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Defense! Defense! Defense!
Shields concussion, Lattimore had an ankle I think.
Cardinals losing and would be tied with Packers for best record in NFC if it holds.
The Pack D won that one without getting a turnover. Pretty damn impressive.
Really gave Aaron some time.
Judy Battista @judybattista 14m14 minutes ago
You can see amount of respect Belichick has for Rodgers/McCarthy. Talked to both longer than usual after the game.
Aaron Schatz @FO_ASchatz 21m21 minutes ago Framingham, MA
Damn. Packers o line has been very good today.
You have to hand it to Bach. he gets beat around the edge once or twice a game but he never quits or gives up and stays glued to the guy. Comes back and plays better as it goes along.
Tough son of a gun mentally. Great find with him, Linsley and Tretter I expect.
Packer bloggers were ReTweeting people bailing on the game after the Pat TD and the subsequent Packer FG.
Jersey Al - ALLGBP @JerseyAlGBP 7s7 seconds ago
The #Patriots offense put up 34 points against the #Lions #1 ranked defense. And #Packers fans are still saying the GB D is not good enough.
Barrington/CM3 were the nickel LB. CM3 was the dime LB. I wonder who wore the headset.
McCarthy Post Game Presser
Green Bay Packers @packers 11s11 seconds ago
McCarthy: The end of the game is what you're looking for as a coach. All 3 phases made key plays down the stretch. #NEvsGB
Green Bay Packers @packers 1m1 minute ago
McCarthy: I thought Aaron (Rodgers) played extremely well. Did a great job extending plays from the pocket & buying WRs extra time. #NEvsGB
Green Bay Packers @packers 2m2 minutes ago
McCarthy: Playing against one of the greatest QBs that's played in this generation, it's a big win for us. #NEvsGB
Rob Demovsky @RobDemovsky 19m19 minutes ago
#Packers S Micah Hyde on beating the Patriots: "We told you guys this week it was just another game. We were lying."
Aaron Rodgers Post Game Presser
Green Bay Packers @packers · 15m 15 minutes ago
#Packers QB Aaron Rodgers (24-38, 368 yards, 2 TDs) is now at the podium. Watch live: http://pack.rs/248bn #NEvsGB
Green Bay Packers @packers · 17m 17 minutes ago
Rodgers: We moved the ball pretty efficiently all day, just kind of stalled in the red zone. #NEvsGB
Green Bay Packers @packers · 16m 16 minutes ago
Rodgers: They're a matchup defense. They wanted to try to take away Jordy (Nelson), so we tried to get Davante (Adams) involved. #NEvsGB
Green Bay Packers @packers · 14m 14 minutes ago
Rodgers on TD to Nelson before half: It was big. He made a great catch & he's been great in the open field. Athletic play at the goal line.
Green Bay Packers @packers · 12m 12 minutes ago
Rodgers: It's another character win for us. Eddie (Lacy) had another great game, some tough running. You have to run the football. #NEvsGB
Green Bay Packers @packers · 11m 11 minutes ago
Rodgers: Everybody contributed to this win, and that's what we told them in the huddle. #NEvsGB
Rodgers may not be elite because it wasn't a close win or a game winning drive, but he is ahead of Peyton Manning in one category; lifetime record versus Brady.
Rodgers 1-0
Manning 5-11
It's the biggest win for them since the superbowl. Keep the mental edge at Lambeau; beat an elite QB; Defense is not a liability.
Both teams played a good, clean game and the home team held serve by clinching it on the last drive. That's the way it's supposed to look among the best.
Absolutely. And to be fair, the guy doing to research has been adding to it and trying to weed out defense and other influences. Scott Kascmar is legit and he knows its an outlier but finds it interesting, which it certainly is.
Problem is no other media outlet wants to look at context, they just want to argue and find fault. Kinda what we do here. But I trust the guy to do solid work on it. He acknowleged to Wilde on Twitter that it wasn't the whole story on Rodgers play and had multiple causes.
Don't know much about interception guy at 538, but he seems on the level too, though more convinced his finding should result in changes to approach.
Jason Wilde @jasonjwilde 9m9 minutes ago
#Packers QB @AaronRodgers12 told @ESPN's @RobDemovsky (in a press conference) that he did not need stitches for the gash on his left hand.
Jason Wilde @jasonjwilde 19m19 minutes ago
More @TJLang70: "I saw maybe 2 out of 20 [media] people picked us to win the game. That kind of lights a fire under your ass a little bit."
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Jersey Al - ALLGBP @JerseyAlGBP 17m17 minutes ago
@jasonjwilde So everyone pick the Falcons next week.
Tyler Dunne @TyDunne 39m39 minutes ago
More Mike Daniels: "We knew we had to exceed their intensity and bring our own intensity. This was very healthy for us."
Tyler Dunne @TyDunne 37m37 minutes ago
Rob Gronkowski on his near TD in the fourth... "When my number is called, I have to come down with that play."
Tyler Dunne @TyDunne 47m47 minutes ago
Mike Daniels on #Packers third-down sack... "That was awesome, that was clutch, that was a play that needed to happen.”
Jersey Al - ALLGBP @JerseyAlGBP 48m48 minutes ago
Phone caller to WTMJ post game show - "Why isn't Jeff Janis getting a chance?" Really? That's what you call in with after this win? SMH
HARLAN CALLING IN TO THE TMJ POSTGAME SHOW!
Sam Farmer @LATimesfarmer 1h1 hour ago
This is pretty amazing: The last time Aaron Rodgers was intercepted at Lambeau Field was Dec. 2, 2012.
From Wilde on Red Zone: http://www.espnwisconsin.com/common/...medium=twitter
Quote:
Red-zone blues: Had they lost, the Packers’ biggest regret would have been their red-zone inefficiency. They came into the game with the league’s ninth-best TD percentage in the red zone entering this week at 63.6 percent, and that was down from earlier in the year, when they were over the 70 percent threshold. On Sunday, though, they settled for four Mason Crosby field goals – Crosby also missed another – and their touchdowns came from 32 yards (Richard Rodgers) and 45 yards (Jordy Nelson). The other would-have-been regret: A drop by Davante Adams on what would have been a 4-yard TD catch on the final field-goal drive. Now Adams can enjoy the first 100-yard receiving game of his young career.
Proof pass rating isn't everything from JSO and Silverstein:
Brady was productive in posting a 102.7 passer rating on 22-of-35 passing with 245 yards and two touchdowns.
http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/sports/284276481.html
Need to re-watch the 2nd half, I was not paying full attention. What happened to the O that scored on all but one possession in the first?
Also, HaHa had a nice game. Covered Gronk well when called and didn't let anything get behind him. He always looked to have a cap on things.
Hoody is setting them up for the rematch: http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/sports/284278381.html
Quote:
Belichick shook hands with McCarthy and talked to him for far longer than the usual, "Nice game." It appeared like he was telling McCarthy that he had "a heck of a team."
Belichick on Capers BEFORE the game, I transcribed from a pic on Twitter. Resolution wasn't great so any errors are mine.
Quote:
Q: You mentioned earlier this week that Dom Capers has a background with Pittsburgh and the zone blitz is kind of related to that system.
BB: Yeah, they have a lot of them.
Q: What about that scheme challenges the offense, the zone …?
BB: Well, I'd say that the Pittsburgh system, the LeBeau system and the Capers system, the way it challenges you is that they bring everybody. Its not one, this guy or that guy. You have to block the SAM, the Mike, the Will. You have to block the strong safety. You have to block the corners eventually. Sometimes they bring one guy and drop a defensive lineman, so its a seven-man coverage. But, I’d say most of the time they bring two guys and drop one, so its a six-man coverage. So, three under, three deep or occasionally four under, two deep, which is also kind of matched. They do not always drop back and stand there in spots. They take certain guys who can actually play sort of like a man to man.
But I’d say the challenge with them is you have a lot of different guys coming. Its hard to say its him or its them or its them. You’re going to get them all. You’re going to get two up the middle, or two strong or two weak. You’re going to get secondary pressure from both sides and I think that when you come out of the game, you’ll say, ‘OK, they did this one a couple of times, they did that one once, this one once, that one once, that one once and another one a couple times’. It’s not like ‘OK, its going to be these two guys coming all day’. That’s not really what they do. Its a challenge.
Every protection you have, every play you have, potentially, if you hit the wrong thing, you’re going to be out-numbered. You could hit it right and have a favorable advantage but if you hit it wrong, then you kind of, its a tough play against that call. So if you’re trying to put together a 10, 12-play drive, [and] they have good field position, you don’t need too many of those plays, you know what I mean? You could give a couple little six-yard gains, but then you get a negative two and maybe that’s enough to stop the drive. I think that’s kind of the challenge of playing that type of system is avoiding negative plays, avoiding long yardage. Even though you could get two or three first downs, if you get one of those negative plays in there, now they have you in second and long or third and long and then you’re in trouble. So, I think that’s kind of the overall philosophy.
Tyler Dunne @TyDunne 1m1 minute ago
After the game, Revis told Patriots reporters Jordy Nelson pushed off on his 45-yard TD, adding "I am not going to use that as an excuse."
I hope the Packers turn in the film from that Red Zone sequence when Nelson got Illegal Contact twice with no call in front of the back judge.