Brief Recap: Green Bay Packers Stunned On Steelers TD With No Time Left On The Clock, 37-36

Mason Crosby.

..Who’s to say we don’t still go down and get a TD despite being up by 1. Obviously that puts it at 38-30, which makes things a lot more difficult on them. I don’t think the loss was his fault by any means but he has been below average this year, and he doesn’t seem to be able to fix his problem of hooking the ball right like he has been all year.

We lost at least three games last year due to missed field goals. And in all those occasions, the opposing team marched down the field and made their attempt to win the game. My memory fails me, but I’m pretty sure the Titans and the Texans were two of them.

I think a large part of it is on Capers. Playing prevent every single play of the Steelers game winning drive was so stupid. Throw in at least a couple of blitzes that force the Qb to throw one underneath, or force him to try and make a diffcult throw downfield which your guys will be ready for.

He was abused all night.

This was about 90% a choke job by the defense and about 10% Crosby blowing another FG

The fact that we actually matched his offer sheet was absolutely sickening to me. He is absolutely hopless. He really should be cut right now. I would truly rather bring in a guy who doesn’t know much about our system then continue to have Bush be our nickel back.

Rodgers play today should quiet all the ney-sayers about whether or not “he can come through in the clutch and blah, blah, blah.” He continually came through in the clutch for us, despite the lack of help he got from our WR’s early on. He is absolutely the real deal.

Tell me about it, and most of the drops were on what could have been relatively important plays. Driver had a couple that both would have been first downs, which would have kept drives going that eventually stalled.

That was the only time I really criticized Capers play calling. Matthews should have been blitzing, not our run stopping big guys. argh!

If you are up by a score, just keep doing what you are doing the whole game. It was working. I would rather Roth have to get rid of the ball quickly than have time to sit back and throw.

But I have to say rushing 3 on a contain in the final 2 min did not help. As bad as the secondary played Capers left them hanging way to long. I would rather cross my fingers on a blitz getting home than see what I saw in the later parts of the game. I hope they just learn from this and keep playing tough.

Perfectly said turd, especially the last couple sentences. We know we’re thin at Cb with 3 of them on IR, and we know the nickel and dime backs are bad and inexperienced so what makes Capers think that they might be able to cover someone for 4+ seconds?

instead of just slipping off Roethlisberger with 13 seconds left, that would’ve been game over.

Just one of many, many missed opportunities in that 2 minute drill.

Suddenly a game comes down to a guy you signed a couple weeks ago. I think the Pack make the playoffs but you got to know those playoff teams are going to look at Bush & Bell and start licking their chops.

I do think they can make some noise in the playoffs because they can point points on the board and they do have a few playmakers on defense.

I think we gave them 15 free yards on that last drive. Absolutely not acceptable. Imagine Big Ben having to throw that game winner from 35-40 yards instead of 20.

The coaching staff still playing Bush really worries me. He is terrible, and it’s not hard to see.

The week 17 matchup in Philly is setting up to decide the division.

have been up and down all year, and the Vikings have a tendency to play up or down to their opponents.

Was wondering the same about the Bigby hit. My friend and I just about blew a gasket complaining about how that wasn’t called a fumble, and how MM didn’t challenge it.

I just didn’t like the fact that Matthews wasn’t always one of the 3 men, especially on that 4th and 7 play.

Damn good point my friend. The 3 man rushes will almost never get it done against, especially against playoff caliber teams, and not being able to make what are relatively easy FGs at a fairly high rate will not cut it against some of these playoff teams. Then you add on too that, that your nickel back really might be the worst starting cover in football. The 2 guys your shuffling at dime are young and have no to experience in a defense in a defensive system that is relatively complicated and hard to pick up, especially for some young guys.

Our offense is good, and is still continuing to improve in the 14th week of the season. I think we have an offense that with decent o-line play, like we’ve been getting these past 5-6 weeks, is on the verge of becoming a pretty dominant one around the league. I can’t help but think what a couple of good, above average o-linemen could do for our offense. If Rodgers had the time to sit back in the pocket for 3-4 seconds, pretty consistently, like some of the better Qb’s this year have the privilege of doing it would be scary to see what Rodgers could do. The offense is young, and has Finley, who has the ability to become an elite pass catching TE. They also have Jennings who is already a darn good WR in the league, plus Jones and Nelson have been capable themselves when the opportunity presents itself.

We just need to get some young OT/OG’s and Cb’s in this coming year’s draft, get a new kicker, and a special teams coach who actually has some understanding of good special teams play along with some new special teams players. I have a feeling we could easily see only one or two of those things happening though..

It occurred away from the pick too, so that was a real backbreaker.

They lost on penalties, special teams and poor play from their dime back, all of which have cost them games before.

Jones looked great today. The play he shedded that block on that WR reverse was something I haven’t seen out of a Packer’s LB in a long time. Clay was great too, getting what should have been 3 sacks and a forced and recovered fumble. Raji played NT for Pickett, and too be honest I didn’t even notice he was out until about halfway through. Finley was excellent, and showed that he is going to make things happen when he gets a decent amount of talent. Jones had that great TD, in which he ran a great route and made a nice leaping catch and Nelson looked solid when he out there. We just have some pretty big gaps in other places and I’m really hoping TT will see them and fix them.

While the these numbers aren’t even really even all that bad, it does show that Favre still isn’t capable of playing at the same level he used to be able to maintain throughout an entire season. If you look at his numbers and watched him play the past 7 or 8 years, there is and was no denying that his play declined late in the year. He played spectacular in that Seahawks game in the 07’ playoffs but a lot of people seem to have forgotten that Grant ran for 200 yards and 3 TDs that game. His play has declined and it isn’t something that is just being fabricated.

I think he was so excited with Grant because those were the kind of runs we were seeing from him in 07’. He looked explosive on that run, outrunning an angle getting us a huge TD for us. That helped our team so much, and really helped the offense relax and get in a good rhythm a bit more. He needs to run that way more consistently.

Does not look happy with his grumpy crossed arms.

This makes our loss not feel as bad. I honestly don’t care about losing to Pitt, they played tough. Just win out. Go to the playoffs and party. :)

I have told Vikes fans over on DN a couple of times that Winfield isn’t all that spectacular in coverage but they all seem to tell me otherwise every time. He got beat 3-4 times tonight, and a few of them were for huge plays.

He is just a kid out there….

Our buddy was helping them make those fine points….

A poor game by Favre tonight coincides perfectly with what Gonzo just got done trying deny. There is no denying Favre looked mediocore tonight and really has looked that way the past few weeks.

Saints just pretty much got home-field after that.

Saints fan to Vikings? “Thanks for homefield!”
Hell the VIkings could almost lose 2 seed at this rate.

The Eagles would get a two spot, and have to play Dallas (as of right now). Then go on to play the Hot eagles at Philly…ouch.

And really, Green Bay has always been one of the more pass happy offenses in the NFL, even dating back to Favre. We were passing the ball actually way more in 2007 than we are now, and we were 13-3.

I’m assuming you didn’t see how Ryan Grant had 6 rushes for 17 yards before he broke off that touchdown run, right? Running game was pathetic today.

Most of us here in Pittsburgh appreciate a hard-fought ,close game. After 5 losses, it was nice to have one end in our favor. When the Pack started their last drive, the people around the TV set I was watching were saying "I hope they score quickly, so we ge another chance." Last year we’d all be screaming for the D to come up big.

Doesn’t that suck? At least you guys have had the privilege of having a defense that could make those big stops the past few years.