From PFF
Chicago Bears: The Bears have missed 42 tackles on run plays which is tied for the most in the league. They average 0.21 missed tackles per run attempt which is the highest in the league. The next highest rate is 0.16.
Originally Posted by Tdog:
if the GBP doesn't punt (again), that cuts Hester opportunities in half, right?
Not if they score on every series. He'd just have more KO returns and no punt returns. I'd be fine with that.
Originally Posted by cuqui:
Sacriligious, but still rather funny:
Packers Add Jay Cutler To Ring of Honor
"There's No One Who's Meant More To Our Team's Success," Says Packers GM
http://profootballmock.com/pac...er-to-ring-of-honor/
Almost choked on my beer.
http://PackersNews.com update: Ryan Taylor, Brad Jones practice today; James Jones still out:
Sherrod only PUP player practicing.
#Packers practice: TE Ryan Taylor returns. Brad Jones full. Jones, Matthews, Perry and Finley still out.
MM will speak at 1:10pm today
MM: James Jones was part of the rehab program today. Don't have update on Finley. Organization still gathering info. Was here for team photo
MM: Nick Perry just isn't ready. It's not moving along as everybody would hope
MM: Watching Bears' D on tape, changes weren't as dramatic as offense. Secondary is playing extremely well. Front-7 playing wel
MM: We're in unscouted look mindset with the Bears on a bye week and us coming off Sunday night game. You look at video available of McCown
MM: Ball security is important. Thought we did a good job in Minnesota. Their secondary is exceptional, what
MM: Matt Forte, you talk about classic three-down RB. I think he's very good coming out of backfield. They're a multiple offense
they've accomplished for years
MM: David Bakhtiari is playing very well. The result and mindset from our approach needs to stay the same. David needs to play well
MM: Big receivers, they're a bunch of big receivers. They take shots as offense, you saw it with Jay Cutler and sure you'll see it w/ Josh
MM: Mike Daniels is a heck of a football player. I remember watching tape at Iowa. I think you're seeing him take another step in 2nd yr
MM: Mike Daniels is a joy to coach. Just get the hell out of his way. That's the kind of guy you want to coach.
MM: Ryan Taylor, I think he's one of our primary special teams players. He's been a starter on punt team, it would be great to have him back
MM: No decision has been made on any of our PUP players. I think in next couple weeks, we'll have something
MM: In my view, Mason Crosby never left. Went thru tough spot. Believe in the man and his ability. Guy is a world champion, you have histor
MM: Definitely the game every year. In my opinion, this is the game in the #NFL. The tradition, great players, great games happen before us
MM: Datone is getting better. His evaluation is heightened because Datone is a No. 1 pick. Happy with progress but we want more
MM on Datone Jones: I don't know if he'll have those big numbers people want out of 1st round pick but happy with his progress
#Bears CB Charles Tillman did not participate in portion of practice open to media today
Originally Posted by packerboi:
IMHO, if a rookie's name isn't heard all of the time, maybe he's playing fine--just still learning. At least we aren't hearing his name called repeatedly for being out-of-position or missing tackles, although he did have the stupid penalty.
Justin Felder Here's a pic of the zombie that popped out of Rodgers' locker. Was in there 30 minutes at least. #Packers pic.twitter.com/LrenVOr21f
Good one AR 
BTW, WTMJ in Milwaukee said weather looks to be a "raw, rainy, windy night up at Lambeau".
Even if Perry/JJ were to practice, have to wonder on that kind of field whether at least JJ would even start anyway. If that forecast holds up, I'd guess they want them to sit.
RTFB!
RE: RTFB... heard today (forget who) that the coaches were not happy with the carries split on SNF and will look to a slightly more equitable distribution, though Lacy is still the man.
I agree. 29 carries is too many for Lacy when the game is in hand.
Not just carries... total touches should not be over 30. Lacy is also playing most passing downs so he is getting contact there in pass patterns or blitz pick-ups (whihc he has gotten quite good at). I know he's a football player and not a crystal chandelier, but there are only so many hits in a player. With a guy like Lacy (punishing runner) I assume the effective longevity is closer to 4/5 years than 8/9 years.
Packers RB James Starks vs. Bears: Starks returned to the lineup as Eddie Lacy’s top backup last week after missing the previous three weeks with a knee injury. Starks racked up 57 yards and a touchdown on seven carries against the Vikings. Coach Mike McCarthy said he wanted to get Starks more involved. The Bears lost defensive leader Lance Briggs to a shoulder injury two Sundays ago. Chicago’s run defense was already struggling with Briggs in the lineup. As Patrick Daugherty notes in his Week 9 rankings, the Bears have allowed 660 yards and eight touchdowns to running backs over the past four games. Lacy’s had a monster workload, and the Packers may want to scale it back a bit with Starks healthy. Look for him to get 8-12 touches this week. You can do a lot worse than Starks at the flex spot.
I think WTMJ is looking at some weird forecast.
Intellicast says this for Monday night in Green Bay:
Details for Monday, November 04
Mostly cloudy. Highs in the low 50s and lows in the low 40s.
GREEN BAY, Wis. -- There was a time when no one dominated the Chicago Bears like Brett Favre.
From 1994 to 2003, Favre went 18-2 against the Bears, including season sweeps the first five years and last three years of that stretch.
After the 1998 season, the Bears fired coach Dave Wannstedt in part because he couldn’t beat Favre. Wannstedt lost his last 10 games to Favre and the Packers.
In 16 seasons with the Packers, Favre went 22-10 against the Bears.
As good as Favre was against the Bears, Aaron Rodgers has been even better.
Since taking over for Favre as the starting quarterback in 2008, Rodgers has an 8-2 regular-season record against the Bears heading into Monday night's game at Lambeau Field. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, his 80 percent success rate is the best winning percentage by any quarterback with at least 10 starts in the Packers-Bears rivalry.
Even better than Favre’s (.688).
“It’s a special game,” said Rodgers, who also has a playoff victory against the Bears in the NFC Championship Game following the 2010 season. “The fans obviously really enjoy it. As players, we feel the intensity of the game. It’s the longest-running rivalry, I believe, in the NFL. A lot of history and tradition here. I think the teams of yesteryear maybe hated each other a little more than these two do, but I’m sure the fans feel the same way.”
Rodgers’ only two losses to the Bears both came on Monday Night Football -- in 2008 and 2010, both at Soldier Field.
Sounds like Favre should have retired after earning his record of 18-2 against the Bears. Rodgers would need five seasons of sweeping the Bears just to match that record.
"Sounds like Brett Favre should have retired after ____________ "
Packers practice report: James Jones (knee) returns so he might have chance to play Monday. DNP: Matthews, Perry, Finley.
Hoping there isn't a press release coming where Perry goes to IR. That guy was coming on.
Packer players get better.... others not so much
"The move has allowed Shea McClellin more playing time at defensive end. Last year’s first-round pick has consistently been overpowered and outmatched as he continues his transition to a down lineman. His -8.5 run defense grade ranks 45th out of 46 4-3 defensive ends."
Yeah, asking a guy his size to play a down lineman across from big right tackles makes no sense. He's the same size as Von Miller whom even the donks were smart enough to leave at LB.
Originally Posted by Satori:
Packer players get better.... others not so much
"The move has allowed Shea McClellin more playing time at defensive end. Last year’s first-round pick has consistently been overpowered and outmatched as he continues his transition to a down lineman. His -8.5 run defense grade ranks 45th out of 46 4-3 defensive ends."
Beat me to it.
Time to drown some sorrows in a bucket of 
From ESPN SUX. This is "double coverage" from GBPG's Demovsky and Tribune's Wright.
On the topic of sacks:
Wright: Rob, my man, you know that rivalries have to cut both ways in terms of wins and losses for it to be truly considered a rivalry. Counting the postseason, the Bears have lost six in a row and nine of the last 11. So, if anything, this is more Green Bay dominance than a rivalry. But the interesting thing about Trestman is he's a guy who likes to compartmentalize everything. He looks at today rather than the past or the future. So while it sounds cliché, Trestman is looking at the Packers as just another opponent on the schedule. That's just the way Trestman likes to operate, and I think for him it sort of makes things easier.
I keep looking at Green Bay's sack numbers, and I'm a little surprised the club is still in the top 10 in sacks with Clay Matthews out the last three games and other key members of the defense missing time. What is Dom Capers doing over there schematically to keep up the production?
Demovsky: I figured when Matthews broke his thumb, Capers would have to blitz like crazy. Now, he's picked his spots, but he hasn't gone blitz-happy like I thought he might. However, he has been sending different pass-rushers to keep offenses off guard. One game, against the Baltimore Ravens, linebacker A.J. Hawk came a bunch and sacked Joe Flacco three times. Also, they've finally found a defensive lineman with some rush ability in second-year pro Mike Daniels. Three of his team-leading four sacks have come in the past two games.
One of the Milwaukee affiliates said Packers are on pace to exceed their biggest year in sacks which occurred in 2001. Hard to believe since we've had no CMIII for 4 weeks.
A little early for playoff implications but ...
http://www.advancednflstats.co...jections-week-8.html
High leverage game of the week: CHI @ GB
The 187th Bears-Packers matchup is of major importance to both teams. A Chicago loss would make it nearly impossible for them to win the division and a 4-4 record would give them only a 3.5% chance of sneaking in as a wildcard. A Chicago victory would make it much more likely that the Bears or Lions would steal the division from Green Bay (a jump from 28% likely with a GB win to 55%). Both teams face about a 20% swing in playoff probability depending on the outcome of this game.
Originally Posted by Orlando Wolf:
Hoping there isn't a press release coming where Perry goes to IR. That guy was coming on.
He was listed as "limited" in practice last Friday (the only day he practiced). Maybe they're just resting him for now and then will make a decision for the game based on what he does tomorrow.
Good article on how the GB offense is slowly evolving into a bigger nightmare to try and stop.
Between 2010 and 2012 GB faced 3rd and 5 49 times. They threw the ball 39 times. Aaron Rodgers ran the ball the other 10 times. Not once did GB dial up a running play of any kind.
That streak came to and end this year against Cleveland when Lacy converted a 3rd and 5 for a 1st down. Plenty of factors going on that are leading to this reinvention of the offense into an unpredictable machine. From the article:
The play in question came two weeks ago against the Cleveland Browns, as the Packers faced third-and-5 from the Cleveland 22-yard line. As Rodgers stepped to the line of scrimmage with McCarthy having called a pass play in his helmet headset, he surveyed the Browns’ defense and saw only five defenders near the line of scrimmage.
Now, Rodgers has been making decisions at the line of scrimmage since he took over as the Packers’ starting quarterback in 2008, with McCarthy, former offensive coordinator Joe Philbin, current offensive coordinator Tom Clements (his quarterbacks coach from 2006 through 2011) and McAdoo increasing his responsibility almost annually. Run/pass options – where McCarthy gives Rodgers one running play and one passing play to choose from and he picks based on the defensive look – have long been a staple of the offense. On those plays, Rodgers alerts the receivers if he’s going to the pass, while the offensive linemen simply run-block regardless.
But this was different. In this instance, Rodgers was changing the play entirely – something McCarthy has given him the freedom to do but he seldom does so dramatically.
“It was a called pass, and Aaron saw how they were deployed,” Clements said of the Browns’ defense. “He still could have gone through with the pass; it wasn’t a bad look for the pass. But it was an inviting look for the run, and he made the call and the line blocked it. And it was successful because of that.”
Everybody healthy for Bores except Cutler and Briggs. Just our luck we catch these guys at their matrix.
Chillijon, I think Rodgers having so much responsibility for audibles at the line may also account for why Lacy was getting so many (too many?) carries. Rodgers may now be repeatedly changing passing plays to running plays because of the defensive alignment, which suddenly increases Lacy's workload. So MM may not be intending to put so much on Lacy but the plays keep getting changed when he's there.
Originally Posted by Iowacheese:
Originally Posted by Satori:
Packer players get better.... others not so much
"The move has allowed Shea McClellin more playing time at defensive end. Last year’s first-round pick has consistently been overpowered and outmatched as he continues his transition to a down lineman. His -8.5 run defense grade ranks 45th out of 46 4-3 defensive ends."
Originally Posted by RatPack:
Everybody healthy for Bores except Cutler and Briggs. Just our luck we catch these guys at their matrix.
Were you not counting Henry Melton, Nate Collins and DJ Williams??