http://bleacherreport.com/articles/420849-2010-could-be-extremely-scary-for-green-bay 


http://bleacherreport.com/articles/421312-green-bay-packers-10-impact-players-for-the-2010-season 


Let me know what you guys think

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Personally I think the Packers are ready for the tough schedule. They are talented in so many areas and the schedule will hone them for the playoffs.

I have to add though that I think the writer painted an overly gloomy picture of the schedule. I don't think it will be as bad as he says.

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From one year to the next, it's almost impossible to say who will be awesome and who will suck.
I'll take a team that's building from within every year over a team that's relying on "strength of schedule."

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The tough schedule will keep them focused and get them ready for the big game. I sure hope the real AJ Hawk will finally show up.

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Going into last year's schedule, it looked absolutely BRUTAL late. bottom line, you never know in the NFL year-to-year, how a team will perform.

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I agree it's impossible to tell how good teams will be from year to year. That's the reason the league stopped basing schedules on team strength. A team like Washington could really surprise with a good coach like Shannahan and the Pats might take a dive with teams able to double Moss and not have to worry about Welker. All in all the schedule looks pretty balanced IMO.

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I read the article at the first link, and frankly I am not sure there is anything of substance there. It's a pretty simple list of stuff that even an occasional fan might be able to tell you: the Packers' schedule next year is tough.

The writer seems to site the Tampa Bay game as reference a few times... but oddly enough (as tonyagnese stated above) make little mention to the second half of the season when he had games in Chicago, against the Ravens, and in Pitt. That's one heck of a brutal schedule that we actually seemed to have done pretty well in. At the very least, it shows this team can not only handle adversity, but they finally have a physicality about them that is much welcome and cannot be under-estimated.

Now really wanting to read the second link you provided because the first article doesn't really provide in the way of in-depth analysis or really different perspective. The article tries to be different-for-difference's sake, which isn't bad if done correctly.

A mention of things like how this team has pretty-much underperformed the last year and a half out of two years would've been a good start, I feel, at discussing the possibility of disappointment this season. Like it or not, the past eight games or so are an aberration under Ted's tenure.

That said, momentum can be an equally powerful force and we certainly had a lot of it at the end of the year.

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Sometimes the offseason just drags, Im ready for some football and I think the guys are too!

GO PACK GO!

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That did seem pessimistic.

I am reminded of office pools where you pick the winners each week and usually the winners in the first 3 weeks are some secratary who knows nothing about football.

"What caused you to pick Seattle in the upset?"
"Seattle is the home of Nordstrom Department Stores and I like Nordstroms."

"Why did you pick team A over team B?"
"I think they have prettier uniforms."

It always took bout 4 weeks into the season before us guys who prided ourselves on "knowing football" would start winning the pool.

How many guys go out week 1 in a survivor pool?

You never know. THAT'S WHY THEY PLAY THE GAME.

I like the Packers chances at this point. It won't be easy but that is what makes football entertaining.

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awesome respondes thanks guys

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