What must happen against GB

[lightsout]

I know the main point of conversation has been JR, but there is a football game being played today and anything short of a win would be disappointing. What do we need?


Offensive explosion

This Packers defense is not very good, but they're not totally awful either. Aaron Rodgers may or may not have rust, so we have to assume he'll be closer to 100% than we'd like to hope. GB brings a middling run defense and a fairly porous secondary. They give up around 23 points per game. If we can hang 28-32 then that should do it even if Rodgers balls out. The passing game has to show up, because we're not going to be getting 200 yards on the ground. The real kicker? The GB defense let's their opposing offense convert on 3rd down 44.4% of the time. This bodes well as we've been pretty good on third.

Special teams needs to stay special

The field position game can swing this for either team. Again, with Rodgers being a question  mark in terms of his ability coming off such a long layoff we need to gain every advantage. If they're starting on our side of their 35 yard line too many times, we're going to find ourselves in a position where we're consistently struggling on long fields or we're in a shootout with the king of shootouts.

Rivera needs to get out of the way

Let Cam take this game over once you cross the GB 49. If it's 3rd and 3 or shorter, you take a shot and trust that Cam and the offense picks up the yards on 4th. This doesn't apply if we're up by 20+ at any point, but we definitely need to start getting the "screw you" confidence going on this last stretch. No dumb use of timeouts. Tell Shula to have plays in quick. The staff cannot have errors that result in penalties or putting the team in less than ideal positions.

Cam needs to reclaim BoA

Cam has not been great at home this season. If this is to change, it starts today. If not, we may be in trouble because Cam has been our main weapon all season. We go as Cam goes. If #1 is dominant from the first whistle to the last, we're in good shape no matter the opponent.


Let's do this. Keep Pounding!

[PandaPancake]

[Panther49er]

48 minutes ago, lightsout said:

This doesn't apply if we're up by 20+ at any point

Lol.. good luck with that happening. Every time this team gets up 10-14 points it goes into full puckered butthole mode

[trucpfan]

3 hours ago, PandaPancake said:

Funniest sht this am sometimes I think we really shouldn't drink hard liquor this early but hey.

[trucpfan]

2 hours ago, Panther49er said:

Lol.. good luck with that happening. Every time this team gets up 10-14 points it goes into full puckered butthole mode

Oh up 10-14 we go in to full shut down scrap the creative plays we got this win in the bag mode. Dumbest thing ever

[Saca312]

Good stuff.

To add on, our defense needs to play smart. No need for predictable consistent blitz’ on Aaron Rodgers because he’ll pick us apart if we do so. We got 5/6 sacks last week by rushing four, we can keep it up this week.

[brandon_87]

2 hours ago, Panther49er said:

Lol.. good luck with that happening. Every time this team gets up 10-14 points it goes into full puckered butthole mode

It's 11... Always 11 when we do that, it's like the magic number 

[JARROD]

How about just win. 

Probably need 2 turnovers, hold them to 2 field goals on 2 drives and a couple of stops for us at least and special teams to show up, would be great to see Clay redeem himself.

offensively if we stay loose and less predictable as we’ve seen possible instead of getting tight then we have a chance.

[nosuchthingasapanther]

the only thing that needs to happen is the panthers score more points...how that happens is irrelevant.

[cookinbrak]

5 hours ago, PandaPancake said:

I like this one

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