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Nothing gets the opposing crowd more fired up than seeing the enemy in third-and-long. The fans rise to their feet and scream their lungs out in support of the defense, with the volume reaching debilitating levels, especially in places like next Monday's venue, Minnesota's Metrodome.
It's a factor heading into the NFC North showdown with the Vikings that the Packers can best counteract with better first-down production and more favorable down-and-distance situations. It sounds easy.
But the problem is production on first downs has been the bug-a-boo of the Green Bay offense through the season's first three games. The struggles continued in the Week 3 victory at St. Louis, but 5,000 empty seats and a healthy contingent of Green Bay fans in the Rams' dome mitigated the potential for a truly hostile environment, which they're sure to encounter next Monday in Minneapolis.
"A lot of it is a lack of consistency," offensive coordinator Joe Philbin said of the firs..
Source: Packers.com
