2014 (Team 94) WK1 Green Bay @ Seattle Gamethread

 

Favorite moment posted:

 

Favorite moment: Packers Super Bowl XLV. Lost Driver, Woodson to injury. Defense exhausted. Packer offense in 4th quarter, 3rd down & long, needs to keep the ball. Aaron Rodgers pass to Greg Jennings, FIRST DOWN! Gigantic play that vaulted the Pack to Championship #13

 

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Think I'll win the jersey?

Cops in Packer jerseys... Seems like a pretty good idea.  Check out the photo of the guy holding the sign in the link below.  Kind of funny.

 

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/e...s-at-seahawks-opener

My favorite memory is the day that dickhead retired, but I couldn't find where to enter the contest...

I'd put that play second to the forced fumble/hit on Mendenhall.

A quick story. Some may have heard this before

 

Jan, 1996. Packers head out to SF for playoffs. +9.5 underdogs. Moneyline +270

 

Was living paycheck to paycheck at this time. I'm pretty much all in on this game. $1,100.00 on +9.5 & $800 at +270.

 

We all remember that was the first game the Niners lost in the division round at home. They were previously undefeated & I knew if the Packers were going to win, we'd never see +9.5 on them for the next year or so,

 

$1,100 returns $2,100

$800 returns $2,160

 

If they had lost the game but covered the +9.5 (which I fully expected them to at least cover). I gain $200. I needed the win to make profit. Much like tonight.

 

Yes I have them on the spread, but I make way more if they win outright. If the spread moved to +6 (I got +5.5) I'd be all over it betting even more on the spread. This is your shot. You'll never get them at +6 again the rest of the year if they win this game. 

 

I don't know what's going to happen tonight, but I feel very confident our team will be highly competitive. We ain't losing 43-8 like the lame ass Broncos. I'll be very disappointed if the Packers turn the ball over 2 or more times. The Packers aren't afraid of the Seahawks & the Seahawks know it, hence their chatter in the media. The Seahawks are worried. This ain't an AFC team their facing tonight.

 

Right now the 4 best teams in the NFC are Seattle, SF, Saints & Packers. That's why these 2 are kicking off the season. I think SF is going to drop out by years end & the Eagles, Panthers or even the Bears might sneak up into that top 4 of the NFC.

The +5.5 or +6 is based off two very close teams playing it what is considered the best home field advantage.

 

Typically, home field is going to impact the spread by 3 points.  With Seattle, they experts say it's more like 5.   What the line is telling us is that the odds makers think Seattle is a 1 point favorite on a neutral field. 

 

...and here are bald QB's for your viewing pleasure.

http://www.mandatory.com/2013/...-if-they-were-bald/7

I keep hearing how seaturtle has this great defense.

They did have a great defense...  last year.

The seas, they shift.  Down shift, full throttle. 

And how come in Green Bay it's raining like it's seaturtle right now?

Because the power has shifted.*

 

*oh I hope I hope I hope

Demovsky teasing us big time....

 

http://espn.go.com/blog/nfcnor...-new-looks-in-opener

You could tell Dom Capers was uncomfortable with the subject.

 

It was three days before the Green Bay Packers' season opener against the Seattle Seahawks on Thursday night at CenturyLink Field, and the team's defensive coordinator was holding his weekly session with reporters at Lambeau Field. 

And he knows we know. 

He knows we have seen it. 

 

He knows, as is the team's right per an agreement between the NFL and the Pro Football Writers of America, that we have been asked to keep any major scheme-specific changes out of our reports from practice. 

But anyone who has spent time around the Packers since they started workouts in April knows this one might be the granddaddy of all unscouted looks. 

Really? 

Let's talk about that after everyone sees what he throws at the Seahawks....

 

....Including Peppers, who will play outside linebacker rather than his old defensive end spot in the Bears' 4-3 scheme, the Packers have 11 linebackers and just five defensive linemen on their roster. 

Clearly, there's a reason for so many linebackers and so few linemen....

Remember the Hags didn't get ONE defensive holding call in the pre-season.

Bull$hit.

 

He'll be saving the "grandaddy" for the NFC Championship game/Super Bowl

 

Remember Capers pulled a "grandaddy" out when he dropped BJ Raji into coverage & Raji proceeded to pick 6 the Bears & vault the Packers into the Super Bowl.

 

He hasn't had the personnel he has today in a couple years. His defense doesn't produce this year & it's time to move along.

 

Yes this is a big game & can set the tone for the season but it's 1 regular season game, not the NFC Championship game.

I'm betting Caper unleashes Marsellus Wallace's soul from a briefcase.

Wow. Who would have thought?

@TyDunne: #Packers captains today: QB Aaron Rodgers (offense), OLB Julius Peppers (defense), CB Jarrett Bush (special teams).

I'm tired of waiting......

This is excellent:

 

@TomSilverstein: Just spotted former #Packers S Nick Collins on the team's sideline at CenturyLink Field.

 

@rothchris: Had good chat with @nickdapick36 who's here in Seattle. Wants to try hand at coaching in future and will help out with @packers at times.

 

I'd love nothing more than to have Nick impart some wisdom on Burnett, Hyde, Clinton-Dix and Richardson. Can only help. 

@jasonjwilde: #Packers inactives:
QB Scott Tolzien
CB Demetri Goodson
LB Carl Bradford
DT Mike Pennel
WR Jeff Janis
TE Brandon Bostick
LB Jayrone Elliott

 

Haven't studied the roster enough yet to have a deeply informed opinion but thought Pennel would be active. 

 

EDIT: @TomSilverstein: #Seahawks inactives: CB Simon, RB Michael, LB Pierre-Louis, TE Helfet, WR Bates, WR Norwood, DE Scruggs 

I'd love nothing more than to have Nick's neck back to 100% & put him BACK there!

 

Interesting Peppers already a game captain

 

Mildly surprised about Pennel inactive. Game plan.

I can't take this anymore...  HOW MUCH LONGER!?!?!?!

 

Ok, yeah, an hour and a half.   BUT STILL!!

 

I hope we just pound the tar out of these asshats.  

 

More than mildly surprised. They are facing one of the toughest running teams in the league without the only true NT on the roster.

I have to agree, I figured we needed him for depth at minimum.

 

I wonder if we are going to be seeing a TON of the psycho package tonight... which would be curious IMO.

Elliott, Pennel & Janis are too amped up for this one. No flags on our side. Cool & calm & controlled, hard pipe-hitting players is the order of the day. No Flags! Keep your emotions in check!

 

Saving something for later in the year when all 3 are unleashed on the playoff teams

The Packers do have a lot of depth at LB and DB so I would expect some nickel and dime and 2 DL looks.   

 

 

Love seeing Peyton Manning choking highlights

So many to choose from....

@TheKostos: Line is down to #Seahawks -4. A lot of money has been wagered on the #Packers over the last 60 minutes.

GB going with 4 DL.... that seems light at first but I'm excited to see this hybrid elephant-tiger-hippo-blackwidow defense.  

New formation where everyone lines up backwards. Supposed to be good on those triple draw formations.

Seattle this, Seattle that... 12th man... yada yada yada...  For **** sakes.  Let's get it Arod!!!!

I hope Seattle comes out as flat as Pharrell.

       
       


Arod ain't winning this game himself.

This is the part of the year when I go in pretending Chat will always be fun and hunky-dory, and then give up on the AIDS by the Bye week.

I has a hankerin' for a big hunk of Lacy!!

 

 you hear him knockin' seahags?!

Tolzien inactive today. Badger fans everywhere start drinking heavily and thinking up wild a$$ conspiracy scenarios.

McElvoy said he wran the rong wroute.

BBBBOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

 

 

be vewy vewy qwyette, weeze hunting seehagz!!

I've had my TV on mute for the past 30+ minutes. Enough of this BS already.

Digging all the GBP jerseys.