Brief Recap: Green Bay Packers Defeat Cardinals 33-7
by Brandon on Jan 3, 2010 7:00 PM CST
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PrintIt wasn't much of a preview for the Green Bay Packers and Cardinals playoff game next week.
QB Kurt Warner didn't move the ball in their first two possessions, and after he was pulled as a precaution, QB Matt Leinart was awful as his replacement. And the Packers only managed 1 QB hit (zero sacks) against them, so there's no indication they'll be harassing Warner next week. The Cardinals had little success running the ball, 14 carries for 48 yards, but they also took RB Beanie Wells out early. Their only TD was after an errant pass from QB Matt Flynn was returned down to the Packers' 3 yard line. I'm not expecting to hold the Cards to only 187 yards of offense, with 3 INTs, next week.
But the Packers' offense did a lot of damage against the Cardinals' 1st team defense in the first half. They marched down the field for 2 TDs on their first 2 drives, and they controlled the line of scrimmage. RB Ryan Grant had a lot of room to run. The Packers kept QB Aaron Rodgers in until the 4th quarter, and the offense did little with Flynn at QB. But the Packers were almost exclusively running the ball in the final quarter too.
I was hoping to have an update about CB Charles Woodson's injured shoulder, but I couldn't find anything. I'm not sure if it's the same shoulder that's been injured for the past couple weeks, but hopefully it's not serious.
It's hard to find anything to criticize with a 33-7 victory, and it's a promising sign of a win next week too.
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Any updates on Pat White?
"I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart."
-Anne Frank-
by Vermont Cubs Fan on Jan 3, 2010 7:02 PM CST reply actions
Cardinals fan here
Kudos on the win.
It seemed obvious to me that the entire team just didn’t want to play against you guys since the game didn’t matter, and the Packers took advantage of it. I thought it was classless for you coach to leave the starters in so long, especially after Woodson got hurt, but they were playing well when the starters were in.
Hopefully when we play next week the game is more interesting. And if you do beat us I would like to see you beat Favre in the playoffs.
Hopefully Woodson is okay, he is a good person and I think he deserves to be the defensive MVP this year.
Lifelong Arizona Cardinals/Chicago Bears fan.
I can't stand band-wagoner fans, stick with your team, throughout the good and the bad.
I think both teams approached this game the right way
The packers are young, inexperienced and on a roll. Instead of resting and losing any momentum, they kept their starters playing for most of the game.
The majority of the arizona team was in the Super Bowl last year. They know what the playoffs are all about and are well aware of what they have to do and how to do it. It made sense for them to limit playing time for their starters.
by shaftr on Jan 3, 2010 8:00 PM CST reply actions 2 recs
Score update:
NY Jets 17, Cincinnati 0, midway through the second quarter.
"I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart."
-Anne Frank-
by Vermont Cubs Fan on Jan 3, 2010 8:41 PM CST reply actions
Defensively
And the Packers only managed 1 QB hit (zero sacks) against them, so there’s no indication they’ll be harassing Warner next week.
I didn’t get to watch the game, so i didn’t see what Capers was running. Did it look like he was saving the fireworks for next weekend?
I was using ESPN's stats
The ESPN box score only showed 1 QB hit. But Matthews was a factor by forcing a safety and he destroyed a back who tried to block him.
I followed the ESPN box during the game
And they had Matthews with 3 and Jones with 2, I guess they changed it after the game to 1 hit by Jenkins. But I remember seeing at least 3 clear hits by Clay/Jones, so there’s must be a mistake.
Anyway, the NFL game book has those 5 more QB hits registered:
http://www.nfl.com/liveupdate/gamecenter/54718/ARZ_Gamebook.pdf
The Dude abides
NFL stats can vary
Unofficially Matthews had 7 QB hits. All the stats are recorded by different groups and they just come out different. It’s much harder to put numbers on defense. A player can blow up a play (like Matthews did on a couple occasions) but it might not be an obvious stat.
Clay had his way with Gandy (I believe his name is) and Jones shedded their RTs blocks a few times. We were actually getting pretty good pressure considering we were just sending 4 most of the time.
by packallday555 on Jan 5, 2010 3:45 AM CST up reply actions
I was almost positive
the Joe/Troy Sunday game next week would be Eagles/Cowboys, but they’ll be playing Saturday night. We’ll be the last wild card weekend game when we kick off 4:30 on Sunday.
In the most predictable football scheduling decision ever, the Cincinnati/New York matchup will be in the worst tv game slot, as they kickoff saturday at 4:00. Baltimore/New England will kick sunday at 1:00 on CBS.
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The wild-card schedule is out!
Saturday, Jan. 9
AFC: 4:30 p.m. ET — NY Jets/Houston at Cincinnati (NBC-TV)
NFC: 8 p.m. ET — Philadelphia at Dallas (NBC-TV)
Sunday, Jan. 10
AFC: 1 p.m. ET — Baltimore at New England (CBS-TV)
NFC: 4:40 p.m. ET — Green Bay at Arizona (FOX-TV)
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3 of the games are repeats of today's games
that’s quite bizarre.
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Both NFC games are exact repeats.
Philadelphia at Dallas, and Green Bay at Arizona.
Both other games are rematches, too.
NY Jets at Cincinnati (okay, admittedly, the first game was in NY), but Baltimore at New England is also a rematch. Remember when the Ravens were screaming that Tom Brady threw himself to the ground, and then hopped past a tackler? Both times, it was called “roughing the passer,” though “roughing the pussy” would have been a better call.
Now the Ravens have another chance at NE.
"I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart."
-Anne Frank-
by Vermont Cubs Fan on Jan 3, 2010 10:31 PM CST up reply actions
Lat four playoff sunday 4:30 games
2005 Minnesota 31 Green Bay 17
2004 Green Bay 17 Philadelphia 20
2002 Green Bay 17 St. Louis 45
1999 Green Bay 27 San Francisco 30
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
those were all with Favre.
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
So true...
not sure what that means though. I just hope he does the same thing in the playoffs this year!!
If we want to see that happen
I’d root Cowboys on saturday. Loadholt and McKinnie can’t handle Ware and Spencer.
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
About time to reverse that trend, eh?
"I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart."
-Anne Frank-
by Vermont Cubs Fan on Jan 4, 2010 12:42 AM CST up reply actions
Classless would be Favre staying in with the score 41-0....
In all seriousness, the Packers are thin in the secondary anyways, it’s not there fault they picked off the Cards 3 times. Would it be classy to put in special teams players for CB’s? Also, if they got injured, our ST would be even worse for next weekend.
The Packers built up all that false confidence early on against bad teams; it’s important now to get everyone gelling. I mean the Packers looked more or less like they were practicing for next week: a safety, a field goal, INT TD, QB sneak TD, rushing TD, passing TD, long passes, option slants, etc. Really, it seemed liked they were testing to see what will work best next week. AZ however did none of that, so let’s see how that bodes for them.
Additionally, Fitzgerald made that statement about the Cards being upset about the preseason game. Apparently “upset” means letting the starters put 70 points up on you. I don’t think next week will be like this week or preseason but if it is, AZ will look back on today as a missed opportunity.
Just saying…
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by PackerProphet on Jan 3, 2010 10:49 PM CST via mobile reply actions
That was classless, I agree.
Minnesota didn’t even have to try, they had that game wrapped up well before then, too.
"I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart."
-Anne Frank-
by Vermont Cubs Fan on Jan 3, 2010 11:06 PM CST up reply actions
Way more classless.
Favre should have been on the bench by halftime.
I thought that people like Rodgers were the ones that should have been pulled, I didn’t have as much of a problem with the defensive players staying in.
Lifelong Arizona Cardinals/Chicago Bears fan.
I can't stand band-wagoner fans, stick with your team, throughout the good and the bad.
Seriously
There are no "BACK UPS " behind bell, underwood and bush THEY ARE THE FRICKEN BACKUPS!!! We only have 4-5 DL’s THEY ROTATE as they have all year and Pickett was injured to boot so…. WHO ARE THEIR BACK UPS???? there are none. Jordy Nelson is like 4th string and he burned the cards. As far as "PULLING STARTERS " You really can only “pull” a couple of players - Rodgers, Driver, Jennings maybe tausher and clifton, and grant. Otherwise they way it has been ALL YEAR is that everyone rotates. As far as Im concerned with Bush, Bell and Undewrood in They were playing our “back ups” Classless my ass
Exactly.
Its not like the Cards pulled everyone. They pulled Warner. Fitz still played. Boldin still played. Their RBs still played (TH and BW got almost every carry). I don’t know about the D, I don’t know your players as well there but lets not make this more than it was. It was the Packer choosing to play a little more of the game with the starter than the Cards did. They were clearly using it to get some mo and confidence in a young team. I hope it pays off too!
Almost the entire starting defense went out.
Lifelong Arizona Cardinals/Chicago Bears fan.
I can't stand band-wagoner fans, stick with your team, throughout the good and the bad.
Favre adding to his legacy...
Though MM pulled Rodgers after he passed Favre’s season high for passing yards but before breaking Dickey’s record.
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by PackerProphet on Jan 3, 2010 11:09 PM CST via mobile reply actions
Back ups
I didn’t yet get a chance to watch this game as I’m at a very very boring night at work, but I can repeat one thing, and that’s MM probably wasn’t at all looking at any kind of records for when he decided to pull people. His choice probably had more to do with what kinds of looks and such he wanted to see out of his offense and probably who he actually had on defense, as there isn’t alot of depth there.
I think on the injury side of things, as long as Chuck is ok for this playoffs, the cards definately came out the worse for wear. Which is weird, because given they knew they wheren’t playing for anything other than pride, I would have been pulling WR’s and QB’s as soon as I got the looks I wanted to see. I can’t believe it took till the time boldin suffered an injury to get those looks. Although DRC would be far and away a worse loss, as evidenced by our gasping and holding our chests when Chuck got injured.
Classless?? This is football!
The idea is that if I line up my O (1st string, 2nd string, etc.) and you line up your D, its your job to stop me and vise versa. That is regardless of the status of your playoff position. If your team can’t stop the offense then don’t cry about the score. The goal of a good team is to exploit a weaker team. Yesterday, you were the weaker team in all phases of the game. Lets hope you put up a better fight next Sunday.
You don’t like a team scoring then stop them from doing it. Otherwise, get out of the way!
by pvilleWIcheezhed on Jan 4, 2010 12:57 PM CST reply actions 1 recs
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