Eddie Lacy had a great season, which makes it easy to forget James Starks just rushed for nearly 500 yards and 3 TDs, with 5.5 yards/carry.
Packers finished 3rd in total offense for 2013.
McCarthy sucks
Wonder where they would've finished with Rodgers at the helm for all 16?
Man, that's really impressive when you think about all the injuries... especially to AR. I've said a few dum things about MM in the past but he's clearly a top shelf coach.
3rd in yards, but 8th in points... need to finish better.
Agree with you there, Hungry.
Peter King and others have raved about the job MM has done this year, yet many posters here think he's full of dum. We just expect so much. I think MM has grown every year as a coach adn I think he's set in GB for a long time -- hopefully.
No Finley , no Cobb and a banged-up Jones certainly hurts the Red zone production
Cycling through 5 QBs makes it a little tougher to score with a limited playbook
Swapping the right side of the OL for the left and then losing the lynchpin, Bulaga, adds to the challenge as well.
And yet there they are in the top ten in both yards and scoring
Go Packers
Man, that's really impressive when you think about all the injuries... especially to AR. I've said a few dum things my whole life, and also about MM in the past but he's clearly a top shelf coach.
dumdum
My hope is TT & MM stay together until they wish to retire.
We've been very competitive every single year & are the envy of the league.
As fans, we cannot hope for more than that & it's more than just about every other team in the league has.
Red zone problems were there before the big break. Passing game wasn't exactly humming either by WK7. Fits and starts if I recall. Hopefully the now established run game will help grease those wheels.
No Carlos Rogers is very nice for GB
Can we get no Frank Gore, No Vernon Davis & No Boldin or Crabtree too?
The Packers started Jerron McMillian (SS) and MD Jennings (FS) in week 1.
Red zone offense and not enough RTFB are my to gripes about MM.
Starks at 5.5 ypc? Nice. Nowhere near enough touches for that guy this year.
BTW....I think Quarless has grown and is providing everything I would have expected from Finley.
not even close to Fin. Q is a significantly better blocker, not remotely close to the receiving threat.
Is that what Aaron says?
What I meant was, the catches that Q has made in the past month are about what I would have expected from Finley.
Q has made some pretty big catches recently for not being much of a receiving threat.
In the Bears game alone.
Not seeing that. Quarles has his dropsies.
With the threats at the WR position, I'd rather the Packers have a solid blocking TE that is decent in the passing game as opposed to a stud TE that can't block much.
sorry, I can't see this defense doing a single thing in this game, hope I am wrong... the only differences I see is on offense, Lacy and power running game...
4th and goal at the niners 7 yard line Sunday night...I am more comfortable with quarless.
I loved that scene in shawshank!
Mariucci was here.
I hate to be a biscuit eating son of a bitch, but I don't think we can hang with S.F. Although, with a predicted high of 10-degrees Sunday, IF we can take advantage of the cold AND come out of the gates fast AND by very, very physical against S.F. and deflate them from the get go, well, we can dream, can't we? :-)
Especially if we can milk the clock with Lacy and Starks and keep Colinoscopy on the sidelines, that would be sweet. Screw the hurry-up offense!
I do not think the cold is going to be that much of an advantage for us. San Fran is not exactly Miami.
I think Quarless has grown and is providing everything I would have expected from Finley.
Originally Posted by El-Ka-Bong:
not even close to Fin. Q is a significantly better blocker, not remotely close to the receiving threat.
Originally Posted by OrlandoWolf:
Better yac Finley but quarless has better hands.
High temps in San fran this week are in the 60s and 70s. Lows in the high to mid 40s. 10 degrees will not be a walk in the park for either team, but these are not the giants coming in from New York for the NFC championship game. This will be as much a shock to the Packers. It will be a struggle for both but the Packerar should be more mentally prepare for this.
I am not a prognosticator, but I think that AR has more proponsity to be accurate in these conditions. I am not even sure if Kapernick has played in anything close to these conditions. I give us a good shot.
I still think as a group, for as many TEs as we typically carry, we get too little production from that position.
Quarless may yet reach his potential, and Bostik was showing promise before his injury, but I still think we could do better. We don't need a Tony Gonzales necessarily, but we do need guy(s) that can exploit mismatches down the seams, and make 1st down conversions.
Kopperdick played at the University of Nevada-Reno.....I'm not sure of the windchill there...but it can get a bit nippy and snow there, too. I think they beat a high-powered Boise State team there his Senior year.
But, Green Bay cold is a bit different.
Does not get Green Bay cold in NoCal for sure, but NoCal can get chilly and wet, which is also miserable to play in.
The key to beating these California teams is to pour the points on early (which would take Gore out of the equation) and as the game goes on the cold seems colder....
Close, Doc Benni, but I'd go with this one:
All-22: How did the Packers stop the 49ers run game?
ninersnation.com
By David Neumann
San Francisco's running game was completely shut down when they faced Green Bay in the season opener. We look at what went wrong and try to figure out whether we should expect more of the same when these two teams face off on Wild Card weekend. continue
Good read and well worth the click, imo. There are lots of pics and gifs and analysis.
quote:All-22: How did the Packers stop the 49ers run game?
These comments were interesting to me.
After Pro Football Focus gave Raji a +2.0 run defense grade in that game, he's failed to top +1.0 in any other game this season and has graded negatively in that area in all but one game over the second half of the season. The other standout in Green Bay's run defense from that game, Clay Matthews, won't be suiting up this week. With Matthews sidelined, Nick Perry and Andy Mulumba will likely split time at Matthews' outside linebacker spot. Needless to say, both players represent significant downgrades from the Packers' star outside linebacker.
