. Their playcalling is suspect, their corners are far from what they once were and their real only weapon on O is Ray Rice. I am more scared of the Cardinals.
replace Baltimore with Green Bay and Rice with Rodgers and it sounds exactly like us
Baltimore is VERY beatable…they don’t scare me. They might win but its far from a given. Their playcalling is suspect, their corners are far from what they once were and their real only weapon on O is Ray Rice.
id rather have a 24 year old (human years) dog that has advanced parkinson’s batting for our team than vlad.
-BoeJouma
by blackoutsox on Nov 17, 2009 12:40 PM CST up reply actions
"Their Corners are far from what they once were"
Um, did you watch Charles Woodson play on sunday?
Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words—"mank" and "ind". What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.
-Jack Handey
I think
he meant Baltimore’s corners are far from what they once were. At least that was my interpretation.
Frye is honestly gotta be one of the top 10 3rd Stringers in all of the NFL right now--colbyb
I think he's making the argument
that Baltimore is at a similar competitive level as us. That may be true but we have much better corners than the Ravens.
Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words—"mank" and "ind". What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.
-Jack Handey
yeah, that was more directed at Harris, Woodson and Driver are clearly sharing the fountian of youth
sorry for the confusion
id rather have a 24 year old (human years) dog that has advanced parkinson’s batting for our team than vlad.
-BoeJouma
Yeah, I see now
And its a pretty fair comparison between the Packers and Ravens.
Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words—"mank" and "ind". What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.
-Jack Handey
You are missing the point. The point is that the Ravens were once a dominant force on defense. They had the best defensive backfield in the league and it wasn’t even close. They literally were a suffocating D and they are still pretty good but not what they once were. You missed the point.
I would be SHOCKED to hear a Baltimore fan say that Rodgers is the only real weapon. I would also be shocked to hear them calling out our corners. Sure Harris isn’t what he was but he’s the ONLY one in that defensive backfield. I guess I don’t see that relation, BUT we are OBVIOUSLY very beatable just like they are. We’ve been shown that a few times It wasn’t meant to be an overconfident comment. It was meant to be a comment about the condition of Baltimore.
I just meant that the teams were very comparable
sorry for all the confusion, I wasnt trying to make a statement, I just mentioned an interesting thing I noticed about what you said
id rather have a 24 year old (human years) dog that has advanced parkinson’s batting for our team than vlad.
-BoeJouma
I don’t see us winning in Pittsburgh, but I’m beginning to think we can win that Baltimore game. Their corner, Dominique Foxworth can really be picked on. The best part about that is that we can stay in a two wide formation and emphasize pass protection because he starts in the base defense.
Me too. We shouldn’t struggle with Baltimore’s offense too much but their defensive line is going to cause of our o-line all kinds of problems.
Cincy is a really, really good team. They have one of the better secondaries in the league, and their front seven is really good as well. And looking back at our game against them, we really could have beaten them and probably should of. We beat ourselves too much and it has really hurt us in our losses this year.
by packallday555 on Nov 17, 2009 4:11 PM CST up reply actions
The bottom line
As long as discipline issues such as dumb penalties, sieve-like protection, and inept special teams remain unsolved, the Packers can beat anyone when they manage to overcome the discipline lapses with top talent and can lose to anyone when the talent is undone by the folly.
Unless the Pack play with more consistent discipline, by all rights, our team should miss the playoffs. I sure HOPE these problems get resolved and everything comes together for a magical run, but I am not holding my breath.
big loss for Pitt
I think Polamalu is out.
Too bad for them, but good for us.
Give Ted Thompson this
The man can scout defensive personnel. Brad Jones was absolutely awesome today. I’m alot more comfortable with Kampman walking at the end of the year today, than I was yesterday.
Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words—"mank" and "ind". What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.
-Jack Handey
Yeah
He really has shown he can scout every position aside from the o-line. Trading Kampman could be a good move for us.
by packallday555 on Nov 16, 2009 1:23 AM CST up reply actions
WHAT !??
You were not comfortable with holding Kampman of the field for this game ?? You do realize he had a concussion ??? I do hope that statement was a sick joke!
By putting him back on the field too soon, we’re not talking about Kampman walking at the end of the year or not, we’re talking about putting him at serious risk for severe brain injures that first of all will affect his life after football. I don’t know if you’ve been sleeping for a couple of years, but there has been a huge focus on the effects that concussions have on athletes after their carreer. check out the segment by 60 minutes on concussions!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OtKo0wSgKM
we’re talking about very serious post football problems
jobe, Get a grip !!!!
I don't think he was saying anything about wanting him to play with a concussion.
Just that he doesn’t feel bad about him possibly leaving after this year.
by Charlie Kelly on Nov 16, 2009 3:25 AM CST up reply actions
Hey Jarls
Try reading what he wrote for a change. He never said anything about playing Kampman on Sunday. He said that after watching Brad Jones play yesterday he felt a lot more comfortable about with the thought of Kampman leaving at the end of the season. No where did it say that Kampman should have been playing out there with a concussion. I realize that the fact that he gave TT a little bit of props probably made you fly into a rage but really, reading is not that difficult. Were you screaming a few years ago when Favre got a concussion and went back on the field on his own against the doctors to throw a TD before coming off the field and having no idea what he did?
Frye is honestly gotta be one of the top 10 3rd Stringers in all of the NFL right now--colbyb
verno
yes, I realize that now, next time, I should let my coffee kick in before I reply to anything. however, if he didn’t use the word walking … but maybe leaving….
And it was not fueled by rage over his compliments to TT, it was a reaction to what I, at that moment saw as a blatent disrespect for a players healt.
I was wrong about that one, sorry jobe.
About the Favre incident from a few years ago, no, I was not screaming that hard, first of all because I did not have the same knowledge about the dangers of concussions as I do now. Second, that happened because the doctors did not take away his helmet, and as soon as they could, they yanked him from the game. It was a good thing he didn’t get hit again on that one play.
I was at that game
shame we didn’t win against a bad Giants team that year
Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words—"mank" and "ind". What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.
-Jack Handey
Defensive Win !
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.
No credit whatsoever?
That’s a little over the top. It was a well called game on offense, something we have been begging to see. The second challenge was very bad. Capers, too, very aggressive with the blitx scheme, and the players executed, Romo played well for the pressure he was under.
Just as we take MM to task for bad playcalling, preparation, etc., he should be given his due and this game qualifies for that in my opinion. The team gave him a game ball in the locker room.
The o-line is still bad, but, for maybe the first time I saw some improvement (mostly Lang) and Rodgers threaded some great passes. Well, at least it makes the next few games very interesting, something that was waning before Sunday. Good win to stop a hot team, now it’s on MM, Capers, and team to carry it forward.
Some people say the glass is half empty, some say half full. I say, are you going to drink that?
by BleedsbluinMI on Nov 16, 2009 8:39 AM CST up reply actions
Yeah
While the offense didn’t look great we did get 2 Td’s in the redzone, which has been a bit of a problem for us. Lang continues to show he is likely going to be a good football player in this league, and with Tauscher likely back this week I can’t wait to see how he looks at LG, which is thought to be his natural position.
MM’s playing calling was pretty good today, and as a result it took a lot of pressure of Rodgers. When he is able to just throw a 2-3 yard pass to any of Wr’s and have them be able to make a 7-15 yard play out of it, it makes things much easier for him.
Capers finally called a game like he did week 1, and it worked tremendousely! I’m just hoping that this will carry over to next week.
And I haven’t seen too many people mention him but Raji was great for us. We lined him up at NT on 3rd and long passing situations, and every time the Cowboys chose to double team him. Which is saying something considering how good Jenkins has been playing this year. This was huge for us, as that left Jenkins and Matthews with only one guy to beat. We were able to get so much more pressure on the Qb, and a lot of it really is because of Raji taking some attention away from our other guys. Now imagine Kampman, Raji, and Jenkins as down lineman in passing situations, plus some of Capers crazy blitzes.
by packallday555 on Nov 16, 2009 11:48 AM CST up reply actions
I love that last sentence!
Frye is honestly gotta be one of the top 10 3rd Stringers in all of the NFL right now--colbyb
Haha me too!
And did somebody honestly say Frye is a top 10 3rd stringer in the NFL? I would love to see that thread haha.
by packallday555 on Nov 16, 2009 2:55 PM CST up reply actions
Oh yeah
Before the Seahawks game last year it was a comment by a Seahawks fan defending the idea that they had a good chance against us even though Hasselback and Seneca Wallace were injured because “Frye is honestly gotta be one of the top 10 3rd stringer in all of the NFL right now.” Easily one of the funniest things I read in a while
Frye is honestly gotta be one of the top 10 3rd Stringers in all of the NFL right now--colbyb
I agree, Mike McCarthy's playcalling wasn't terrible.
However, He has continually given Mason Crosby more credit than he deserves. Bedard is right, This is a defensive team and McCarthy needs to adjust accordingly. Perhaps that means punting on fourth and long at the thirty five instead of kicking it.
Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words—"mank" and "ind". What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.
-Jack Handey
With all due respect
Punting from the 35 or 40 yard line is one of the worst plays in the NFL, in my opinion. It almost never actually succeeds in pinning the foe deep, as the ball usually bounces into the end zone. Even in the best case scenario, a team only nets 25-35 yards. Blech.
Just get Kampman
Back on the LOS with a hand in the dirt, getting after the QB and our Packers will be better for it….
Goooooo-mez!
by Drew C on Nov 16, 2009 8:39 AM CST via mobile reply actions
What stuck out most to me...
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.
And...
Rodgers throwing the ball away on occasion.
Quinn
I had expected him to be a good NFL QB, but his accuracy was awful last night. His receivers didn’t provide much help, but that doesn’t excuse his poor performance. He needs a real good QB coach to work on his accuracy and mechanics to see if he can turn his career around.
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