Well, That Was Exciting: Packers Beat Colts 24-21

While the team game planned for the Colts as a team, I don’t believe individual players put in the prep work and film study for their opponents (ex Clifton vs Freeney). So I wouldn’t put too much into this game. Obviously if this happens in wk 1 vs NO, then it might be time to be worried. Clifton is an old pro and looked like he isn’t yet ready for wk 1. Lets not make too much of this…

Finley made a nice play on the TD and it was a great pass by Rodgers. Angerer actually played Finley about as good as you could expect for a LB covering Finley.

Bush needs to play Safety. He gets turned around to easily in man coverage, but seems to be do better when the play is in front of him in zone. Didn’t see House much, anyone see how he did?

Waynes TD is on Shields and Burnett, but got caught playing the WR in the slot. Must have been a great look/pump fake by Painter, cuz both bit REALLY hard on it!

Few things to clean up certainly, but not worth getting your panties in a bunch over. Looks like Harrell played himself into a roster spot to me. The INT was just a bit high, but he seemed to have really good command of the offense while in the game.

and it seemed like the no huddle was wearing out the OLine.

I’d like to see them be able to score TDs without the no huddle….. at least once with the first team.

We may have won the TOP against the Colts today, but it would have been a whole lot different against Peyton Manning. Had this been a Regular Season game, the 2nd Half could have been a disaster for us. Especially considering we only scored 10 points on 6 possessions in the 1st Half.

We didn’t have to win in shootouts last year because we had a good defense. We are now forcing ourselves into shootouts by doing this. You can’t expect our defense to play at an elite level if they’re always on the field. We may be able to dominate bad teams with this strategy, but we may suffer different results against teams with a legit starting QB.

Even if Rodgers does continue to let the game clock wind down to 3 seconds before the snap, he’s not letting his offensive linemen settle down. They need to be poised and relaxed. I think this is a good strategy to use on occasion when you can’t get anything going, but using it on every single drive is not the best decision.

This is especially true if there is a high powered offense on the other side of the ball. The way a football game is won in today’s NFL is a strong passing attack to establish a lead and then a strong running game to finish a team.

To answer Jabooty’s question, I’m very concerned that our offense can only seem to get going in the no huddle. More and more I think it’s the o-line. They aren’t opening holes, they aren’t getting protection, and this week had lots of stupid penalties. Sitton hasn’t looked good for two weeks now and Cliton just had his ass handed to him last night. If those two aren’t play to the expectation we are hoping for out of them then the Pack is in trouble (especially when Sherrod didn’ t look too hot last night either).

Are bloated this year because they’re required to spend way more than they have in the past. They pretty much have to give Redskin-style contracts this year.

Showing it now, will keep opposing return teams from completely bailing during the kickoff. It gives our coverage teams a better opportunity to beat the blocking getting back.

If we stopped giving opinions when TT and MM didn’t care about them then APC would cease to exist altogether.

But seriously, MM does have an interest in who gets paid what. He might not make the roster decisions, but there’s no way he could be happy with losing players due to salary cap restrictions, so in a way he does care how much every single player makes.

They want their guy, and they want him now! I say, they should take a chill pill; the RB situation will work itself out. This cannot happen if the games haven’t even been played yet…

I thought Lang looked better out there than those guys. But the o-line started out good in pass protection and then fell apart after a couple possessions.

Bush was dropping in coverage after faking a blitz, and was deeper than Burnett & Shields when the pass was thrown. Maybe Burnett being so out of position is the reason, or maybe Bush was deep because he had deep coverage.

Shields had man coverage on Wayne and dropped him for some reason, assuming he was faked somehow, tho I don’t see how.

Couldn’t have possibly been because he was supposed to have Bush help deep, huh?

Burnett was supposed to stay deep. Both Shields and Burnett played that very badly, not Bush.

YOU’RE NOT DOM CAPERS; YOU DON’T FUCKING KNOW THAT!! Bush could have had that responsibility. You say when called on it, that you use “imo”, and “I think” more than anyone else on this site, but you clearly don’t. You are presenting your opinions on the coverage as indisputable facts when they are not. And, as usual, you’re being condescending, acting as though you know more than everyone else.

And he does seem to get turned around in man coverage. Thats why I think he’s best as a Safety for us. Let him face the play and keep everything in front of him.

I’m like NorthStarr, I don’t share the Bush loathing. Certainly not a good CB, OK safety IMO, and very good ST player.