Winners:
Wist
Offense
Losers:
Capers
Defense
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Winners:
Wist
Offense
Losers:
Capers
Defense
Winners: House, Rodgers, Lacy
Losers: Concussions, Capers, my left ventricle
Winner
Lacy
offensive line
Loser:
Every opponent seems to have a better KO returner than Dujan Harris. I know, not much of a problem
The Atlanta receivers were open every play. Don't know who to blame, don't trust those who claim to know
Packers rolled up 30 for 179 on the ground. Not bad.
Winner: situational football.
FWIW, Green Bay hasn't trailed in the last 3 "close" games. They've put all 3 away when they needed to: 2 on the ground (Lacy, Starks), 1 by air (Cobb).
Oh ya, Quarless is a big wiener
Winner
Monday Night Football Ratings...many games are unwatchable by the second half...not that I wanted to see what Atlanta's offense did to our defense. The D was in Cover No One.
Winners
The Offense - Scored points, iced the game for the second week in a row.
Losers
Second Half Defense - 4 quarters in a game, guys. Shields and Williams especially.
Special Teams Blocking - A blocked extra point and they almost let Masthay get blown up on his punt.
Winner:
Stark Plug and Lacy. Had great end zone view like the coaches camera for game, dead straight down the middle of the field. Stark Plug got some nice yards with great reads and the one thing he has that Lacy does not is vision for holes AFTER he sets off for a target point. Doesn't always make the right call, but very quick and decisive with the read. Lacy heads to the hole and if bottled up, he might go wide, he might cut back but his footwork at that point is slow. You can't complain about his results, but he leaves lots of better reads untested.
Lacy is also going to put Rodgers on IR as he missed another floating LB in a delayed blitz. After no one shot in immediately, he DT with Lang for no reason and someone leveled Rodgers as he threw. One of those is going to cause damage.
Loser:
Pass rush. According to stadium chatter and radio, Shields was not announced hurt and may have been benched for House. But the loser on Defense was the pass rush. Never got anything going regularly. Ryan did not have nutty Rodgers time, but WAY too much. They had far better pressure against Brady.
Was it better having Shields back?
Just got back from the game. Nice weather for a December night game. Drama in the 2nd half kept many drunk fans awake. A win is a win is a win is a win, I guess.
Hoes:
Clinton-Dix: Kept my eyes on this rookie all night long...He just doesn't arouse me the way he excites our boy, Partial...Julio Jones slaughtered the Packers' overrated corners, but Ha-Ha was supposed to provide help and he was always late...Ha-Ha is playing out of position somewhat - he's just not fast enough to be a "free"...Was re-watching Favre's last game at Lambeau the other day...One play late in the game, Collins was the lone saftey deep in the middle of the field; he was about 20 yards away from Harvin; Favre threw a bullet to Harvin and Collins dashed down faster than the speed of light to pick off the ball...That Collins, he was a motherfucking (MOFO) free...Ha-Ha - a strong saftey through and through - is still a rookie, so he gets the rookie excuse...but the last time he made a play, we all were young.
Corners - Shields and Williams played like a couple of undrafted free agents...House proved once again that he's Mr. Inconsistency...Hayward can't play man...Hyde was slow, like always...Thompson needs to acquire a SHUTDOWN corner.
Note: How 'bout that Matt Ryan? Ice ice baby!
Loser - Lambeau Field mystique
The good teams around the league watch that clown car of a defense and think, "we can beat those fuckers up there."
Winners - Starks should have been given the fucking game ball. Not gonna say Rogers cause although he was great again, he missed some throws and was not perfect. Lacy on several runs. Quarless.
Losers - My heart. The entire defensive backfield. Peppers, didn't hear his name once. The pass rush guys really sucked ass.
Did anyone have flashbacks of Anquan Boldin running invisible through our secondary? Julio Jones is a terrific talent but fer fucks sake. Packers D all of a sudden looks like the Packers D. Also is it just me or is every QB good for 5 or 6 of their best throws all year when they play us?
Loser
Adjustments on defense in the second half. I was not crazy about the bend/don't break of the first half defense. Jones was already having a night by half, but the way they were defending (or not defending) him in the second half was very surprising.
So, was it more lack of pass rush or more lack of coverage, or both?
The sky is not falling, but those clouds better clear fast. Atlanta's offensive line was patch work, and Ryan had too much time to throw, and Atlanta receivers were not well covered.
Winners
OL
Starks
Lacy
Quarless
Nelson
Rodgers - he could have been better but can't argue with 3 TD and no picks
Losers
DL
Peppers
Williams
Shields
Hyde was a step slow all night
Special teams....again
Anyone playing Julio Jones in fantasy
Winner: Rock
Loser: Scissors
Yeah, Julio Jones is good but not all universe fer christ sakes...
Winners:
Aaron Rodgers 123.3 Pass Rating. 3 more TD pass's. Many very athletic plays to move the ball and put points on the board. Another game at home and no picks....extending his record of passing attempts and no picks.
For six straight games, the Packers have scored at least 23 points at home in the first half — that's an NFL record.
They've outscored opponents 182-30 before halftime.
All things must end. They had a streak of 89 consecutive points scored at home come to an end Monday in the 43-37 victory against the Atlanta Falcons.
Eddie Lacy played solidly. 106 Total Yards and 2 TD's.
James Starks....10 rushes for 75 yards and the opening touchdown. He had clock-killing runs in the four-minute offense when Lacy suffered a hip injury.
Jordy Nelson was outstanding again. 8 Receptions for 146 Yards ... an 18.2 Avg. and 2 TD'S
Losers:
Our 'D' went to sleep in the second half and gave up 30 'YES' 30 Points ! That 'NO' small 'd' defense was 'dazed and confused'.
The Green Bay Packer fans....Did they get bored? The fans have to give energy to the team and not fall asleep.
Winners: Police
Losers: Drunken Packers fans, Lambeau field cleaning staff on vomit duty
http://deadspin.com/police-were-busy...eld-1668688901
riiiight.Quote:
The takeaway, as always, is that there is no good reason to attend NFL games.
Apparently, PP is not having an overall good year, or so others have told me. But, if PP is so great, and Jones torched him, it makes all the more sense then to single cover him with banged-up Shields and, when Shields is ineffective, bring in the backup and expect him to single cover the guy. That's brilliant.
For some, it would be good to take a break. Standing by elevators at top of the world, I saw one being held open. One minute later a woman on a gurney was wheeled through. Unconcious and I think intubated. Emergency personnel were not joking about that one. Ushers said they were not sure what had happened.
Any chance Shields was still suffering from his concussion? Has to be a possibility.
Put her on the Loser train if she was wasted, along with the entire Packer defense, but most specifically the lack of pass rush. Where the hell was Mike Daniels? Was Datone Jones really a first round pick designed to give the team a pass rush? Did Julius Peppers ever wake up all night?
Winners? The offense, and most especially Aaron Rodgers. We saw what this team was without him last year: one of the many 7-9 or 6-10 teams that litter the league every year.
This game looked like it was played in 2011.
Winners: Me, for having the good sense to go to bed at halftime without any misgivings about how the Pack might squander their huge lead.
In the long run there might be a silver lining in those underpants that the Packer D soiled last night. The second half horror show lets them know they still have something to work on. Complacency is the enemy of improvement, or something like that!
After reading this forum I had to go back and check the final score again. Until last night the D has been playing pretty well since the bye. No team plays the same every week. If they play like this in Buffalo against a much weaker offense then I'll get worried.
I had to listen to the game on the radio and got to listen to my favorite color guy/analyst, Dan Fouts, who just does a fantastic job IMO and way better than the ESPN crew. So winner = me.
Denver's been trying to run the ball a lot more lately, but Manning hasn't looked great. A lot of people in the 303 are wondering if he's a bit injured.
Still... Buffalo's D is tough, man. That D and the Lions D will be good tests for the Packers O heading into the playoffs.
For sure their running game is there now with C. J. Anderson. Anderson, coming off successive 100-yard games, ran 21 times for 58 yards, including touchdown runs of 1, 3 and 6 yards for Denver.
P. Manning seems to hate the cold. He's not a man to be kept down for long. That's pretty normal and we'll see how he responds this week in a better climate.