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    donnie! Thanks for stopping by our party. Glad to hear your therapy is going well! Packers baby! Yay Packers!

     

    Love you guys :doublethumbsup:

     

    Gift no. 1: The Packers not being there

    Gift no. 2: Former Badgers quarterback calling the play for another former Badgers quaterback's game-ending INT (Poor Russell.... he probably thought that interceptions in the endzone at the end of the game were always touchdowns!)

     

    Thank Terrific Tom in your prayers tonight; but also thank the land of cheese and brats for your Lombardi Trophy :first:

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    Looking forward to nexts years rematch. :cheers:

     

     

    You guys play each other in the regular season??? :dunno:

     

     

    Pats caught a huge break not getting trounced by da Pack again because of the fluke win in the NFC Championship Game.

     

    Glad you guys could sneak one more Lombardi Trophy in....The next five or six years is going to be all Packers. :music_guitarred:

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    Rodgers doesn't throw many interceptions and I was so confused on why he threw that ball to a #3 receiver with Sherman covering him tightly.... Turns out he was the only WR going to the endzone on the free play. Great job by rookie Linsley snapping the ball early in that environment when the Seahawk player was clearly off-sides..

     

    Great job by everybody except the ref on that play... :thumbsdown:

     

     

    http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on-football/24978480/look-refs-miss-seahawks-offside-on-richard-sherman-interception

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    Yeah, a 5 point win where the other team drove the ball to the 20 with a chance to take the lead with 3 minutes left, is total domination. And that game you lost, total domination. You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.

     

    Total yards: 480 to 320

    TOP: 36:35 to 23:25

     

    Packers dominated that game. Davonte Adams makes the easiest of touchdown catches late and there is really no discussion about anything....

     

    I'll admit... Bostick makes that easy play and Seattle was definitely dominated worse....

     

     

    I'm not saying to not award a Lombardi trophy this year.... Unbelievable luck is a huge part of many championships (see tuck rule)... it's part of the game!

     

    I'm just saying that we all know who the best team in the NFL is :lol:

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    I guess I would like to see New England win because we dominated Seattle so thoroughly in their home and you'd hate to think you lost out on a chance to add to the NFL record 13 championships....

     

    But, then again, we also recently dominated New England :doh:

     

     

    It's lose/lose for Packer fans :dunno:

     

    2 inferior teams playing the title :music_guitarred:

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    I don't think Eli is better than Rodgers, or even in the same room as Marino. I'm just pointing out a fun, interesting fact about a guy with two Super Bowl MVPs and has led his team to two fourt qtr game winning drives in those Super Bowls and won 2 overtime NFC championships on the road. Rodgers is clearly far ahead of him

     

     

    Interesting fact: Steve Kerr has five championship rings! :thumbsup:

    Charles Barkley: Zero!

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    1) McCarthy unwilling to shove the ball in the endzone on 4th and my c0ck early in the game.

    2) Capers being incredibly stupidly calling a prevent D - and rushing 3 - on 3rd and 19. Pull his focking toupee off and shove it down his throat on that dumbss play alone.

    3) McCarthy being a puzzy and throwing Lacy into a line completely expected 2 yards and yak it up to eat 45 seconds of the clock.

    4) Capers playing prevent D and allowing Lynch free reign down the field, and Wilson to run for the first time in the game.

    5) Azzhole special teams idiocy allowing both Bostick stapler and AJ Sparrow on the field on the onside kick.

    6) Add as you wish.

     

    :wall:

     

     

    Morgan Burnett immediately laying down on the ground with nothing but green field ahead of him????

     

     

    So many multiple choke jobs in one game :mad:

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    145 total yards, at 5.2 yards per rush. That's not good.

     

    Now, if what I read was correct, the 1st half of the season Green Bay had the worst rushing defense in the league. And now they sit at #23. Did they improve? Well, in the 2nd half, they faced the rushing offenses of

     

    #27 Chicago

    #9 Philadelphia

    #14 Minnesota

    #18 New England

    #24 Atlanta

    #25 Buffalo

    #29 Tampa Bay

    #28 Detroit

     

    so, Green Bay played a bunch of weak rushing team to help improve their rushing defense stats. It stands to reason they are going to have some problems with their smallish defensive line stopping the Seattle rushing attack.

     

     

    Not sure how you read a box score but Murray had 123 yards (and a little 5-yard catch somewhere)... He averaged 4.9 per carry. Less than Lacy's 5.2. Dallas offense = 315 total yards.

     

    http://www.nfl.com/gamecenter/2015011100/2014/POST19/cowboys@packers#menu=gameinfo%7CcontentId%3A0ap3000000455375&tab=recap

     

     

    You spend too much time looking up stats (and sometimes not getting them right)....

    Just relax.... enjoy the game. The Packers are the same team from the first game and Rodgers is the same type of quarterback as these 9 World League quarterbacks Seattle just faced :doublethumbsup:

     

    You've already made it clear that there's absolutely no reason to worry, so why not r-e-l-a-x and kick back :music_guitarred:

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    Ha ha ha... Apologies, it's a well deserved jab as I should have researched the total. That being said, I would stand by my statement even at 123 yards rushing as being a gashing. Most Cowboy fans I've talked with lamented they didn't run the ball more, as the GB defense WAS giving it up in the second half.

     

    If I were you I'd forget about what Eddie Lacy could've done against the Cowboy defense right now, as you'll have your hands full with a defense that's surely more powerful next Sunday.

     

    You're a little jumpy, that's understandable given the circumstances. Think of... fluffy white clouds.

     

    Well, except for that 30-yard-run around the end, I thought the Packers did a pretty good job against the premiere rusher (and MVP candidate )in the league with the great offensive line that Dallas has, the way they pounded him and having to also worry about a dynamic receiver, an MVP candidate at QB, and a very good tight end...

    Holding a potent offense like that to 315 yards was actually a pretty decent defensive effort...

     

    Felt like you were going out of your way to dog us :thumbsup:

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    You say Green Bay is a completely different team than when Seattle met them early in the year. And the exact same thing was said about Carolina, how much they had improved and figured things out from an earlier meeting. And in the end, how did it turn out? Seattle won and never was I concerned that Carolina could win because I expected Seattle to pull away in the 2nd half, like they've been doing. Same script. Seattle is a much improved team since early in the season. Much improved. Our secondary depth was decimated at the beginning of year as we had to trade for a guy just to have a body to plug into the nickle corner. Harvin's departure changed the offense, which seems to have worked out. Wilson is spreading the ball around again rather than force feeding it to one guy for 3 yard screens. Believe me, I'd like to have a #1 WR right now, but it's been interesting that Seattle has gone 10-2 without Harvin. But gave up too much draft capital to acquire him. Seattle has played better ball down the stretch, not that Green Bay hasn't been on a roll as well. The Seahawks are a loose bunch based on all their behaviors this week and I expect a convincing win. Their record at home, their record in prime time games vs Green Bay's struggles on the road. It's not like they only lost early in the year on the road, as the Buffalo game shows. It's all very convincing to me. I didn't say that Green Bay has no shot. Of course they do. I said they were a very good team. This is the way I see the game unfolding.

     

    Green Bay is not Carolina. Green Bay is a 13-4 team. Carolina is an 8-9-1 team. Green Bay was pounding Carolina so ferociously a couple months ago that Rodgers was pulled in the 3rd quarter for pure humanity's sake.

     

    You do know that Rodgers and part of the crew won a Super Bowl a few years ago entirely on the road, right?

     

    Looking forward to this game :music_guitarred:

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    Picking the side: 14-2

    Against the spread: 15-1

     

    Green Bay Packers at Seattle Seahawks (-7)

     

    Seattle offense is #9 with 375.8 yards per game, Green Bay is #6, 386.1 yards per game

    Seattle averages 5.3 yards per rush and #1, Green Bay is #10 with 4.4 ypr

    Seattle is #27 passing offense, Green Bay is #8

    Seattle is #6 in yards per pass play with 7.7, Green Bay is #2 with 8.3

    Seattle is #1 total defense giving up 267.1 yards per game, Green Bay is #15, giving up 346.4 ypg

    Seattle gives up 15.9 points per game and #1, Green Bay gives up 21.8 and is #13

    Seattle defense is #8 in allowing 3rd conversions, Green Bay is #18

    Seattle is the #3 rush defense, Green Bay is #23

    Seattle allows 3.4 yards per rush which is #2, Green Bay allows 4.3 which is #19

    Seattle is #1 vs the pass, Green Bay #10

    Seattle allows 6.3 yards per pass play and #2, Green Bay 6.9 ypp and #10

    Seattle has outgained 14 of 17 opponents in total yards

    Green Bay has outgained 13 of 17 opponents in total yards

    Seattle has won their last 7 games by double digits, covering every game

    Green Bay has won 6 of their last 7, covering 3 times.

    At home, Green Bay average final score was to win 38-20. On the road, the average score was a 21-23 loss.

    On the road, Green Bay allows 138 yards rushing per game, 4.6 yards per rush.

    On the road, against the 3 best defenses they faced, Green Bay put up 16, 13, and 7 points.

     

    What do the numbers tell us? Nothing extremely surprising. Green Bay passes the ball a bunch, Seattle runs the ball quite a bit. As a result, the teams aren’t far apart in total offense, #6 vs. #9. And Seattle is averaging 7.7 yards per pass play to Green Bay’s 8.3, so it’s not that Seattle isn’t as efficient in throwing the ball, it’s just that they choose not to do so with the same frequency. I think the biggest issue is on the defensive side of the ball.. Green Bay throws the ball better than runs it, but they are going up against the best pass defense in football. On the other side of the ball, Seattle will be running the ball against the #23 ranked rush defense. There is a decided edge here. Strength vs strength, but also strength (Seattle rushing attack) vs weakness (GB rush defense). It’s not imagined, as Murray had a pretty good game last week running against Green Bay.

     

    Seattle had trouble putting Carolina away last week until the second half. Carolina actually finished ahead in total yards, 362 to 348. Why? Well, kudos to the Carolina coaching staff in putting together a nice game plan. They controlled the clock, moved the sticks, kept some drives going, and got garbage time production. Not that it was all bad news for Seattle, who had the decided advantage of better yards per play average of 6.7 to 5.3; Seattle had more explosive plays during the game. On a yards per pass play, Seattle had the advantage 10.3 to 6.1. Still, Newton made some good throws in intermediate to deep routes into the Cover 3. But in my opinion, the biggest issue was the surprising scratch of starting corner Byron Maxwell. He didn’t play, suffering from an upper respiratory illness and was on the sidelines. His replacement, Tharold Simon, had a miserable game. Newton threw at Simon 10 times, who was covering Kelvin Benjamin for a healthy portion of the game. How many of those 10 targets did Newton complete? 10. Yep. About half of Carolina’s passing offense was a pitch and catch game against Tharold Simon. Fortunately for Seattle, Maxwell is going to play this week. Did anybody else notice Marshawn Lynch vomiting during the game on the sidelines? Yeah, he was under the weather too, as he only ran for 59 yards in limited action.

     

    Well, Carolina, as many other teams down the stretch, game planned to take away the Seattle running game. And Wilson continues to beat defenses with his throwing. Sure, he’s scrambling around and running the read option. But his release time has decreased significantly lately, to somewhere around 2.2 seconds from snap to pass attempt. It’s getting harder to sack him, not because the line is pass blocking any better, because they still suck at that, but Wilson is processing information and making decisions faster. It also helps when you have WRs making one handed 61 yard TD catches. Seattle will run right at Green Bay, take their shots passing the ball. Nothing fancy. On defense, they pass rushed with emphasis on containment last week to bottle up Newton’s running lanes This week, zero emphasis on containment and it’s full on pillaging and plundering at a sitting duck. That calf injury by many estimates is going to take 4 months to heal. Sometimes you can take a step and be fine, sometimes you take a step and it feels like you got shot. My theory is that when Rodgers starts to feel pressure from a defensive line, he will start to check down with frequency, throwing plenty of short passes. Kind of what he did in the first game of the season. That’s an issue against the fastest defense in the league, and the best tackling defense in the league. You would have to be perfect to execute that kind of game plan to win, which San Diego achieved early this season vs. Seattle and nobody else. It’s also the area of the field patrolled by Kam Chancellor and Bobby Wagner. I suspect Seattle will take away the Green Bay run and let Rodgers challenge the secondary. The rush defense is missing a few key DT, but overall when the defense wants to stop the run, they will. It just wasn’t the point of emphasis last week. The way to beat the Seattle secondary is with dynamic WRs and a strong armed QB trying to hit the seams deep. I don’t think Green Bay can do this, with a cripple at QB. This isn't the Dallas leaky defense that they are facing this week. But Rodgers may still force the ball a bit because of lack of mobility in the pocket. I will go on record predicting 2 INTs for Green Bay. What? Didn’t Aaron Rodgers have some kind of magical season. Yeah, and he only threw 5 picks. Well, Russell Wilson only threw 7 picks. And when you add in Rodgers 2 fumbles lost vs. Wilson’s 0 fumbles lost, that makes them equally turnover prone this season. Rodgers threw more passes, but Wilson ran the ball more. Pretty equal. I wouldn’t be surprised to see Matt Flynn inserted into the game by the end, a somewhat surreal image given his history with both of these teams.

     

    Green Bay is a very good team, but they are so much better at home than on the road. They lost at Seattle by 20, lost at Detroit by 12, lost at New Orleans by 21, lost at Buffalo by 8. They beat Chicago, Miami, Minnesota, Tampa Bay. Eh, not a great resume on the road. Seattle has an extra day of rest. Seattle is 25-2 at home with Russell Wilson starting. Seattle is 13-1 in prime time games in their last 14. Oh, and the boisterous home crowd is usually a factor.

     

    Seattle Seahawks 37

    Green Bay Packers 17

     

     

    This is good. I like this. This is exactly the way it should be. Expert analysis from the same guy that intially argued with me that Russell Wilson is the sh!ttiest quarterback he’s ever seen, the Seahawks wasted a pick, and cry, cry, cry, etc. :cry:

    I have a ton of friends who live in the Seattle area and they say it is the hugest unknowledgable bandwagon fanbase in America… and not just compared to the greatest fans in the game – Green Bay Packer fans. But I always thought you were smarter, Phillybear (outside your awful initial analysis of Russell WIlson)

     

    We keep hearing about that first Seattle/GB game. The first game of the year. Let me tell you what’s different. The offensive line. You can’t run with no legs and the Packers were doomed from the beginning. Forget having a rookie center with no training camp playing his first game in a crazy environment…. The Packers had the worst right tackle (who has since been cut) taking over for injured Bulaga …Derreck “Swinging Gate” Sherrod…. Every play they ran was screwed because of him. The game was tight until he came in and then all hell broke loose.

    Forget that the o-line is playing awesome right now and played the worst I’ve ever seen it play at the beginning of the season. That game was also played before Cobb came on…. Before Lacy got untracked. Before Adams and R. Rodgers existed. Remember when DET shutdown the Packer offense far better than SEA did at the very beginning of the season. Remember all the dumb Detroit fans saying that’s exactly how it would go the second time? Remember a one-legged Rodgers hanging 30 on DET the second time despite missing significant time in the locker room with an injury? Remember Lacy running all over them? It’s a completely different offensive team.

    Let’s talk defense. The first game of the year, Guion came in for an injured Raji off the street and had no idea what he was doing in the middle and got pushed around and quickly gassed. Now, he’s one of the strong points of the defense. Clinton Dix did not exist as he does now. Peppers trying to figure out the defense did not exist as he does now. The Packers replaced two of the worst inside linebackers in the game since then with two of the most nasty aggressive ILB – Matthews and Barrington – and the number differential in rushing yards allowed is night and day. It’s a completely different defense.

    In summary, the Packer team that played SEA first game of the season no longer exists. SEA, of course, is different, too. They don’t have Harvin who tore up the Packers.

    Like the DET game, you’re going to quickly be able to tell which way this NFC Championship game is going on the first few Packer drives. Lacy, completely stoned by DET the first game, gashed them right away. And like a prize fight, that opened everything else up for Jordy, Cobb, Adams, Quarless, and R. Rodgers the rest of the way.

    I’ve been in your situation. Defending champs… 15-1…. Analyzing stats from early in the year and year’s past to say there’s NO WAY the Green Bay Packers won’t beat the 9-7 Giants by at least 37-17. Extreme overconfidence.

    But these are two 13-4 teams. It’s one game. And it’s individual match-ups. The Packer defense is much better than it’s been the past few years. The Packers are well-coached and scheme well..... just ask Belichick and Brady.

     

    If you don’t think there’s any possible way that you can lose and that the Seattle blowout is inevitable, it’s just going to hurt that much more at the end of the day. Just be careful.

     

    With that being said, I expect it to be a great NFC championship game and may the best team win! :cheers:

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