My Official Green Bay Packers blog

You might call this the “Somebody’s Gotta Win” bowl. Two winless teams each looking to right their ships. The Green Bay Packers, trying to make it look like Brett Favre made the right decision coming back for the 2006 season, and the Lions, whoare notoriously slow starters. I guess they prefer the excitement of trying to pull off miracles in the latter part of the season. Kind of like Favre in the good ‘ol days, when he’d spot the other team a touchdown and the first quarter before lighting up the jumbotron (more…)

…there were about 11 minutes left in the second quarter. The Packers were up 13-0 and they had the ball; a position very similar to the one they were in almost a year ago when they pounded the Saints heads into the turf 52-3. Heck, even Al Harris had a pick by that time, same as a year ago.

But this was a different Saints team. (more…)

This week, backup running back Samkon Gado was traded to the Houston Texans in exchange for Vernand Morency, a second string running back for the Texans. Conventional talking head wisdom is that Morency brings a greater chance for success running behind the zone blocking system than Gado does. What I’m a little confused by is (more…)