Mice And Men - Texans

[LegandofthePack15]

Since I am still aroused by the Packers' pulchritudinous (thanks, Dictionary.com thesaurus!) victory last night, I'm gonna climax by stealing ThunderDan's thunder once again. As Britney Spears likes to say, let me hit you one more time.

Mice (Duds):

Woodson - Gambled too much, leaving Texan receivers wide open a few times. Looked like he was playing Texas Hold'em instead of the Texans.

Punt cover team - Blocked punt could've been costly in a tight game. Inexcusable.

Injuries - That wretched fiend, Injury, is striking again. Hopefully no more serious injuries, especially to prominent players.

Baseball - Fucking Fox and fucking baseball on Sunday night. When will Animation Domination come back?

Men (Studs):

Rodgers - Criticism for past performance was pretty much warranted. Didn't play like a true stud 'til the Texan game. Joins the greatest of all time (in my humble opinion, of course), Brett Favre, in the 6 tds in a game club.

Nelson - Like Finley, had a drop or two. But drops were overshadowed by overall performance.

Cobb - Is having a nice season.

Jones (James) - All he does is catch tds. Looks like a poor man Chris Carter.

Green - Played better than his 3.0 rushing average. Kept Texans honest.

Hayward - 2 picks, knocked down a couple of balls. Good job, rookie!

[pbmax]

I am not sure one of the passes Wood got called out on in the Game Day thread was his fault. That looked like Hawk passed his receiver to the wide short zone when they had already flooded that side of the field and there was no one there to pick him up.

I would then give Wood a pass for his superior run support.

[Joemailman]

Men: Tom Crabtree. All he does is score touchdowns.

[run pMc]

How about a collective shoutout for the DLine for holding the Texans to 90 yards rushing?

[denverYooper]

I watched 1/2 the game while chasing my kids around O'Hare but I thought I saw some things.

Cobb is going to be the new Greg Jennings, with better hands. Rodgers is starting to trust him and he seems to know how to adjust and get open when the QB is scrambling. He made some big catches last night to keep the ball moving down the field.

Jones is having an insane season. He made some great catches last night and I think they've figured out that he just needs to have a higher degree of difficulty on the catch to make it. /kidding...

The most impressive thing about Rodgers's performance, I think, was the quality of competition. The Texans were coming in with the top pass D in terms of rating against. He absolutely owned them, looked decisive, and his accuracy was sharp.

Some credit to the OL. They played well, I thought, and maybe Saturday is getting into shape here because the interior looked pretty nice for most of the action that I saw. Watt got his, as he has every game this season, but they didn't let up anything from other guys and that limited Watt's impact on the game. That seems to be their biggest killer this year, when "other" (not just standout players) get through and start bringing multiple points of pressure.

Defense looks better than last year. They gave up 17 points to a very good offense and kept the game from being a shootout.

I'm starting to love Hayward. He seems to know how to find the ball and get at it. He generally looks pretty smart but he shouldn't have taken the ball out of the EZ near the end of the game.

I wouldn't put him in the studs but Mike Neal looked pretty disruptive in spots. LIS, I was a bit distracted but every time I looked at the game he was making the Texans OL work pretty hard. I'm a little excited to see what happens with him once he's back in game shape because he was moving guys around.

[Patler]

Men (Studs):

Rodgers - Criticism for past performance was pretty much warranted. Didn't play like a true stud 'til the Texan game. Joins the greatest of all time (in my humble opinion, of course), Brett Favre, in the 6 tds in a game club.

Ya, but Favre never threw 6 TDs in a game for the Packers. In Green Bay Packer records, Rodgers has moved ahead of Favre and joins that all-time Packer great, Matt Flynn, as the only members of the 6TDs in a game club.

[Freak Out]

I am not sure one of the passes Wood got called out on in the Game Day thread was his fault. That looked like Hawk passed his receiver to the wide short zone when they had already flooded that side of the field and there was no one there to pick him up.

I would then give Wood a pass for his superior run support.

Wood helped big time on the vaunted Texan stretch play...I add him to the Men column.

[Little Whiskey]

Men (Studs):

Rodgers - Criticism for past performance was pretty much warranted. Didn't play like a true stud 'til the Texan game. Joins the greatest of all time (in my humble opinion, of course), Brett Favre, in the 6 tds in a game club.

Rodgers hasn't played bad the first weeks, he just hasn't played SuperHuman. His numbers before the TX game were all-pro numbers. they just weren't the unrealistic numbers he put up last year. Alot of the bounces that the pack got last year just aren't going their way this year.

[Guiness]

Wood at OLB. That was something. Great to watch, but was I the only one who took a sharp breath every time he lined up there? I was almost as bad as him returning punts.

[MadtownPacker]

Shit list:
LegendofthePack - For not putting finley on the mice list.

[George Cumby]

Shit list:
LegendofthePack - For not putting finley on the mice list.

Don't you know how to spell? That's "Legand" to you!

[LegandofthePack15]

Men: Tom Crabtree. All he does is score touchdowns.

He also allowed a td...see the punt block.

[LegandofthePack15]

I am not sure one of the passes Wood got called out on in the Game Day thread was his fault. That looked like Hawk passed his receiver to the wide short zone when they had already flooded that side of the field and there was no one there to pick him up.

I would then give Wood a pass for his superior run support.

I think McGinn agrees with me somewhat:

At least once a game, Woodson will guess on a route combination and a receiver will be left wide open for about 15-yard gain.

[LegandofthePack15]

Shit list:
LegendofthePack - For not putting finley on the mice list.

Didn't think Finley played bad. More like "incomplete" as he played only 24 or so snaps. Had a redzone drop but so did Nelson.

[Patler]

Didn't think Finley played bad. More like "incomplete" as he played only 24 or so snaps. Had a redzone drop but so did Nelson.

Nelson paired his drop with some very good catches and an overall fine performance.

Finley paired his drop with an offensive pass interference and nothing of positive significance. Having 24 snaps is enough to make a positive contribution.