Thought's on today's game?

Huuuge win. The race with the Bears to the finish is on.

I can't take too many more like that.

Played less than stellar, yet won.

Officiating started out brutal towards the Pack, but got better by the end. (read: a couple of close interference calls went the Pack's way)

+
Finley (who would've thought?)
Jordy's block for Finley's 40 yarder
Cobb
Hayward, Moses, etc

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Crosby is useless
O-line
Refs
Almost had a heart attack numerous times

No injurries.
Beat team playing for thier lives.
Retooled O-line did well againest a very good Lion def front.
Crosby putting the nail in the lions coffin at the end of the game.

+
Great effort from the defense and the young players continue to impress.

Cobb Just get him the ball.

Starks Not much in terms of yards, but he ran hard and with a purpose.

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Mason

Offense basically stunk most of the game and the play calling seemed a bit conservative to me.

Missin' Crosby's got to go. What is it with kickers ?

MM's clock management sucked at the end of the 2nd Q as well.

But we win. And aside from Raji's ankle, looks like we escaped relatively healthy.

quote:

Originally posted by fightphoe93:
Huuuge win. The race with the Bears to the finish is on.

... And Lions close to packing it in, that game in Green Bay hopefully not as competitive. Stafford looks as mentally beatup as Crosby IMO.

+ Defense, especially the young guys

- Offense. WTF?

- Cremate. Crosby. Thoughts?

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+ D coaches. Dang, they have done an incredible job this year.
+ Raji got some push at times.
+ Kids on D. Moses seems to be around the play a lot. Hayward and House are gems. Jennings on top too. Even MacMillan gets a gift at the end, but was ready for it.
+ Was that Pickett running around out there like a kid?
+ Rodgers after the game admitting he "was off." Now fix it.
+ Starks ran for few yards, but made the D work to get him down.


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- MM and Clement playcalling. Got to do something different.
- Anyone taking bets on Crosby's longevity in GB? But who is out there that is better?

I think in the past we would have lost that game. We just kept after it and after it on D and it paid off.

+

Forgot Finley, who made the most of his limited opportunities.

+
Finley played well
Starks ran hard and carried guys
The d

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Offense is way out of sync and seems to be a trend
Offensive play calling

quote:

Originally posted by michiganjoe:
+
Great effort from the defense and the young players continue to impress.

Cobb Just get him the ball.

Starks Not much in terms of yards, but he ran hard and with a purpose.

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Mason

Offense basically stunk most of the game and the play calling seemed a bit conservative to me.

What he said.

+ I will guarantee this offense looks nothing like this week next week.

Gotta cover that middle better on 3rd down.

Hard to cut the chord with Mason I would presume but, you have to have a kicker that has confidence.. I think you can roll the dice another couple weeks but you have to be on the lookout for a replacement that just needs a shot. Next man up.

Positives:

Crosby
Offense
Penalties
Still a wild card team until the Bears lose Monday night

Negatives:

Defense
The local station showed Philly/Washington
Randall Cobb
The Davis Cup tennis was exciting.

How many passes did Hayward defend today? He's ridiculous.

TT is without a doubt the best GM in the league.

Tramon played like **** today. Luckily, Stafford was worse.

- MM, I thought he looked horrible, even with Crosby struggling he needs to kick the field goal at the beginning. Then he doesn't challenge the megatron catch which would have prevented another score. His play calling is sometimes befuddling. Whenever they bring the TE into the backfed with Kunz and Starks the Likns brought 9 guys into the box, they needed to at least do something different out there ....

+ Big big division road game, this team has heart
Secondary has lots of young studs, who is going to sit when Shields and Woodson come back
Brad Jones play is very solid
Pash rush was the best they have shown in a long time, consistant pressure from all ocer

Lucky stafford is horrible, cause he had a lot of men wide open.

Good win still, not your best game, but a road division win nonetheless.

quote:

Originally posted by Sufferinginmn:
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Finley played well
Starks ran hard and carried guys
The d

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Offense is way out of sync and seems to be a trend
Offensive play calling

Yeah, what happened to the no huddle offense.

+
Outside of a few plays to Johnson, I really liked what the defense showed. Last year's unit would have given up 40 today without Matthews.
Starks looked good
Finley showed signs of life
They won
The Lions are just about finished now

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Crosby, hoping that he may have turned a corner mentally by making that last kick though
Receivers were very underwhelming against a rotten secondary
Rodgers took too many hits
Penalties
Cobb was being stupid on his decisions with kickoff returns

quote:

Originally posted by Fedya:
Positives:

Crosby
Offense
Penalties
Still a wild card team until the Bears lose Monday night

Negatives:

Defense
The local station showed Philly/Washington
Randall Cobb
The Davis Cup tennis was exciting.

BizaRRO

+

Hayward is going to be a star in this league. He looks fantastic.
Cobb is playmaker. Give him the ball more on offense please.
Hawk looked good, again.
Walden had nice pass rushes today.
Burnett played well.
Finley stepped up.. yea, I said it.
Moses looked like he has a nice future.

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Too many penalties
No offensive rhythm
Missed field goals
Cobb on returns. You don't have to run everything out kid!


GB played like **** and still won on the road against a talented team with their backs against the wall. That's what good teams do. I anticipate the Packers coming out next Sunday night against the Giants with their asses on fire after MM blasts them all week long.

Huge divisional road win considering the Offense looked bad and loads of talent had to watch from the sideline. Kids stepped up today.
Hayward is a player. Moses brought pressure and forced a fumble. Hawk had a good game as well.
I'm hoping the re-shuffled o-line just needs time to gel because they had a rough day.
Starks ran hard. He worked for every yard he got.

Bottom line. 2-0 in division play and 5-2 in conference play.

quote:

Originally posted by El-Ka-Bong:
Lucky stafford is horrible, cause he had a lot of men wide open.

Good win still, not your best game, but a road division win nonetheless.

Agree. Stafford missed a lot of throws today.

quote:

Originally posted by El-Ka-Bong:
Lucky stafford is horrible, cause he had a lot of men wide open.

Good win still, not your best game, but a road division win nonetheless.

Yup. Stafford was our MVP.

+
> Defense - playing without Woodson and Matthews against a pretty explosive offense, thought they did a nice job
> MD Jennings
> Casey Hayward
> Dezman Moses
> Randall Cobb
> No injuries?? I almost can't believe it

(-)
> Offensive line - awful, really really awful today
> Penalties
> Crosby
> Pass rush, completely non-existant without Matthews in there

Listened to McCarthy's post game comments and he sounds like he's fed up with Crosby. Wouldn't be surprised to see them bring in a couple of kickers this week.

That said, the young guys in the secondary a big+. Hawk made some nice plays. Keeping my fingers crossed that Finley made a step in the right direction today and Cobb++

No injuries?? I almost can't believe it

Raji limped off. Pretty sure he'll be out until the playoffs.


Offensive line - awful, really really awful today

I wouldn't agree with that. Rodgers had enough time to throw and that Lion DL is a good unit.

The shot they showed of Stafford with his hand around his throat was perfect. Although in fairness to him, it also seemed like he was dinged up there. He had a chance to put this game away and he couldn't do it.

Moses is a player. He's just a baby at LB considering he played DE in college. I like the way he's always around the ball. I wonder if he keeps improving if they wouldn't consider putting Perry at DE and getting Moses on the field with him and Clay.

Jones also came up with some good stops. Walden was solid, although the one shot they had of him pointing to his right while the guy caught the ball wide open a couple yards to Walden's left didn't help him.

MM's playcalling is head-scratching lately...

i was anticipating them having a lot more success in the ground game. did see much of a push on those power plays or toss sweeps.

+ The Lions will be 4-7 if they lose this Thursday. I have a feeling that they'll go into a tailspin and win only 1-2 more the rest of the way if they can't pull out a win against an exhausted Texans team.

Negative: MM's play calling sucked!!! Very predictable!!! How many times did we run on first and 10! Yeah, I like to see some running plays but mix it up a bit! Also, way too fricken conservative. Packers were a bit lucky on this win.

Cobb ST play - he needs to settle down a bit.

Positives - Defense!!! and a win!!! Finley doing something for a change - he actually looked better than average.

Yeah, this post is a bit ugly, but it's an ugly post for an ugly win -still I'm a happy camper.

quote:

Originally posted by bubbleboy789:

> Pass rush, completely non-existant without Matthews in there

They had five sacks today and hurried Stafford into some incompletions. Thought it was a decent performance.

The pass rush wasn't great, but it was better than I thought it would be without Clay. Moses had some success and I thought the inside rushers did a pretty nice job.

I'm anxious to see what Moses can do when paired with Clay.

Moses and Clay. That's a pleasant thought.

The pass rush was doing what was needed. The blitzing is what was failing. Stafford will screw up on his own, you just need to catch the ball when he throws it to you.

I think some of the credit for Stafford screwing up was the rush they were able to put on him. I've been pleasantly surprised with how much they've put on given the guys that are on the team.

It helps that Backus went out. But they were accelerating the clock on Stafford. That goes a long way to helping the DBs.

They played well. If a healthy Matthews had been available, they probably would have had 10 sacks today. If everyone is back next Sunday night, they're going to tear the Giants to shreds.

You do realize that plays are called according to what the anticipated defense being played is, don't you? ...and that AR usually has a run or pass play that he can change the call to depending on the pre read snap? Teams have been attempting to limit our pass attack by playing 6 in the box, thus making the run the most likely play to gain yards & pass a larger chance of a sack or INT.... we have the knowledge or information that goes into play calling, that our staff does.

+++++ We were 2-3 and now we're 7-3.