Amazing isn't it? 5 games in, 3 - 2 and its doomsday. If we were 4 - 1 and you said 'were looking good' you'd be slammed with 'DUDE ITS ONLY FIVE GAMES MAN'.


Crazy times, crazy.

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I like the team's chances against the Dolphins. Their receivers aren't that great - Woodson and Tramon should be able to take care of B. Marshall and Davonne Bess. Pickett will be back, and the run defense is stout.

Of course, all hinges on the offense doing what they get paid to do, of course.

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1: I just get tired of watching MM's teams start the season so slow. Last season was a great case in point. Why do we have to spot the rest of the division 4 games before we get our act together?

2: If MM gets de-pantsed by Favre twice again this year, it will be a HUGE watershed for his career.

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If McCarthy gets shown up by Favre again, holy hell. Riots in the streets. Couches on fire. Dead pets. It'll be bad. Lord, will it be bad.

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There are times in life, when you need to do more than just show up.

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Shh, don't tell the Packers!

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I'm optimistic. The last five weeks we've played some of the worst football I've seen. There have been injuries, dropped passes, clock management issues, loads of penalties, mental errors, and many ill-timed mistakes negating big plays. I have not seen our talented offense "click" or get in a rhythm even close to last season, let alone play a full two quarters in a row. Our defense has spent time laboring on the field with no rest.

Yet we sit here at 3-2 with losses by a total of 5 points. We haven't played the level of football that our team is capable of. I still see great things coming this season if we can get on track. And as it's been mentioned in this thread no NFC team has come out this season looking dominate.

It may not be realistic to say that the Packers can still finish 14-2 but it isn't impossible.

It's not impossible, but now we're going to start facing real teams with real quarterbacks.

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So what does that really mean?

The Bears are 4-1. Overcame 4 ints and killed the Panther's running game.
The Buccaneers are 3-1. Beat a very explosive Bengals team.
The Falcons are 4-1.

I haven't been watching the NFL for as long as most of you, but I do know that it's no soccer league and that you don't never have the same teams playing for it all.

The Saints just aren't that great a team. They had a flukey run in the play-offs after greatly outscoring bad teams and posting scores like 46 - 34 against good teams in the regular season.

Would you really expect them to repeat?

Or the Cowboys. They've been an uncordinated pool of talent for ages now. Why are they a standard we should be comparing ourselves to?

If we were the Lions, yes, I'd say, let's see how we stack up against some of the lesser teams. This season will be a success if we win a game or 5. But we're not. We're trying to keep on pace for the play-offs. Preferably even the division. We shouldn't be focusing on edging out other struggling teams which were crowned division champions before the season even started. They're struggling. And there's a very realistic chance that non of those 4 teams will make the play-offs.

Is the sky falling? No. We still have quite a few games to play. Does it get hard when you squander away games you should win? Very much. Especially if you look at the 2nd part of the season. Or even the next 4 games. The Redskins are a worse team than the Dolphins, Vikings and Jets. Going into the bye week 4-5 wouldn't surprise me if we keep playing like this.

I'm just hoping that we'll turn it around before the bye week. That we won't need an extra week to tune things and have another one of those meetings where everything comes together, for some reason.

FIRE EVERYBODY!!!!!! TIME TO START FROM SCRATCH!! Oh no, I just dislocated my right knee.

NOW IS NOT THE TIME TO PANIC!!!

Remember, schedules are on paper, nobody knows which part of the schedule is the tough part, you just need to go back to last year to figure that out.

There were a lot of people throwing in the towel last year when The Pack was 4-4 and the mighty Cowboys were coming to town. It was over, no way Packers would win, they dominated The Boys, went on to finish 7-1.

Time to get straightened out, let's see what happens.

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