2010 Opener: The Official Packers -v- Eagles Game Thread

[HarveyWallbangers]

Clay - player of the game.

NFL Defensive Player of the Week


Good win! I thought they'd lose. Dicey, but I don't think they weren't quite prepared for Mike Vick. He's a matchup problems--even if you have time to prepare for him.

[Fosco33]

Man I'm pumped.

Played well enough to win. It's week 1 - so plenty of time to course correct.

Hope the injuries to Harrell and Grant aren't serious. Glad to see Jenkins back in there - but a one-handed Jenkins won't be a probowler. Hope Collins was just a minor tweak.

D played huge for all except mid-3rd to mid-4th. Came up with the big plays when it was needed.

Worried about 2ndry depth.

[mission]

as much as MM frustrates the shit out of me, im not going to complain about a first-in-50whatever-years win.

D showed heart when it mattered most.

[ThunderDan]

Clay Matthews 1 - 0
Bears 1- 0
Vikings 0 -1
Lions 0 -1

Packers 1-0 (Thanks Clay)
Bears 1-0 (should be 0-1)
Vikings 0-1
Lions 0-1 (should be 1-0)

Yea Calvin Johnson had a TD that was bullshit. DOesn't really matter though the Bears wont get many W's

Totally reminded me of the Packer TD wave off last year.

[red]

mathews is a real warrior

doesn't look like there'll be a sophomore slump from him, or raji for that matter

[imscott72]

Clay - player of the game.

NFL Defensive Player of the Week


Good win! I thought they'd lose. Dicey, but I don't think they were quite prepared for Mike Vick. He's a matchup problems--even if you have time to prepare for him.

Oh no doubt..Easy call as of right now..

[mr_blonde]

Hopefully, Rodgers got his bad 2010 game out of the way today ... He didn't have a particular good game last year against the Bears to open the season ... but good enough like this year ...

[mmmdk]

Easy call: Vick runs for 1st down.

That's a bad call on 4th and 1, as we saw.

Vick is a scrambler, runs best on rollouts or when no one is open and a hole opens up. 4th and 1 asks for a push the pile kind of guy.

Yeah but we got CLAY

[mission]

maybe clay was better off *not* knocking kolb out of the game. at the time, i liked it.

[Guiness]

TV just flipped to Rams/Arizona. Who are those announcers? A lot of dead air, and just stating the obvious. Must be radio guys, just telling you what is happening. Play by play guy just said "throws it for a completion". Kind of redundant on TV!

[gbgary]

Glad vike decided to throw instead of run on that drive at the end when they got the fg.

[Jimx29]

TV just flipped to Rams/Arizona. Who are those announcers? A lot of dead air, and just stating the obvious. Must be radio guys, just telling you what is happening. Play by play guy just said "throws it for a completion". Kind of redundant on TV!

still better than fauxes post game blabber

[HarveyWallbangers]

Hopefully, Rodgers got his bad 2010 game out of the way today ... He didn't have a particular good game last year against the Bears to open the season ... but good enough like this year ...

More than anything, I think the Eagles are going to be really good defensively. Two good DEs, two good DTs, Stewart Bradley is the next Brian Urlacher, Ernie Sims, Asante Samuel, Mikell is a solid safety. They'll surprise a lot of people, if Kolb plays better (or Vick plays like he did today). I think the Vikings play at Philly in December. I bet Favre plays poorly in that cold weather game, and this very well could be a game we gain on the Vikings in the end.

[gbgary]

TV just flipped to Rams/Arizona. Who are those announcers? A lot of dead air, and just stating the obvious. Must be radio guys, just telling you what is happening. Play by play guy just said "throws it for a completion". Kind of redundant on TV!

That's ron pitts and someone.

[Lurker64]

I think the last time I was this relieved at the end of a game was the last time we beat Minny in a close one.

Phew. There's stuff to fix, but a W is a W, and the next few teams are most probably not as good as the Eagles.