Official Packers vs. Bucs NFC Title Game Discussion Thread

[Fosco33]

How’s Mason?

At this stage of the year - it’s usually very good teams left w/ very good coaches and lots of tape.

I think this will be a close game and hard to predict. Adv to packers at home/weather.

27-24

[Cheesehead Craig]

Turnovers are the big thing with TB. In every game they won, they got at least 1. If the Pack don't turn it over, I think they win.

[run pMc]

https://www.acmepackingcompany.com/by-the-numbers/2021/1/18/22237313/the-packers-are-deserving-favorites-in-the-nfc-championship-game

Waiting for the deeper dives into the teams this week, but my understanding is the Rams are statistically the tougher D. The oddsmakers have GB favored to win in a close one, which sounds about right. Brady is still very very good, but I think Rodgers will be motivated and up to the task.

Vita Vea won't be in football shape, and nobody brings somebody back after being out that long to play more than a handful of snaps. Rehabbing a broken ankle and practicing for 2 days is different from playing full speed in a playoff game.

[MadtownPacker]

Turnovers are the big thing with TB. In every game they won, they got at least 1. If the Pack don't turn it over, I think they win.

I don’t think the Tampa DBs will drop the back-to-back bad passes Rodgers threw in the end zone versus the Rams. He has been getting luck on many of them the last few weeks.

[Harlan Huckleby]

On another note, in a game in which people are obsessed with having the tiniest advantage, shouldn't it play into the Packers' hand to have an extra day, since they played Saturday? One more day for King to heal his whatever, for Dr. Z to rest, for The Flower to let his staff have a minute, for Dillon to rest that quad, and all of that.

The #1 seed really gets fluffed. Homefield advantage. A week of rest. Then an extra day of rest before Championship game. With the 'rona homefield is not a biggie. But it's still all a lot compared to other sports.

[Sparkey]

Vea is a 350 lb man that hasn't practiced in over 3 months. Color me not too worried. He's likely not going to be in condition to play much. I've also heard it's a ruse by Arians and that he's unlikely to play. They are just playing games and opening up his practice window.

Not to mention, a 350lb dude on a just healed broken ankle playing in below freezing temps. Anyone who has broken a bone knows the cold reminds you of every healed bone in your body.

[Joemailman]

Keep 'er Movin'

[GB-Brandon]

If vea is good to go this will be the best d we have faced all season. Their roster is the best in the league top to bottom. Our o is bettwe thanks to rodgers. At least their special teams are almost as bad as ours.
Hope the weather helps!

That’s what happens when you make moves to “Win Now.”

[RashanGary]

The #1 seed really gets fluffed. Homefield advantage. A week of rest. Then an extra day of rest before Championship game. With the 'rona homefield is not a biggie. But it's still all a lot compared to other sports.

I'm a big fan of the 13 days rest and then the 8 days rest before the championship game. Big guys and guys like Lazard who are inching ever so close to a full 100% 100% do well with that extra day

[KYPack]

I really wanted to like JK Scott - I thought that picking a punter in the fifth round was okay if he became a weapon. But not only is he pretty much "meh" as a punter, maybe less than that, he's a frickin' liability when it comes to tackling or taking one for the team. Why shovel the ball to the kicker who's about to be creamed? Roll left and heave one into the end zone, or throw it away, or run and try to get as far as you can. Something. But to throw the ball to Crosby like it's a hot potato? Calling him a pussy is an insult to pussies.

On another note, in a game in which people are obsessed with having the tiniest advantage, shouldn't it play into the Packers' hand to have an extra day, since they played Saturday? One more day for King to heal his whatever, for Dr. Z to rest, for The Flower to let his staff have a minute, for Dillon to rest that quad, and all of that.

The Bucs' defense is tough. But we all worried about the Rams' defense,which until the Bucs became the opponent was supposed to have the best defense in the league.

I think Brady's immobility is a great help for the Packers. Facing someone like Mahomes or Wilson would be the Packers' worst nightmare. Gap discipline on pass rushes limits one's moves. But with a statue like Brady, Dr. Z can spin and zig any which way.Brady can maneuver around with the best of 'em, but he's not going to take off for a twenty yard gain.

Agree 100% on all points. JK Scott drives me nuts. I don't know how that candy ass can go into the locker room. He has pulled every chicken shit kicker move this side of Garo Yepremian.

The extra day? Hell yeah, every little bit helps.

[KYPack]

The newspaper from this quote might be a little yellow, but....

The clipping would be from 3 months ago. After the Bucs kicked our asses down in cigar town, some Bucco s were feeling like doing a little woofing.

(Quote on)

Bucs linebacker Devin White had this to say about the Packers:

“We knew those guys didn’t deserve to be on the field with us because we’ve got too much talent and fly around to the ball.”



To be sure, White was right. The Packers didn’t deserve to be on the same field against Tampa Bay in Week 6. Green Bay raced to a 10-0 lead in the first quarter, then didn’t take a single snap on the Bucs’ side of the field the rest of the game.

Rodgers completed 45.7 percent of his passes – his only game of less than 60 percent en route to leading the NFL in completion percentage. His passer rating was just 35.4 – one of only two games of less than 107.0 en route to leading the league in that category, as well. In games that Rodgers has started but wasn’t knocked out due to injury, it was the third-lowest completion percentage and second-lowest passer rating of his remarkable career. He threw a unicorn-rare pick-six.

Sacked just 20 times all season, the Bucs dropped him five times. Aaron Jones, who finished third among running backs with a 5.49-yard average, gained just 15 yards on 10 tries against the Bucs.

“Their offensive line couldn’t pick up really none of our stunts,” White said.

(Quote off)

True enough and Devin White played well that day. They probably don't have bulletin boards anymore, but that quote is enough fuel to rate a sticky on everybody's computer screens.

[scharpcheddar]

Arians vs Rodgers.

2009, Arians offensive coordinator with Steelers

Pitt 37-36

2010 super Bowl. Arians O.C. vs Packers

Packers 31-25.

2012 Colts QB coach, Andrew Luck vs Rodgers

Colts 30-27.

2015, Cardinals , HC.Carson Palmer, beat Packers twice. 38-8 regular season. 26-20 playoffs.

And of course 2020. Bucs coach 38-10, with Brady.

You can say the ones where he's just QB coach or OC. Don't really count maybe. But he must have gained some knowledge/advantage from being in those situations and beating Rodgers.

He knows Rodgers very well, it seems.

And for the hell of it, combined scores lol

Points= 194 to 132

Avg= 32. 1/3 to 22

As a head coach, he's beaten Rodgers and his 2 coaches, 3 times

Points 102 to 38

Avg.= 34 to 12.2/3

[Anti-Polar Bear]

Bucs linebacker Devin White had this to say about the Packers:

“We knew those guys didn’t deserve to be on the field with us...

WHAT?!?!

As a cool dude, I always want the Packers to win humbly, with “grace in their hearts and flowers in their hairs.” But given the Pirates’ arrogance after that infamous 1st game, fuck it! Go, Pack, go - go annihilate the fuck out of the Pirates arrogantly, and for all I care, with “disgrace in your heart and thorns in your hair.”

Mailman, I detest you whenever you post pics of rednecks and their animal carcasses, especially after a Pack victory. But get your pic of the classy and sophisticated Redcoats and their pirates of the Caribbean carcasses ready!

[Upnorth]

WR, TE, RB, S, Kicker

The bucs gm had this as one of the best rosters in the league last year and it continues to be probably the best this year as well. We have a great team but we are not better than them everywhere. QB yes. Te yes. Oline yes. Wr 1 yes. Saftey. CB 1yes. After that our advantages disappear.
They would have been in the mix last year for the sb if they had a qb who could protect the ball. Now they do.
They are well constructed for yesterday today and tomorrow. The opposite of win now. They have made acquisitions to patch gaps with suh and brown but that is no different than what we did with Velhdeer. And snacks. Patch gaps with affordable vets who aren't what they once were..
I think we win but we are not a better roster. I think we just play better with what we have.

[Cheesehead Craig]

That’s what happens when you make moves to “Win Now.”

Or just be bad enough to select in the top 10 for multiple years and you end up with elite talent that way.