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<blockquote data-quote="TOPHAT" data-source="post: 165068" data-attributes="member: 781"><p><a href="http://blogs.jsonline.com/packers/archive/2007/09/06/schatz-sees-a-playoff-contender.aspx" target="_blank">http://blogs.jsonline.com/packers/archive/2007/09/06/schatz-sees-a-playoff-contender.aspx</a></p><p></p><p><strong>Schatz sees a playoff contender</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>It appears Michael Smith is in good company. Packers fans will remember Smith as the only person among 16 contributors on an ESPN panel to predict that Green Bay would make the playoffs this season. Smith is now joined by Aaron Schatz of the Football Outsiders.</strong> To be fair, Schatz calls the Packers a surprise playoff contender, and does not specifically say they will make the playoffs – at least not according to the article at Slate.com. In an excerpt from the Pro Football Prospectus 2007, the Football Outsiders say the Packers are the team most likely to benefit from a probable decline by the Chicago Bears.</p><p></p><p>Says Schatz: “The dominating defensive and special teams play that Chicago used to go 13-3 last year is simply not sustainable. . . . The Chicago offense is not good enough to drive the team to a 10-win season if the defense and special teams drop from brilliant to merely very good. That means another team has to pick up the slack. It's not likely to be Minnesota, with an inexperienced quarterback throwing to a cadre of below-average receivers, or Detroit, which has a high-flying passing game but no running attack and a very poor secondary.</p><p></p><p>“The team that will benefit from Chicago's misfortune, then, is the Green Bay Packers. Brett Favre spent the entire offseason complaining that the front office wasn't doing enough to build the Packers into a contender. Perhaps he doesn't remember that Green Bay went 8-8 last year and was just a tiebreaker away from making the postseason. One or two more wins this season will almost guarantee them a playoff spot in the weak NFC.” Schatz says that the Packers have their deficiencies on offense, but it’s the defense that will carry the team this year – possibly right into the playoffs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TOPHAT, post: 165068, member: 781"] [url]http://blogs.jsonline.com/packers/archive/2007/09/06/schatz-sees-a-playoff-contender.aspx[/url] [b]Schatz sees a playoff contender[/b] [b]It appears Michael Smith is in good company. Packers fans will remember Smith as the only person among 16 contributors on an ESPN panel to predict that Green Bay would make the playoffs this season. Smith is now joined by Aaron Schatz of the Football Outsiders.[/b] To be fair, Schatz calls the Packers a surprise playoff contender, and does not specifically say they will make the playoffs – at least not according to the article at Slate.com. In an excerpt from the Pro Football Prospectus 2007, the Football Outsiders say the Packers are the team most likely to benefit from a probable decline by the Chicago Bears. Says Schatz: “The dominating defensive and special teams play that Chicago used to go 13-3 last year is simply not sustainable. . . . The Chicago offense is not good enough to drive the team to a 10-win season if the defense and special teams drop from brilliant to merely very good. That means another team has to pick up the slack. It's not likely to be Minnesota, with an inexperienced quarterback throwing to a cadre of below-average receivers, or Detroit, which has a high-flying passing game but no running attack and a very poor secondary. “The team that will benefit from Chicago's misfortune, then, is the Green Bay Packers. Brett Favre spent the entire offseason complaining that the front office wasn't doing enough to build the Packers into a contender. Perhaps he doesn't remember that Green Bay went 8-8 last year and was just a tiebreaker away from making the postseason. One or two more wins this season will almost guarantee them a playoff spot in the weak NFC.” Schatz says that the Packers have their deficiencies on offense, but it’s the defense that will carry the team this year – possibly right into the playoffs. [/QUOTE]
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