Packers vs. Texans Discussion Thread

[mmmdk]

Packers need a win, if not, then even reaching .500 for the season is becoming a reach. I don't see Packers winning in Texas this sunday!

[Cheesehead Craig]

We can get occassional pressure, but even if we get a sack on 2nd down, and it becomes 3rd and 17, you know Capers will rush 2 and play very loose zone on the next snap - move the chains.

Capers won't bring consistent pressure... it's not in his nature. He'll sit back in lazy zones and hope for a pick.

Dammit wist, let me have some sunshine!

[Packers4Glory]

Packers can exploit the Texan's secondary. Take 7 to 11 step drops, have everyone run 35-50 yards down field and throw deep all game long. I see an epic 72-21 Packer victory.

we couldn't exploit a secondary w/ 2 back up CB's starting.

teams have figured out how to defend us which is taking away the deep play. our WR are not getting open or winning 1 on 1 matchups.

[Freak Out]

Chicken mother fucking little's or realists?

[QBME]

Never want to wish ill on someone, but Brian Cushing is out for the year, which will make the offenses job not as quite as difficult. Any port in the storm..

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/8483657/houston-texans-brian-cushing-season-torn-acl

[mraynrand]

Never want to wish ill on someone, but Brian Cushing is out for the year, which will make the offenses job not as quite as difficult. Any port in the storm..

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/84...eason-torn-acl

That sucks. I like watching him play. He is out of his mind insane.

[Freak Out]

Was he still juicing?

[denverYooper]

I'm actually starting to get a little bit excited for this game. It has the potential to be a very good football game in general.

The Packers are reeling a bit, but I feel they'll give the Texans a heck of a ride. I'm not sure they'll win but this should be a gut check game and I think the Packers now have something to prove, like they've just been lackadaisical and allowing themselves to get kicked around a bit. There are still a lot of good players with a lot of pride on that team so I'm expecting to see an "up" team and staff on Sunday night.

[pittstang5]

Depressed - not sure if I'm still depressed from this past Sunday or depressed knowing the Packers have no chance in hell of winning this coming Sunday. Ho-hum.

[Pugger]

I'm not very confident we'll beat Houston either. If I approach the game expecting to get beat I won't be disappointed if we do and will be pleasantly surprised if we win. And even if we do lose the season isn't toast. We have a lot of games within our division after the next 3 games and 2 of those we have a decent shot at a win. If we get our act together we can still sneak in as a wild card. We'll know for sure after the Jags game if we can get back above .500 or not.

[pbmax]

Come on and pick yourself up people. The best time to front run is when the team is struggling. Yankee fans have a lot to teach us.

Packers will surprise a few people yet, and most of them are on this board saying they told us so.

[Zool]

I informed you thusly.

[3irty1]

MM and Dom continue their brain-dead ways.

McCarthy calls pass on 12 consecutive plays to start the first half resulting in four three and outs and six sacks.. The sacks because Rodgers holds onto the ball for 12.9 seconds every play. Rodgers vomits and shits blood for the next six weeks courtesy of JJWatt.

Meanwhile, Dom, in a fit of manic-"genius", calls a 0-0-11 zone four times in the first half on third and long. Schaub, displaying the mental acuity of a road-killed possum, audibles to run, with TD runs of 67, 45, 81 and 52 being the result.

Kevin Greene finally goes berserk, stuffs Winston Moss's head into a Gatorade cooler, suits up and replaces Walden. He immediately pulls a groin muscle and is hospitalized.

AJHawk comes out of the closet and stating "Not only do I like little dogs, I like dick, too." He then immediately quits the team and signs a contract to play the lead in "Beach Blanket Babylon" after pushing a golfer into a water hazard.

Finely, despite a 5 gallon Massengil enema, still has a sore vag' and drops five passes that hit him squarely in the hands. In a fit of juvenile pique, Finley amputates his own hands just to show them who is boss.

The offensive line continues to offend and realizes that they lack a pair of balls between the five of them and join Hawk in BBB.

Woodson and CMIII continue to ball, despite the conspiracy of dunces surrounding them.

37-17, Texans.

*sigh*

I feel a little better now. Thank you for listening.

[Fritz]

Come on and pick yourself up people. The best time to front run is when the team is struggling. Yankee fans have a lot to teach us.

Packers will surprise a few people yet, and most of them are on this board saying they told us so.

The question, of course, is whether the inconsistencies culminating in a piss-poor performance against Indy are an indication of a season-long malaise, such as (I think) 2007 or 08, when the team was awful, or whether these performances are the crucible that will form a stronger team by the end of the year.

Those looking short term tend to see the former, those looking long term sometimes see the latter.

The question of turning this around may ride in part upon MM's willingness to adapt and change. I was disappointed that he gave up on the run so quickly once Benson got hurt, although until that long run Alex Green wasn't impressing anyone.

So the team needs MM to adjust correctly, and needs Starks or Saine or someone to step up in the running back role.

Oh, and Rodgers needs to pull his head out of his butt.

Oh, and the offensive line needs to pull their heads out of each other's butts.

Oh, and Charles Woodson needs to stop being grabbier than a 15 year old boy at the homecoming.

But hey, it could happen. I remember walking out of Ford Field in Detroit in December 2010, thinking the Packers' season was fucked. I was convinced of such, and my conviction was confirmed the following week when the Packers lost against NE and looked DOA in terms of making the playoffs. And then somehow things changed. So it does happen. But will it?

I hope so, in part because I will be in Houston for that game. Damn, I'd like to see a Packer win.

[hoosier]

The difference between the 2010 Packers and the 2012 team is that the 2010 edition gave up early on the idea that their offense could revolve around Finley.