It's a good thing this is a shortened pre-season. It seems like it's a century long to me.....
My tickets to this game just arrived yesterday!! Boy that was expensive, but sooooo worth it. Now let's just be sure we get a win to kick off the Championship defense season the right way!!
Good write up Bogart. Hard to disagree with any of that.
2 drafts down already?Getting more and more excited for the big night. I have a fantasy draft every Sunday until they kickoff. Two drafts down, four left to go.
We have been hurt in the past by some screens, especially when they catch us with 2 guys blitzing from the same side.
I remember Gregg Williams boys battering Favre..... we need to protect Rodgers, and that's easier said than done.
The BEST way to achieve that is by hitting them early with runs, draws, and screens. Also quick passes.
I want to see 30 carries between Grant & Starks. We're capable of rushing for 150 yards easily with 30 carries there. Even more as I think each guy is capable of ripping off a long one with their defense having their ears pinned back going after Rodgers on 3rd & 6 or 3rd & 8 plays.
I hate to say it, but the Saints now have a big question mark -- which could directly effect how well we can run the screen to the right side.
Yesterday we released J. Stinchcomb who has been our starting right tackle since 06. Stinchcomb was EXCELLENT in the screen game. LAst year he played most of the season with detatched muscles in his leg. True warrior, never missed a game but his play was off. This offseason he had some pretty radical surgery and he just wasn't the same after. It's too bad for such a quality guy, but I am pretty sure his NFL career is over.
The front runners to replace him are 5 year back up Z. Strief and 2nd year man C. Brown. Strief is a soild guy, but not as nimble of foot as Stinch was. Brown is promising, but more of a LT than RT.
I really think our run defense will be vastly improved. Last year we just didn't have a DT to line up next to Sed Ellis. The front office went absolutely crazy fixing that problem and now we are going to have to cut a couple of really promising DT's. We now have Ellis, Shaun Rogers, A. Franklin, Tom Johnson (high motor guy from CFL), S. Miller and King. All of these guys have looked great in camp. It's hard to tell though, since O Lines have been getting their butts handed to them this preseason.
Former USC lineman CHARLES BROWN: meet former USC linebacker CLAY MATTHEWS.I hate to say it, but .....
The front runners to replace him are 5 year back up Z. Strief and 2nd year man C. Brown. Strief is a soild guy, but not as nimble of foot as Stinch was. Brown is promising, but more of a LT than RT.
Former USC lineman CHARLES BROWN: meet former USC linebacker CLAY MATTHEWS.
Remember last year's opener, with Clay going against an older former USC OT named Winston Justice?
Clay got that guy benched, and changed the whole landscape of the NFL when he went around Justice and ended the "Kevin Kolb Era" in Philly almost before it began, and allowed the Michael Vick Project to come back to life.
I am rooting for Brown to win that RT spot!
Sorry if this has been covered, I didn't want to go through 10 pages of game predictions..
Does anyone know who will be doing the pregame concert?
Thanks