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Sorry for the delay, but when you spill a Screw Driver all over your labtop bad things tend to happen to the old motherboard. Don't worry, I got a warranty. Anyways, what a god awful display we all had to witness last night. This team may have talent, but it sure ain't on the offensive line. These guys are just painful most of the times and I am just not talking about Spitz and Moll. The tackles, Tauscher and Clifton are playing like first year rookies with there head up there butts. This team is critically young, and they simply can't take set backs. When things start to unravel against veteran teams, they seem to have the mental capability to get their heads screwed on right, and come back and play some solid football, but not young teams. they simply fall apart. They drop passes, miss blocking assignments, blow reads, miss tackles, and blow coverages. It is a slippery slope with Young and inexperienced teams. Even in 2003 the Packers were more than capable of coming back and playing winning football after a Favre fumble, or interception for a score. You can't expect this team to do the same, what you can expect is that this team will crumble and lose by 30 points.
Winners
1. Ryan Pickett, with him in the middle teams simply can't dislodge him to gain yards on the ground. He is able to penatrate and force the running back to make his cut or move before his blocking has time to set up. As a whole as was impressed with only one aspect of this Packer football team and it was the first string defense's ability to stop the run and it starts with the defensive tackles.
2. Al Harris, Harris really has Chad Jackson's number. Jackson was held to zero catches by Harris, which must make Harris and his agent very happy. Harris hasn't lost a step, he proved that last night, he might have lost a bit of motivation in the first two preseason games based on his contract situation. Unfortunately the opposite rings true for the other starting corner.
3. Ahman Green, Green made chicken salad out of chicken shit last night. Green runs extremely hard and extremely fast. At the very least he has not lost a step from last year, before the injury. He did slip once in the backfield, but the field contitions were in question last night, and a slip was understandable. Green missed a pass from Favre, although Favre did wing it at him before he had he had a chance to look for the ball. Green is still the Packers best option at the running back position.
Losers,
The offensive line via Ted Thompson, the man just doesn't get the importance of a veteran line, and with that the importance of offensive guards. Instead of digging into his pockets for nickels and dimes to pay guys like Adrian Klemm and Matt O'dwyer, he decided to draft three offensive linemen to play offensive guard even though none of them were offensive guards in college. I keep scratching my head and wondering if this guy is ever going to figure out that blocking is one of the two most important fundementals of football. Maybe they truly expected guys like Junius Coston and Will Whitticker to pan out, but even so, those two have less than two years of experience.
The switch to the zone blocking scheme has also failed to this point. To many defensive players are running free, and are going simply unblocked. It would be easy to blame everything on Spitz, Moll, and Colledge, but the fact is that the Packers two best linemen are now struggling in the running game, and are now even getting beat in pass pro. If they can't get it together in the next two weeks, the Bears will be dinning on Favre and Green Bay running backs for 60 minutes. The Bengals's defense is decent, and the Packers made them look like All Pros at every postion.
2. Brett Favre, he made some mistakes, especially the fumble. I could go on and on in defending the fumble and the interception, but he is 36 years old and has been a starting QB for 15 years, he needs no excuses made on his behalf. This team can't come back mentally or physically at this point from Favre's mistakes. The fumble and INT might have only turned into 10 points, but it simply lost the football game, and the spirit of this team.
3. Receivers, here is a brillant idea, and a concept that has been developing since the early 1920s, it is called the foward pass, but it only works if guys catch the stinking ball, at one point I think I counted at least 8 drops, or passes that hit receivers in the hands. See this is what I mean about the snowball effect of Favre's turnovers, this team isn't mentally stable enough to deal with sudden change, and the drops were in my belief a direct result of Favre's fumble and Int.
4. Defensive Backs, other than Harris this unit was down right pathetic and miserable. Woodson played completely half assed, and Manuel looked like absolute garabage, and that is to be expected since he hasn't practiced all training camp. I sure hope Woodson is just dicking around, because if he is serious out there, then this team got hosed, about 10 million dollars worth of hose.
I flat out picked the obvious about last nights game, I guess i could mention the absolute terrible punting by John Ryan, but I think I will just let it go. Sorry about the computer problem, it distracted me from the game, and I haven't had time to go back and watch that garbage.
One other thing. This team defense on third down is gawd awful, and I will blame it on missed tackles, and poor coaching. Thats it, please feel free to add on. Have a good one!
Winners
1. Ryan Pickett, with him in the middle teams simply can't dislodge him to gain yards on the ground. He is able to penatrate and force the running back to make his cut or move before his blocking has time to set up. As a whole as was impressed with only one aspect of this Packer football team and it was the first string defense's ability to stop the run and it starts with the defensive tackles.
2. Al Harris, Harris really has Chad Jackson's number. Jackson was held to zero catches by Harris, which must make Harris and his agent very happy. Harris hasn't lost a step, he proved that last night, he might have lost a bit of motivation in the first two preseason games based on his contract situation. Unfortunately the opposite rings true for the other starting corner.
3. Ahman Green, Green made chicken salad out of chicken shit last night. Green runs extremely hard and extremely fast. At the very least he has not lost a step from last year, before the injury. He did slip once in the backfield, but the field contitions were in question last night, and a slip was understandable. Green missed a pass from Favre, although Favre did wing it at him before he had he had a chance to look for the ball. Green is still the Packers best option at the running back position.
Losers,
The offensive line via Ted Thompson, the man just doesn't get the importance of a veteran line, and with that the importance of offensive guards. Instead of digging into his pockets for nickels and dimes to pay guys like Adrian Klemm and Matt O'dwyer, he decided to draft three offensive linemen to play offensive guard even though none of them were offensive guards in college. I keep scratching my head and wondering if this guy is ever going to figure out that blocking is one of the two most important fundementals of football. Maybe they truly expected guys like Junius Coston and Will Whitticker to pan out, but even so, those two have less than two years of experience.
The switch to the zone blocking scheme has also failed to this point. To many defensive players are running free, and are going simply unblocked. It would be easy to blame everything on Spitz, Moll, and Colledge, but the fact is that the Packers two best linemen are now struggling in the running game, and are now even getting beat in pass pro. If they can't get it together in the next two weeks, the Bears will be dinning on Favre and Green Bay running backs for 60 minutes. The Bengals's defense is decent, and the Packers made them look like All Pros at every postion.
2. Brett Favre, he made some mistakes, especially the fumble. I could go on and on in defending the fumble and the interception, but he is 36 years old and has been a starting QB for 15 years, he needs no excuses made on his behalf. This team can't come back mentally or physically at this point from Favre's mistakes. The fumble and INT might have only turned into 10 points, but it simply lost the football game, and the spirit of this team.
3. Receivers, here is a brillant idea, and a concept that has been developing since the early 1920s, it is called the foward pass, but it only works if guys catch the stinking ball, at one point I think I counted at least 8 drops, or passes that hit receivers in the hands. See this is what I mean about the snowball effect of Favre's turnovers, this team isn't mentally stable enough to deal with sudden change, and the drops were in my belief a direct result of Favre's fumble and Int.
4. Defensive Backs, other than Harris this unit was down right pathetic and miserable. Woodson played completely half assed, and Manuel looked like absolute garabage, and that is to be expected since he hasn't practiced all training camp. I sure hope Woodson is just dicking around, because if he is serious out there, then this team got hosed, about 10 million dollars worth of hose.
I flat out picked the obvious about last nights game, I guess i could mention the absolute terrible punting by John Ryan, but I think I will just let it go. Sorry about the computer problem, it distracted me from the game, and I haven't had time to go back and watch that garbage.
One other thing. This team defense on third down is gawd awful, and I will blame it on missed tackles, and poor coaching. Thats it, please feel free to add on. Have a good one!
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