Aaron Rodgers to practice Thursday; will play Sunday with torn calf muscle *merge*

5Stars said:
Wat? Is this troll speak?
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No. It's Marinelli defense. They bend, but don't break. That is, they give up a lot of yards but make the stop when it's needed. Aaron Rodgers is like scissors to a bend not break defense. Just ask the Bears.
 
Eric_Boyer said:
I don't think the defense "went to crap" against the Patriots.
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Tom Brady had 235 yards passing and two TD's. Sure, they didn't give up 300 yards against them, but they didn't look like a defense ranked 10th either.

They gave up 300 yards to Brees and nearly 400 to Matt Ryan. Outside of those three, the only other two QBs the Packers faced that were really any threat were Stafford and Tannehill.

I'm just saying, this Packers D isn't some dominant force. They've had problems in their secondary for quite some time and that hasn't changed. What has is their run D slipping, and it's quite bad this year.
 
mattjames2010 said:
Tom Brady had 235 yards passing and two TD's. Sure, they didn't give up 300 yards against them, but they didn't look like a defense ranked 10th either.

They gave up 300 yards to Brees and nearly 400 to Matt Ryan. Outside of those three, the only other two QBs the Packers faced that were really any threat were Stafford and Tannehill.

I'm just saying, this Packers D isn't some dominant force. They've had problems in their secondary for quite some time and that hasn't changed. What has is their run D slipping, and it's quite bad this year.
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Matt Ryan was losing 31-7 prior to compiling his big stats.

I mean, whatever helps you sleep at night, but I don't agree with your premise at all.
 
This is about the worst match-up we could face IMO. I fear Rodgers more then Manning and Brady.
 
Eric_Boyer said:
This is about the worst match-up we could face IMO. I fear Rodgers more then Manning and Brady.
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Seattle is worse, IMHO. They're liable to cut our offense's head off. By the way, I don't care that we've beat them once.

And you should fear Rodgers more than Manning or Brady. He's better than Manning or Brady. He's on track to be the best ever.
 
kurtatx said:
Seattle is worse, IMHO. They're liable to cut our offense's head off. By the way, I don't care that we've beat them once.

And you should fear Rodgers more than Manning or Brady. He's better than Manning or Brady. He's on track to be the best ever.
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We matchup better with Seattle because they are not going to light up the scoreboard.
 
Eric_Boyer said:
Matt Ryan was losing 31-7 prior to compiling his big stats.

I mean, whatever helps you sleep at night, but I don't agree with your premise at all.
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Then don't agree.

It's not like Matt Ryan got his stats in garbage time, he brought the Falcons back and nearly beat the Packers. 375 yards, 4 TDs and only 1 INT when coming from behind is not a good thing for a pass defense any way you slice it.

Anything else?
 
mattjames2010 said:
Then don't agree.

It's not like Matt Ryan got his stats in garbage time, he brought the Falcons back and nearly beat the Packers. 375 yards, 4 TDs and only 1 INT when coming from behind is not a good thing for a pass defense any way you slice it.

Anything else?
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yes, when a team gets up 31-7, they usually change what they were doing that got them their, and allow the underneath stuff all day. That is exactly what happened in that game.

Also, their performance has been night and day different at home compared to on the road.
 
Eric_Boyer said:
yes, when a team gets up 31-7, they usually change what they were doing that got them their, and allow the underneath stuff all day. That is exactly what happened in that game.

Also, their performance has been night and day different at home compared to on the road.
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Yeah, with 4 minutes left in the 4th. What the hell do you think Green Bay did? Started playing prevent after the half? The Packers allowed 30 points after the half, that wasn't a "change up" that was a freakin' defensive collapse and even the Green Bay HC said so himself.

Haha, you're crazy.
 
mattjames2010 said:
Yeah, with 4 minutes left in the 4th. What the hell do you think Green Bay did? Started playing prevent after the half? The Packers allowed 30 points after the half, that wasn't a "change up" that was a freakin' defensive collapse and even the Green Bay HC said so himself.

Haha, you're crazy.
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not prevent, but soft underneath. They went into half up 24 points. Players let down, schemes change.
 
I'm going to go out of a limp (well, not really) and say that Rodgers' calf muscle will affect him, and we'll do something to aggravate it even more so.
 
Eric_Boyer said:
not prevent, but soft underneath. They went into half up 24 points. Players let down, schemes change.
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You don't change a scheme up with two quarters left. Should I give you the quotes from the coaches and players after that game? No Packers' player or coach was proud of that defensive performance. McCarthy called it the "Tale of two halves" due to the defense collapsing in the second half.

You don't get nearly 400 yards on underneath stuff, you don't score 30 points from underneath stuff either. The Packers pass D is suspect and you're going to see that come Sunday.
 
Playing opossum, best trick in the book ;)
Playing or not or 100% or 90 or 80 or whatever, come Sunday he's gonna get a nice Dose of Big D!
 
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Eric_Boyer said:
the hell you don't.

not only do you change it up.. you change it because it's the half, and you anticipate the other side making changes as well.
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I'm obviously meaning when you're up 24 points with two quarters left. There is still football left, there is absolutely no reason to start allowing "underneath routes" and acting as if there is a couple minutes left in a game.

And if they "changed up", which they didn't, it led to 30 points and a couple hundred yards passing from the opposing team. The Falcons came out and executed and the Packers' D didn't, it's simple as that.

That Packers' pass defense has a lot of holes and I can't wait for Romo and our WRs to exploit them.
 
The calf injury will prevent Rodgers from running to get those killer 10 yards all the time.

He'll be stuck in the pocket.

This is a huge handicap to his game
 
Eric_Boyer said:
We matchup better with Seattle because they are not going to light up the scoreboard.
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This is the reason I'm much more comfortable facing Seattle than I am Green Bay. While they can slow us down, their offense will keep us in the game. And I'm not entirely sure just how much they can slow us down. We shot ourselves in the foot an awful lot against them earlier in the year and still put up some points.
 
kurtatx said:
Seattle is worse, IMHO. They're liable to cut our offense's head off. By the way, I don't care that we've beat them once.

And you should fear Rodgers more than Manning or Brady. He's better than Manning or Brady. He's on track to be the best ever.
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Nope...Green Bay will be a nightmare at Lambeau...a quarterback not throwing any interceptions at home is definitely a quarterback that should get your FULL attention. Dec 2. 2012...last time he threw a regular season interception at home. A stupendous feat, considering that he has thrown just ONE interception in the post-season (vs. San Francisco - Jan 2013) over that same time frame. One interception at home in over two years, and as much as I hate to say it, that is a real difference between him and Romo. It really is the worse match-up for the Dallas secondary...that's not to say that they can't win, but MANY things will have to go right on Sunday...especially running the ball at around a buck-fifty. The 49ers showed "twice" how you beat GB at Lambeau...potent ground game and excellent defense. Dallas might have only one of the two, but that only means they might have to win a shoot-out, depending on the state of Rodgers calf.
 
Heisenberg said:
This is the reason I'm much more comfortable facing Seattle than I am Green Bay. While they can slow us down, their offense will keep us in the game. And I'm not entirely sure just how much they can slow us down. We shot ourselves in the foot an awful lot against them earlier in the year and still put up some points.
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Yep...it's like Romo said, when you know the other team can't run away with it, you can relax and focus on clawing your way back into contention. Seattle is small-ball + smash-mouth defense (with a pro-bowl secondary). Nobody really scares you at WR...they don't even have a 1,000 yard receiver this year*. The damage happens via running the ball with Wilson and Lynch. *Doug Baldwin 2014: 66 rec 825 yds 12.5 avg 3 TD vs. Jordy Nelson: 98 rec 1519 yds 15.5 avg 13 TD
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