The Saints March out of Lambeau winless at 0-4!

James Jones and Clay Matthews are my MVPs today. This 2-2 Packer team looks better on Offense but the Defense had trouble today. The Special Teams unit has become the most dependable of the three. Greg Jennings is maybe in his final season as a Packer and can not seem to stay healthy so I guess it is time to move forward at the position with Nelson, Cobb, and Jones. It is good to have Donald Driver available for the rest of this season in case more injuries happen.

2-2 is not a great start, no matter how this record came about. I still think this is a 11 or 12 win team so the Packers will win the division and be in the playoffs. Much improvement is needed however before the 2012 Packers are at that Super Bowl level. The Saints are not the same without Sean Peyton and Jonthan Vilma so they might not be in the playoffs this season. They are still good however and will still win 7,8 or 9 games I think.

It should be fun next Sunday as the Packers go to Indy to play the Colts and get to go after rookie Quarterback Andrew Luck. I expect sacks and Interceptions aplenty!

A Monday Night that has become Infamous!

Yes, we were "SCREWED IN SEATTLE" on an "INACCURATE RECEPTION" but so what! The Seahawks win the game (but did not beat) over the Packers 14-12 on a Touchdown that everyone agrees should not have been a Touchdown. I am not upset, I am not hurt, we just made history. It is very important in life to look at the bright side of every situation. Lets look at it like this Packer fans!

The Offensive struggles are because of Offensive Line trouble that will be corrected.
The Packer Defense is solid this season!!!
We won't lose many games this season so this one loss won't keep us out of the playoffs
There is now a good chance that the real referees will be back soon now after this historic mistake!

Offensive player of the game is Mason Crosby because I don't do one for special teams and he is the only member of the offense that did not screw up.

On Defense there are many to choose from. I won't give it to M.D. Jennings because he should have KNOCKED IT DOWN, he did not need to intercept it like he did. I am going with Sam Shields, he was in perfect position to make a play on that ball until he was pushed out of the way illegally and overall he played a really solid game. The whole defense is looking better!

Monday Night Football

MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL

 

I think the Packers are going to go into Seattle and take care of business winning by plenty!

 Do you agree? What do you see?

Packers prove the haters wrong!

The National media and the Packerhating fans were trying to make Packer fans push the panic button by saying things like:

• The Defense looks the same and still sucks
• The Offense is no longer explosive
• Jay Cutler has Brandon Marshall now
• If Green Bay goes 0-2 with both losses at home the season could be over
• That Bear Defense is still solid and Rodgers wont be able to throw

The list goes on and on and they were wrong on every point. The truth is:

• This new Packer Defense will get better as the season goes along and Jay Cutler was not able to find Brandon Marshall or anyone else open very often as the Packer pass rush was all over him. Jay Cutler was mopping around, blaming others, and just being all non-professional again.

• The Packer Offense showed signs of life when Donald Driver scored a TD and danced. Better yet the Packers found a running game and even more ways to score, Masthay to Crabtree? WOW and on a 4th and 26!

• Jay Cutler still gets rattled and the Packers did it to him all night. He then tried to force it to Brandon Marshall and threw INTs to the Packers opportunistic Defense.

• No way was the Pack gonna lose at home to DA BEARS and go 0-2, the fans won't let it happen

• The Bears Defense is still good, did sack Rodgers far too often but are getting old and the 49ers Defense is better

The Bears will never really be good until they find a Quarterback that knows how to react when things go badly. Aaron Rodgers is a true leader who always looks at his own mistakes first. Then he tries to help others, not blame them!


This 23-10 win should shut them up for a while!

The players of the game are the same for the second week in a row:
Randall Cobb and Clay Matthews

Would you agree?

No San Francisco Treat for PackerNation

It looks like the Defense will take a while to come together but it should be an improvement over last season. The Offensive Line needs to get better soon. There is nowhere for Cedric Benson to run and not enough time for Aaron Rodgers to work his magic. No Quarterback can do it alone! Only one game, we can take out frustration on the Bears on Thursday night. Go Pack!

 

Game 1 Packer MVPs were: Clay Matthews and Randall Cobb

 

Its Bear Week now, bring on Chicago Thursday night!

Game 1

According to my predictions in the previous post, the NFC is the better conference in the NFL in 2012. Also, the 49ers and Packers are the two best teams.

I have an uneasy feeling about this opener on Sunday. I give the Packers a very slight edge because it is a home game but I am concerned about how the Defense will be able to stop the 49ers rushing attack and also concerned about how "ready to go" the Packers Offense is.

 

It is VERY hard to score more than 20 vs SF and we will need to do so to win. I think it will come down to the Green Bay Defense, with help from the G-Force, making the big play at the end to seal the victory!

 

What do you think? Please comment below

Predicting the Unpredictable!

Here is my educated guess on how each NFL team will finish this season. I set forth some criteria for making these predictions because things are so uncertain in the NFL from week to week and one major injury, like Aaron Rodgers going out for the season, would mean less than the 11 wins I have predicted for the Green Bay Packers and change everything in the NFC.

I assume that every player in completely healthy all season long and that all games are played under normal weather conditions with professional officials who will get the calls right. Home Field is considered a big advantage. The planned starting Quarterback for Week 1 for each team will start for that team all season long. If I find a game too close to call I look at which team is better at the Quarterback position.

So if you happen to think that the 10 wins I have predicted for the Philadelphia Eagles is too many, remember, I am predicting under the assumption he plays every snap of all 16 games. Yes, this means that Peyton Manning will be the Peyton Manning that we know from the past, therefore the Denver Broncos should also win 10.

KEY:
1*=First Round Bye and Home Field throughout the playoffs
2*=Division Winner with a first round bye
3*=Division Winner #3
4*=Division Winner #4
5w=Wildcard #1
6w=Wildcard #2

Here we go:

AFC East
4* New England Patriots 10-6
     Buffalo Bills 8-8
     New York Jets 8-8
     Miami Dolphins 5-11

AFC North
3* Baltimore Ravens 9-7
     Pittsburgh Steelers 9-7
     Cincinnati Bengals 7-9
     Cleveland Browns 4-12

AFC South
2* Houston Texans 10-6
5w Tennessee Titans 9-7
      Jacksonville Jaguars 6-10
      Indianapolis Colts 5-11

AFC West
1* Denver Broncos 10-6
6w Oakland Raiders 9-7
     San Diego Chargers 8-8
     Kansas City Chiefs 7-9

NFC East
4* Dallas Cowboys 10-6
     Philadelphia Eagles 10-6
     New York Giants 9-7
     Washington Redskins 6-10

NFC North
1* Green Bay Packers 11-5
5w Detroit Lions 10-6
     Chicago Bears 9-7
     Minnesota Vikings 5-11

NFC South
3* Atlanta Falcons 10-6
6w Carolina Panthers 10-6
     New Orleans Saints 9-7
     Tampa Bay Buccaneers 5-11

NFC West
2* San Francisco 49ers 11-5
     Seattle Seahawks 8-8
     St. Louis Rams 6-10
     Arizona Cardinals 3-13

So there it is balanced at 256-256.
The NFC has 8 more wins overall than the AFC.
The best division is the NFC North 36-28.
The AFC North is now the worst division at 29-35.

The Philadelphia Eagles go 10-6 but still miss out on the playoffs.
The Pittsburgh Steelers, New York Giants, Chicago Bears and New Orleans Saints just miss as well after winning 9 games and losing 7. There is more parity than ever in today's NFL.

January 2013 will bring us the 2012 NFL Playoffs and I expect these games to be close but go true to form. I predict that we will not have a Wildcard team getting hot and knocking off better teams on the road to the Super Bowl this season. In the end the leagues two best Quarterbacks will vie for the title On February 3, 2013 in New Orleans.


SUPERBOWL XLVII will feature:
The GREEN BAY PACKERS over
THE DENVER BRONCOS                                                                 

The 11-5 record that I predicted for the Green Bay Packers assumes losses in five tough road games. All five might not be lost but someone might pull off an upset at Lambeau like the Chiefs did last year. I am going with 11 wins but think that more is very possible. The main thing is no losses once playoff time comes around! Aaron Rodgers vs. Peyton Manning will be one of the best championships of all-time!

THE FINAL 53 is really 55 players right now

Apparently the suspended players do NOT count as part of the official 53 man roster, so the packers actually get to keep 55 for now. 6 players wind up on Injured Reserve and out for the season including Desmond Bishop and LB Vic So'oto. 4 players are on the Reserve/Physically Unable to Perform list including OT Derek Sherrod and LB Frank Zombo which means they will have a chance to find a spot of the 53 man roster sometime near mid-season. So really 65 of the 90 who came to training camp are still Packers. Here is the current 53 (55) man roster as the morning 9/1/12:

2QB: Rodgers, Harrell 
5RB: Benson, Starks, Green, Saine, Kuhn, 
6WR: Jennings, Nelson, Cobb, Jones, Driver, Boykin
4TE: Finley, Williams, Crabtree, Taylor
7OL: Bulaga, Sitton, Saturday, Lang, Newhouse, Dietrich-Smith, Barclay
6DL: Pickett, Worthy, Raji, Daniels, Wilson, Merling
9LB: Matthews, Hawk, Smith, Perry, Walden, Moses, Francois, Manning, Jones, Lattimore
11DB: Woodson, Williams, Burnett, Bush, Hayward, McMillian, Jennings, House, Shields, Richardson, Ross
3 Specialists: K Crosby, P Masthay, LS Goode

LB Erik Walden comes back after Week 1 
DL Mike Neal after Week 4.

There are 6 players on this roster that I thought would be cut but only four names that I missed. I am calling it 49/53 and it looks like some things could change soon.


The following information is from JS Online:
 
Green Bay - The Packers' 53-man roster is complete - for now.

By 11 a.m. Saturday, they could have some new additions based on any waiver claims they might have put in. After 11 a.m. they can start signing players to their practice squad.

Here's a look at the roster:

OFFENSE (24)

WR (6) Greg Jennings, Jordy Nelson, Donald Driver, James Jones, Randall Cobb, Jarret Boykin

ANALYSIS: No surprises with the top five. Diondre Borel and Tori Gurley never did enough to warrant a spot. Boykin was a huge surprise. He caught everything, ran great routes and would have been claimed on waivers if they cut him. He'll mostly be on the scout team this year, but he'll give the defense great looks every day.

OL (7) Marshall Newhouse, T.J. Lang, Jeff Saturday, Josh Sitton, Bryan Bulaga, Evan Dietrich-Smith, Don Barclay.

ANALYSIS: There's no way they can go with seven guys for the six weeks Derek Sherrod is on the physically unable to perform list. You can bet they put in waiver claims for at least one lineman they hope to add to the roster. Barclay may or may not make it based on whether they add one or two linemen.

TE (4) Jermichael Finley, Tom Crabtree, D.J. Williams, Ryan Taylor

ANALYSIS: No surprises here. Crabtree has to recover from his shoulder injury and Williams didn't play Thursday night because of an ankle injury.

QB (2) Aaron Rodgers, Graham Harrell

ANALYSIS: Graham Harrell hit a grand slam in the bottom of the ninth.

RB (5) Cedric Benson, Alex Green, James Starks, Brandon Saine, John Kuhn

ANALYSIS: Too many people are writing off Starks. He'll be in the mix when it's all said and done. Marc Tyler probably will go on the practice squad and be available if someone goes down. Starks isn't that far away from being back from a turf toe injury.


DEFENSE (26)

DL (6) Ryan Pickett, B.J. Raji, C.J. Wilson, Mike Daniels, Jerel Worthy, Phillip Merling,

ANALYSIS: Merling may be holding a spot until LB Erik Walden comes back after Week 1 or Mike Neal after Week 4. Both nose tackles, Raji (ankle) and Pickett (calf) have injuries, so it's a bit of a gamble to let Daniel Muir go. But in an emergency Wilson can line up in the middle.

LB (9) Clay Matthews, Nick Perry, A.J. Hawk, D.J. Smith, Robert Francois, Terrell Manning, Jamari Lattimore, Brad Jones, Dezman Moses

ANALYSIS: Walden will be back after Week 1 and Manning may be holding his spot. If Desmond Bishop were healthy this would be Ted Thompson's best linebacker corps. It still might be. The OLB position has been upgraded considerably from last year.

CB (11) Tramon Williams, Jarrett Bush, Charles Woodson, Morgan Burnett, Sam Shields, Davon House, Casey Hayward, Brandian Ross, M.D. Jennings, Sean Richardson, Jerron McMillian

ANALYSIS: Richardson was kept on his potential. He's very raw and will have to fight to be on the game day active list. His special teams play will help him a lot. Ross quietly had a solid camp and was steady on special teams. Expect Bush to start at CB and either McMillian or Jennings at nickel safety. The safety position is really young. Burnett might as well be in his second year given he missed most of his rookie year with an injury. Burnett, Jennings, Richardson and McMillian have a combined three years of NFL experience.

SPECIALISTS (3)

K Mason Crosby
P Tim Masthay
LS Brett Goode

ANALYSIS: Status quo.

SUSPENDED (2)

LB Erik Walden, one game

DE Mike Neal, four games