More Banjo - Packers vs. Cardinals

[Joemailman]

Packers 184 yards passing, 151 yards rushing.

Dillon 78 yards rushing.

Jones 110 yards total offense.

Cobb 2 TD's.

Rasul! 9 tackles, 2 PD, oh...and an INT.

[smuggler]

Tonyan probably lost for the season. Hoping it's not so, but expecting that to be the case.

[George Cumby]

The goal line play calling was infuckingexplicable.

[RashanGary]

Now we gotta get healthy. Adams, Lazard, MVS, Bakhtiari

[Joemailman]

[George Cumby]

On the replay his eyes were as big as dinner plates, lol.

He was so stoked.

[KYPack]

That's called getting that big eye for the ball.

[Joemailman]

First time Packers have won 7 in a row in regular season under LaFleur. Won 7 in a row last 2 seasons including playoff game.

[Bretsky]

Everybody knows I bag on our WR's for their lack of ability and upside beyond the Fresno Freak.

I really liked Winfree; he looks like a guy with more upside than several guys ahead of him on our roster

[RashanGary]

With Bakhtiari back and eventually Meyers back, the OL is about to look a lot better. And then Adams, Lazard and MVS. The offense is about to take off.

[call_me_ishmael]

https://i.imgur.com/l4k3Bqu.mp4

[smuggler]

Keke concussed again... not looking good for this man.

[Joemailman]

LaFleur sounded emotional and tired in his PC. Good thing this team has some time off. I think everyone's a bit drained right now, especially after seeing more players go down.

[Joemailman]

[texaspackerbacker]

I said the Cardinals were ready for a fall in this game - good, but not 7-0 good. Before the season, it seemed like K.C. would be the big game, and Arizona wouldn't be too tough. I'm a little worried that maybe now the Packers are the team that is due for a letdown. I also said we had already beaten several better Ds than theirs, and we should be able to run on them. I was wrong that they would load up to stop the run, and then we could pass on them. I also said Murray was faster than Heinicke but not as hard to bring down. In this game at least, he also did not throw as good as Heinicke. Either our run D has gotten better or else Arizona's RBs just weren't very good' I think some of both.

I have more respect now for Joe Barry after a game without him. Clearly he was in on the planning, and our D did good early and learned from the Fields and Heinicke games in terms of containing Murray. However, when Arizona countered, the Packers didn't have much of an answer late in the game. Also, the substitutions and rotations weren't what they should have been. Taking Kenny Clark out of the middle just before that last TD run, for example was a bad move. I wonder how much not having Barry had to do with seeing less of J. Smith inactive and Mercilus and Garvin rotating in less. I never thought I'd say, why didn't Lowery play more? But why wasn't he in there more late in the game? Hurt or what? And Keke got a concussion? I didn't notice that in the game. He was good early, and damn Lancaster was his usual bad late in the game. Why was the middle so wide open for passes late when we seemingly had it covered early in the game? Campbell played his ass off early, but he or somebody was negligent on pass plays late and also in stopping the planned Murray runs late in the game.

I suppose the mess ups in lining up is a little bit understandable with the short week and absences, but it shouldn't have been that bad. And Rodgers maybe should have run the play a couple of times with people out of position instead of being such a perfectionist and using up time outs - or was that on LaFleur? And the shitty clock management - at times LaFleur reminded me too much of McCarthy that way as well as seemingly "playing not to lose". Of course, we didn't lose, so I guess you could say that worked. And it seemed - again - like Crosby was struggling, just barely getting the ball through the uprights and possibly not enough confidence in him at times.

Our O Line, which I seldom have much good to say about - actually gave Rodgers a few (very few) clean pockets - the 32 yard Tonyan pass for one. They were pretty inconsistent, though. Still a LOT of pressure allowed on pass plays and poor blocking more often than not on running plays. Dillon impressed me more in this game than in the past with ability to get yardage when the blocking wasn't there.

On the Douglas pick at the end, my theory about A.J. Green not looking for the pass was that maybe it was an RPO - Murray deciding to pass and Green not catching on.