Official Packers vs. Patriots Discussion Thread

[call_me_ishmael]

Its all that lulling them into a false sense of security while facing his soft DL in practice.

Little known Capers facts:
1) Capers favorite food is Puppy meat.
2) In the offseason Capers hobby is to buy candy factories just to shut them down
3) Its theorized that Capers's hair-spray-paint poisoned all the dolphins in Lake Michigan
4) Capers has a large tattoo on his chest of a pentagram with a homosexual sex position depicted at each vertex
5) During the predraft evaluations of front 7 players, anyone who beats Capers at arm wrestling is removed from the draft board.

LOL!!!

[pbmax]

McCarthy's Monday Afternoon Disinformation Campaign

1. Belichick is listening and watching.
2. When you can lay eyes directly on him, assume he is recording elsewhere.
3. All helicopters and planes should be treated as potential security leaks
4. Ask all visitors to Lambeau a security question only they and not Belichick would know (eg. What are Swift and Perry feuding about (ie. not Doug Swift and Michael Dean Perry)? What does it mean to throw shade (ie. not Shady McCoy)? Where is Maroon 5 (not last 5 yards of endzone)?
5. The cashier at Buger King is a plant.


Packer Report @PackerReport · 21m 21 minutes ago
McCarthy: Normal workweek with the Patriots. Assistants did some preliminary game-planning late last week, like always.

Packer Report @PackerReport · 21m 21 minutes ago
MM on Thanksgiving: Everything moved up for Thursday morning. Everyone home by 1 p.m.

Packer Report @PackerReport · 19m 19 minutes ago
MM on Lacy being ill: Aware before the game. "Fighting through a GI illness." Still monitoring.

Packer Report @PackerReport · 18m 18 minutes ago
MM on value of close win: Another experience to draw from. Need that going into playoffs.

Packer Report @PackerReport · 17m 17 minutes ago
MM: New England's a great football team. We're not going to make a bunch of changes. We like the football that we are.

Tyler Dunne @TyDunne 44m44 minutes ago
McCarthy: "We're not going to get too far away from the yellow pad or too far away from the video screen."

Packer Report @PackerReport · 16m 16 minutes ago
MM on GB's offense: Whether it comes through the run or the pass is irrelevant.

Packer Report @PackerReport · 15m 15 minutes ago
Gronkowski huge challenge. Big catch radius, faster than people think. "Definitely a difference-maker."

Packer Report @PackerReport · 13m 13 minutes ago
McCarthy thought Matthews came out of the OK with groin injury.

Tyler Dunne @TyDunne 37m37 minutes ago
McCarthy on if Capers' exp in NWE helps: Have talked, "but nothing I'm relying on to put together a game plan for Sunday."

Packer Report @PackerReport · 9m 9 minutes ago
MM on the 2010 game: Not worth watching too much of the film because of different personnel. (Flynn at QB for GB, obviously)

Packer Report @PackerReport · 8m 8 minutes ago
And that's all from McCarthy and the start of Patriots Week.

[Pugger]

vegas says Packers are 3 point favorites. if anything i'd say ne were the favorite by at least that.

The home team usually sets 3 points just for being at home so it is truly a pick 'em.

[Pugger]

I am too but its not inexplicable. We're unbeatable at home. The problem is that this team is eventually going to have to beat a good team outside of Lambeau if they want to hoist the lombardi and there is no evidence that they can do that. Or even be competitive.

We could if we get HFA throughout.

[wist43]

Its all that lulling them into a false sense of security while facing his soft DL in practice.

Little known Capers facts:
1) Capers favorite food is Puppy meat.
2) In the offseason Capers hobby is to buy candy factories just to shut them down
3) Its theorized that Capers's hair-spray-paint poisoned all the dolphins in Lake Michigan
4) Capers has a large tattoo on his chest of a pentagram with a homosexual sex position depicted at each vertex
5) During the predraft evaluations of front 7 players, anyone who beats Capers at arm wrestling is removed from the draft board.

#'s 3 and 5?? Undoubtedly true.

Not sure about the others, although I suspect Capers does molest puppies

[Maxie the Taxi]

IMO the reported spread is about right. Very close game. If the game were at Foxboro, I'd say NE.

Look at the NE depth chart and compare to the Packers.

On offense the only NE guy I'd rather have would be Gronk.

On defense, I'd take the NE guys up the middle...Wilfork and Hightower. Maybe Jamie Collins, he's pretty impressive. Otherwise, our guys are just as good, even considering Revis and Browner.

Both teams should be up for the game. Green Bay will play with emotion; NE will be supremely confident.

Please, Stubby, no onsides kicks. No going for it on 4th down from your own territory in the 1st qtr. No challenges until the end of the game. Take what they give you and FIELD POSITION, FIELD POSITION, FIELD POSITION!

Oh, and Stubby, another 25 carries for Lacy.

[deake]

Looking at the Det-NE game a little closer, a few things popped out:

1) Detroit actually did a decent job moving the ball in the first half, when the game was still in doubt. Their drives stalled.
2) NE was even more pass heavy than the final statistics indicate, 10 of their 20 runs were in the 4th quarter.
3) Detroit did not get any sacks. I can't find information on hurries or QB hits to tell what sort of pressure Brady was under.

Watching the NFL rewind most of Brady's passes were 10 yds or less, just got the ball and threw it, over and over again. Hard to get any pressure.

[Striker]

Key to the Game
-Tackle the OL that you squib kick to.

[pbmax]

Key to the Game
-Tackle the OL that you squib kick to.

Good recall. You get a gold star. Please send email to Slocum and Zook.

[denverYooper]

Jason Wilde @jasonjwilde 1m1 minute ago
#Packers' points vs. number of plays is an anomaly. #Patriots have #NFL-high 357 points on 757 plays. Packers with 354 points on 663 plays.

[mraynrand]

Packer Report @PackerReport · 19m 19 minutes ago
MM on Lacy being ill: Aware before the game. "Fighting through a GI illness." Still monitoring.


hopefully not too closely.

[pbmax]

Packer Report @PackerReport · 19m 19 minutes ago
MM on Lacy being ill: Aware before the game. "Fighting through a GI illness." Still monitoring.


hopefully not too closely.

Field cameras.

[woodbuck27]

vegas says Packers are 3 point favorites. if anything i'd say ne were the favorite by at least that.

3 points....for home field....so the Pack and Pats are considered equal.

[Tyrion Lannister]

Please, Stubby, no onsides kicks. No going for it on 4th down from your own territory in the 1st qtr. No challenges until the end of the game. Take what they give you and FIELD POSITION, FIELD POSITION, FIELD POSITION!

Playing conservatively against a good/great team like the Patriots is simply asking for a loss.

The Packers need to be aggressive in all THREE dimensions!

[denverYooper]

Playing conservatively against a good/great team like the Patriots is simply asking for a loss.

The Packers need to be aggressive in all THREE dimensions!

I don't know... that's how the Pats beat people.