Huge Win. The two waited games GB plays as a penalty for finishing 1st in division last year are the games against Seattle and Dallas. We won both. Now, no division foe can gain advantage because of their easier schedule.
Ted took some shots for not drafting Cook; but why would a team draft Cook in #1 when you can get Aaron Jones at #6 [or Devonte Freeman, Jordan Howard, Kareem Hunt, Rawls, Carson Cohen, David Johnson, Crowell, Foster, well after 1st Rnd]. GB hasn’t had a back like this since Ahman and before that Eddie Lee Ivory. Cant wait to see both Monty and Jones in backfield.
Jones is right now is a 3 down back:
3Q 1:11, “chipped” Lawrence, hit him square in the number sand stopped him dead in his tracks. 4Q 1:13 Byron Jones lines up on end of line outside Taylor as if to blitz, he does and A. Jones picks him up and controls him perfectly. 4Q :47 Dallas lines up exactly the same way as play before except B. Jones is outside Bulaga. Marinelli is set on getting the rookie RB; he expects A. Jones to be predisposed to pick=up B. Jones just like last play. And B.Jones blitzs, but this time so does Hitchens thru B gap. Evans has the DT, Bulaga has Lawrence, so its 3 on 2, Bulaga and Jones against Jones, Lawrence and Hitchens. Jones’ job is to get the guy with quickest path Rodgers. He not only picks up Hitchens, he pushes him into Lawrence, which allows Bulaga to slide off Lawrence and get a shoulder on Byron Jones. There was another play where Dallas blitzed up middle and Jones just stonewalled Hitchens, but couldn’t find it. The kid can play in passing game. He ran a couple of nice arrow routes and circle routes coming out of the backfield and I’m sure ya’ll remember his diving catch. I’ll take this kid straight up over Davin Cook before his ACL injury!
On 4th down run by Jones on a toss, Jordy [Love that guy] got seal block on DE to spring Taylor and Adams drove his CB back 5 yards.
Rodgers is finally there. Years ago, I salivated watching young Favre thinking about how good he’d be when he grew up; but Favre never got there. Then came Rodgers, who was head and shoulders better than Favre ever was by his 2nd year starting. There was just one thing missing: he became an average QB in crunch time. I think he has turned the corner in his regard. He was great in Cincy game late; and was awesome in 3rd Q in this game. Then, he did his typical reverting back to average decision making on 3rd down in 4th Q lob pass to Jordy. He had better options to Adams and Kendrick in middle and they cleared out for Jones circling out of backfield from right to left and who was WIDE OPEN. Actually, Jones could have gone a long way[They have got to get the ball to him in space]. But Rodgers IMO, sat on sideline realizing he screwed up and he endeavored to not do it again when he got the ball back, and he was perfect after that in his decision making.
Bulaga played one of his better games. He was not very good v. Cincy and didn't finish. Lawrence has been unstoppable and outside of a few chips from Jones; he got no help. He did give up a pressure to Demontre Moore.
McCarthy. Loved the aggression on 4th down; the O game plans are unmatched, he’s simply brilliant. But that 2 point conversion was ill-advised. The only thing that made in not idiotic was he might have not considered the extra point to be automatic. If making the xpoint becomes a 50-50 thing, then heck ya mind as well go for 2 all the time.
Randall. Glad to see he’s grown up, that taunting penalty relay showed that –IDIOT! But he played very well today. The guy has the skills and though he’s not the most intelligent guy [Remember Favre needed instructions in how to work a light switch too] his football acumen is solid. He just needs to keep his emotions in check. Really liked the way he handled himself in the interview with the biggest McGinn-clone-ass-clown in the world, Cohen. On the TD Randall gave up, Gunter would have knocked that ball down.
McCray with a few more starts will be a starting caliber G, he was just as good, maybe better than Taylor was in his first start at G!
Bennett, the guy blocked like an OT again. If his receiving stats were extrapolated at year's end, he'll have 64-624-0, which is a Packer record for TE receptions and #9 in TE yards in a season [Coffman 5 years more yards, Finley 2 years and Chmura 1]. No TDs yet, but he is contributing in Red zone. We have by far the #1 RZ scoring O and one of the failures was OT in Cincy when we didn’t even try. In Seattle he pushed Avril back 3 yards on Monty running TD, Rubbed Jordy’s guy for a TD in Cincy and today, he rubbed Allison’s CB then got double teamed, if Allison wasn’t de-uniformed that’s a TD too.
Vogel crunch time 4.9 seconds hang time 59 yards…a touch long, but damn near perfect!
Ulrick was up instead of Pankey, I guess he’s ahead of him now.