TT's 2009 draft class is proving to be his best yet
Packers 34 Lions 12
What started as a potential let down game for the Pack, ended in a blowout. Man its strange how good their D is playing lately. They are just playing sound D, haven’t seen blown assignments for like 4-5 weeks. Even the Viking loss they played sound, just got zero for pass rush. Anyways, good to finally have a D that looks legitamately dominant.
Vikings 36 Bears 10
Well the Vikings have really rolled that past 3-4 weeks. They have everything poised to make a playoff run, just depends on if they do the usual Viking choke. Or maybe Favre’s post-season troubles cancel out the Vikings choke ridden history. Anyways Favre is WAY to comfortable in the pocket, starting to look eerily similar to the 95-97 years. And it kills me.
Week 12 Winners
- Rodgers
- Packer Rookies (Raji, Matthews, Jones)
- Woodson – NFC Defensive player of the month
- Favre – It pains me to put him here but have to
Week 12 Losers
- Cutler – What a waste, maybe Shanahan will come to the rescue in 2010? He’s such a loser lately I’m not going any further.
Published on December 4, 2009 1:00 pm.
Filed under: 2009 Season, Game Summary, NFC North Tags: cutler, Favre, raji, rodgers, ted thompson, turkey day, woodson
Rodgers relishes his biggest win
Packers 17 Cowboys 7
So the Packer’s D finally woke up this week! They came with some pressure and actually got to Romo? And the only change was Kampman being out…which probably doesn’t bode well for his future with the Pack. He just isn’t made to be a stand up pass rusher. What sucks is now they won’t get squat for him in trade value. I’d like to see him as the DE on passing downs. They have to figure out a better way to utilize his skills for the rest of the season.
The D looked active and tenacious on Sunday. This is what most packer fans expected to see. It was very strange how quickly the Cowboys abandoned the running game however. Having zero balance to their O made it possible for the Packers to unleash the hounds so to speak.
Vikings 28 Lions 10
This game should have been much worse. The Vikings are starting to look like a scary team to me. Just solid on all counts. Defense, offense, special teams…Really the only thing holding them from attaining first round bye will be themselves. Any major injury to Pat/Kevin Williams, AP, Favre would end their season in my mind.
49ers 10 Bears 6 (Thursday night)
The Bears fall to their former star middle linebacker, Mike Singletary. Cutler with 5 picks. Enough said.
Besides Rodgers, this might be TT's best first round pick
Week 10 Winners
- Charles Woodson – 9 tackles, INT, Sack and two forced fumbles. What a huge game by a future HOF’er.
- Packer’s coaches – Dom Capers, Mike McCarthy actually had a good game plan.
- Aaron Rodgers – Solid game
- Clay Matthews III – This guy is a future pro bowler, perfect fit for the Packers 3-4.
- Barnett / Hawk – Looked solid. AJ has played pretty good for four weeks straight now. And Barnett looks to be back.
Week 10 Losers
- Jay Cutler – 5 picks…and I loved how Deion Sanders was killing him about not seeming to have a care after throwing a pick.
- Tramon Williams – Anybody who gets the ball stripped by a punter deserves to be here no matter what.
Belichick’s 4th down call
This has been talked (and here) about enough, but this is reminiscent to the 1995 Cowboys/Eagles game when Barry Switzer was heavily criticized for failing a 4th and short on their own 29. That team ended up winning the Super Bowl. I did thoroughly enjoy this episode of the Colts/Pats game also. It never lives down to the hype!
Published on November 17, 2009 1:50 pm.
Filed under: 2009 Season, Game Summary, NFC North Tags: barnett, belichick, cowboys, cutler, hawk, matthews, patriots/colts, rodgers, singletary
With Minneapolis hosting a pretty solid weekend plus of sports – Twins playoff run, Vikings/Packers, Badgers/Gophers – I thought I’d post this…Probably the best celebration speech of a stadium closing I’ve seen. Kent Hrbek = Boozer.
Since I’ve already blabbed about the Vikings/Packers game, I’ll quickly review the other NFC North matchup then take a look ahead to the next quarter of the season.
Bears 48 Lions 24
The Lions started this game well and it was close at the half. But the Bears were just too strong and eventually pulled away. The injury to Stafford also doesn’t help…and btw, this was the first time I watched him play a bit. He has potential and a good arm. The Bears are playing all around good offense right now, but their D looks weaker than usual. They have beaten last year’s champs (Steelers) but I’m not sure they can maintain this level of play the rest of the season.
First Quarter Review
So after four games the NFC North looks like this…
Vikings 4-0 – They have played a very deliberate game so far this season. And after their big win on Monday, now they seem to be firing on all cylinders. One thing I worry about is there pass coverage…if the Packers were able to get average pass protection it seemed that they had lots of wide open receivers.
Bears 3-1 – Cutler has played pretty good the past three games, this might be the first place team after the second quarter of the season is over.
Packers 2-2 – Not real consistent on defense or offense. Some big time mistakes at the worst times has cost this team at least one loss. They are the youngest team in the league again, how much longer does this last?
Lions 1-3 – Showing some promise with the new coach and without dumb ass GM.
Looking Ahead
Here are the next games for the top three teams in the North.
Vikings – (@STL, BLT, @PITT, @GB) This is probably the toughest part of the Vikings schedule, if they can come out of this 3-1 or even 2-2 they should make the playoffs. But thats a hard three game stretch against some notoriously tough football teams. The Ravens and Steelers both can stop the run and bring pressure, this will be the real test for Favre this year. Throw in some inclement weather and the Vikings could really slip in this games.
Bears – (@ATL, @CIN, CLE, AZ) Here’s another stretch of games that will show what the Bears are made of…Will Cutler be exposed here? Probably in at least two of these games. If they are able to win two of these games they will be looking good.
Packers – (DET, @CLE, MN, @TB) For the Packers to make a run, they have to win all four of these games. Except for the Vikings game, they should win them all by a wide margin. But that game at Tampa scares me for some reason.
Projected Standings after Q2
Bears 5-3
Vikings 5-3
Packers 5-3
Lions 2-6
Published on October 7, 2009 10:25 am.
Filed under: 2009 Season, Bears, Game Summary, NFC North, Predictions, Videos, lions Tags: Bears, cutler, first quarter, kent hrbek, minneapolis, NFC North, packers, second quarter, vikings, youth
Bengals @ Packers
Since the Packers seem to be living in denial over their inability to block anyone, thought it was analogous to one of my favorite Will Ferrell clips. Last Sunday a single DE attibuted for 5 sacks and 2 knockdowns. They are lucky Rodgers made it out of this game without sustaining any injuries. So in my mind there are three major issues with this seemingly unstoppable offense. First this is not PRE-SEASON! Packer’s coaches should recognize that most teams play vanilla defense during pre-sesason, so you can allow your QB to wait for plays to develop and your offense can look unstoppable. But you cannot base your game plan on how things went in the PRE-SEASON!
Second, they are not establishing or trying to establish any sort of running game. I think McCarthy is so giddy about his young QB and talented receivers that he just wants to show them off. Kind of like when you get that first new bike when you were young. Like even if it was a simple walk across the street, you still take your bike out…to show it off.
The second issue is the lack of pass protection and Rodgers holding the ball too long at times. They should have kept a TE back to help out College after Clifton went down. So this week against the lowly Rams, I expect them to go back to the short passing game and running the ball. If they cannot do either then it will be a repeat of last week. Although I have no clue who the Rams have on the D-line.
If they are able to sustain drives and mix it up with a good run then they’ll win this game by a couple TDs.
Steelers @ Bears
Didn’t see much of this game, but the Bears played much better than Week 1. But I think Pittsburgh isn’t has strong w/o Paulamalu. Cutler was much improved, and the bears home field helped.
Vikings @ Lions
What can you say? The Lions were actually in this one until they remembered that they are the Lions. Didn’t watch much of this game either as it coincided with the GB game, but it appears the Vikings are firing on all cylinders. But that is the way thing are supposed to be.
Week Two Winners
- Bengals – Yes the Bengals are decent
- Cutler – Redemption!
- Adrian Peterson – Amazing.
Week Two Losers
- Mike McCarthy – Ever here of a team having a letdown game on week two? Neither have I…
- Ryan Grant – Hasn’t broken a tackle all year, and that fumble was at the worst time
- Aaron Rouse – Released
- Nick Collins – Injury bug creep alert
- Brett Favre – going to be a while
Published on September 24, 2009 10:06 am.
Filed under: 2009 Season, Predictions, Videos Tags: bengals, college, cutler, lions, mccarthy, preseason, rodgers, rouse, steelers, vikings
So now the packers are getting closer and closer to being TOO much on the radar…But I love the sports guy’s reasoning here…it would be awesome.
Prediction X: The six best teams this season will be New England, Pittsburgh, San Diego, Green Bay, the Giants … and New Orleans. (That’s right, New Orleans. You heard me.) The other six playoff teams will be Indianapolis, Seattle, Chicago, Baltimore, Denver and Washington. In the Super Bowl, Green Bay will defeat Pittsburgh to cap off the first Eff You season devoted to a specific player. That player would be you, Brett Favre.
And here is his pick for this week’s game at chicago.
PACKERS (-3.5) over Bears
Chicago fans have been wondering why I dumped them and adopted the Packers as my NFC North team and Super Bowl pick du jour. It came down to one thing: I didn’t want to root for Jay Cutler. Has he had a likable moment yet? This year will be his coming-out party as the most despised player in football. Every time they show him on the sidelines, he looks like a pissed-off trust-fund kid who can’t believe the valet scratched his Escalade hybrid. And you know what? He makes the league more fun. I like rooting against him the same way I liked rooting against Rick Barry, Bill Laimbeer and the Iron Sheik. We need more Jay Cutlers in sports. Not everyone was meant to be liked.
Read the full article here, http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/090910. Hopefully I’ll have my NFC North predictions up later today or Saturday.
Published on September 11, 2009 6:47 am.
Filed under: 2009 Season, Bears, Favre, Predictions Tags: Bears, cutler, pick, sports guy, Super Bowl
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