I started watching the Week 6 matchup last night. I made it through the first half. Some stuff I noticed.

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Joe Buck and Troy Aikman were really annoying. Normally, I am good with Aikman, but that quarter he wouldn't shut up about changing stance in shotgun formation and repeatedly said he wouldn't talk about it until Brady was on the field.

The wind. Holy shit the wind was bad. You could see the hand towels flopping all over the place. The gamebook says the wind was NE 12mph. It seemed like more. Look at the angle of those trees. The ball fell off the tee on the kickoff. Temp: 88° F (31.1° C) Humidity: 48%, Wind: ENE 12 mph

Outdoor Weather: Cloudy, Wind Chill: 91
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The Packers should not try any WR screens. Buccaneers sniff them out well.

The Packers cannot attempt a HB toss run. It does not work against this team.

Buccaneers played man coverage exclusively and Davante Adams was always getting open.

I think this was Davante Adams first game back from his hamstring injury.

Mike Evans was still recovering from ankle injury.

Kevin King did not play this game.

Buccaneers first three drives were stinkers.

Darius Shepard was in on offense.

The pick six was the most non-Aaron Rodgers throw I've seen in a long time. He just doesn't make those throws. He also starred Adams down from the moment the ball was snapped. Weird to see that kind of thing.

The offense just doesn't look the same as I've seen in the last month or two.

The 2nd Rodgers pick was tipped from Cartlon Davis who was covering Davante Adams. First time watching I thought Adams dropped it, but Davis tipped it.

Offense is basically responsible for the first 24 points scored in this game. They got them 10, and gave up 14.

The 2nd down pass to Marcedes Lewis -- if that is on target, it's 17 - 14 and probably a completely different game if Rodgers throws it on point. The next play was intentional grounding.

Packers can run between the tackles against Buccaneers with success. The toss runs are straight up failure.

Valdes-Scantling was open for a TD, but Rodgers over threw him. That would have put the score 17 - 21, but Rodgers takes sack on 3rd down and then Buccaneers walk down the field and make it 10 - 28 at half time.

Valdes-Scantling got open again for a TD, but Rodgers under threw him. That would have made the score going into halftime 17 - 28.

Starting OL for Packers

LT 69 D.Bakhtiari (Rick Wagner came in for Bakhtiari in 2nd half)
LG 74 E.Jenkins
C 63 C.Linsley
RG 62 L.Patrick
RT 77 B.Turner[/list]


The Buccaneers offense didn't look threatening. If the Packers don't turn it over, the Buccaneers wouldn't have been able to run it so frequently.

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The Tampa game was very "unpacker-like". It was a perfect storm on things going wrong. Everywhere. Both sides of the ball. The weather. Everything. Adams and Clark finally returned after missing a few games. As you said no King. No Lazard.

Just because GB played TB in week 6, this will not be the same two teams meeting again this week.

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Many "Packer" fans are worried about the game Sunday, because of what happened in Week 6. I've got a friend that knows the Packers football very well, but he is a huge "worry wart". He says, "they beat us 38-10, after a bye week". That's what has me a bit puzzled too, but up 10 zip, then get outscored 38 zip? What happened yesterday, happened yesterday.

Watching the first half left me confident that the Packers can have a different outcome. I didn't notice much motion. I saw a lot of stretch runs and toss runs that (just my opinion) you shouldn't try against a fast LB crew. When the Packers ran North/South, they had success. Before the game was out of hand, Jamal Williams had a 20+ run.

The team looked lethargic and with no energy. They punched themselves in the mouth and couldn't recover. I think the Buccaneers will be slower in the cold.

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We dominated initially, but that's the game where I thought it deemed like they had a tell.

They do have fast LBs, but we showed we can succeed. Whatever the tell was, stop doing that.

These are games that Mike would have shit himself. We're with Matt now. Let's do this!

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Beware of the Zone Coverage, Aaron

https://www.espn.com/blog/tampa-bay-buccaneers/post/_/id/24577/bucs-have-beaten-aaron-rodgers-before-but-does-the-formula-change 

The Buccaneers played Man during week six. Do they commonly play man or commonly play zone? What is their strength? I NEEDS2NO!

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This is a much different Packer team then it was in week six.
I’m sure the Packers have watched the tape of that game, and figured out what went wrong.
Plus, as was already stated by others, we have our WR crew healthy and rolling. That, and if Dillon is able to go, a three headed RB group that can make some big plays.
I know some have said beating the Rams #1 defense wasn’t that big a deal because of who they played, but 16 games in the NFL, to have the #1 D is a pretty big deal. To do that for an entire season means you aren’t a slouch.

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Seems like once a year Green Bay craps the bed in a warm weather game down south. And to boot I think they were wearing their green jerseys. Tampas reminds me of the Packers last year. Very dependent on momentum shifts to get stops on D and can be feast or famine at times on offense.

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