We are now officially a random team! Nobody wants to play against us, everybody wants to play against us. We can win almost any game and we can lose almost any game.
Our division is chaotic and we embrace randomness praying a butterfly flaps its wings in El Cairo to make the Lions and Vikings lose next week.

The Glass Half Full:

- A. Rodgers: He is back, maybe?, he played a great game, considering our conditioning program I hope the injury is not life-threatening. Welcome back #12, maybe?
- D. Adams: Odell who? Adams just catches anything thrown in his direction and then fights to get as many yards after carry as possible, it looks like a different player.
- L. Gunter: Expert at randomization he comes from a week where he couldn't cover a mailbox to a week were he terrorized any Philly receiver in his vicinity. Who are you?
- A. Ripkowski: Did I say I like this kid? If he doesn't get himself killed he is going to be a factor in our offense, he is fearless and is starting to get more aware of blitzes.
- Mike Daniels: The one and only powerful player in our DL, he is solo creating pressures to the QB, he is now officially our pass rush.

The Glass Half Empty:

- J. Peppers: Maybe the tank is finally empty, he is just standing around in too many plays.
- C. Matthews: Maybe playing injured maybe not but he is certainly not near his top level and he was behind the play just too many times on this game.
- C. Linsley: Pushed back a lot and allowed just too many pressures, we can't run behind him because he goes backwards!
- M. Hyde: Watch him when he is defending and it will be very hard not to put him in this section. Sigh.

Next: More randomness!

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Hopefully Rodgers is back to close to 100% for the rest of the season. Limited mobility might keep him in the pocket more which is good for his fundamentals but it REALLY hurts the offense when he isn't a threat to run.
What Adams has done is brought consistency. He had dropsies last year but would make those circus catches most of the time. Now he's just catching balls. His route running's really improved too. Thanks for proving me wrong, Davonte!
Clay injured yet again, go figure. Packers need to move on while they can still get something from him. Playmaker or not on the field he's missing way too much time consistently to justify the salary.

My own notes:
Dom adjusted in the second half and it showed with increased pressure. Sure, it helped that their #1 WR went down but since the DL/LBs weren't getting pressure, he sent corners in and had more success.
Jared Cook doesn't recover that fumble which happened to pop back into his hands and this could have been a very different ballgame. Got to protect that football!

Random fact: When Rodgers went into that weird tent contraption my wife commented that it was the blowjob tent.

Surprise! The Clinton-Dix hater says nothing about the interception. Right place, right time and made the play. You find the most weak arguments against him yet can't give him his due? Your glass is ass! 🙂

(this is all in jest btw, don't get sand in your ass)


Edit, from ProFootballFocus

"Ladarius Gunter, Damarious Randall, Micah Hyde and Quinten Rollins all averages fewer than 8 yards allowed per target"

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Full
-Rodgers looked sharp, several "wow" throws (drop in the basket, another to Jordy that he had to one hand and missed, the one to Adams in the end zone).
-Ripkowski - people aren't going to want to tackle him, every game he gets his hands on the ball he punishes someone. Also, was BS that the refs blew the play dead on one of his "scrum runs" - he was still moving forward.
-Winning - Losing sucks, it is a lot more enjoyable to watch a win.

Empty
-I can't help but think that the only reason the defense did okay was the lack of WR talent, and to a lesser extent, the rookie QB. Our depleted DBs matched up well here, but that won't be the case very often.
-Starks just doesn't look good running the ball, loops backwards around people in order to run to the outside instead of just taking the straight ahead yards available, etc...

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Half full:
Almost all mentioned, Aaron, Davante, catching the ball on the 2nd effort, DC finally made adjustments and brought pressure.

Half empty:
Why the hell are they not able to cover one single freaking screen pass?? That almost lost the game. Everyone can play dink'n'dunk and will get a 1st down with it.

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I'll put HaHa in the glass full of the finest scotch the day he defends a pass, breaks a TD in the endzone or does something that is not just walking around and hoping the ball falls in his hands.
I think HaHa played a very good game, I think you are right about that but the INT was just bad Wentz more than good HaHa.

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Good thing it's in jest, I really hate sand. Ruins the beach for me. Were you talking about me? :P

Admittedly didn't pay attention to him this game. Was focusing primarily on the pass rush, and the corners when they were bringing pressure. Also missed the INT, but Dix did what the Packers secondary needs to do and often fails to do - catching balls that hit them in the hands. Didn't see any blown plays by HHCD, so solid game? 🙂

How about the pass interference call that SHOULD have been called against Jordy Nelson? The one handed catch attempt? The defender was HOLDING his other arm, or he WOULD have made the catch!
Yet NO CALL was made.

Rodgers injury is what has me most worried. Without him, we have NO chance to win.
Hopefully he will be OK.

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That one annoyed me too but the Packers got a couple borderline calls that went in their favor that kept drives alive so I consider it a wash. Note: I didn't say fair. Fair is getting the calls right the first time 😉

Datone Jones didn't do too much over the entire game but that hit he laid on Wentz made him want to go home. Philly wasn't the same on offense after that play.