J Finley scores a big TD and gets a quick drink
Some notes on last night’s game, which has left me all wired and crazy…
1. Clay Mathews! Like a dream combo of Kampman and Hawk.
1a. BJ Raji! Like a man among boys out there at times–a slightly less beastly Haloti Ngata.
2. And speaking of Hawk, who knew that he was born to play in a 3-4? I just about pooped myself when he picked Flacco in the fourth quarter. I think we saw his last INT live at KC.
3. Jarrett Bush gave up a big play–good to know there are some absolutes in the NFL world.
4. Another guarantee–a momentum-swinging botch by the GB special teams. Shawn Slocum should hit the road.
5. The hometown refs (or at least the game they called) really favored the Packers last night. Tramon Williams is a total thug, which is a compliment…and also sort of NOT a compliment.
6. John Gruden, with his constant molasses drip of a voice and bottomless bag of Sterling Sharpe references, is growing on me. But the line of the night came from Tirico, when he was told that the game had the second-highest penalty yards ever: “That’s a memory we’ll all cherish.” Or something like that.
7. “Jerry Rice Fumble! Jerry Rice Fumble!”: overheard while Steve Young led the Aaron Rodgers postgame circle jerk.
8. I can’t believe I’m writing this, but the Pack’s D is totally legit. They need a better corner, but the rest of the guys are solid. Happy trails, Kampman–you were one of the good guys.
9. Woodson’s tackle of McGahee on the 1 was a thing of beauty.
10. Rodgers on third down. What an assassin. But his run up the middle was probably my favorite play of the night.
11. Hope you get well for Pack-Bears at noon on Sunday. Thinking of doing up some barbeque or something.
12. Matt Bowen’s scheme analysis of the game is sweet.
Feel better, yo. This team is starting to take over too much of my spare time. Seattle’s looking great.
Addison
Published on December 8, 2009 2:30 pm.
Filed under: 2009 Season, Game Summary, Lambeau Field, NFC North Tags: gruden, jerry rice, ravens, rodgers, sterling sharpe, woodson
Vikings 30 Packers 23
What could have been? TD drop on 4th down summarizes Packer woes
So while this was a hard loss to swallow, I think the Packers gained some significant confidence at the end. Rodgers left the game feeling like he cannot be stopped. Even though they left a lot on the field – including zero points on three red-zone possesions which could’ve drammatically changed the outcome of this game – they played with energy and showed some talent. But this is Favre’s revenge game or whatever you want to call it. The reality of this game was captured perfectly by Gregg Easterbrook’s TMQ today. Yes Favre can still play, but the Packers didn’t let him go because they thought he couldn’t. It was that they couldn’t be held hostage by his indecision and take the chance of losing their QB for the next 10 seasons, Aaron Rodgers.
Anyway, I’m still thinking the Vikes will take a nose dive eventually…The next month will be a pretty good indicator as they have to play against two of the toughest teams in the league, the Steelers and Ravens. Here are some other thoughts that have left me shaking my head.
- The Packers started out beautifully with vintage WC offense, what happened after the 1st QTR? Did the Vikings adjust or did MM just say f-it?
- Zero pass rush on Favre – This was the reason they went to the 3-4…to get a pass rush! What happened? I’m thinking (hoping) that they held the blitzing package back to stop Adrian Peterson. Which they did…too bad Favre owned them because of this.
- Bishop / Chillar – I’d love to see these two starting at MLB, they could really shake things up. But that won’t happen with a high priced MLB and another who’s a top 5 pick.
- Kampmen – Jon Gruden was right on the money! This guy is an all-pro, he needs to be doing what he does best…why can’t he move from left to right side on the line?
- Charles Woodsen – He and Rodgers are easily the best two players on this team, here’s hoping he sticks around another year or two. Hopefully we don’t hear any more quotes like this:
- “My mind keeps going back to Anthony Smith,” he said. “I don’t know if we win this game if we have Anthony still on the team, but the decision to get rid of a guy that knows this defense in and out and made plays in the preseason, and not being able to have a guy like that come in when Atari goes down, that’s a big dent in this defense. If the outcome would have been different, who knows? But I think we would have played some of those things a lot better.”
- Kuhn – The Packers have gone to the well too many times on that stupid FB draw on short yardage. I can’t believe it almost worked on the goalline in the 3rd quarter.
- Donald Lee – That was easily the biggest drop of the year so far. Man how different this game could’ve been if he catches that TD.
- O-line – Hopefully in the next few weeks their line is…LT Clifton, LG Lang, C Spitz, RG Sitton, RT Babre/Gionconi…OR even better, Tauscher!
Published on October 6, 2009 11:24 am.
Filed under: 2009 Season, Favre, Game Summary Tags: bishop, chillar, easterbrook, Favre, gruden, kampmen, o-line, revenge, rodgers, summary, Tauscher, tmq
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