I don't mean to be too negative on a winning Sunday over the Bears, but the drops are continuing and are atrocious! The top 3 all made a crucial mistake with drops/fumbles today yet again and I'm wondering if moves are warranted in the offseason (draft). I truly believe Jones has all the talent to be a viable 1,000 yard wr, but if he can't stay "focused" when a ball is hitting him in the palms, what good is potential?

seriously?
no...seriously?
come ON man - can we just enjoy this win??

We can... but these mistakes simply cannot happen any longer.

We have little to no run game, and basically it is all on our WRs and QB to make plays. When you have a chance, you have to make something of it.

It's a troubling trend that showed up again... it has to stop if we want to have a decent chance to keep going in the playoffs.

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No, musccy raises a good point. I think Packers need to spend at least one (mid-round) pick on a good, solid receiver this year. I don't care if he's not blazingly fast or elusive. I just want a guy who can be counted on to pull the ball in and hit the ground without losing it.

Ted Thompson has been doing a great job of bringing in street players to fill voids (Walden, anyone?). Maybe this is the year he picks up a quality receiver off the street.

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This team really misses Finley and Grant, and the rest of the NFC teams in the playoffs are seriously lucky they aren't with the team right now. Finley can't be defensed one on one and he not only generates mismatches for himself, he creates for others because their guys have to cheat off them.

As for running, I am sick to death of the short handoff to Kuhn and the delayed handoff to Jackson. Those plays have to go. I like how Starks runs the ball.

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I'd like to see a small, very agile and speedy receiver who can double as a KR/PR specialist. I think that would do wonders for us. As usual though, I couldn't agree more with musccy. If we had lost today, it would have been completely on the shoulders of the receivers. Rodgers played well (the INT was Jennings' fault, as he ran away from the ball after it left Rodgers' hand), the running game was bad but the same as usual so you can't say it was sub-par, and our defense was phenomenal. It is obvious that the WR's are not lacking in spirit. They WANT to do good. But for one reason or another, they are NOT. They are dropping the ball and fumbling the ball like crazy. Or not reading blocks and missing a crucial 1st down (cough...Jordy...cough). They need to step up next weekend, or they're going home.

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Starks played well again today. He always falls forward and gets another yard or two. MM holding him out the last few weeks, I believe, has helped him a lot because it shows him that he needs to continue to work for the spot on the active roster. I think the biggest problem with the Jackson and Kuhn runs are that they are done at VERY predictable moments in the games.

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I actually disagree. I think that with the exception of Driver (most games), our receivers show little to no spirit at all, Jones and Jennings in particular. On that interception, the DB was fighting for the ball, laying out for it. On the replay, it looked like Jennings barely put any effort to get to the ball and simply gave up on it. Yes, it was a phenomenal play by the DB and sometimes you just have to give him props for making the play, but it's a pattern we're seeing consistently this season.

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I see what you mean, but that was more of a miscommunication than lack of spirit. You see that they have spirit in their reactions to misses. But yes I do agree that it is a pattern, and a disturbing one.

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I think that Jones has trouble catching the ball when it's cold. I don't know why, but that's what I gather. He didn't seem like he dropped it too much earlier in the season, but now that it has gotten cold in Green Bay, he's getting the dropsies. Put him on a team like Tampa or even a dome team, and I think he would excel. But still, I want him to be a Packer for a long time. He will fix his mistakes.

But at least Jennings makes up for it in games after he drops a pass.

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