In my blog post last week titled “Bye week thoughts: Four takeaways for four games,” the last takeaway I wrote down was “Don’t overreact.” Although I meant it in a positive way about how I should calm down my excitement, I’m now turning it around and telling myself not to overreact to a bad loss. […]
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How the Tampa Bay offense will challenge the GB defense on Sunday
Tom Brady. Mike Evans. Chris Godwin (potentially). Rob Gronkowski. Those four weapons, three if Godwin ends up not suiting up, will certainly present the secondary for the Green Bay Packers a hearty challenge on Sunday, something that this defense surely needs to accurately understand how good they truly are. Kevin King has been nursing an […]
Major headlines going into the bye week for Green Bay
Packers need more from “shootout-built” defense
In the Green Bay Packers’ Week 3 showdown against the New Orleans Saints, NBC announcer Cris Collinsworth expressed, “This Packers defense is built for shootouts.” Based on the play of the defense over the last three weeks, it doesn’t seem like this is a compliment. The Packers offense is obliterating defenses on a weekly basis. […]
Gary ascension is good news for Packers’ defense
In Sunday’s tilt against the Detroit Lions, perhaps the most crucial moment of the game was Chandon Sullivan turning a bad Matthew Stafford pass into a momentum-turning pick-6. From that moment, the Packers defense shook off its lethargy and prevented the Lions from mounting a comeback. It won’t pop up on a stat sheet the […]
Galeai, Garvin, Ramsey, Wiliams – Important D-Line pieces key for Green Bay
Outside of the household names of Kenny Clark and Rashan Gary, as well as Preston and Za’Darius Smith, the Green Bay Packers need to conjure up some depth pieces that can help give their stars rest during games while not having a huge lapse in production. And while the regular season will be the real […]
5 Ways The Packers Can Sabotage Their Season
As the second-year head coach of the NFC North Champion Packers who came within one game of playing in Super Bowl LIV, Matt LaFleur enters the season as a big white-tailed deer with a crimson red bull’s eye on his back. Some analysts, however, attribute last year’s 13-3 record to an inordinate dose of good […]