Better, but still bad

That would be a rather apt way of describing the Packers game yesterday. They were able to pile up over 400 yards of offense and score 27 points, but blowing a 13-0 lead after the first quarter at home to lose 34-27 is inexcusable.

I put up a six pack on what the Packers needed to do to win. Let's see how these stacked up:

1 - Third Down Conversions: 9-18. 50% is real good. However 2 big ones they missed were on the early FGs. They convert and score TD's there, this game would have been over early. Overall: Succeeded

2 - Secondary Coverage: Woodson and Harris did a good job. Some early miscues, but for most of the game held up strong. Manuel, Collins and Carrol were burned for 3 TDs and were atrocious in the passing game. Overall: Failed

3 - Kick return game: Robinson was average and seemed more willing to fight with the Saints players after the tackle than fight for yardage. Nice job there Rocky. The blocking for kick and punt returns is not all that great either. Overall: Mediocre

4 - Taking Poppinga out on passing downs. They put him on Joe Horn! Horn then gets a 57 yard catch on a 7 yard slant. Poppinga was once again torched on passing downs. Overall: Failed

5 - Green needs 100 yards. There was absolutely no running game from the Packers which forced Favre to throw over 50 times. So much for MM saying they were going to stick with the run. Overall: Failed

6 - Franks in the offense: Bubba dropped far too many passes and was outdone by fellow TE Martin. Bubba was the reason for several failed drives and is starting to look like he's on the downswing. Overall: Failed

That's 1 success, 4 failures and 1 mediocre. Not too good there.

The biggest problem on this team is the pass coverage. It's bad. Real bad. Like Rosanne Barr singing the national anthem bad. If teams can complete over 65% of their passes and get tons of yardage, which is going to result in lots of points, this team has no chance of competing, much less winning.

On the bright side, it was nice to see McKenzie get absolutely schooled by Driver and Jennings. That juke that Driver gave him on the reverse was just filthy.

Once again, it's going to be a long season and hopefully the Pack can beat Detroit this weekend, if not, then I don't know who they are going to be able to beat.