+/- of the Packers over the Gnats

+
AR, Matthews, Jordy, DD, Saine.
Last minute drive. Complete surgery.
Gritty performance by a D without it's two starting ILB's that forced Peprah and Burnett to crowd the line for run and pass support. Tough assignments. Losing Woodson didn't help.
11 straight road wins!
11 straight road wins!
11 straight road wins!
12-0.

_
Drops.

Another great win.

+
Division Champions
Rodgers: Mr. Cool, just give him the MVP now
Driver: Quickie still has skills
Crosby: Nice for him to get, what only his 2nd game winner?
Saine: Nothing flashy, but stepped in when Starks went down
Clay: Stud, plain and simple, it is amazing to watch this guy

-
Nothing negative about 12 and Oh

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Originally posted by JJSD:

This is why Blair Kiel drinks his Merlot out of a box.

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Originally posted by lambeausouth:
+ DVR set to record Sports Nation tomorrow. Skip Bayless humble pie incoming!

Isn't Skippy on "First Take"? Thought Sports Nation was simply sports polls.

+ Jordy Nelson with some amazing grabs at clutch moments.
+ ClayMaker starting to turn it on.
+ Rodgers, of course
+ MM sticking with the run game. There is no panic in him.
+ No special teams mistakes in a tight game.

- Charlie Peprah getting owned all game.
- Injuries, losing AQ will hurt the run game. He has been a beast.
- Drops. "JeMarcus" was the worst offender.


A win next week clinches a first round bye!

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+ No special teams mistakes in a tight game.

Unless you count the missed FG. However, the Giants should have been flagged for leverage, leading to another attempt closer in. (I think leverage is a 15-yard penalty which would have been enforced as half the distance, making the next attempt a 30-yarder.)

Crosby is going to miss one every now and then, I dont consider it a "mistake." I was more referring to a big return or stupid penalty... The kind of stuff that hurt them in close games in years past.

+ 12-0 with only one road game left at KC.
+ won the game with out two starting LB and with Sitton out.

- Newsome is struggling
- Drops

Not too worried about Newsome he's young and Gman line is pretty darn good, i don't think he faces another premier DE until the bears/peppers in 3 weeks. another postive EDS never heard his name called and for a olinemen that always a good thing.

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- Newsome is struggling

He was one of my favorite players on those 90's teams.

+
Bayless has to shut the hell up about Rodgers not being on Brady's level. Irrelevant, but positive.

If anybody thinks Bayless will shut up or eat crow or anything in between you haven't been paying attention.

- Stop watching Bayless, dumbasses. That's exactly what he wants.

Did James Jones play today?
or
was he inactive?

I honestly can say I didn't hear his name called all day.

He was on the field a few times, just never had the ball thrown his way. Wonder if he'll be trade bait come April.

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Unless you count the missed FG. However, the Giants should have been flagged for leverage, leading to another attempt closer in. (I think leverage is a 15-yard penalty which would have been enforced as half the distance, making the next attempt a 30-yarder.)

THIS BUGGED ME! THAT and the CONSTANT muggings of JMike past the five yard mark, shown REPEATEDLY but without "that should be a penalty" from Saint Troy.

-
The Drops. Even from Jennings.
Newhouse looked pathetic on some of the rushes
No pass rush
Peprah. Ouch.

+
AR. Mr. Clutch
Mason. Ditto
Nelson. Ditto
DD. The old man still has it.
Seine. This guy has skills. Another UDFA that will be something.

Positives
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Jordy Nelson
Backup LBs
Division title
Shut down the Giants running game for the most part
Lack of penalties

Negatives
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Injuries
Drops - way too many
Still communication problems in the secondary
Pass defense
Lack of a pass rush

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Originally posted by PackerBackerDPM:
would love to see an endzone view of the INT i believe there was a WR breaking wide over the middle, that throw will eat at AR12 all week. AS CA95 said worst throw of the year and it took 12 games to finally see a bad throw.

i'm gonna take the close game as a positive, M3 will use to motivate for the rest of the year.

Only negative for me is Finely, thought in the 1st qtr he was finally showing what we all believe he can be but as the game went on, man he was far below average.

I believe it was Driver out over the middle in front of the intended target(Finley?), and yeah I did notice him as well and wondered how AR didn't peg him as more open, but it's easy to say watching from my couch. It was such a bad throw, makes me think he never saw Blackburn, not even a hint that he was planted there waiting. He certainly has us spoiled with his lack of mistakes.

From GB Press Gazette

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Thumbs down

Three games into his return from a knee injury he sustained in training camp, defensive end Mike Neal hasn’t made much of an impact.

Against the Bucs, he played 15 snaps and didn’t make a tackle. On Thanksgiving against the Lions, he played 30 snaps and didn’t make a tackle. On Sunday, he played 24 snaps, and the result was much the same. Neal’s name was nowhere on the defensive stat sheet. He wasn’t credited with any tackles and didn’t put himself around the ball much.

Once again, Neal played almost exclusively in sub packages. He has taken away some of the snaps that early in the season were going to Jarius Wynn, who had three sacks after three games but has seen his role significantly reduced.

Hopefully it is still just rust. Would like to see him generate some push/pass rush. Maybe it's coming.

+
Coming back in a tough away game
D keeps getting turnovers
DD still has it
Jordy's sure got it too
Last 58 sec game winning drive
I wouldn't trade Masthey for any other punter
Bush is a monster on ST
ARod under pressure is a magician
Screen to Saine is an automatic 1st down
Game plan was really solid

You guys really covered the +s and -s. The only minuses I want to include are Woody and Pepruh. They really looked mediocre to me.

+++ Tim Masthay put four of his five punts inside the 20, didn’t allow any return yardage and had a net average of 44.2, his third-highest of the season.

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Also didn't realize Crosby has missed his last 3 game-winning kicks (after making the first in his first game of career).

And don't forget Jarrett Bush re-establishing himself in the field of play to down that punt on the 1.

Now if only the Packer defense could have forced a three-and-out.

Watching the defense allow the Giants to march down the field and get the TD and two-point conversion was painful. I'm afraid the defense is what it is at this point and I just hope it's sufficient to get it done come playoff time.

The Giants have a great offense. The Saints do too. The Niners do not.

I don't think some of you realize what Charles Woodson means to this defense

I'm not worried

So Woodson means a lot to the Packer defense, but you're not worried about his absence?

I'm not worried about the Packer defense. I'm not happy at all with Woodsons absence but he'll be around for the playoffs. He has a concussion and we can beat the Raiders if he needs the week off.

The Giants have played well on offense, especially late in games.

I'm sorry, but the Packer's Defense has made late game stops, I don't know how, in a lot of games out of the last 18 --playoff run last year-- they were due to not come up with the stop sometime....and the offense came through.

This defense will never be last year's defense. I hope it improves and players get healthy. I hope Capers figures some things out or has some tricks up his sleeves. But, the offense is better this year than last year.

Nobody said it was going to be easy....except Blair and he was actually talking about himself not the Packera

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and we can beat the Raiders if he needs the week off.

In theory, the Packers don't have an important game for six weeks. They should still get a first-round bye within the next four weeks, and then have a week off.

I don't think the Packers will have much problem with Sallad or a WC team in the divisional round.

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Originally posted by BrainDed:

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- Newsome is struggling

He was one of my favorite players on those 90's teams.

Mine too, but unfortunately that painkiller dependency caught up with him.

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Get this. McCarthy told special teams coach Shawn Slocum to instruct Randall Cobb, the NFL's fifth-ranked kickoff returner, to take a knee if Lawrence Tynes' boot reached the end zone.

"The coaching staff wanted to save time and give our offense time to execute," the rookie said. "As bad as I wanted to take that out, I had to play disciplined."

A rookie no more, he gets it.

Remember when Charles Woodson broke his collarbone and we won the Super Bowl? Yeah, I think we'll be okay if he sits out a week. This team seems to feed of adversity. It's awesome.

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Did James Jones play today?
or
was he inactive?

I honestly can say I didn't hear his name called all day.

Don't mess with Jones. We didn't hear from DD for a few weeks too.

We have multiple threats and matchups will vary per game. JJ did just fine vs the Loins.

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Originally posted by PackLandVA:
+++ Tim Masthay put four of his five punts inside the 20, didn’t allow any return yardage and had a net average of 44.2, his third-highest of the season.

Nice call. He's been solid all year but seems to be getting better late just as he did last season.

+++ Cowterd got so pissed at the crap he was getting as a Romo-lover that he stopped taking phone calls. His whining hit new heights.

When Rodgers hadn't won anything, Aaron was lousy. When Romo hasn't won anything, Tony is BRILLIANT!

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Originally posted by ZUF:

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Did James Jones play today?
or
was he inactive?

I honestly can say I didn't hear his name called all day.

Don't mess with Jones. We didn't hear from DD for a few weeks too.

We have multiple threats and matchups will vary per game. JJ did just fine vs the Loins.

Getting tired of the Jones hating. Not to imply that there was any hating going on here, but I like your answer, ZUF.

James Jones was the target on one of the redzone plays

Rodgers had him isolated one -on -one and then the pass was batted down when Newhouse didn't cut the DE and Pierre-Paul jumped up into the passing lane

unrelated, here is another positive from the game:

from Bob Mcginn's post- game ratings has this snippet:

"Matched against towering DT Chris Canty, T.J. Lang didn't have a "bad" run or a pressure. He shows pop in the run game but doesn't always sustain his blocks.
For the first time since early in the season, the Packers actually pulled a lineman. They ran their version of the Power-O counter play with Lang leading around the right side. Lang did his job and the two plays gained 8 yards."

Power O is a welcome addition to the offensive attack

One of the national TV announcers reminded the viewers that the Packers still had 58 seconds.

Here a plus for just about all the Packers games this year. Each team has brought thier "A" game and the Packers have came out on top. That is a good sign for the playoffs.