The Playoff Picture

[b bulldog]

Great point and I love seeing Packer fridays again here in WI and all is good on Monday after a Packers win but lets go one week at a time and just enjoy the ride. Is football great or what??

[4and12to12and4]

Great point and I love seeing Packer fridays again here in WI and all is good on Monday after a Packers win but lets go one week at a time and just enjoy the ride. Is football great or what??

You said it buddy, this is a great season, and I am enjoying the hell out of it, it's especially good because it's so damn unexpected, it's what makes it better than the Sherman years when we expected to make noise in the playoffs, this is a great Cinderella story and if we keep it up for two more weeks, all the National Media will be giving more love to Favre than he's ever had his entire career. And if we end up 12and4 (like my screenname prediction) or higher, they fucking better give the MVP to Favre, because he means more to this team than Brady or Manning, because he doesn't have the weapons, which makes him the most valuable to his team. Can you imagine if he got his fourth. Do you see it as a possibility at all?

[b bulldog]

You just posted that we are as good as the others talent wise

[4and12to12and4]

Damn, as I was writing that, I was wondering if you were gonna catch that or not. Nice, your on your game. Damn. Well, there goes that argument. Nice call.

[digitaldean]

I think 5 more wins wraps it up, although, we have a lot of AFC wins which doesn't help in tyebreakers. This is so weird it's like the mid nineties all over again, except the 49er's suck. This season is friggin' awesome. We just keep winning and winning and winning. It's trippin' me out. It doesn't seem real. If we can take care of the rest of our division games, we are set for at least a first round bye, a first round bye, unreal.

Only thing that could be an issue is the division race with the Lions. Playing in Detroit is a trap at Turkey Day. Now double it with the Lions just 1 game back.

The only real game we could coast in is vs. the Raiders.

Otherwise, man alive, what a trifecta of road wins... Now we've got to be lights out at home. We've got to get the home field adv., that's key.

[footballfever]

well hold the phone now. Everyone keeps talkin home field advantage, hell take the bye and ask to play the next team on the road. Statistically speaking in Mike McCarthy's short run here we are a much better road team. Before we get home field advantage we have to reestablish the dominance that comes from the home field crowd and not just any home field this is Lambeau F'in Field we are talkin about here people should be scared sh*tless to come play here. We've lost that in recent years, we have to win the rest of our games at home this year above anything else.

[MadtownPacker]

Yeah playoff bye is no where in range yet. The bottom half of the NFC sucks but the mid range teams could make a move with half the season to go. Beating the lions is going to matter more then beating the cowboys.

[Spaulding]

Thankfully it's not at the Silverdome (house of horrors) and instead at Ford Field where I think we have a fighting chance. Then again, Thanksgiving historically has been more thankful for the Lions than their opponents.

Here's to McCarthy and company changing that

[The Leaper]

I think the Cowboys game is VERY important. I want to have HFA against that team...Owens and Romo don't scare me nearly as much in January in Lambeau. Romo isn't a big guy...his hands could be a factor in cold weather.

If we split with the Loins, we are OK. Just don't get swept.

[Carolina_Packer]

We often talk about player performances here, but how about the coaching that is going on here? How about the job McCarthy and staff are doing to get these guys ready and stay focused and execute? Wonderful. What is that worth going forward?

Think of this...if Mike McCarthy is doing this well as a head coach with the youngest team in the NFL and key veteran talent, imagine what he can become as a head coach?

[LL2]

The Lions and Cowboys games will be huge! The Pack need to keep winning. Hopefully the Packers players will be awarded more turkey drumsticks than the Lions players. Hopefully we catch them on an off day too. They seems to be either really good or mediocre. What the Packers really need is a statement game against either one of those two.

[Merlin]

I don't think it's going to matter a whole lot where we play the Cowboys. Romo is from Wisconsin so I am sure the cold won't bother him a bit. Owens played in Philly and if I remember right, that was the last season they used Veteran's Field, arguably the worst field in the NFL. And the weather in Philly, Washington D.C. and New York, isn't that vastly different in regards to the cold and the Cowboys play there every year. The main difference would be the field conditions. The Packers have that new synthetic/real grass field this year so it remains to be seen how that will work out in the bad weather. Snow would be to our advantage, but only to Favre since he has played in it for 16 seasons. Other then that, our team is so young that the snow is as much a factor against us as it is for us.

For us to have any chance of a first round bye, we need to win our division first. We have 8 games remaining, 4 of them are divisional games. We must win all 4 if the Lions are for real. 4-2 does not guarantee us the division so a split with the Lions is only going to complicate things for us. The Vikings have a real running game. Their offensive line is run blocking well right now and Adrian Peterson IS the real deal. We can't count that as a W yet either. We should beat Chicago in Chicago because that is like our second home down there. If we win all 4 division games that puts us at least to 11-5. We "should" beat the Raiders and the Rams. That would make us 13-3.

Detroit has a hard schedule remaining. Currently they are 6-2, having beaten 2 teams with winning records and a combine W-L of 27-38 (.415%). Their remaining 8 games have 4 teams with winning records and 2 at .500. The combined W-L for the last 8 games is 41-23 (.641%). We will see where the Lions end up outside of their two games with us.

Green Bay has a tough schedule remaining as well. We are currently 7-1, having beaten 2 teams with winning records and 3 teams with .500 records. They are a combined W-L 32-32 (.500). Our remaining 8 games are against 3 teams with winning records and 1 team at .500. Their W-L ratio is 31-33(.484). So there is no real drop off for us and 4 of those games are within the division and only one of them is an AFC game that we could afford to lose.