Packers are like Rodney Dangerfield

clip of No Huddle @ Packers.com

Just watched that clip. What we have is a bunch of media types that want to see GB lose. I especially love how some of them indicate GB's extra time to get healthy is now a negative because some haven't played in three weeks. I guess I thought getting healthy was generally considered a positive. Silly me.

GB might be the most disrespected defending super bowl champion team in the history of the game.

15-1

Wow, Marshall Faulk dissing CMIII. It is no accident that this clip is posted on Packers.com, is it Boris?

Saw that too. ****.q Marsha.

Boris, I agree with you in that it will be Ravens v. Packers for the Lombardi. I love that the media thinks GB is overrated, it really means nothing, but it makes it sweeter for the fans, and perhaps the players, that the GBP just keeps winning when the media is desperate for a big market/"sexier" team to take us out.

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Originally posted by Boris: I assure you all the "talk" coming from New York is posted in the Packers locker room.

Since nobody here would ever actually know, I will say no way does a professional team cut stuff out of the paper (or print off) and hang in the locker room. Child's play.

Also, I don't see any disrespect at all. The Pack defense has been a sieve and the G-Man layed down a big can of whoop butt last week. Seems logical some will pick the Giants.

Here's how each playoff team fared against 2011 playoff teams:

Ravens: 6-0
Packers: 5-0
Saints: 5-1
49ers: 4-1
Texans: 3-2
Patriots: 1-2
Giants: 1-3
Broncos: 1-3

As much as the media and networks try and downplay the East Coast bias, it's always been there and it always will be. Does ESPN and The NFL Network want to keep the NY market happy, or the Wisconsin market happy? If they come out on Monday and say the Packers are the clear favorite, the NY viewer will find a different channel that panders to them to keep them happy.

It's crazy that the NO-SF game has received very little coverage this week. It's a back page story and it's the best game on this weekend (from a competitive standpoint). It's been Giants - GB and Tebow - NE.

Faulk has no bias for the East Coast. He's just a bitter dips**t that can't stand the Packers.

The media is coming across like an infant who thinks a toy is gone when you put a towel over it. They haven't seen Rodgers and company play in a while so they have forgotten them. Meanwhile, Brees and Eli have thrown some touchdown passes lately, so they are the QBs and teams to beat. So on Monday morning when the towel has been removed from the toy, the headlines will probably proclaim that "the Pack is Back" and that they are reminding everyone who the top dogs still are. *Yawn*. 12 more quarters.

I can understand some of the media doubting the packers as there d is slightly better than awful, but they should give them some credit for being 15-1.

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Originally posted by chickenboy:

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Originally posted by Boris: I assure you all the "talk" coming from New York is posted in the Packers locker room.

Since nobody here would ever actually know, I will say no way does a professional team cut stuff out of the paper (or print off) and hang in the locker room. Child's play.

Also, I don't see any disrespect at all. The Pack defense has been a sieve and the G-Man layed down a big can of whoop butt last week. Seems logical some will pick the Giants.

Um I know for a fact Capers puts this stuff out there. He did it last year when the Defense was getting no respect.

There are articles discussing the mind games he plays where Capers puts articles in lockers to get the guys motivated.

Our D was good enough to beat the Giants O the last time so I don't know what would be different this time. The Packers D is pretty consistent when you think about it. They may not be consistently good, but their numbers have been just about the same the entire season. This is the same D that the Giants faced a couple weeks ago, but the difference will be the Giants O. They are not consistent, not in single games and not over the whole season...especially Manning. Sometimes Eli gets hot and can make some great throws and sometimes he's about as off as a QB can be. Same goes for the rest of their offense and defense. When they're hot, they're hot, but when they lose momentum they quit. They're coming in extremely cocky it sounds like and I don't care how "bad" our defense is, they give a maximum effort and will make you pay for being overconfident...especially when they feel disrespected.

And the Giants weren't really that impressive last week. Sure they won 24-2, but they didn't just blast the Falcons. They had only a couple really good drives on offense and they forced Ryan to make a lot of really really dumb mistakes. They did a good job, but that game came down to who screwed up the least.

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Originally posted by LarseeBear:
Half the guys we dress were 6th or 7th round draft choices or weren't drafted at all.

They thrive on no respect. They thrive with chips on their shoulders. AR has always felt dissed going back to Junior College. The Philbin tragedy just gives them more TEAM motivation. (Peace be with you Philbins.)

The Eastern media is who we thought they were. Snobs who couldn't care less about flyover country.

We've got them right where we want them.

This great post and to add:

Eastern elite big city corporate media hates, hates, hates the GBPackers going back years. They dont like the small towm small markets, they dont like the "hick" fans, they absolutely despise the community ownership model as do their corporate sponsors, they hate the fact we won the SB, they hate the fact that the broadcasts in places like Kansas City and San Diego are constantly barraged with 'Go Pack Go' chants. They are perplexed as to how our stadium is always full win or lose and the waiting list for tickets is extensive. Need extra cash? Sell some stock it will be sold out too. It really bothers them that the Packers are always perceived as the underdogs and "America's team" They are absolutely dreading the prospect of the NFC Championship game in GB ( no haute cuisine/ 5 star restaurants on the company card) The only thing we got going for us is they hate Tim Tebow too now...he's their distraction.

All year long the Packers have been the team to beat, every SB champ has that cross to bear. 15-1 baby, after some of those games did the players ever brag? No they said they were not happy and they could play better.

Cant wait to read the NYTimes and NYPost on Monday. They will blame the Packers victory on the NYGiants

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Originally posted by Hungry5:
Rankings based on yards are _____________.

Respectful

I like the position the Packers are in. I don't get what the Giants are doing, but it's only helping the Packers. I get being confident, but I don't get commenting on the opposing team, like the Giants have been doing. Saying you're going win, as JPP, did is one thing. But putting down your opponent as Rolle and Beckum are doing makes no sense. All it does it serve to motivate your opponent. Just ask the Jets how well that's worked out.....

I really want the Packers to light them up, especially the defense. I'm sick of hearing that the Packers are the #4 team in the NFC.

Sorry if I missed this, but what did Rolle and Beckum say?

Holy cow, it really does almost seem like the East Coast based media thinks it's a foregone conclusion that a repeat of the 2007 Championship game in the Giants favor is inevitable. Normally, I don't get too worked up about the "lack of respect" angle, but this week, the love for the Giants has gotten pretty sickening. I've found my blood boiling after listening to some of these pundits.

Man oh man I hope that some of this stuff gets played in the locker room. I realize these are grown men that don't need a ton of motivation, but if any Packers need a kick in the pants, I hope they see some of the garbage being thrown about in the media this past week.

I'm so sick of everyone bringing up 2007. When I think of Packers and Giants in a championship game I think of

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It's crazy that the NO-SF game has received very little coverage this week.

The Houston / Baltimore game is the game I've seen receiving the least amount of coverage

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Originally posted by fightphoe93:
Holy cow, it really does almost seem like the East Coast based media thinks it's a foregone conclusion that a repeat of the 2007 Championship game in the Giants favor is inevitable.

Which is ridiculous since those teams are completely different. Yeah, same teams and a few players, but for God's sake the Packers have a DIFFERENT QB!!!!!! That, and most Packer fans believe if Rodgers plays that game instead of Favre, the Packers go to the Super Bowl.

Off the top of my head, only Clifton, Wells, Jennings, Driver and Grant were starters on offense in 2007, and only Woodson, Hawk and Pickett started on defense. Not sure if there were more than a handful of backups who even suited up that day. 8 players out of 22 starters. Hard to draw too many conclusions from that 2007 game.

You can't spell Elite without Eli.

Except this Sunday.

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Originally posted by RochNyFan:
Sorry if I missed this, but what did Rolle and Beckum say?

Beckum said that our defence is not that good. And Rolle said that the Gaints will not put the Packers on a pedstel.

clarification. Beckum said our cornerbacks weren't very good. which is an even dumber statement.

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Originally posted by pduck:
I'm so sick of everyone bringing up 2007. When I think of Packers and Giants in a championship game I think of (1962).

That game tends to get forgotten. Pretty much every Packer who played in both said the conditions that day were worse than in the Ice Bowl, because not only was it near zero, but also the wind was absolutely wicked. Domenic Gentile said later that during halftime, a number of players were on the floor of the locker room, curled up in the fetal position and weeping, because it was so miserably cold.

Now this is locker room material!

Things are looking up. Mike Greenberg picked the Giants--he is the ultimate kiss of death.

Yep, Greeny picking the Giants was basically a lock and then Skip backing him up clinched it. Of course Skip prefaced it by saying that he does not hate the Packers .

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Originally posted by CitizenDan:
The Giants could field a team of trustees from Rahway State Prison and most media outlets would be on their bandwagon.

MEAN MACHINE! MEAN MACHINE!

The posts regarding are the lack of coverage of the other games are spot on, IMO it is the clearest evidence that the media is obsessed with a Giant "upset"

All this doesn't really matter, Packers were media darlings early, some less than spectacular wins (including over the Giants) and the loss to KC led the lemmings to all jump off the bandwagon at the same time the Giants got "hot"

I think the Giants are just about what there record and schedule indicate. They lost most the games they should have against good teams, beat the teams they should have including some average teams and slightly above average teams. The NE game is the outlier here. Beating Dallas twice and the Jets at the end of the season is not bad, but it doesn't tell me that they have made the step up. The question in my mind is whether they handed it to the Falcons or the Falcons handed it to the Giants. My personal guess is that the Falcons played down more than the Giants played up.

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Originally posted by Chronic Hobbit:
Things are looking up. Mike Greenberg picked the Giants--he is the ultimate kiss of death.

Ron Jaworski just said that he thinks the Packers are going to blow out the Giants. Hearkening back to Grateful's post, he said "This isn't the Atlanta Falcons, it's the world champion Green Bay Packers."

I've always likes Jaws......

All 3 guys on Inside The NFL picked the Packers.

Now Skippy picking the Giants and saying the Giants "have the better trio of receivers". DISCOUNT DOUBLE CHECK BITCH!

Cowherd took the Pack and the points.

I saw Bayless this morning talking about the game. I like how the Giants "springboard" was that Packers loss, despite that the Giants LOST to the Redskins two weeks later AT HOME. Then they beat two non-playoff teams at home (more or less) and dominated a Falcons team at home who the Packers have dominated on the road the last 2 years.

It's not that people are picking against the Packers that annoys me, it's the fabrication of facts that have no basis. Analysts are so desperate to link this game to 2007 that they're just making up facts to support their conclusion.

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Originally posted by antiworst:
Now Skippy picking the Giants and saying the Giants "have the better trio of receivers". DISCOUNT DOUBLE CHECK BITCH!

How can Bayless say that and keep a striaght face. I also seen where Joyner on ESPN said the Giants have a WR advanatge. I just dont get it!!!!

Saw

Packers' homers, why are the Giants WRs better? Salsa dancing. Now get with the program. Giants by 10 and Brees is the MVP.

Media Consensus, The system is just that damn good ...

1) Our QB is not top tier

2) Our WR's are not top tier

3) Our SuperBowl winning coach repeated to a 15-1 season, yet probably will not
get Coach of the Year again.

Hmmm, the question then remains just what is this system, who created it, who runs it and who manages it?

Its the scarewee system, its like black magic, its apparently on par with the illuminati ...

BE AWARE Giants, BE VERY AWARE! The SYSTEM is coming to GET YOU !!!!!!!!

I hope we see a lot of Jennings, Nelson, Driver, Cobb, and Finley on 1st down. Just show the Giants we going to throw the damn ball and try and stop us. If Finley has the drops replace him with Jones. Attack, attack, attack!!!

Then when their big defensive dummies are worn out, a steady dose of Grant, Starks and Saine to put an end to this game.