The Packers are Scary!

[Doomsday101]

Luckily Dallas has the recipe to beat any team and we saw the Saints beat the crap out of Green Bay by running the ball right down their throat.

I agree, you have to be able to run vs GB and those long drives have to end up as TD's, long drives and walking away with 3's will not cut it.

 

[remdak]

Posters saying the Packers are a "system" team have no idea what they are talking about. If they were a system team, then why do they struggle when Rodgers goes out. Why were they one of the worse teams in the league when he was down for two months last year. (except for the 2nd half of the Dallas game last year. Tell me in what system a QB can put the ball on a dime to a WR well covered 60 yards downfield in 20 degree weather.

Packers are a good team with a Great, Great QB. The only question is the defense. You can scratch off the first month of the season when they lost to Seattle and Detroit. During September, McCarthy wanted to be a running team and have Eddie Lacy be the focal point but finally decided after the Detroit game to make Aaron Rodgers and the passing game the focal point. Good Decision. Eddie may not run like he did last year but teams are still focusing on stopping him. Rodgers is just insanely accurate. The NO game was one of those games. They were matching scores easily with New Orleans but when Rodgers tweaked his hamstring the team acted like it a car that blew a rod. Rodgers three picks this year have all bounced off the WRs hands. They should have caught them.

Moving Matthews to ILB seems to have settled the defense down. Additionally, HaHa Clinton Dix now has a half season under him and the secondary is playing much better than they they were earlier. Packers proved in 2010 they can win on the road. The played at Philly, at Atlanta, and at Chicago. Two cold weather places that did not affect them.

Packers under McCarthy always play their best games in November/December. Rodgers is having an MVP season again. Before it is over this year, I predict they will have the #1 seed for the playoffs. Packers are a freight train and as long as #12 is behind center, that train keeps barreling down the tracks....

Packers have lost 3 of their last 4 playoff games and 2 of their last 3 playoff games at home where they are "unbeatable" in January

 

[LandryFan]

Forget about the "respect for past generations" angle and be honest with yourself. Do you REALLY believe Unitas could do the things Rodgers does today? The mobility plus the ridiculously pin-point accuracy?

To me, you really can't compare past era QB's to today's version. I don't see how anyone can honestly say that "fill in the blank with any QB" is/was the best ever, including P. Manning, Brady, Rogers and so on. All you can say is they're the best in this era. The rules are so different today in favor of the QB. I wonder what some of the past greats would look like with the benefit of today's rules/protection, and at the same time, wonder how today's top QB's would fare getting their heads beat in every week while their receivers were getting legally mugged all over the field.

 

[locked&loaded]

Posters saying the Packers are a "system" team have no idea what they are talking about. If they were a system team, then why do they struggle when Rodgers goes out. Why were they one of the worse teams in the league when he was down for two months last year. (except for the 2nd half of the Dallas game last year. Tell me in what system a QB can put the ball on a dime to a WR well covered 60 yards downfield in 20 degree weather.

Packers are a good team with a Great, Great QB. The only question is the defense. You can scratch off the first month of the season when they lost to Seattle and Detroit. During September, McCarthy wanted to be a running team and have Eddie Lacy be the focal point but finally decided after the Detroit game to make Aaron Rodgers and the passing game the focal point. Good Decision. Eddie may not run like he did last year but teams are still focusing on stopping him. Rodgers is just insanely accurate. The NO game was one of those games. They were matching scores easily with New Orleans but when Rodgers tweaked his hamstring the team acted like it a car that blew a rod. Rodgers three picks this year have all bounced off the WRs hands. They should have caught them.

Moving Matthews to ILB seems to have settled the defense down. Additionally, HaHa Clinton Dix now has a half season under him and the secondary is playing much better than they they were earlier. Packers proved in 2010 they can win on the road. The played at Philly, at Atlanta, and at Chicago. Two cold weather places that did not affect them.

Packers under McCarthy always play their best games in November/December. Rodgers is having an MVP season again. Before it is over this year, I predict they will have the #1 seed for the playoffs. Packers are a freight train and as long as #12 is behind center, that train keeps barreling down the tracks....

Last year they had Tolzein starting most of those games... If Flynn was playing it would have been different. Flynn has thrown six tds in one game with that offense.

the packers were out of the game before Rodgers tweaked his poor widdle hammy

My contention is that the packers are definitely beatable. I live in Wisconsin and I only miss their games when the Cowboys are on at the same time, and even then I have the pack in the background...I never miss a cowboys game, even during deer hunting... I have to stay sharp to argue with friends and family.

Besides Manning, Rodgers is the best qb in the league. However, he does hold onto the ball too long. This combined with a pretty average o line can spell disaster for the packers. We need to roll coverage to Jordy, and we need to get to Rodgers. the packers also feast off of the wrs making people miss, this is where our everyman to the ball mentality will surely show.

Lacy looked good last year, I was thinking he would come back this year a bit quicker, but he seems like he may have lost half a step? That being said, if you allow him a few yards to gain momentum he will bowl you over. Because of our swarming defense and everyman to the ball motto I don't forsee him being much of a problem, especially on dumpoffs or screens, he is too slow to make that one cut in the hole to make a player miss, just get to him and hit him low. In addition, Mccarthy refuses to run him 20 times, so he never gets a chance to wear down a defense, McCarthy also hates to run in the redzone.

they have some good defenders; clay, peppers, t Williams and sam shields. That being said, Clinton dix and morgan burnette are nothing special and their d line rotation is pretty average, especially after losing raji. We will be able to run the ball on the packers all day...all day! right up the gut should be the recipe, thru guion, through hawk, then their two average safeties.

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[VACowboy]

Rodgers is flawless and the team scores the ball, but they aren't a particularly great pass rushing team and play no run defense.

Pack is good, no doubt. But scary? Nah.

 

[Doomsday101]

If this season has shown anything it is the fact all teams are beatable. Latest example Rams just beat the Broncos. The one cruel reality of football it is 1 game and all the stats in the world a team accumulates during the season is meaningless it comes down to that 1 game on that day.

 

[LandryFan]

I think we'd be better off finishing behind Green Bay. Rodgers is a California boy and Romo is from Wisconsin. And we have an elite O-line and running game.

Who has the advantage in -10 degree weather in December at Lambeau: a pass-happy team dependant on their California-bred QB, or an elite O-line with a 2,000 yard rusher and a Wisconsin-bred QB?

Rogers is a California boy who plays all his home games in Green Bay, frickin' Wisconsin. I get your point, but just sayin'...

 

[Risen Star]

The Packers at home in the cold is the worst possible matchup for the Eagles. You can't go up there and play finesse football.

 

[xwalker]

This team isn't going to be easy to beat this year. They just made a pretty good Eagles team (as much as that pains to say ) look like the worst team in the league.

Yes, the Packers looked good; however Sanchez missed a lot of opportunities.

The Eagles could stop a simple slant route to save their lives.

 

[casmith07]

This team isn't going to be easy to beat this year. They just made a pretty good Eagles team (as much as that pains to say ) look like the worst team in the league.

They're shooting their wad early. They punished a hapless Bears team that looked like it wanted to be anywhere but in that game, and the Eagles got exposed. Not worried about it. That defense can get run on.

 

[TrailBlazer]

Dallas could beat them. Their defense is good but not great and wouldn't fare well at stopping our run game. I think dallas could outscore them but the Packers look like the class of the NFC.

 

[ScipioCowboy]

The packers are a match up nightmare for the Eagles because it be Eagles on their offense as quickly as they can, meaning Rodgers gets twice as many opportunities as he normally would.