Nice to see Blair Kiel at the game.
I’ll ignore the obvious + and - as they’ve been stated.
+ Stokes has had a tremendous start to the season. You rarely hear his name called and that’s a great thing.
+ I kept waiting for the D collapse like we’ve seen so many times before. They did the opposite and turned it up in crunch time.
- O Rashan, Rashan, wherefore art thou Rashan. On a day that the Right Tackle gets benched, he can’t get home. Enegbarre made both RT’s look pathetic. Gary has 1 sack this year and it came on a busted play. We need him to perform up to his contract.
@packerboi posted:Organizations matter.. pic.twitter.com/xDaW5TL6ui
— Andrew Brandt (@AndrewBrandt) September 22, 2024Caleb Williams and Bryce Young agree.
Justin Fields too.
This is the first time I listened to a Jeff Hafley press conference. He’s a great communicator
@BrainDed posted:I’ll ignore the obvious + and - as they’ve been stated.
+ Stokes has had a tremendous start to the season. You rarely hear his name called and that’s a great thing.
+ I kept waiting for the D collapse like we’ve seen so many times before. They did the opposite and turned it up in crunch time.
- O Rashan, Rashan, wherefore art thou Rashan. On a day that the Right Tackle gets benched, he can’t get home. Enegbarre made both RT’s look pathetic. Gary has 1 sack this year and it came on a busted play. We need him to perform up to his contract.
I thought Gary was a little bit more disruptive than in the past 2 weeks but I agree that he got outplayed by Engabare and Wyatt. Just about everyone on the D-Line seemed to contribute today.
Or is he taking on multiple blockers so the others get free? I have no idea.
I've also noticed Kenny Clark absent from the games after signing his big deal.
I haven't gone back and watched the tape but I'm going to
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MLF and Gutey deserve a lot of credit. Guteys’ last 3 drafts have been outstanding and at this point picking up guys like Malik Willis look like great moves. And MLF’s work with Willis obviously is a key, too.
In 3 games we lead the league in takeaways and INT’s and have as many INT’s as we had all of last season. Mr. Hafley so far appears to be a big step up from what we had gotten used to with JB.
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For the 2nd straight week, the game was not broadcast out here in the Wild West.
Agreed that Kenny Clark and Rashaan Gary haven’t seemed to make much of an impact so far.
And I don’t care what anyone says, I have a feeling our new kicker is going to be just fine. If we had gone with Carlson, I would not say that.
@BrainDed posted:- O Rashan, Rashan, wherefore art thou Rashan. On a day that the Right Tackle gets benched, he can’t get home. Enegbarre made both RT’s look pathetic. Gary has 1 sack this year and it came on a busted play. We need him to perform up to his contract.
He should have had a sack today if not for Preston smiths bone headed penalty for being lined up in the neutral zone.
Emanuel Wilson in pass pro. Pretty clear from the snap counts (and carries) he's getting that the trust is there.
@RobDemovsky
A career-high 26 snaps for Emanuel Wilson, who scored his first NFL TD on a 30-yard screen. He had 29 total snaps in the first two games combined and never played more than 8 in a game last season as a rookie.
@H5 posted:
Not a stretch - Joe Barry let Bryce Young throw for 300 yards. Should have been fired right there.
Don't want to turn this into a Joe Barry bashing thread but my biggest issue with him was an inability to make a bad QB look bad. Never made sense to me how Young and Devito could look like all-pro's then make Dak or Goff look average. There is no doubt in my mind he would have made Levis look like an all-pro. Instead we have a real DC in Hafley who attacked Levis relentlessly and changed up coverages to confuse him. God it makes me so mad we had a moron like Barry as DC for as long as we did.
Joe Barry Will never be a DC again, IMO.
Love the design here: isolate Rashan Gary on one side where he still draws a chip.
— Peter Bukowski (@Peter_Bukowski) September 23, 2024
Then overload the opposite side in a NASCAR package, run a game where the blitzing LB loops in behind.
Poor Peter Skoronski pic.twitter.com/GZPvaAPLJf
Cooper does all the cool stuff Quay can do but he does it faster and better. pic.twitter.com/SLOYEADxKB
— Ross Uglem (@RossUglem) September 23, 2024
tucker kraft is why they didn't replace the deguara position in the offseason
— Ross Uglem (@RossUglem) September 23, 2024
he's going to get a billion snaps because he has his role from last season and deguara's pic.twitter.com/5R2DjAOJrn
+ Yes there were moments of concern* but I can't recall really ENJOYING watching a backup Packers QB I a long time. Willis was able to execute and stick to the game plan for his second victory in as many weeks. But the major difference is the defense. You can just tell that the players have bought in to Hafley's system/approach and are making plays. Bring on the Vikes!
- *ahem ,penalties. But Bill Huber said McCarthy's Packers teams had a lot of penalties but always made the playoffs. True, but penalties can take points off the board or in case of Titans penalty during Packers missed field goal, cost you 7.
Packers-Titans is being replayed on NFL Network at 830 PM EST tonight (Monday)
No matter how glamorous or exotic football can appear, I will always love the basics of the game; block, tackle, run, pass.
I look for things like WRs or TEs running downfield looking for someone to block, RBs stoning a blitzer or throwing a lead block, and the OL putting their opponents on their asses.
These last 2 games have been a dream from heaven. Nobody has been perfect at any position, but they are better more often than not. At times, spectacular!
On the Packers first series in the 2nd qtr, Kraft caught a 21 yard pass.
The very next play was a short pass to Reed at the sideline. What Kraft did to the Titans player who was trying to force an OOB was just nasty!
He was either blocking him with one arm on that guy's chest or it may have been a stiff arm, but he put that guy on the ground! It reminded me of a long-armed boxer holding off a guy with his arm while that guy is swinging at air until he gets pushed down to the mat.
Moose was trying to show it on a replay, and was wanting to point it out (he had it circled on the telestrator), but the next play was beginning so they had to cut away quickly.
I haven't been able to find it on any of the highlight videos so far, but, FWIW, it starts at the 12:40 mark for those that can watch again or find a clip.
F bomb warning.
😂😂😂😂😂😭 pic.twitter.com/GAaMtPmJqw
— Tennessee Tyrant (@TitanUpTalk) September 24, 2024
55 is coming on hard this year. Maybe he'll be what Gary was supposed to be.
He swim moved him so hard he got set for the next play. HOF.
