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Cheesehead
Yet our defense allowed just 19 points to KC.I agree with everyone that our defense isn't as bad as it looks on paper. Yards aren't points. I think that point has been made enough times that everyone should get it now.
My only concern with the defense bleeding yards this post season is that it's eats up the clock while keeping our best player on the sidelines. Yes we can score quick, but if the other team can slow down the pace of the game by going on long, extended scoring drives, which is what KC did for the most part, that limits the overall opportunities we'll have to put points on the board. The formula for beating us is to move the chains, control the clock and keep Rodgers off the field. Unfortunately our defense seems to allow for a fair amount of that.
I think our defense is consistent enough at getting turnovers that it's definitely not an accident when it happens, but KC also provided a blueprint for what happens when the other team doesn't turn the ball over. This could make for a long day against a team like the 49ers or Giants, both of whom are capable of long drives with few turnovers.
That said, it is the post season, and I think our guys know it. They know what lays ahead and will hopefully play like their season depends on it.
Not saying they didn't have blame for this loss, they did (KC's offense is crap), but I believe it's unanimous that if the D helds the opposition to 19 points, we should win the game.
A lot of people, with merit, saying that it's the offense that took us to 15-1. Well, same reasoning applied, it was the offense that costed us the game at KC.
Our last 3 losses, 2 of them had the OL shuffling positions (Colledge played LT against the Lions, and against KC we were without 3 OTs), in one of them our QB went down, and the other game we were without him.
Think about it, the last 25 games we played (starting against SF at home), we've gone 22-3, and those 3 losses had some bizarre set of circumstances, the loss to the Lions the OL shuffled like crazy and Rodgers went down, the loss to the Patriots we played without Rodgers, and it took a bizarre Olinemen return (and a pick 6) for us to lose, and against KC we were without the best offensive weapon and without the top 3 OTs.
And one can make a case that, with all the defensive issues, it was the offense responsible for those losses.
Moreso, if the OL can hold, I'm very confident we win the game. Any game.