With the big game coming up this weekend, and no, not the Badgers/Buffalo massacre, I figured I would bring back the 6 things to watch for for the Packers/Patriots game.1 - Favre cannot turn the ball over. It's pretty clear that if Favre throws INTs, the Pack loses. Cannot be on the wrong side of the turnover battle in this one.
2 - Pass rush has to get to Brady. These are not the Pats from their SB days, the WR corps is not a good unit and if you can hurry Brady, he may start to force the issue and the Pack have to capitalize with getting the picks.
3 - McCarthy needs to get better at red-zone play calling. Coming away with FG instead of TD is a sure way to lose a game against the Pats.
4 - The running game needs to get back on track. Have to win the time of possession and this is the way to do it. With or without Tauscher at RT.
5 - Pass protection has to continue it's great streak. Last week the Pack put on a pass protection clinic and if they can continue to give Favre time like that, he'll pick NE apart.
6 - Cannot give up the 40 yd-oops-I-messed-up-my-coverage-TD that they have over the last 2 weeks. Brady will absolutely eat them up if they do that. He can see this far more quickly than Johnson did last week and Brady can eat the Packers DB's up if they play a good game, let alone leave WR uncovered.
I have a feeling that this could be a high-scoring game. Would not be surprised to see a team get 30 points in this one.
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I told all of you at the start of the season that this Packer team would excite...they are young, but inexperienced. They will give up the big play, but with experience and some better free agents (esp. in the secondary) they might be pretty good next year or the year after.
I still don't have great confidence in the front office, although some of their draft picks look promising. The acquisition of Woodson, I said when it happened, was a boneheaded move, he is past his prime, a shadow of his former self.
I hope we get the game on TV locally here...we are right on the border on the coverage maps.
I remember those comments John. Woodson turned out to be a great pickup.
There still needs to be a new DB coach inserted either this season or next year. That's all that's holding this D back at this point.
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