Hold on everybody, the Packer roller-coaster season is only in mid-ride. Just when most Packer fans were ready to bail out of the car, the season swooped up to it's highest point so far. The amazing win against the formerly on-a-roll Dallas Cowboys has left Packer fans everywhere just a bit giddy.
So what changed? What was responsible for the 180 degree turnaround from the putrid performance in Tampa? Specifically, what three things put a smile on my face?
1. Mike McCarthy had a good game plan and called a good game - for a change. As critical as I have been of his [...]
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32. Cleveland Browns (1-7)
Biggest mess in football right now.
31. St. Louis Rams (1-7)
Talent issues. [...]
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Watching a Mike McCarthy press conference always brings out my emotional side. The chuckles, the sneers, the jaw-drops, the yelling, the abusing of my computer monitor. Good thing I don't work in an office full of people.
I am often left wondering, does McCarthy really believe the s**t he drops on us every week? Does he get a kick out of insulting beat reporters and fans with the same empty promises and catch-phrases? After this Tampa debacle, a real coach would have just come out and said: We stunk today - players, coaches, collectively we were horses**t. I promise you it will NOT happen again as long as I am coach of [...]
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I sat down tonight to review the film of the Packers - Vikings game. I didn't make it very far. Within the first 5 minutes, I saw three plays that would foretell how the game would unfold. Already disgusted, I threw down the remote and bailed on watching the whole game. Why torture myself? It was clear that these three plays would give me plenty to write about.
Play # 1: Packers first running play. Grant makes a BAD, BAD decision.
With Quinn Johnson as the lead blocker, Rodgers hands off to Ryan Grant on what looks like an outside zone run. Johnson meets the linebacker head-on and everywhere, [...]
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Throughout the 48-year history of the Packers - Vikings rivalry, there have been some special moments, but probably none that will live up to this weekend's events. An aging Viking leader returns with a new band of men, looking to plunder the very homeland he once loved. The word Viking is Scandinavian for "pirate", an appropriate description of our former hero gone astray. Like the Vikings of the eigth and ninth centuries, Brett The Grey and his [...]
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The Green Bay Packers have finally found something that can help their running game, and I'm not talking about the signing of former Packer Pro-Bowler Ahman Green. No, quite accidentally (thanks to the injury to Korey Hall and the blowout of the Lions), the Packers finally put 5th round draft choice Quinn Johnson onto the field.
With a safe 26-0 lead and only the hapless Lions to hold off for 1 quarter, Coach Mike McCarthy took the opportunity to see what Quinn Johnson could do in live game action.
Inactive for the first five games as fullback #3 in [...]
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Two things about this Top-Seven QB list:
a.) Because it deals with the game's sexiest position, we're going to expand it to Top 13.
b.) Relevant factors include "everything up to this point". Thus, a player's entire career, including what he's done in 2009, is taken into account. But it's not strictly about who has had the best career or best '09 season. It's simply, All things considered, who is the best right now?
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Houston @ Cincinnati
If you haven't read Rick Reilly's review of Chad Ochocinco's book, please do so. But be prepared to endure the disappointment that comes with realizing one of the most lovable figures in pro football is really not a good guy.
Pick: Bengals
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(From the "Things are not Always as They Seem Department": Offensive Line Edition)
Perception #1 " "Jared Allen had 4 sacks so Daryn Colledge was awful against the Vikings..."
When the Green Bay Packers played the Minnesota Vikings last Monday Night, Aaron Rodgers was sacked 8 times, with 4 credited to Jared Allen. Since Daryn Colledge was the man drawing the difficult task of blocking the two-time Pro-Bowler, one would assume he had a bad night. In fact, I have heard many say how awful Colledge played on Monday Night.
But being the curious type, I needed [...]
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Just finished reading an advance copy of “That First Season,” John Eisenberg’s look back at Vince Lombardi’s first season with the Packers. I’m not a Packers fan (Steelers), so the book didn’t have all that much meaning to me in terms of the road to Packers glory. But it was damn interesting from a historical perspective. I wonder if it was commonplace back then for a coach to use all his QBs? Lombardi started four different QB’s in the 1959 preseason, and in the regular season he yanked his three QB’s — Bart Starr, Joe Francis and Lamar McHan — in and out of games like yo-yo’s. And the scheduling was so odd back then. The Pack opened with four straight at home, then three on the road, two back at home, and [...]
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