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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sky King" data-source="post: 592634" data-attributes="member: 7171">Excellent question.  This Packer defense is a much better version than what you saw in the opener but it is still a few pieces short of being elite.  The DBs are all keepers, though their interception totals are strangely low IMHO, and they are not outstanding tacklers.  Obviously, Matthews and Peppers are keepers and their backups, Perry and Neal are serviceable+, and on sparse occasions have actually been play makers.  Barrington is an up-and-comer big-hitter as an ILB but he has not had a true breakout game let alone a string of them.  He's getting close.  Perhaps, his string begins on Sunday.  Hawk and Brad Jones are on the darker side of career twilight.  The DL has been comprised of mostly role players and over-achievers.  Daniels is under-sized but he has a non-stop motor and plays with violence.  Datone Jones shows flashes and Guion is steady enough.  The rest of the DL are just guys.  Collectively, they are a pretty good group barring injury at the wrong position, wrong time.  Capers will need to call an almost perfect game and the players will have to execute to near perfection.  The D can hold their own against the 'hawks but I doubt they can be dominant for an entire 60 minutes unless the 'hawks O is misfiring for some strange reason(s).That said, the biggest obstacles to the D playing well enough to win, especially the front line, may be two-fold: First, they are not consistently good tacklers.  Second, they do not possess the overall team speed needed to pursue Wilson or most other RBs and to contain them on the edge.  Datone Jones may and there's no quit in Daniels and Guion, so those two make up for non-elite speed with their perseverence.  After that, there is little hope of seeing flashes, let alone dominant play, by any of the rotational players. Any good RB is a match-up problem for a middling tackling team, especially a power runner like Lynch. The Packers are no exception.  But I'm more concerned with Wilson than Lynch.  He's exactly the type of QB that gives this team fits.  He runs too well and he's also a very good passer in spite of his height.  His size is a liability but he never seems to absorb a full hit.  The smack-talkers will try to dismiss his ability as a QB but I won't.  He's a gamer with talent and that qualifies him to be an elite QB in my estimation. For me, anyway, Wilson should be the key to a 'hawks victory.Because of Wilson's ability to extend plays and Rodgers limitations in doing so currently, the game may come down to which QB has the decidedly better day.  Doesn't it always?  Except in this case Rodgers injury is much like spotting the 'hawks a few more points than usual.  Rodger's ability to overcome his limitations and then some should be the key to a Packers victory.The odds makers will favor the 'hawks, and rightly so.  But the game still has to be played on the field and that's where anything can happen.</blockquote>

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