Final thoughts....after last night's nightmare.

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i don't think we're as bad as we played last night

now hear me out

i think we went into the game with the mindset that this was a preseason game and we were just out to get everyone use to things and get prepaired for the regular season.

the bengals on the other hand, were jacked up like they were playing in the super bowl. the crowd was electric (no pun intended), and team was fired up by having their qb back on the field for the first time. they were flying everywhere and were in a whole other gear then the packers were in.

the packers were suprised that a team came out with that much intencity for a preseason game and were caught off guard. brett had that "oh shit" moment right off the bat where he turns to throw the screen to green and finds a defender in the air betwen the two and has the ball fly out because of it (at least i think it had something to do with him losing it), and returned for a td.

from there on the bengals looked like they had the pack on the ropes

we looked like a team full of young players trying to learn the game and they played like one of the better teams in the league, who have already hit their stride

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I like your theory Red, I hope it's true.

[Fosco33]

No major injuries, positive yards on some drivers, too many unforced errors, a couple bad drops/throws, poor coverage by Woodson - all in all - average - for a preseason game.

I'd rather not peak too early

I think this team will still surprise folks (esp after a game like last night). The funny thing is - after week 3 or 4 people stop talking about what happened in preseason. I've already forgot most of last night's game.

[Packers4Ever]

One would think MM would've been spitting frikking nails at how bad "his" team looked on Nat'l televisoin, and showed some emotion...just my opinion!

I couldn't help but think the same thing, hurleyfan, it was a disaster but he didn't look that distressed. 'Course if you watch, there are some coaches
who do play it on the cool side.
As bad as things went last night, this IS still preseason, we can only get
better,

[Terry]

brett had that "oh shit" moment right off the bat where he turns to throw the screen to green and finds a defender in the air betwen the two and has the ball fly out because of it (at least i think it had something to do with him losing it), and returned for a td.

The worst of that is that Brett actually pointed at that guy before the snap, yet no one picked him up or even chipped him before releasing.

Some people have said Brett was as much at fault as anyone else last night, but it ain't so. The interception was not a bad pass to Driver, but actually one of his better passes that was aimed right between Bubba's numbers - but Driver reached up and deflected it. The fumble is no big deal - I imagine the outside rusher was as surprised as anyone else that he could rush in untouched after the QB had pointed at him. Brett doesn't fumble as much per game as most of the QB's in the NFL. If you like, I'll show you the stats. He completed about half his passes and when you take into account that there were 7 or 8 drops right off receivers' hands, his passing was pretty accurate. He also had a fair amount of time to throw most of the time, so let's ease up on the O-Line, Especially since the worse O-Line play seems to be coming from the vets who everyone thought were beyond criticism.

[OKC PackerFan]

It's all part of the master plan for the Bears on opening day. We lull them into thinking we're the same 4-12 team from last year then strike first blood in the game and attack them the whole game winning in a blowout.