With Claiborne back, Rodgers will not have faced a secondary as deep and talented all year long. The Giants were without DRC which was a huge blow for them.Their OT are better than their OG and our interior rush should be able to get in his face at a decent pace.
Cobb is a deep threat certainly but this defense just doesn't give up big plays. They don't run the ball. Cook doesn't concern me. Combine that with Nelson being out and I like our defense's chances.
Rodgers did face NY's full defensive backfield earlier in the season with a much better pass rush than ours. Minni's 2dary is pretty good as well. I thought the Dallas 2ndary played pretty well in the first GB game, but the real story there was Rodgers, uncharacteristic level of unforced errors, which I don't believe is too repeatable.
Not sure if Claiborne will be fully recovered by Sunday, given that he couldn't participate in full practices last week after having setbacks a few weeks prior. If he is near 100%, we will clearly have our best 2ndary configuration of the season especially with all of the experience Brown has had in the interim and how the safeties have grown around the leadership of Jones and a better situated Church.
You are correct that we good at preventing the deep ball and in our first meeting almost all the deep damage was accomplished by Jordy.
I still think that we will have to score more than 30 points to win....and I believe we can do that.
