More Banjo: Week 3 vs Lions

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Green Bay Packers ‏@packers 8m8 minutes ago
McCarthy: Excellent home opener win today. Excited for our football team to get first division win, first home win.

Green Bay Packers ‏@packers 7m7 minutes ago
McCarthy: Proud of these guys. We improved today as a football team. #DETvsGB

Green Bay Packers ‏@packers 5m5 minutes ago
McCarthy on offense: Execution. Thought our players did excellent job throughout the week. They were dialed in. Lot of explosive plays.

Green Bay Packers ‏@packers 2m2 minutes ago
McCarthy: I thought Eddie (Lacy) had a nice game. Running downhill, getting his shoulders square & getting clean looks. #DETvsGB

Green Bay Packers ‏@packers 1m1 minute ago
McCarthy: Jordy (Nelson) played well. Took advantage of his opportunities. He had a nice day. #DETvsGB

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I read on Twitter that everyone hurt came back in. I think that report was obviously wrong for Cook.

But Martinez and Randall did come back after leaving the field.

[pittstang5]

I read on Twitter that everyone hurt came back in. I think that report was obviously wrong for Cook.

But Martinez and Randall did come back after leaving the field.

Randall should have stayed in the Locker room

[Bossman641]

Hyde, Randall, and the rest of the secondary had awful games

[Smidgeon]

Hyde, Randall, and the rest of the secondary had awful games

The Packers secondary usually has a terrible game against Stafford.

[bobblehead]

Hyde, Randall, and the rest of the secondary had awful games

Not true. You can't judge these guys as having a bad game when MM had them in prevent the win D the entire second half....counting possessions like a fat kid counts jelly beans. If not for Rodgers scramble.....

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4th Quarter Leads

Rk	Tm			From	To	W	L	T	W-L%▼	Count	
1	New England Patriots	2006	2016	109	16	0	0.872	125
2	Green Bay Packers	2006	2016	94	14	0	0.870	108
3	Denver Broncos		2006	2016	68	11	0	0.861	79	
4	New Orleans Saints	2006	2016	81	14	0	0.853	95
5	Pittsburgh Steelers	2006	2016	82	16	0	0.837	98
6	Seattle Seahawks	2006	2016	72	14	0	0.837	86
7	Chicago Bears		2006	2016	60	12	0	0.833	72	
8	Baltimore Ravens	2006	2016	82	17	0	0.828	99
9	Philadelphia Eagles	2006	2016	79	17	0	0.823	96
10	New York Giants		2006	2016	69	16	0	0.812	85
11	Indianapolis Colts	2006	2015	77	18	0	0.811	95
12	New York Jets		2006	2016	59	14	0	0.808	73	
13	San Francisco 49ers	2006	2016	61	15	0	0.803	76
14	Arizona Cardinals	2006	2016	56	14	0	0.800	70
15	Atlanta Falcons		2006	2016	62	17	0	0.785	79	
16	Houston Texans		2006	2016	58	18	0	0.763	76
17	Dallas Cowboys		2006	2016	58	19	0	0.753	77
18	Buffalo Bills		2006	2016	46	16	0	0.742	62
19	Kansas City Chiefs	2006	2016	55	20	0	0.733	75
20	San Diego Chargers	2006	2016	65	24	0	0.730	89
21	Jacksonville Jaguars	2006	2015	40	15	0	0.727	55
22	Carolina Panthers	2006	2016	63	24	0	0.724	87
23	Minnesota Vikings	2006	2016	53	20	1	0.723	74
24	Cincinnati Bengals	2006	2015	61	23	2	0.721	86
25	Tennessee Titans	2006	2016	45	22	0	0.672	67
26	Miami Dolphins		2006	2015	42	22	0	0.656	64	
27	Tampa Bay Buccaneers	2006	2016	38	21	0	0.644	59
28	?????? Rams		2006	2016	41	27	1	0.601	69	
29	Detroit Lions		2006	2016	35	27	0	0.565	62	
30	Oakland Raiders		2006	2016	31	24	0	0.564	55	
31	Cleveland Browns	2006	2016	36	28	0	0.563	64
32	Washington Redskins	2006	2015	35	29	0	0.547	64
Total				2006	2016	1913	604	4	.760	2521

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[Guiness]

The turnover is in the wrong column, the only one of the game was Randall's INT/Strip.

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Green Bay Packers ‏@packers 2m2 minutes ago
Aaron Rodgers: It's a good win for us. Division opponent. Nice to be back home after several weeks on the road.

Green Bay Packers ‏@packers 46s47 seconds ago
Rodgers: Jordy & I connected. Whenever we're doing that it kind of opens things up for the offense. #DETvsGB

Green Bay Packers ‏@packers 27m27 minutes ago
Rodgers on #Packers offense: I care about winning. We need to harness that feeling we had in the first half & keep doing that stuff.

Green Bay Packers ‏@packers 25m25 minutes ago
Rodgers on Week 4 bye: Not a big fan of it, but it comes at a good time for us health-wise.

[Pugger]

IMO the reason Detroit stayed in the game was because the Lions took advantage of our extremely thin D line, no CM3 and 2 starting DBs out.

[Rutnstrut]

IMO the reason Detroit stayed in the game was because the Lions took advantage of our extremely thin D line, no CM3 and 2 starting DBs out.

It also helped them that stubby took his foot of the gas, yet again.

[arcilite]

It also helped them that stubby took his foot of the gas, yet again.

This is just wrong.

Detroit was eating up possession in the second half with long sustained drives (due to Packers thin D).

We had one drive stall for a FG due to a holding penalty.

One drive end due to a drop by Cobb

Another drive basically end due to a Trevor Davis drop

In the above drives McCarthy called excellent plays, I believe. You want to run the clock out and put the team in manageable 3rd down distances. That was achieved but the players did not execute as well as they should have.

On the final drive Lacy made some great runs to end the game.

Now please explain to us how the foot was taken off the gas? Should we throw every single play and eat up only 20 seconds off the clock on a drive? Then we will be reading posts from you about how the play calling sucks and McCarthy didn't feed Lacy who had a great day?

[red]

This is just wrong.

Detroit was eating up possession in the second half with long sustained drives (due to Packers thin D).

We had one drive stall for a FG due to a holding penalty.

One drive end due to a drop by Cobb

Another drive basically end due to a Trevor Davis drop

In the above drives McCarthy called excellent plays, I believe. You want to run the clock out and put the team in manageable 3rd down distances. That was achieved but the players did not execute as well as they should have.

On the final drive Lacy made some great runs to end the game.

Now please explain to us how the foot was taken off the gas? Should we throw every single play and eat up only 20 seconds off the clock on a drive? Then we will be reading posts from you about how the play calling sucks and McCarthy didn't feed Lacy who had a great day?

but we didn't eat time off the clock, and they destroyed us in the TOP battle

not to mention we saw a-rod going back to looking for the deep balls too many times

sure you could sit there and blame the lack of offense in the second half on 3 plays. but the fact is, we came out with a different game plan both on offense and defense in the second half.

why stop what was working so well in the first half?

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This is just wrong.

Detroit was eating up possession in the second half with long sustained drives (due to Packers thin D).

We had one drive stall for a FG due to a holding penalty.

One drive end due to a drop by Cobb

Another drive basically end due to a Trevor Davis drop

In the above drives McCarthy called excellent plays, I believe. You want to run the clock out and put the team in manageable 3rd down distances. That was achieved but the players did not execute as well as they should have.

On the final drive Lacy made some great runs to end the game.

Now please explain to us how the foot was taken off the gas? Should we throw every single play and eat up only 20 seconds off the clock on a drive? Then we will be reading posts from you about how the play calling sucks and McCarthy didn't feed Lacy who had a great day?

Lacy had 17 carries. 6 in the first half when they forgot about the running the football more and had four straight scoring drives. In the second half, they gave him 11 carries and had one scoring drive. On their sole scoring drive, they gave him the ball 5 times, threw twice and had Rodgers scramble twice.

EDIT: Most likely, that's four called pass plays.

It was a good drive killed by a penalty. But that happens more often when you run.

My evidence of foot off the gas is first downs by half: 1-8-2 (run-pass-penalty) for a total of 11 in the first half. Second half? 1-5-0 for six total.

The offense disappeared on the scoreboard, field position and first downs when they ran more. The defense needed more help than just bleeding time.

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Lacy had 17 carries. 6 in the first half when they forgot about the running the football more and had four straight scoring drives. In the second half, they gave him 11 carries and had one scoring drive. On their sole scoring drive, they gave him the ball 5 times, threw twice and had Rodgers scramble twice.

It was a good drive killed by a penalty. But that happens more often when you run.

My evidence of foot off the gas is first downs by half: 1-8-2 (run-pass-penalty) for a total of 11 in the first half. Second half? 1-5-0 for six total.

The offense disappeared on the scoreboard, field position and first downs when they ran more. The defense needed more help than just bleeding time.

haven't we seen the defense come out decent at the start of seasons before, only to be run down by the time the playoffs get him. losing the TOP battle by as much as we did today will to that to a defense over the course of the season, and games

[King Friday]

The offense disappeared on the scoreboard, field position and first downs when they ran more. The defense needed more help than just bleeding time.

I think I agree more with max and red that the offense became too conservative in the second half, which is certainly a trait of McCarthy when he gets a big lead. That isn't necessarily a trait that will doom your team, but it isn't one that is going to help your team either. With the Packer defense today basically trying to hold itself together with duct tape and band-aids, the offense needed to be more aggressive and score as many points as possible.

While the Lions certainly played better in the 2nd half and made sure we weren't going to score 31 additional, the fact that we only got a field goal in the second half and couldn't really put the dagger into a very hapless Lions team is concerning. I'm not lighting a pitchfork on fire and storming the Packer front offices on Monday, but there is a certain level of accountability that needs to happen...McCarthy should stand up and admit that he and the team need to work on this issue.

[Joemailman]

Lacy had 17 carries. 6 in the first half when they forgot about the running the football more and had four straight scoring drives. In the second half, they gave him 11 carries and had one scoring drive. On their sole scoring drive, they gave him the ball 5 times, threw twice and had Rodgers scramble twice.

EDIT: Most likely, that's four called pass plays.

It was a good drive killed by a penalty. But that happens more often when you run.

My evidence of foot off the gas is first downs by half: 1-8-2 (run-pass-penalty) for a total of 11 in the first half. Second half? 1-5-0 for six total.

The offense disappeared on the scoreboard, field position and first downs when they ran more. The defense needed more help than just bleeding time.

It was a good drive killed by a penalty on an attempted pass play. The fact that Rodgers had to twice pull the ball down and run on that drive might indicate that the Lions and had made some defensive adjustments, and what had worked so splendidly in the 1st half wasn't working as well now.

The main difference between 1-8-2 and 1-5-0 may have been the fact that the Lions had some long scoring drives in the second half. I understand the frustration people have. But I wonder how many coaches with a 21 point half time lead and a defense minus 5 starters wouldn't have tried to run the ball.

[denverYooper]

Frontrunning is back and it feels so good.