JosephC

Nice to see Iowa take down the Michigan fraudsters.

It's just too bad, because when I look at this team, and even factor in the sub-par head coach, the roster as a whole still looks something that could range anywhere from 10-7 to 8-9 depending on how difficult the schedule is and how many breaks you get along the way. Unfortunately, there is one unit that is just so bad that it will sink this entire ship. Gutekunst showed gross incompetence last year with the cornerback position, and he has shown gross incompetence this year with the offensive line. Morgan could not beat out Rasheed Walker (by all measures, a below average starting LT), and he is handed the starting spot because he was a first round pick. Banks was hurt and awful last year, but he got another chance because he was given a bad contract and the GM hopes to redeem himself. Despite Rhyan getting benched last year, Gutekunst extends him in an off-season with a plus center free agent class and a plus center draft class. Jacob Monk has preseasonS of disaster, and Gutekunst believes in him because he played well in a meaningless end of season game where the opposition was really only interested in getting on a plane and flying to wherever their summer home is. I can understand being willing to roll with Tom and Belton at right tackle. Belton played a bit last year, and if Tom goes down, Belton needs to step up. If he doesn't, you have one spot you have to fix. Gutekunst maneuvered himself into a position where he has five spots to fix. That's gross incompetence.

Penn State lost a huge chunk of their team and had played a complete joke schedule so far, so it was hard to tell what the Badgers were going to get. But for some reason, earlier in the day, I got the feeling this would be a total blowout (probably a by-product of the humiliating Packer loss). I'm impressed they are only down by 10. Of course, they could come out in the second half and do what they did against Notre Dame, but we'll see about that.

If the Packers stay on the current trajectory, and the Patriots show that last year was not a fluke (and we'll see, they have not convinced me yet)...it will only be a matter of time until Mark Murphy is dragged into the LaFleur/Gutekunst/Policy blame equation. He is the guy who hired Brian Gutekunst, when Eliot Wolf was in-house and wanted/interviewed for the General Manager position. It will be interesting to watch the Packers and Patriots moving forward.

Packer fans see value in Wyatt because, for a couple years there, he was the only interior DLman they had who had plus-pass rush skills. They weren't going to ever get that from players like Karl Brooks or Colby Wooden. Take an interior pass-rush out of the equation makes it much easier for the opposition. My big problem with Wyatt can be summed up as- % of snaps played on defense- 2022 = 21.68% 2023 = 49.68% 2024 = 33.24% 2025 = 33.84% Injuries or whatever, hard to be a great player, or even a really good player, if you are not contributing because you are not on the field for 2/3rds of all snaps. And for those that think that defensive lineman rotate, so what should you really expect from a good interior defensive lineman? Kenny Clark's last three years in Green Bay = 2022 = 78.12%, 2023 = 72.91%, 2024 = 62.99%. And last year with the Cowboys in his age 30 season = 67.57%

Coach thinks there are five quarters. That's why they normally have so many problems at the end of games. Thankfully, they didn't have to worry about that tonight.

Love, Watson and Golden piling up the garbage-time numbers.

I have to own up. I thought this would be an easy victory for the Packers. My prognosticating skills are clearly diminishing with old age. Despite that, I did predict that this offensive line would suck, but predicting that was as easy as predicting the sun will rise in the east tomorrow morning,

I defintely would not blame LaFleur or any of the offensive staff (including Butkus) for that offensive line. That is 100% on Gutekunst.

ESPN now has the Falcons with 500 yards of total offense.

Penix completes the big 68 yarder and the QB rating is up to 95. Now I feel better.

Well, the Jets do have that reputation of being a great team with a formidable offense.

I take the "mediocre" away from the Penix 80.1 QB rating. Last year there were only 2 qualifying QBs in the NFL that had a rating lower than that...JJ McCarthy and Joe Flacco. That 80.1 QB rating is actually pretty bad,,,and the Packers are still getting stomped.

So much for the idea that the defense looked pretty good the first two weeks, they might be for real. Yeah, Bijon Robinson is good, but when the backup is averaging 6.3 yards per carry. Penix has a mediocre 80.1 QB rating as I type this, and the Packers are still getting stomped.

Last year Kinnard played in 27.12% of the Packers offensive snaps. Last year Monk played in 5.42% of the Packers offensive snaps. Over this last offseason Monk must have shown some remarkable improvement as he is now an NFL starter and Kinnard is on a practice squad. By all accounts, Jordan Morgan so far is looking like a downgrade from Rashed Walker. That isn't such a big surprise as Morgan could not beat out Walker for the starting LT job last year. Walker is on another team's roster (and starting) with a 4 million dollar cap number.