As promised folks, the newest edition to the site, big round of applause, drum roll, hey sit back down until we're finished thank you, lets give it up for the Packer Backer! Wooooooo!
Packers Untitled
By Joel Finkelman
First off I must start with a bit of a pick me up for anybody reading this out there. Being in college provides a lot of unexpected experiences. With this said, I have been provided with my most ridiculous one to date academically last week. For those of you finishing finals up now, or those who remember what it was like to struggle on a test, consider yourselves lucky. I just received my physics final test grade of a 21/62, I will go ahead and let you do the math as I obviously can’t.
Where should we begin? Somewhere between a non-sliding, big catch dropping, O-line penetrating joke of an afternoon, at least we got to witness a Matt Flynn coming out party. To sum the game up simply, it was a disaster from start to finish. Even before Aaron Rodgers went down with a concussion after losing a fight to the Welter Weight that is Ford Field, he was rendered ineffective by a re-vamped Lions defense. Did I seriously just say that? Good lord I might as well pack in it if this is the team I have to look forward too. With a massive 7/11 with an INT and 46 yards as a passing line, one cannot say this was really one of his best performances of all time (a quarterback rating of 34.7 for those wondering).
(Pause for vomit)
So let’s take a more in depth look at this. The Packer’s offensive line played their signature “we all have at least one torn ACL in our career” game. This led to multiple hurried throws and hard hits on the quarterbacks all game long even though the Lions repeatedly only rushed four. We all knew Ndamukong Suh was going to be good but who knew he was the reincarnation of Neo from The Matrix when it comes to dodging opponents. While I bring up references from a movie made over a decade ago I may as well say this: The Green Bay Packers offensive line was almost as bad as Keanu Reeves acting abilities in the same aforementioned movie. This led to such a lack of run game that the Packers decided to abandon it altogether at the start of the second half. Wait, oh they didn’t? They just continued to do what wasn’t working the entire game? Oh now I got it. The Packers gained 66 yards on 20 rushes for an average of 3.3 yards per carry. Any guesses as to who the Packers leading rusher was? If you had Aaron Rodgers at +470 you were the weeks’ big winner.
If Drew and Odin are gracious enough to let me return to the blog I’ll give a single piece of gambling advice a week. Because I am not nearly as good as these two are, I will have to give it a quality name.
Presenting the first ever, Tim Donaghy’s Insider Pick O’ Da Week:
Green Bay at New England: Line? Who cares. Take the Pats and be confident in gambling the naming rights of your first born child. I mean seriously, the Packers let the Lions run for nearly 200 yards and lost to Drew Stanton… Need I say more? If the Patriots were favored by 34 I would still pick them.
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