Eesh. It’s preseason, so I know I shouldn’t get too worked up about the final score of a game, but ladies and gentlemen, after my dog spends 34 passionate minutes licking his own ass? His breath smells way better than this game did.

Because Brett Favre doesn’t play DB or LB, I’m pretty sure the 34 points San Francisco put up on the Packers had nothing to do with Favre being traded.

Looking back at the 2007 preseason, there was a lopsided game like this, but it was in our favor, spanking a team we would face in the playoffs later in the year and beat with the same stick we used the first time. Maybe preseason means nothing, maybe there are echoes of truth in these exhibition games. As is my style, I’m not going to provide an in-depth analysis of the game - there are people who are paid sphincterloads of money to do only that, and I’m a guy with a job and a mortgage who nets about $.03 with every post I make. So here’s three cents’ worth of quick hitters:

  • With Will “China” Blackmon and Jordy Nelson available to return kicks, there’s no reason we shouldn’t have the best return game in the NFC North or the NFC for that matter. Nelson’s big return last night showed he does not have Usain Bolt speed, but he does that thing that made Mel Gray from the Lions one of the best return men of the last quarter century - as soon as he catches the ball, he runs. No “my shoes are stuck in mud but maybe I can deek everyone by shaking my shoulders” hesitations. Just catch and go. So the return game should be good with the double threat. That is as long as nobody tells Blackmon to break a leg.
  • Aaron Rodgers looked like an unsure rookie; he didn’t spot the first down marker on a scramble, seemed indecisive in the pocket, resulting in four visits with the dirt at Candlestick Park.
  • Brett Favre looked like a seasoned vet against the Redskins. Okay, it’s not a Packers highlight, but you’ve gotta expect some keystrokes to go to Brett.
  • I’m hoping that this season there are few camera shots that show the stitched last names of Green Bay DBs flitting down the field, futilely trying to chase down a wideout that they later swore pulled a Rosie Ruiz, because they never saw him until he was almost in the endzone.

Next up: In Denver on Friday.

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