Bye week - take a breath and look forward

despite limitations, if this defense can force some turnovers, this offense can beat anyone.  

If Green Bay get's in the playoffs, Dom is playing with house money. He'll empty the kitchen sink with pressure coming from every possible direction. He knows he's the sacrificial lamb if things go bad in January again.  I suspect he's not going down without emptying all the chambers.   

 

 

Still, we should be OK as long as someone doesn't shoot an Illudium PU-36 Explosive Space Modulator at us.

or paint a tunnel on a rock wall

When you get your team from Acme, what do you expect? 

what this board needed was for you to connect the dots between "emptying the chamber" and a picture of an ACME gun.  Without you, Packer fans on X4 would have been left wondering if we all went looney toons.

 

gebins to you fedya, you make this a better place

 

Poor El-Ka-Bong has nothing better to do than stalk me. 

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Green Bay. 

Detroit still has to face the Packers.

Looking forward, the health of ARod will be the key factor for the team's second-half performance. Our OL is porous enough that mobility will be required.

We still have a great group of WRs and RBs that can get even better, and we're seeing a bit more production from the TEs.

Defense...who the hell knows? We can't stop or contain the run, so we're susceptible to any team with any kind of rushing attack. We can't defend the read-option, passes to the flats, or short passes that require LB coverage., Can't blitz worth a crap, either.

We do have pass rush, albeit inconsistent, and had been able to defend down the field very well until this past weekend. In short, if the defense can generate turnovers, it can work very well. If they don't...

 

I think 10-6 is still a reasonable expectation, and winning NFCN should be likewise. It wouldn't hurt to have some luck with other games falling our way, but the Packers should control their own destiny within the division. Getting a wild-card berth is a crapshoot at this point.

So why is it some given the Packers will defeat a team that defeated them?

Simple.....look to the future thru green and gold glasses.    BTW  I too think the Pack beats the Lions at home at the end of the season.     I am not so sure about some games in between here and then.

Detroit hasnt won in Lambeau in 25 years? wow. 

not that any of those games have a thing to do with the upcoming matchup, but

there could be a mental/confidence advantage.

 

If the Pack & Lions played this weekend and we won, we would take 1st place

due to better div record (3 wins vs 2) so were still 1 game back, not 2 as some are suggesting

I am very uncertain about the Packers Lions game.  Mark this, I am uncertain both ways.

 

Thankfully, it is at home.  But, the Lions defense is so much better in my opinion and there have been occasions the Packer offense has not been unstoppable.

The Lions game is a toss-up. No team can lose forever at a venue, and they have a D that seems to give AR fits. They get so much pressure on AR that he's never comfortable. IF our O line can put it all together, then I like us. If not, then we are in trouble.

The Lions game is still 9 weeks from now, yes? 

Cobb cashing in.

 

 

Cobb has a better PR guy than Live Radio. 

Live and die by the turnover?

 

Does it matter when you play the vikings?

Just win baby!

Sory if this was posted before, I didn't see it if it was.

 

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/...secondhalf-schedules

 

Green Bay Packers: There are some tough games ahead, but they are mostly at home. Five of Green Bay's final eight games will be played at Lambeau Field. Their three road games are all very winnable: Minnesota, Tampa Bay and Atlanta. They have already got their division trips to Detroit and Chicago out of the way. The Packers could be competing for a bye in December.

 

A bye seems unrealistic, but not out of the question.  After the Saints debacle, I don't know what to think or expect anymore.  Should be an exciting 2nd half of the season!

 

The Atlanta game is in Green Bay. They are at Buffalo, which is much tougher.

Yep, you're right,  the writer must've gotten them mixed up. 

 

Regarding Buffalo, hopefully EJ Manuel will be starting.  Orton seems to play the games of his life against the Packers.  He's 4 -2 against us, with 3 different teams.

 

 

http://espn.go.com/blog/green-...th-favorites-no-more

 

There's the latest analysis from the number-crunchers. Lions now favored to win the division.

Why does it feel like the seasons over?

"favored" "predict" blah blah blah derp.  I suppose those writers hafta to do something with their time but it never means nothing to me.

one game at a time.

 

an unusual occurrence a couple of weeks ago - caught the pregame show on one of the channels before the game.  It was Week 7 when the Browns played at Jacksonville.  all the talking heads were talking how Cleveland had arrived and were a team to reckon with.  I was left with an arched eyebrow thinking "really? based on what?"  The Browns lost 24-6.

 

prognostication: an exercise in futility pursued with the hope of being able to say "I told you so"

Win the next game.

I see 11-5 as the best case as well. The 4 games that concern me the most are NE, Philly, Buff, and Minn. Yes, Minn. Somehow, with Dom's history, I can see Bridgewater having a coming out party against us and that damn Viking horn going off incessantly. At Buffalo is really going to be difficult. So, if we split those any way you like, we'll have to beat Detroit to get the 11-5 and the probable division crown. Great last weekend game.

Well if we are worried about and or lose to Minnesota, we have no business at all talking about this team making it to the Super Bowl or being a contender for that matter

We're currently 5-3....best case is 16-3.

True dat!

Looks about right to me.... So does a first round loss in the playoffs.