Sunday's Loss Proves Green Bay Packers Playoff Success Hinges on Earning Home Field Advantage

[armand34]

it was week 2, with 2 new tackles, we have 2 new TE's this year and were without Jordy from the firs series on. It's going to take some time. Do people pay attention to nothing on this team or in this league?

Yea dude, we are all fans of the same team and know what's going on. Specifically what is going to take some time?

 

[armand34]

My "early" concerns with this team are the same we have seen over the last several seasons. Things that could end up costing us games that we need to gain home field advantage:

1. Offense not in its groove just yet, "they will figure it out."
2. Injuries forcing unproven developmental kind of guys to play.
3. Not seeing anything too impressive from the 1-3 year guys (except Clark).
4. Defense shows signs of looking good against average to below average offenses, can't stop an above average offense.
5. Absolutely nothing special about the special teams.

Sure, we are only 2 games in, but some of the same tell tale signs that might prevent the Packers from getting out to a "fast start" are there. Fortunately, the schedule making gods were kind to us and gave us two mediocre teams to face the next 2 games. I just hope MM and company view these next 2 games as "must wins" and "must fix things in all facets of the game." Otherwise, we may be looking at a repeat of the past seasons.....Good team, mainly because of AR carrying it, but not good enough to get to a Super Bowl and the excuses once again will be "bad beat on injuries and the young guys didn't progress as much as we thought they would."

Exactly, we've all seen this movie before. Packers are an above average team that will not be dominant or beat an elite team.

I'd be happy to be proven wrong!

 

[rmontro]

Otherwise, we may be looking at a repeat of the past seasons.....Good team, mainly because of AR carrying it, but not good enough to get to a Super Bowl

I had pretty much resigned myself to the idea that this year was going to be a repeat of the past - good team, win the North, can't get past the playoffs. But Ted putting extra effort into the offseason got my hopes up. It's only week two. We'll see.

Even Rodgers had talked about the necessity of getting a faster start this year, but I don't know what they've done to facilitate that. Rodgers practically didn't play at all in the preseason, again.

 

[Poppa San]

Yea not the Case Keenum Vikings, the Sam Bradford Vikings...but i figured I didn't need to actually specify that

So you have a dataset of one game. Against arguably one of the least effective defenses in the league. I'm not sold on them.

 

[armand34]

So you have a dataset of one game. Against arguably one of the least effective defenses in the league. I'm not sold on them.

Sure, there's more to see this year. Regardless, Bradford's play was impressive and it's not even close when comparing him to Keenum.
Vikings are going to be a good team this year.

 

[weeds]

I'd venture a guess that if you took an anonymous survey of every player on this team ... you'd have 75% saying "homefield" in January is not high on their priority list. Those guys HATE the cold and can't get south fast enough. Hell, I'm Wisconsin born, reared and probably retired, and even I don't blame them.