Me too, I can't help but feel like we are going to lose.I guess 22 years worth of letdowns can't be completely erased with just one regular season. I am bracing myself.
Fuck the romance. Win dammit.This season has been a total surprise for me, but it's useless if they don't win the SB.
Love the story, but it's time for a winner.
He was almost as good going into the 2014 playoffs. Buffalo that year, Bears this year.The key difference in 2014 was that Rodgers was slightly injured and wasn't playing as well as he is now, but with that said he was 24/35 for 316 yards, 3 TD's and no INT's, so you can't really do much better than that. Other than that you have to say that there is more working in our favor, both in terms of their offensive personnel and our defensive personnel.
They had Jordy Nelson who had a career year in 2014, Eddie Lacy actually gave them a credible running threat (over 1,100 regular season yards and over 100 in the playoff game on 19 carries), and they had Josh Sitton who also was at the top of his game at that point. Other than Sitton they have the exact same OL, although I guess you could say that Bakhtiari and Lang have improved since then. You could also argue that Adams is better now, and perhaps Jared Cook is more of a threat at TE, although I think it's clear that the losses of Nelson/Lacy (as he was playing in 2014)/Sitton are more impactful than those improvements.
On the flip side, in that game our defense was heavily reliant on guys like Sterling Moore, Nick Hayden, Jeremy Mincey, George Selvie, Josh Brent and even Ken Bishop. Guys like Henry Melton and Terrell McClain were injured, forcing Bishop and Brent in to the lineup and they actually played a decent amount of snaps, even Jack Crawford was out too. I think it's clear that our current DL is an upgrade over Mincey/Selvie/Spencer/Hayden/Crawford/Bishop/Brent/rookie Lawrence. Then of course you have Lee who is a major addition, as well as Jones on the back end.
This Packers team hasn't really added any major pieces since 2014 like we have as far as Lee, Jones, Elliott, and perhaps Irving or Collins, they are more or less the exact same team on both sides of the ball and have only improved as far as players like Adams and Bakhitiari getting better internally.
I don't know about useless. What we have done this year should set this team up for success over the next 5+ years. So I don't know that this year is worthless if we don't beat the Packers. It's still a building block for our future. But any time you have home field advantage throughout the playoffs you want to take advantage. So I'd be massively disappointed if we aren't able to beat the Packers. I'm just not ready for football to end.This season has been a total surprise for me, but it's useless if they don't win the SB.
Love the story, but it's time for a winner.
With nothing to show for it.We need to beat the packers, otherwise this is just 2007 again. It's shocking how many teams in this conference have made it to the NFC championship multiple times since the last time we were there.
Eagles 5x
That is a more satisfying perspective.With nothing to show for it.
I don't want these guys to start out with a let-down.I don't know about useless. What we have done this year should set this team up for success over the next 5+ years. So I don't know that this year is worthless if we don't beat the Packers. It's still a building block for our future. But any time you have home field advantage throughout the playoffs you want to take advantage. So I'd be massively disappointed if we aren't able to beat the Packers. I'm just not ready for football to end.
you gotta know this is not the same.Mine is, too, but I am nervous as hell. I should be confident after watching what this team has done this year, but I have had my heart ripped out too many times to carry any decent level of confidence into the game.
I'd love that kind of a start. It would certainly show all of the signs of a dynasty.I don't want these guys to start out with a let-down.
Out of the gate Super Bowl wins...stack em up!
This is how I feel as well. They have the better QB but Dallas has the better overall team.And that one was in green bay.
I don't know that we were the better team that year. We were probably more or less even.
We are the better team this year though.
I think that's how they should be feeling actually.If the Cowboys defense can go toe to toe with the Packers for the first half and the offense can put something on the board then there is a fighting chance. If the defense caves in the first half it's Bye Bye Birdie.
I would blitz and stunt the shit out of Rodgers.I think that's how they should be feeling actually.
The Giants didn't really go after him. Seemed like they were satisfied using the mush-rush. Something like that works against scramble guys like Vick, but it's risky, IMO, to intentionally give elite QBs like Rogers that much time to find a receiver.I would blitz and stunt the shit out of Rodgers.
The Giants were playing soft, with some exotic rush looks with pretty straight forward zone coverage behind it.
I do.I'm cautiously optimistic about this one, mostly because of Dak and Zeke. I feel like they bring a certain level of confidence and swagger to this team that has been missing. I just don't feel the impending sense of doom that I always had before a big game in the Romo/Witten era.
Would you feel the same if Romo was starting?I do.