Stay healthy, learn from your mistakes and let the boot do its work. Defense starts in the backfield, lets see what the new, very intriguing additions add to the mix.
Originally Posted by BrainDed:
I predict the defense gets steamrolled in the playoffs. Probably by Dallas.
Originally Posted by Ghost of Lambeau:
Lets see – ((16 regular season games + 3 playoff games + home field advantage factor – player health factor – injury factor (as it applies based on past history) – AR durability factor – inexperience factor) * MM finger in all the pies factor * Cheating factor (as defined by NE))/difficulty of schedule factor = somewhere between 0-19 and 19-0, but more than likely 14-4-1.
I'll go along with this. The crazy part? The tie happens in the Super Bowl.
I predict that at some point of the season the Packers will beat the New England Patriots.
Unless it's the Super Bowl, that ain't happenin'
Nice to dream though
I'm guessing that's what he's getting at Boss
Originally Posted by YooperPackfan:
The first man on the moon!!
We've landed on the moon no way that's great!
I think that this team should be able to get to 12 wins given the schedule and if they don't have a rash of injuries. The games I worry about are Dallas, @ Denver, @Rams, and @ Cardinals. But honestly I think this team should be somewhere in the neighborhood of 12-14 wins and be right there for the #1 seed. I know I am crazy and in the minority but I want to go back to Seattle in the NFCC game and beat them there.
McCarthy does not use the boot on himself.
The defense is dominating "enough" .
Offense finds another gear.
Anything less than a Super Bowl appearance, considering health, would be a failed season.
The defense is dominating "enough" .
Offense finds another gear.
Anything less than a Super Bowl appearance, considering health, would be a failed season.
My prediction is that before the Super Bowl Tom Brady gets injured and Matt Flynn has to start, making the Pack 12 point favorites. Flynn has a great game but gets picked near the goalline by HaHa who gets pick 6 out of it early in the second half and falls short on his final drive so the Pack wins by 5. Craziest thing is right before the end of the first half Josh Sitton returns a kickoff all the way down to the 12 yard line. Could be because Bellichick, who bleats after the game "We're no one's underdog!" hires Shawn Slocum to handle his special teams.
13-3 w/ wtf losses to KC, San Fran and Oakland. They start slow as usual, but have enough to beat the Bears and have put a lot of effort in to beating Seattle so they pull that one off, but hit a lull afterwards.
Originally Posted by Hungry5:
Anything less than a Super Bowl appearance would be a failed season.
The mighty Green Bay Packers don't do SB "appearances" and there isn't a team in the junior conference that can hang with them this year anyways.
Full speed ahead
Anything less than a Super Bowl win would be a failed season.
Bonus prediction: Montgomery will score three return TDs during the regular season and make big plays in the NFCCG.
The Green Bay Packers are going to tear their opponents heads off and sh*t down their necks.
Last season we had a lot of blowouts (Chicago, Philly) that I think we'll see again, but MM after that loss in Seattle will be like Bellichick and won't take the foot off the throat again...
If you're bored/have some time, I found a pretty cool season predictor site. (May have been posted previously). Not sure I link'd it correctly, some of the games for future weeks might already be picked. Just click the 'reset all games' button at the top.
Few interesting things I found:
1. Atlanta has an incredibly easy schedule. Hardest games are Indy and Minnesota at home and Panthers in Carolina.
2. Seattle has no easy road to the playoffs. Road games in Arizona, Cincy, Baltimore, and Minnesota and home games vs Carolina, Arizona and Pittsburgh (rapist should be healthy by then).
3. The Week 16 showdown in Arizona is going to be huge and could ultimately decide HFA.
Getting ahead of ourselves thinking about a week 16 tilt vs. AZ decides HFA
Let's beat the Niners first.
Lotta football to play yet & most likely injuries yet to come for all 32 teams.
Let's beat the Niners first.
Lotta football to play yet & most likely injuries yet to come for all 32 teams.
Not sure how I missed this, but 19-0 and we take down the '72 fish. We'll all be popping the champagne. This is our year. This is our trophy.
Problem with the Falcons schedule is that they'll get steamrolled (again) when they actually face a good team in the playoffs.
Thats assuming they get to the playoffs.
What Chillijon said. I've seen their games this year and the new coach has fixed a lot, but the personnel is not there yet. Give them a couple decent drafts and they'll be back in the mix, especially with Julio.
A couple decent drafts isn't helping Atlanta. They'll never accomplish anything with Matt Ryan. He still throws some of the ugliest picks at the worst possible times. Good example was his pick to start the second half in week 1 when Atlanta was beating Philly down. Philly almost housed it and Matt turned another rout into a nail biter.
But, but, but he's MATTY ICE and he's the all-time leader in fourth quarter comebacks!
One of McGinn's sources dissects the roster and makes a prediction.
Four months from now, when the Lombardi Trophy is handed to the winner of Super Bowl 50, Mark Murphy, Ted Thompson and the remainder of the Green Bay Packers will be on the podium to receive it.
That was the conclusion of an experienced executive in personnel for a National Football League team who agreed to dissect the Packers and forecast the season for the Journal Sentinel.
In an extended interview last week, the personnel man assigned a grade to each of the 68 players under contract to the Packers and broke down the roster position-by-position.
Selected because of his level of expertise and success in the NFL, he has watched the Packers this summer, this September and for many years before that.
He's picking Green Bay, which is off to a 3-0 start, to finish the regular season with a 14-2 record and then dethrone the New England Patriots at Levi's Stadium, where the Packers play the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday...
From the article.
Late last week, an experienced executive in personnel for a National Football League team provided this color-coded rating of the 53 players on the Green Bay Packers' roster, the five players on injured reserve, the nine players on the practice squad and the one on practice squad-injured reserve. He has watched tape of the Packers throughout the exhibition season and the first three regular-season games. Players were evaluated primarily on positional value rather than special-teams value.
Each player was assigned a color code, which is standard in NFL pro personnel departments. Teams, however, use different colors to mean different things. Blue and red are used by most teams for the top two categories.
YELLOW: Below-average backup; needs to be replaced.
YELLOW (15): WR Ty Montgomery.
Bob doesn't even read the **** he posts anymore.
Originally Posted by bubbleboy789:
1. Atlanta has an incredibly easy schedule. Hardest games are Indy and Minnesota at home and Panthers in Carolina.
Atlanta has the most advantageous remaining schedule of any team in the NFL. The Falcons do not play a team with a current winning record for the next nine weeks, and only one of their remaining foes (Carolina, twice) has a winning record this morning. The Atlanta slate:
Week 5: Washington (2-2)
Week 6: at New Orleans (1-3)
Week 7: at Tennessee (1-2)
Week 8: Tampa Bay (1-3)
Week 9: at San Francisco (1-3)
Week 10: Bye
Week 11: Indianapolis (2-2)
Week 12: Minnesota (2-2)
Week 13: at Tampa Bay (1-3)
Week 14: at Carolina (4-0)
Week 15: at Jacksonville (1-3)
Week 16: Carolina (4-0).
Week 17: New Orleans (1-3)
Our schedule will decide the shape of the playoffs. We seem to have all the important tiebreaker games: Seattle, Carolina, Dallas, Arizona and possibly St Louis. Beating the AFC is nice, but if we are going to lose games this season, I'd prefer to lose outside of the conference so we own a perfect in-conference record come playoff time. As we saw with games against Seattle the last couple years, that head-to-head tiebreaker or even in-conference tie breaker is critical for HFA!
ATL is 4-0, but they haven't been tested yet. They have won:
26-24 vs PHI (Kelly's D and TOP? PHI D on the field 3:00 more than the next closest team. Eagles will be 7-9)
24-20 @ NYG (Giants blow a 20-10 4tr lead... Manning missing two wide open WRs on their final drive)
39-28 @ DAL (no Romo, no Dez, no Murray...)
48-21 vs HOU (One of the worst of the have-nots in the ?NFL this season)
Originally Posted by Herschel:
13-3 w/ wtf losses to KC, San Fran and Oakland. They start slow as usual,
Alrighty then---you trained as a weatherman, didn't you? 
Good God, ATL could run the table vs that clown parade. CAR is biggest obstacle.
Meh, they're the Falcons. The new and shiny HC thingy will wear thin as they do not have the personnel.
with a schedule like that they could go unbeaten.
but the first round of the playoffs will dish up a huge plate of reality - one and done.
but with the Falcons I never doubt their ability to implode as the season progresses as well.
Originally Posted by Herschel:
13-3 w/ wtf losses to KC, San Fran and Oakland. They start slow as usual,
