Game 7: Texans @ Packers - Sunday, Oct 20th at 12:00PM

[yourout]

Division is nuts.

[duewizard]

Lol a sack. Detroit wins.

[adambr2]

Re: Detroit/Minny game. 

After a long play with a running clock and no timeouts, what's to stop the 2 closest guys from snapping the ball, spiking it, while everyone else on the field just freezes in place? Just a 5 yard penalty with no runoff. 

[HarryDoyle]

The Strouds will not be happy.

[SeaBass]

2 minutes ago, HarryDoyle said:

The Strouds will not be happy.

This win plays beautifully into how the story has been set up with the return of the script writer. TG must be super happy with this win.

[valpocrewsader]

17 minutes ago, adambr2 said:

Re: Detroit/Minny game. 

After a long play with a running clock and no timeouts, what's to stop the 2 closest guys from snapping the ball, spiking it, while everyone else on the field just freezes in place? Just a 5 yard penalty with no runoff. 

Watching that play, I was convinced there should be a 10 second runoff. Seems like an easy loophole to get a stopped clock and a chance to huddle. I'm almost positive that other infractions like a false start would have a runoff?

[OldHeidelberg]

21 minutes ago, adambr2 said:

Re: Detroit/Minny game. 

After a long play with a running clock and no timeouts, what's to stop the 2 closest guys from snapping the ball, spiking it, while everyone else on the field just freezes in place? Just a 5 yard penalty with no runoff. 

I didn’t see it but I think there is a runoff in the situation you describe.

[Vgmastr]

13 minutes ago, OldHeidelberg said:

I didn’t see it but I think there is a runoff in the situation you describe.

There's not because illegal formation doesn't kill the play dead like a false start does.  The play completes and since the spike is an incomplete pass the clock is stopped so there's no runoff.

[OldHeidelberg]

OK yeah that sound like a loophole Belichick would have exposed long ago.

[HarryDoyle]

14 minutes ago, OldHeidelberg said:

OK yeah that sound like a loophole Belichick would have exposed long ago.

Or Oregon.

[young guns]

That does bring up a good question.  What would happen if after a big gain down the middle, 2 recievers just lined up to snap the ball and everyone else on the offense just stopped and got set just to spike the ball.  Obviously you need to wait for at least the ref to set the ball, but you could catch a defensive player offsides.  Would that cancel out the illegal formation?  Is there something else in place to call for something this blatant pseudo cheating that doesn't go into effect for a play like the Vikings ran because they at least tried?

[HarryDoyle]

 

[MrTPlush]

A lot of stupid mistakes, but this honestly felt like a nice win. The defense was really good. Gave up a bit on the ground, but Stroud was hopeless nearly the entire game and 3rd downs felt impossible. The offense did a lot through the air and on the ground.

Start cleaning up the mental miscues and that was a well oiled machine out there today.

[BrewerFan]

This game was not exactly perfect...Love with a couple picks, the turnover on the Muff punt. 

twice they got the ball inside the...what, 10-15.

And STILL the Packers win.

 

-Jeff Hafley doing EXACTLY what I think all of us have wanted to see. You have 7 guys up on the LOS. I LOVED seeing Gary and Enagbare or whoever was standing up. It gives the look that they could drop or some...and then Bullard or Xavier was coming on different plays. Eric Wilson got home and they were just in Stroud's face all day!

-DL was in the backfield all day also. IDL was...good. First time this year they have been IMO. Clark looked like Kenny Clark, Karl Brooks is really a fantastic rotational DT. 

-Eric Friggin' Wilson and Edgerrin  Coopers were a couple of studs and they were FEASTING. Both are so capable but Wilson is having a De'Vondre Campbell type season(when he was an AP) this year.

-Quay Walker...he's going to have to become a situational LB. I love the fire he plays with and he's great when he's just playing, but...you CANNOT take Eric Wilson off the field after that performance, Edge Cooper has proven himself. McDuffie is probably the best taking on blocks? 

Whatever, I don't know, but that was the defense I've been waiting for. 

Offense, they're solid. Improving. Love's making some mistakes he'll clean up, Wicks is playing better. I still believe in Musgrave's value to the offense, but they were solid, not great, but good enough. 

 

This is all about the D and...pretty good STs...

And...welcome to Green Bay Brandon McManus!!!

 

I thought the Packers maybe should release Wilson because...there was no interest in him and I thought you could roster him on the PS for the first 3 weeks until there were injuries...man, am I glad they didn't risk it.

 

The new Starting MLB! And then Coop has to be out there. Quay should be the Will where it's easier assignments and in space...

 

[Jimbo]

19 hours ago, areacodes said:

Why was that kickoff out of bounds placed at the 25 and not 40?  The penalty was applied after the kickoff and not before they kicked?

The ball is placed 25 yards from the kick scrimmage.  The KO was from the 50 after the penalty.

 

[Jimbo]

19 hours ago, SeaBass said:

I don't know how the Texans coach let that ball get snapped. Maybe got a break. Close enough to review.

I could see at the top of the screen he was sprinting down the sideline at the snap.

 

[CheezWizHed]

Man that game was WAY harder than it should've been!  Talk about winning ugly..

Eric Wilson - Wow, where did that come from?? Is he better at MLB than SLB/WLB? Or did he just have himself a game?  @BrewerFan, I think you need to find a happy middle between "cut him and put him on the PS!" and "Here is our new MLB!" 😂 But boy did he have a nice game. 

The defense was impressive.  Certainly say a bigger blitz package than previously . I wonder of Hafley is actually finished installing the D yet? I read a while back that (in season) he was still ensuring they had the fundamentals down before adding more twists. 

Jaire still annoys me with his jawing. Especially when he wasn't in on the end of the play. 

Williams continues to impress at safety.  

Clark finally showed up today.  Where has that version of him been? 

Slaton continues to move backwards far too easily.  He has one job to just not give up ground and yet he seems like he plays on ice half the time. 

Much better game from Gary even though he only got one gimmie sack.  Really pressured Stroud all day today. 

I'm stunned that Nixon has been solid at outside CB.  But I blame him more than Ballentine for the muff.  He didn't look like he called anyone off...certainly no body language that people normally do when yelling at players to disengage.  

Love is going to be interesting... he certainly has a bit more Favre in him than Rodgers.  It will take some getting used to, but I hope he can tone it down a bit too. I don't expect a Rodgers-level INT avoidance, but just a few less of the boneheaded ones.

Somewhere in the back of my mind, I felt that the game was going to come down to a GWFG with our new kicker.  Not sure how I would've felt if Narveson was going out there....

[young guns]

1 hour ago, CheezWizHed said:

Jaire still annoys me with his jawing. Especially when he wasn't in on the end of the play. 

Agreed.  I kept waiting for him to go to far and draw a foul at the wrong time.

[CheezWizHed]

On 10/21/2024 at 4:44 PM, young guns said:

Agreed.  I kept waiting for him to go to far and draw a foul at the wrong time.

I'm really surprised he didn't get one for taunting.  The refs really had a lot of patience with him... probably too much. 

[BrewerFan]

On 10/21/2024 at 3:16 PM, CheezWizHed said:

Eric Wilson - Wow, where did that come from?? Is he better at MLB than SLB/WLB? Or did he just have himself a game?  @BrewerFan, I think you need to find a happy middle between "cut him and put him on the PS!" and "Here is our new MLB!" 😂 But boy did he have a nice game. 

Nah, my opinion was a 30-year-old LB who...hadn't had a good season since he was Minnesota would go unclaimed I think was pretty valid at the time. He was a guy nobody wanted in the off-season and we re-signed him to the minimum. I said they should put him on the PS and protect him until we had a roster spot available if they needed the roster spot for another position, someone they really liked...Dubose for example or...more specifically Kristian Welch who looked like he played his way onto the 53 man in the pre-season. They did have 4 guys signed to 53 man I think, lost Welch.

But I wanted him on the roster, active, as depth and a special teams ace like he had been. 

 

No reason not to go with the hot hand.