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This is about a week late, so I’m going to keep my notes on preseason game #4 short:

• Jake Allen probably should have spent less time eating tainted booyah and more time handling balls. Puking green and gold in the endzone is NOT a way to show team spirit.
• I don’t know why, but Matt Flynn looked like Doug Flutie to me. But for all the good reasons.
• I wish every game was played like it was the second half of the final preseason game, every guy fighting for a roster spot. That was some exciting ball to watch.
• On the field Brian Brohm looked like he was hiding pictures of him poking Jenna Jameson while standing in a roomful of Tito Ortiz. Those two kinda of have a thing going, in case you didn’t know.

A couple other administrative notes - now that we have a site sponsor to help you get your gambling freak on, this year I’ll make my picks against the spread. We’ll see who does better - Dr. Z a monkey or me.

To date I’ve not received a single worthwhile entry for the Win a Brett Favre Jersey contest. If this continues, two things are going to happen: 1) Any future comments to entries discussing how great Favre is will be berated and insulted - if you were such a fan, you’d have entered already, and 2) I’m going to award the prize to myself. Except that I’m going to spell Favre like this: D-R-I-V-E-R, and I’m going to spell four like this: 80.

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After preseason game #2 against the Forty-Niners, McCarthy was talking about focus, and how Aaron Rodgers needed it. He probably used the word focus as many times last week as he did “Quarter Pounder” or “Large Fries”. So yeah, you could say “focus” was a pretty big part of McCarthy’s lexicon.

And just like a George Bush Cabinet, Rodgers was parroting the company line by postgame. Must’ve worked. Rodgers looked more confident in the pocket, dodged a sack or two, showed speed that Favre may never have possessed, and completed 18 of 22 for just under two large in passing, including a score to former Olympic hopeful Donald Driver.

And the running game was spectacular. That is if you were a Denver fan. Their first, second and third stringers each broke free for a run of at least 15 yards last night, and their total ground game amassed more than 130 yards. Um, Isn’t the defense supposed to be carrying the team this year? Ok, ok. True that they’re trying lots of unprovens on defense, and that may be the reason Denver’s run game mirrored mine when I’m rockin’ the Nerf in the family room, shaking off rabid resident defenders aged one and three. I’m a freakin’ machine, really - 40 yards per carry on average.

Though they deserve some credit, because Denver was set to lock up the win until Jason Hunter smashed Patrick Ramsey in the mouth as he was delivering a throw, ultimately ending with the Packers getting possession and later scoring on a short run by Kregg Lumpkin. After the game, Lumpkin explained that the toughness he showed on the field was a product of having to survive his childhood with the name Lumpkin. Cleveland Steamroller agreed.

The Packers have their final dress rehearsal Thursday night at Lambeau against the Tennessee Titans.

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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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