And the PackerRat gameball goes to.......

[smuggler]

On the TD pass to Nicks (the last NYG score) Matthews beat his man and hit Manning in under 2 seconds. Too bad it was a quick throw. =(

[Harlan Huckleby]

The Favrey choke award goes to Newhouse, who lost all composure and nearly sent AR to hospital throughout the game. Really, that was a total meltdown like we occassionally saw in HumperDome back in John Randle era. AR's improvising kept debacle from being quite so obvious..

I would award the gameball to Newhouse, because he is all we got and we have to keep his confidence up.

[smuggler]

He's a 2nd year 5th or 6th round LT. He's been okay for us, so we can let one bad game slide.

[Deputy Nutz]

He is pretty bad. Sure he doesn't get beat on every pass play, but he give up way to many pressures and doesn't know how to set his feet and stop backpedaling. I am sure he will get better but he is a professional and he ain't real good. Sherrod must be shit.

[pbmax]

He is pretty bad. Sure he doesn't get beat on every pass play, but he give up way to many pressures and doesn't know how to set his feet and stop backpedaling. I am sure he will get better but he is a professional and he ain't real good. Sherrod must be shit.

Newhouse was the midseason leader for the Bruce Wilkerson Thanks For Saving Our Ass Award, but he is stepping backward. EDS and Saine are gaining on him, though EDS did not do much run blocking yesterday. I counted three times someone (he or Wells) let the DT through the line and block someone else.

Darkhorse candidate is Sherrod, who I think is on the bench because of habit. He looked FAR better in pass pro after a slow couple of snaps in his stint when Clifton went out.

[George Cumby]

Jordy has turned himself into an unbelievable receiver. Gotta go to him.

It's getting annoying watching Finley drop a ton of passes every week (which just leads to everyone else on the team not name Jordy Nelson to drop passes). Finley should get the "Stop doing YOTTO until you catch passes that hit your hands" award.

I was thinking the exact same thing.

Between ARod, DD and Jordy it's so hard to choose. What an embarassment of riches for Aaron, "hmmmmn, which clutch receiver do I go to on THIS play?"

I say give it to the Old Pro.

[mraynrand]

Newhouse was the midseason leader for the Bruce Wilkerson Thanks For Saving Our Ass Award, but he is stepping backward. EDS and Saine are gaining on him, though EDS did not do much run blocking yesterday. I counted three times someone (he or Wells) let the DT through the line and block someone else.

Newhouse got a lot of blocking right. Some of the problems with the interior protection were from assignment mistakes, not being physically beaten. Newhouse's game is to mostly direct the outside pass rush up the field and past Rodgers. He struggled on pass rushes to his interior shoulder. If Rodgers couldn't step up, it was a disaster.

[KYPack]

I was thinking the exact same thing.

Between ARod, DD and Jordy it's so hard to choose. What an embarassment of riches for Aaron, "hmmmmn, which clutch receiver do I go to on THIS play?"

I say give it to the Old Pro.

DD was a clinic out there. He leads that personnel group and is real cool about passing the torch to Greg as "group leader". One of my favorite moments in the SB was DD staying involved in the game after his injury. In the 2nd half, Nelson made a big catch when we needed it. DD was on the sidelines hollering "way to go Jordy"! It was real, not some rah rah bullshit. those guys work and play as a group, helping each other and pulling for one another.

Hey, what did happen to Jones? Is he dinged or what? 0 targets 0 catches.

Where are the participation logs? Did he even hit the field?

[Harlan Huckleby]

Newhouse got a lot of blocking right. Some of the problems with the interior protection were from assignment mistakes, not being physically beaten. Newhouse's game is to mostly direct the outside pass rush up the field and past Rodgers. He struggled on pass rushes to his interior shoulder. If Rodgers couldn't step up, it was a disaster.

Newhouse did fine on about half the plays, but you need the LT to bat about .950

Ya, he did get confused/beat on inside move a lot, but plenty of times they ran around his outside shoulder too.

What we saw is the Giants have a great defensive line.

[mraynrand]

Newhouse did fine on about half the plays, but you need the LT to bat about .950.

I only watched him for the first half. He blew three protections. I'll watch the second half another time.

[HarveyWallbangers]

I'm not sure what game I was watching, but I didn't think the pass blocking was quite as bad as it has been made out to be. We had 48 dropbacks, 2 sacks allowed. You're going to allow some pressure with that many passes--especially with a lot 3-4 WR sets. The pass blocking wasn't great, but it wasn't that bad. I've seen some bad pass blocking games (see the games in Minnesota the first couple of years ARod was starting for examples), and I don't think this was it. Especially considering we have probably our two best pass blocking OL injured. I think other teams might be in a lot worse shape, if you take away their two best pass blockers.

[Guiness]

I think Nelson deserves a game ball just for this catch: http://www.packers.com/media-center/...b-b9980030f14c

great vid. Look at him though...did you know he's white??? I never would've guessed

[Harlan Huckleby]

I think other teams might be in a lot worse shape, if you take away their two best pass blockers.

AR is very cagey, he moves in correct direction almost every play, he has quick release to unload ball, often completing pass even though it is out quickly. the sacks stat doesn't tell story.

I thought the line problems were mostly Newhouse. Half the time, I would say he did inadequate job.

[Zool]

I'm not sure what game I was watching, but I didn't think the pass blocking was quite as bad as it has been made out to be. We had 48 dropbacks, 2 sacks allowed. You're going to allow some pressure with that many passes--especially with a lot 3-4 WR sets. The pass blocking wasn't great, but it wasn't that bad. I've seen some bad pass blocking games (see the games in Minnesota the first couple of years ARod was starting for examples), and I don't think this was it. Especially considering we have probably our two best pass blocking OL injured. I think other teams might be in a lot worse shape, if you take away their two best pass blockers.

First half was worse than the second. The infographic at one point had 27 drop backs, a couple sacks, a couple knockdowns and 13 hits. Probably had better pad level in the second half.

[MadtownPacker]

Youre fucking hating if you dont give this to DD. When all the "weapons" like Finley where dropping shit left and right Driver was just being OG about it and catching his passes. It was his day IMO.