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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Packerlifer" data-source="post: 583031" data-attributes="member: 1242">I'm still processing my "feel" for this game but I don't think we should make more of it for either team than what it is. A marquee match-up, to be sure, but the season isn't on the line for either, it's far too early to call it a Super Bowl preview. No matter who wins both teams will go on from here to the playoffs; when anything can happen.     The location is different but the setting is reminiscient of the game four years ago at Foxboro. The Patriots were chewing up opponents and looked like a sure Super Bowl team. The Packers came in without their all-pro qb Aaron Rodgers, out with a concussion, and Matt Flynn played instead. The Packers gave the Pats a heckuva good battle but still lost. New England went on to get knocked out of the playoffs by the Jets! Green Bay beat Pittsburgh in the Super Bowl.     This is the kind of game at which the Patriots do excel, though. Belichick and Brady are masters at disagnosing and dissecting an opponent and coming up with a game plan that fits and works. I know what I'm hoping for and also what I have concerns about. The Packers will need to be prepared and inspired.      For the Packers to win they are going to have to do it the old fashioned way and execute in all 3 phases of the game. The old Lombardi dictum: Football is blocking and tackling and if you do it better than your opponent you will win.</blockquote>

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