I could easily jot down 10 things that aren't cozy for the Packers.. probably double that.

But when you look at the adversity that this team has faced early in this season.. all snowballed together and rather quickly, you need to start looking at the little wins in each of the game and the things that are starting to materialize again for this team.

We lost our horse in the running game in Grant.. it took several weeks for the coaching staff to find the recipe to, at the bare minimum, trot out a running game that isn't stuck in first. That does so much for the overall offense that it isn't even funny.. mostly helping the gents up front to give Aaron the time to let the Passing game develop.

That is huge.

There is little doubt that the Defensive line and the backers have taken the biggest hit of the season.. and it shows little signs of letting up with the Jenkins ding and Neal being shelved for the year.. Yet we seen a couple of the youngsters start to find their feel out there.. believe it or not, defensive players just don't turn the snap in and start to play like NFL players out of the box.. they have live game adjustments to make as they start to learn how to play here. We, at this point, have to be optimistic that it continues until guys like Jenkins and Pickett return.. then at that point, we now have our starters back and we have more experienced depth to step in.

The offensive line is settling down again.. I admit it is frustrating to see the process repeat yearly with this group under Campen.. but as we have seen in recent years they settle in.

We lost Finley which probably took a good portion of Mike McCarthy's playbook on reserve at this point.. yet we are seeing Quarless step up, Lee making plays and Crabtree showing he belongs.

Add to that, we are starting to prove that we are indeed as deep of a team as advertised when you see the IR report and that we have been in every game this season, and could have won just about all of them.

IMO, this is a transition phase of the season.. overcoming atypical losses.. and still in each and every game.

That speaks a ton..

I just hope with guys stepping up and gaining confidence in themselves.. that we start converting these close losses into wins.

After all.. they are our Packers.

"pack93z" wrote:

As when we lost Kampen last year, we see what Ted Thompson had done with this team as far as depth. We have GREAT depth. What team could lose as many starters and key players as we have and yet still have this much talent?
If anything, Jackson and Bishop are actually IMPROVEMENTS over the starters they replaced. Not unlike Jones replacing Kampy last year.
So thanks Ted. I'd still like to see Mike McCarthy get his offense to play to it's level of capability. Capers always gets "more than the sum of his parts." Mike McCarthy gets less than the sum of his parts from the offense. Consistently.

"nerdmann" wrote: