Don Banks says Green Bay will start 5-1

[Guiness]

I think New Orleans gets back in the hunt this season.

Reggie Bush sucks. I think they'll be the same team from last year.

Gregg Williams is their Dom Capers. And their offense rivals ours. Write them off at your own peril.

I would've been just as happy with GW as I am with DC. Both top notch, and I expect the 'aints defense will be improved this year.

[mmmdk]

I'll take that 5-1 record prediction and run with it! We started 2-0 last season and fell from grace. I still predict a 10-6 record as teams will find holes in our learning defense (eventually) and the Packer run game might catch a cold along the way.

[Kiwon]

5-1 sounds good to me as along as that one loss is not to the Vikings.

[mmmdk]

I see no loss to Yikes! :P

[Dabaddestbear]

I HATE winning the Super Bowl in August/Sept...

I like an under the radar team dang it!

Me too, honestly. If it makes you feel better, ESPN's TMQ quy thinks we stink but will have a winning record anyway:

Green Bay: The Packers got off to a decent start in 2008, then lost seven of eight, ending the season 6-10 despite facing only four teams that made the playoffs. So should they be taken seriously in 2009? Check the depth chart: This team just isn't particularly talented. The Packers have spent five of their last seven first-round draft choices on two positions: linebacker and defensive tackle. Seven of their last 12 first-round choices were invested in linebackers and defensive linemen. That means other positions on the team are starved for talent -- and it's not even clear the front seven will be particularly good.

Now take a gander at Green Bay's 2009 schedule. Everyone's talking about the Oct. 5 "Monday Night Football" contest against the Vikings and Brett Favre, an obvious candidate for highest-rated "Monday Night Football" game ever. But what jumps out at me about the sked is what doesn't happen: Until December, Green Bay does not face a team that made the playoffs last year. By Thanksgiving, Green Bay will have played the Lions twice, plus played the Rams, Bengals and Browns -- all awful teams. This is a cupcake schedule that would make Auburn jealous. If the Packers can't arrive at December with a winning record, they'll have only themselves to blame.

How the mighty have fallen! At one point, Green Bay and Buffalo were a combined 22-0 at home in the playoffs; since then, they are a combined 2-4 at home in the playoffs. http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2...1&sportCat=nfl

Does that help with the deflation?

Also, Peter King must hate us. His projected standings here have us 10-6, but losing the NFC championship AGAIN to the fricken BEARS. Man would that suck.

I thought was a pretty good assumption.

[MichiganPackerFan]

I pretty much consider SI to be a photo magazine only and ESPN to simply be a sports related TMZ. Therefore I consider any of the writers or commentators from either to be simply entertainment value and no more. There are exceptions of course, but they are few and far between.

[pbmax]

I pretty much consider SI to be a photo magazine only and ESPN to simply be a sports related TMZ. Therefore I consider any of the writers or commentators from either to be simply entertainment value and no more. There are exceptions of course, but they are few and far between.

You know, that is exactly right. As the pictures kept getting bigger, the writing became worse. Late 70s early to mid 80s, they had fantastic articles and writers. Gary Smith (best story on Tyson I have ever read), Frank DeFord, EM Swift on hockey, the story about a chess child prodigy (became a movie with Joe Matengna as the Dad - "Searching for Bobby Fischer" maybe?

You could also track the decline by idiotic headlines on the cover. One year they ran a "Where Are All the Good Centers" story when the NBA had David Robinson, Olajuwon, Ewing and young Shaq.

But Peter King has a multimedia problem. As a game story writer or beat reporter, he is great. As Mr. NFL Insider, Information Guy on TV and Pundit on the Radio and Blogger, he is average at best.

[mmmdk]

I pretty much consider SI to be a photo magazine only and ESPN to simply be a sports related TMZ. Therefore I consider any of the writers or commentators from either to be simply entertainment value and no more. There are exceptions of course, but they are few and far between.

I agree and what has the world come to? Blame it on Obama and his minions of socialism - health care death camps for retarded sportswriters is the solution.

Bring back Bush and his paladins of fury; we need order not mercy.

This post is not affiliated in any way with any official sports-, entertainment- or other organisations. It is entirely an unofficial joke with a hidden opinion from, uhm me, and is written just for the fun of it.

[MichiganPackerFan]

I agree and what has the world come to? Blame it on Obama and his minions of socialism - health care death camps for retarded sportswriters is the solution.

Bring back Bush and his paladins of fury; we need order not mercy.

This post is not affiliated in any way with any official sports-, entertainment- or other organisations. It is entirely an unofficial joke with a hidden opinion from, uhm me, and is written just for the fun of it.

"we the jury find the defendant legally and clinically insane"