Game Thread NFL Playoffs: Greenbay Packers vs Dallas Cowboys

I wish Green Bay's GM did a better job of shoring up the defense. It's been their Achilles heel in most seasons of Rodgers' career -- their biggest barrier to post-season success. #firstworldproblems

 

Agree. Brett Favre, Reggie White, and Mike Holmgren brought the Packers back to respectability after so many years as an NFL doormat. Then we were able to continue winning another Superbowl with Aaron Rodgers.

 

Their secondary were hurt and injured this season. That will obviously be a need going into the draft along with running back and possibly a speed receiver.

 

Actually credit Bob Harlan for hiring Ron Wolf and giving him full control of football operations and cutting out the meddlesome executive committee.

 

Thank you for reminding me of the omission.

 

I have seen a better version of this.... I'll have to try to find it.

 

I don't understand this. Sure, Favre had some moments. But I loved watching him piss away meaningful games with late-game interceptions.

 

He was just a fun player to watch no matter what. Biggest gambler in NFL history.

 

He was infuriating at times, but never boring. His peak in the mid nineties bought him a lot of goodwill later on when he lost the guiding hand of Holmgren.

 

They were going for the win.

 

How would they have run the clock down after an incomplete pass on third down?

 

If the pass hadn't been batted they could have kicked the FG as time expired. Instead they had to kick with 35 seconds left on the clock.

 

Where you could question their clock management was the spike on first down. But, as nik said, at the time they were going for the winning touchdown, so they were preserving time. They're getting criticized for it, but I think it made sense--the Packers were really struggling to stop them. If they had picked up even one more first down, Green Bay having another chance with the ball in regulation would in any case have been a non-issue. As it turns out, though, Green Bay made the stop right there.

 

Most Packers fans I know have turned on Favre. I would have been suicidal had I been a big Pack fan. He cost them some serious games.

 

Sure, but that's a football version of first world problems. While I think he was a little overrated in his prime (I don't think he deserved three MVP awards--I think he deserved one), he was still a Hall of Fame caliber quarterback. He just wasn't a flawless one like the absolute inner circle ones. He cost them some games but won them many more (in his prime--once he was off his prime, he was closer to a liability).

 

I was tired of his constant waffling about retirement his last three years there. Other than that, I knew he'd rip the Vikings' heart out of their chest with some crucial turnover, so all was forgiven when he gave that conference championship away against the Saints in 2009.