Aaron Jones about to get paid!
Gary starting to show up.
Win is good.
Division win is better.
Without Clark and not much Adams is a testament.
O-line depth is looking solid, thank your deity of choice because they've needed it.
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Sign Jones now. He’s only getting more expensive
They won because they are the much better team....pretty simple.
We'd best hope KC comes back next week, or 94, 95 and 90 are suddenly inspired by the spirit of Reggie White.
Aside from a slow start by the defense and a few too many drops (I'm looking at you, Turdberger) it was all pawsitives today!
Injuries are a negative. I'm worried about Davante's hammy.
Assume it was talked about in the game thread - Prater sniffs smelling salts (?) before FG attempts? Don't recall seeing that before.
Defense stiffened after first two series.
Hope Kenny is good to go soon, but 2-0 in the division is a good place to be at the start of the season.
They won a game they should win, and despite the warts a bunch of guys contributed today. 2-0 in the division. Plenty of things to work on, but when you can say that after a win it's a definite positive.
The last time the Lions won a playoff game.
1) Brett Favre wasn't a Packer
2) Patriots won zero Super Bowls
3) Patrick Mahomes was just an itch in his daddy's pants
Those drops were brutal, there might be a game where that matters.
Gary made a few nice plays (that even show up in a stat sheet).
Like Al, why must the GBP always be soft in the middle
Former Badger QC making catches is nice to see. Glad it happened in a blowout.
Holy shit is the line playing well.
👍👍👍👍OL puts in another outstanding performance. Defense clamped down after the 1st two drives. Offense with 34 unanswered. Gary showed out.
👎👎👎👎Drops continue to plague the offense. Injuries, injuries.
I know Minny and Detroit might be trash, but with the balance they've shown thus far, this offense might be as good as, or even better than 2011. Legit could have been 50+ points games both weeks.
Defense feels like it's the same thing we've seen for a long time. Get turnovers or get torched. Just get enough of those TOs...
....and I don't care. Dropping 40+ 2 straight weeks on 2 division opponents is no joke.
A lot of Pundits playing it down because..... well....Lions gonna Lion.... & Vikings with turnover on roster especially defensively.
I don't GAF....that's 2 division wins to start the season. Very very big!
And to think they haven't played perfect in either game. They still have a lot they can & will improve on.
The rest of the league should be terrified because if they play perfect, they're beating any team. That includes SF & KC
It’s only 2 weeks but.. GB looks like a legitimate NFC contender.. and Lions need to get healthy. Anything can happen.
— TJ Lang (@TJLang70) September 20, 2020
and the one thing I remember about the 96 Packer Super Bowl team???? The scores of the Packers was at least 30 points or more. AND two games so far this year??? Killing it. 
The right side of the offensive line has been much better than I expected. AR's increased familiarity with the offense shows up in his ability to get into favorable play calls. On defense Clark, Smith & Alexander are consistent "difference makers". Gary is coming on, Savage seems to have the ability but thus far hasn't been around the ball much.
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Offense is a juggernaut.
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Need to clean up the drops and the use of timeouts. Defense still makes me nervous and we'll learn a lot more about them in the Saints game.
Colin Cowturd can suck it. He said this week that Rodgers is too dependent on Davante. Not today!
+ 12, OL, 33, 51, 23
- DL, 95,94,90
better get that dl cleaned up.
A lot of positives already covered. One that deserves more comment is how good Elgton Jenkins is. He's already a top 5 NFL guard. Another is that Jaire Alexander is a top 10 CB. Rashan Gary made some plays.
Room for Improvement.
MVS has to make the easy plays. At least he makes some plays. He's dropped 4 easy catches in two weeks despite making circus catches on other plays.
Sternberger is a 2019 third-round pick. Third-round TE picks are supposed to make contributions quickly. He's played 8 games and has no catches. He's been targeted 4 times in his career and dropped 3 of them. It's time for him to produce.
Big bright spot appears to be our OL coach. After years of Cogbot doing his thing, good and bad, it feels like our guys are getting equally well coached on run and pass blocking. Lots of changes on the OL, but continuity seems good so far.
Rodgers seems really dialed in also. I counted maybe 2 errant throws all day and even those could have been route issues.
Negative is DL talent. It’s just not there. Detroit doesn’t have an amazing OL, but we rarely held the LOS. Z Smith was honestly our best interior player today. Gotta do more than bolster the PS.
“According to the Elias Sports Bureau, the Packers and the 1991 Buffalo Bills are the only teams in NFL history to register 85-plus points and 1,000-plus yards in the first two games of a season.”
... and it could have very easily been 100-plus points.
Jaire was flying around today too. Very active and dialed in. That's a great sign.
@Timpranillo posted:I know Minny and Detroit might be trash, but with the balance they've shown thus far, this offense might be as good as, or even better than 2011. Legit could have been 50+ points games both weeks.
Yep. Last week the Vikings kept putting 8 men in the box to force Rodgers to beat them - which he did with ease.
This week the Lions played a ton of 6 DB looks and the running game ate their lunch. Rodgers still did plenty and probably would have been over 300 yards with 3 TD's with a little more concentration by the receivers.
@MichiganPacker2 posted:
MVS has to make the easy plays. At least he makes some plays. He's dropped 4 easy catches in two weeks despite making circus catches on other plays.
Sternberger is a 2019 third-round pick. Third-round TE picks are supposed to make contributions quickly. He's played 8 games and has no catches. He's been targeted 4 times in his career and dropped 3 of them. It's time for him to produce.
Typical of younger guys. Dialed in on tough catches and ho-hum on routine stuff. The great hockey goalie Ken Dryden once said that it wasn't missing the impossible saves that bothered him because you can't expect to stop those shots; it wasn't the missed saves on flukey goals that bothered him because those happen so infrequently; it was missing the routine saves that became goals because of a lack of concentration that bothered him because those goals were preventable. Our WRs have the football version of that.
Has anyone asked Mrs. Pad Statford for her thoughts?
"Detroit Lions-The NY Jets of the NFCN". At least Minny and Chitcago can break water every now and then. The Loins? Can't even break wind!
Thought it was interesting that the defense was in a 1-4-6 formation at the end of the game. I've got to balance it out with the Loins being forced into 'playing catch-up' in a game they were hopelessly behind, but it's hard to argue with the results.
Injuries suck.
@PackerHawk posted:Yep. Last week the Vikings kept putting 8 men in the box to force Rodgers to beat them - which he did with ease.
This week the Lions played a ton of 6 DB looks and the running game ate their lunch. Rodgers still did plenty and probably would have been over 300 yards with 3 TD's with a little more concentration by the receivers.
Yes! Read somewhere (here?), that on 94% of Jones' runs we had more blockers than they had defenders. Patrica knew his DBs couldn't hold up so he gambled that his d-lineman could win one-on-one battles ..... they didn't.
I am honestly stoked for how well the offense has started out. One of the best things is that this time last year the buffoons in the media was wetting their pants with headlines about how Rodgers and MLF can't get along, AR won't do what he is told, blah blah. It is awesome to see a truly balanced offense which I think is something you have to do.
The other positive thing to me is that they are 2-0 in the NFCN, have a 2 game lead on the Spermheads, and 2-0 in the NFC.
Last year Packers punted 17 times in the first two games; this year it's four. A pretty good indication of how well the offense is functioning.
@PackerHawk posted:Aside from a slow start by the defense and a few too many drops (I'm looking at you, Turdberger) it was all pawsitives today!
Sternburger does need to fix his drops problem. Tonyan is the better TE, right now!
@YATittle posted:Vikings will be in the cellar this year,
They share the cellar with Detroit, who should be 1-1 right now, leaving the vikings in the cellar, alone. Cannot wait to see Detroit vs the vikings. Stafford should eat their secondary alive. We need the vikings to win a couple games to keep them from drafting in the top ten. But, no matter where, or who, they draft, they are stuck with Cousins as their QB.
@YATittle posted:Vikings will be in the cellar this year,
Oh good...
Have them bring up a couple 10 year old Alexander Valley Cabs from the cellar so @Blair Kiel & I can enjoy our Gnocchi
@michiganjoe posted:Last year Packers punted 17 times in the first two games; this year it's four. A pretty good indication of how well the offense is functioning.
Either that or they just faced defenses #31 & #32 😁
Went back and re-watched the game just cuz...
Bakhtiari's run blocking is the next level. His blocks were really the key to several huge gains.