Green Bay Packers Thread

Second not much better

Terrible start but the combination of missing Lazard, Bak and Jenkins and with Tonyan looking like he was on a snap count meant it was always going to be tough especially for Rodgers. Any team missing their LT and RT are going to struggle no matter who is QB. They probably should have gone more to Jones and Dillon as they were getting a bit of joy but even as poorly as they played they still left scoreable chances out there and it could have been closer. After the first two plays I thought the rookies actually did pretty well.

What to say about the defence though. I know its hard for one person to follow a player on every play but surely Jaire should have been opposite Jefferson more than we saw yesterday. It's like they didn't know he was a top 3 receiver.

I'm still pretty confident that the defence will turn out to be good barring too many injuries (Barnes looks like he will miss a good while so that's one down already). Its harder to know about the offence. Rodgers was definitely poor by his standards but how much of that was down to the O Line we will see when (hopefully) the two tackles return.

I do wonder how would things have differed if Watson had caught that first pass for a walk in touchdown.

One positive from yesterday was there were no massive special teams issues so long may that continue.

Good win against the Bears….servicable but I wouldn’t be getting too excited.

We can’t expect #33 and #28 to carry that load all season. Opposition teams will cop onto that and scheme to prevent it.

Would need to get a lot more through the air. I realise there are new receivers but the NFC North won’t be a walk in the Park this year.

9-8 is about the best I can predict at this stage.

Indeed, but the Bears are not a good team and have a young inexperienced QB.

As you say Tampa away will tell us a lot, Can we get to Brady? Can we stop the run? Can the O stay on the field?

The way Montgomery knifed thru the Packers D in the second half vs the Bears is concerning.

The Bears were within a blade of grass making it very uncomfortable in the 4th Q .

Heres hoping the receivers can produce a more balanced offence in sunny Florida.

Yes, hope I am wrong, but it’s a tough schedule and needs a balanced offense.

Given the set up of the NFL most teams will have the odd ‘down year’ maybe more!! and this could be the Packers turn.

Was pleased to see #18 step up last Sunday and made some clutch catches.

Also pleased to see a bit of variety in the O even though one motion play was messed up.

I think it’s the early start of a new era, so I am resigned to a couple of less than stellar seasons while construction work is ongoing.

Doing a run through of the fixtures I'd be hoping for a 12-5 season. Worst case scenario a 10-7.

Probably going to be games we'll be surprised they win and a few surprise losses.

Vikings losing already is good. I was worried they might go on a good early run.

Another thing to consider is that two of their best 5 receivers are probably Jones and Dillon but obviously you aren't going to get any big chunk plays with them.

You'd wonder would things have been much different for Watson in terms of targets if he had caught that first pass against the Vikings. He does look like a serious athlete but as you have all said him and Doubs will have to step up big time probably by the second half of the year which wouldn't usually be the Packers way of doing things.

I would say 10 wins is just the Packers winning all the games they should.

To be fair that Bucs defence is I think ranked #1 overall and Rodgers' top receiver was a 4th round rookie in his 3rd NFL game. I agree about a common theme of the MLF era seems that the offense can't recover from a big momentum shift like a turnover. 8 or 9 series of 3 and out or whatever it was is pretty terrible.

I think a big positive is that the defence looks good and a nice bonus is that the special teams isn't terrible. The punting and coverage was excellent.

The biggest positive for me is Bahktiari being back. I don't think its unreasonable to say if he had never got injured they could have won a superbowl in 2020 and even 2021. 2020 vs the Bucs really stands out though.

The bucs played more zone in the first half and allot more man coverage in second. Also they had 6 dline in first compared to 5 in second. The packers played prevent defence and stood off the recievers which is a bad idea with tb12

Agree about the last play. I know Jaire was missing but with the top 3 WRs also missing for the Bucs you would have to trust the much heralded secondary not to give up the big play and just play defence as you had been all game.

It reminded me a bit of Trappatoni's/Martin O'Neills/Mick McCarthys...... Ireland! Get a goal and then stop doing everything good that led to the goal and just sit back inviting pressure hoping to hold out.

Packers need to come out swinging and sock it to that sour tosser Bellichick.

I don’t need another nail biter.

Back up QBs have a history of career games vs the Packers, D needs to lay down the law early on.

Would not expect any serious threat in this game…..hopefully😁

Rarely a routine win for the Packers, unfortunately.

They usually find a way to fork it up!!

Well the Offense has been absolutely insipid so far, hopefully just to make the second half even more glorious....

A win is a win but I could have done with going to bed before 1am and really should have been. There a definitely glimpses of what the offence could be and Doubs and Watson have a chance to be stars if the big time drops are ironed out. Rodgers was terrible in the first half I thought but came good in the end. The pass to Doubs for what should have sealed it was glorious.

Its like they are lowered to the level of the team they are playing and just do enough but I don't think that is sustainable. They'll have another 3rd string QB next week so can expect lots of runs again.