20 THINGS THE PACKERS DO NOT NEED

[Rastak]

St Louis - Aging team, not what they used to be, 65%

I don't see them as an aging team. They don't have a lot of old guys. Four that I can think of that start -- Bruce, Pace, Chavous, and Little (sort of).

Bulger, Jackson, McMichael, Tye Hill, Tinoisomoa, Witherspoon, Wroten, Incognito, Setterstrom, Holt (he may be around 30, but he has several years left in him), Atogwe, etc. are all in their prime or yet to hit it.

This is a very good matchup for us to measure our progress.

The loss to them was heartbreaking last season. Especially so for Mike McCarthy.

Bulger,Jackson and Holt are a solid big three on their offense.

We matchup well at QB and #1 WR (WR) but we have to find a running game to come even close to competing with Stephen Jackson.

Match up well at QB? Bulger is a much better QB at this stage of his career.


Maybe Favre will prove me wrong but his numbers the last three years just aren't that great. I doubt at his age they improve going forward.


(waiting for Harv to bring up the Vikings somehow now......)

[retailguy]

Match up well at QB? Bulger is a much better QB at this stage of his career.


Maybe Favre will prove me wrong but his numbers the last three years just aren't that great. I doubt at his age they improve going forward.


(waiting for Harv to bring up the Vikings somehow now......)

Jackson looked pretty good today, (oh wait), since I thought he looked good that's probably bad for you, huh?

[HarveyWallbangers]

Match up well at QB? Bulger is a much better QB at this stage of his career.

I don't think he's much better, but I'd take him. Bulger has had Torry Holt, Isaac Bruce, Mike Furrey, Kevin Curtis to throw to, Faulk and Steven Jackson to hand off, and the likes of Orlando Pace and Alex Barron blocking for him. I think Favre is still around the top 10 among QBs. I think Bulger is around the top 5. I don't think he's "much better."

Maybe Favre will prove me wrong but his numbers the last three years just aren't that great. I doubt at his age they improve going forward.

Ummm.. the last TWO years. The year before that he went for a 64.1 completion %, 4088 yards, 30 TDs, and 17 picks, 92.4 passer rating. That's pretty damn great to me.

2005 was an aberration. Pretty much everybody on offense was injured. I think he can improve upon his numbers from last year. Blocking should be better. Jennings may stay healthy for the whole year. Jones might be a good third wideout. Will he? That's why they play the games.

(waiting for Harv to bring up the Vikings somehow now......)

I got nothing. I'm interested to see how all of the Vikings question marks pan out. I heard TJack struggled a lot on the first day of camp. I heard Williamson dropped the first ball thrown to him. I heard Greenway looks healthy. These all from the homers on KFAN. Haven't heard anything else.

[Rastak]

Harv, I stand corrected, he had a very good year in 2004. I should never assume things are true when I read them somewhere.


An optomist could argue that in 2005 2006 the OL wasn't the greatest and if they come together well this year his numbers go up. I'll concede that possibility.