Studs/Duds Week 3

[Bossman641]

Studs
Rodgers - enough said
Jones - definitely on the same page as Rodgers
Cobb
Daniels
CM3 - he missed a few tackles but was all over the place

Duds
Bakhtiari
Defense ability to close out a game
Refs - not for any particular call but the flow of the game in general
Wasted timeouts....again - cost us the ability to challenge a 4th down that was CLEARLY short. We've seen this in 3 games now.

[HowardRoark]

Dud:

Janis. Penalty, ball got loose after catch, looked like he was the reason Aaron called that last time out that cost is the challenge on bad spot

[Bossman641]

Janis is a hell of a gunner but he's not ready to get meaningful offensive snaps. One of my buddies actually lives next door to him in GB. Maybe I'll push him to review the playbook with Janis nightly.

[mraynrand]

Janis is a hell of a gunner but he's not ready to get meaningful offensive snaps. One of my buddies actually lives next door to him in GB. Maybe I'll push him to review the playbook with Janis nightly.

Ya. His first fly pattern he just let the db casually run him out of bounds. Pretty weak. At least he is decent on 'teams.

[Joemailman]

Is it just me, or does Bakhtiari seem more vulnerable to a bull rush than in the past?

[Smidgeon]

Studs:
I'm giving Nate Palmer a shout out here. Wasn't this Kevin Greene's inside information guy? It's about time an ILB thrust into playing time isn't getting torched every other pass. Has some run defending to work on, but he gets props for pass defense.

John Madden gets a major one. I didn't really realize it until he retired from announcing, but Madden always added some nugget of information to his analysis that made me learn something about the game. He was obviously a former coach who still loved to teach.

Rodgers gets an above and beyond (for him) shout out for being so successful at catching defenses with either 12 men on the field or offsides. I don't know if there's a statistic to measure it, but I wouldn't be surprised if he was far and beyond the best in this category by a mile and two thirds.

Duds:
The refs get one here. Not because they called a lot--they called a lot both ways. But the "defenseless receiver" against HHCD--a shoulder to shoulder hit--was terrible as was Maclin's first down spot on 4th and 18. The refs were just as sloppy as the teams. Luckily it didn't affect the game.

A huge dud goes to Gruden and the MNF production team. He was supposed to be the next "coach in the booth" who brought his football to another level. Instead he brings super-bubble-gum hype of such a base nature that it makes me want to throw up jelly beans and pop tarts. And I haven't had either in years. Seriously, instead of breaking down plays and telling us what is working or what they're trying to do specifically, he has an infographic about Aaron Rodgers that says "Quick Mind, Quick Hands, Quick Feet"??? What does that add to the telecast? I understand he's still a brilliant football mind, but he's a terrible TV analyst. I'll take Aikman over him any day. At least Aikman is always trying to explain why something's happening on a play. Gruden instead is flaring his eyes and showing vignettes about himself.

In case anyone didn't notice, I miss Madden.

[Pugger]

Studs
Rodgers - enough said
Jones - definitely on the same page as Rodgers
Cobb
Daniels
CM3 - he missed a few tackles but was all over the place

Duds
Bakhtiari
Defense ability to close out a game
Refs - not for any particular call but the flow of the game in general
Wasted timeouts....again - cost us the ability to challenge a 4th down that was CLEARLY short. We've seen this in 3 games now.

But if we could have challenged that spot on 4th down the game would have been over and we would have won by 16 instead of 10 so I don't know if we can rag on the defense for its inability to close out the game. They did in the end when KC couldn't convert the 2 point conversion.

[Pugger]

Is it just me, or does Bakhtiari seem more vulnerable to a bull rush than in the past?

When you consider who he was up against I don't have a problem with his game tonight (or Barclay's).

[Pugger]

Studs:
I'm giving Nate Palmer a shout out here. Wasn't this Kevin Greene's inside information guy? It's about time an ILB thrust into playing time isn't getting torched every other pass. Has some run defending to work on, but he gets props for pass defense.

John Madden gets a major one. I didn't really realize it until he retired from announcing, but Madden always added some nugget of information to his analysis that made me learn something about the game. He was obviously a former coach who still loved to teach.

Rodgers gets an above and beyond (for him) shout out for being so successful at catching defenses with either 12 men on the field or offsides. I don't know if there's a statistic to measure it, but I wouldn't be surprised if he was far and beyond the best in this category by a mile and two thirds.

Duds:
The refs get one here. Not because they called a lot--they called a lot both ways. But the "defenseless receiver" against HHCD--a shoulder to shoulder hit--was terrible as was Maclin's first down spot on 4th and 18. The refs were just as sloppy as the teams. Luckily it didn't affect the game.

A huge dud goes to Gruden and the MNF production team. He was supposed to be the next "coach in the booth" who brought his football to another level. Instead he brings super-bubble-gum hype of such a base nature that it makes me want to throw up jelly beans and pop tarts. And I haven't had either in years. Seriously, instead of breaking down plays and telling us what is working or what they're trying to do specifically, he has an infographic about Aaron Rodgers that says "Quick Mind, Quick Hands, Quick Feet"??? What does that add to the telecast? I understand he's still a brilliant football mind, but he's a terrible TV analyst. I'll take Aikman over him any day. At least Aikman is always trying to explain why something's happening on a play. Gruden instead is flaring his eyes and showing vignettes about himself.

In case anyone didn't notice, I miss Madden.

Clay was also a stud. He was everywhere and directing traffic pre-snap.

[denverYooper]

When you consider who he was up against I don't have a problem with his game tonight (or Barclay's).

He did a nice job against the bull rush when they were pinned at the 2 and Rodgers ran around the end zone.

[pbmax]

He did a nice job against the bull rush when they were pinned at the 2 and Rodgers ran around the end zone.

The result was good but he was also holding. He had his hand on the opponent's shoulder (common these days), but then when he got shoved inside, he used that hand to twist the player toward the ground as Rodgers started to move. Same kinda thing Linsley gets called for.

[3irty1]

How nice was it to see those filling rattling hits from HHCD and Randall?

[wootah]

How nice was it to see those filling rattling hits from HHCD and Randall?

http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-game-highlights/0ap3000000541910/Packers-Damarious-Randall-makes-nice-stop

[3irty1]

I wonder how our defense would have performed if the second half wasn't basically garbage time. Its a great problem to have but it seems the defense always start hemorrhaging first downs once the opponent goes into cockroach mode.

Unlike the MNF team I don't consider 16 points down with 2 minutes left "very much alive" but I'd like to see our defense continue to smother to close out a game. Law of averages be damned, the sole focus of this coaching staff ought to be avoiding the conditions under which we left the playoffs last season. Its the long plays that allow them to score quickly that are particularly frustrating. Ideally it'd be Eddy Lacy grinding away the last quarter of every game but a defense that surrenders time consuming drives does essentially the same thing when the scoreboard is that lop-sided.

[Bossman641]

A huge dud goes to Gruden and the MNF production team. He was supposed to be the next "coach in the booth" who brought his football to another level. Instead he brings super-bubble-gum hype of such a base nature that it makes me want to throw up jelly beans and pop tarts. And I haven't had either in years. Seriously, instead of breaking down plays and telling us what is working or what they're trying to do specifically, he has an infographic about Aaron Rodgers that says "Quick Mind, Quick Hands, Quick Feet"??? What does that add to the telecast? I understand he's still a brilliant football mind, but he's a terrible TV analyst.

Cracked me up when Gruden was going on and on about how Alonzo Harris was such a great gem found by TT..on Harris' first NFL carry