The young Favre was capable of placing gutsy throws into tight windows, mixing in other passes that had coach Mike Holmgren apoplectic and questioning the judgment of his quarterback. They will just have to do it differently than they’ve been trying to and failing, since 2010.
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The Packers are 4-2 on the road this season and are riding a two game win streak that featured wins over the Detroit Lions and Dallas Cowboys. “I’m not into style points or stats”. I’m sick and exhausted of talking about the negativities. Green Bay (10-4) clinched a spot in the postseason in the first quarter of its game, when the Giants lost to the Panthers. “We knew it was going to be bumpy”, McCarthy said. “That’s kind of the expectation here, is to get into the postseason”.
Heading to the playoffs for the seventh straight season, the Packers will face the Arizona Cardinals and Minnesota Vikings the next two weeks, which will determine where they are seeded heading into the post season. “I’m more thinking about my second touchdown that they took away from me than the one that counted. We’re still focused on what we have ahead of us”.
Carr marched the Raiders 79 yards in four plays for a touchdown, hitting Cooper with a 19-yard scoring pass in the back right corner of the end zone, cutting Green Bay’s lead to 14-13 with 20 seconds remaining in the half. For the 13th consecutive season, the Raiders will finish without a winning record or a playoff berth. “I know the sacrifice during the week and even during the offseason”. “That’s always my goal, that will never change”.
Reunions: Not only will James Jones be playing the team that cut him last year for the first time since, but safety Charles Woodson will also be seeing the Packers for the first time since they voided the last two years of his contract in 2012. What should help the Raider defense to contain him, aside from another 5 sack performance from K. Mack is that Rodgers, and the Green Bay offense will be without their #1 deep threat Jordy Nelson. Oakland got the ball back with 2:36 to play on a David Amerson interception, but the Raiders still couldn’t kick their offense into gear. “It doesn’t work around here I guess”.
Wide receiver James Jones was blunt about the first half also.
Cooper caught six passes for 120 on Sunday to give the rookie from Alabama 1,040 receiving yards this season. Jones said he wasn’t out for revenge. “It’s a insane game”.
However, I believe that Oakland will spend Sunday making the effort to once again prove that they have solved their run defense deficiencies; In the Raiders last three contests they’ve been able to hold teams to under 100 yards rushing.
Randall Cobb, Bryan Bulaga and Micah Hyde were likely the three most talked about Packers in Saturday’s third preseason game. Cooper became the first rookie in Raiders history with 1,000 receiving yards in a season. Green Bay fell behind 20-17 midway through the third quarter on Carr’s second touchdown pass to Cooper.
“I guess it’s a good thing to do, but people go for 1,000 yards every year”, Cooper said.
But the Packers offense still would struggle and they would end up letting the Raiders get back into the game as the Raiders would rely on one of their oldest players, Sebastian Janikowski, as they had back to back drives sputter out in the red zone as he made the field goals from 23 and then 30 yards out.
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They now rank 24th in the National Football League, behind teams like Miami, Tampa Bay and yes, the Chicago Bears. Moreover, I have no doubt in my mind that Packers running back Eddie Lacey is going to look to continue his resurgence, and make life as miserable as possible for our Raiders, by taking as much pressure off of the shoulders of A. Rodgers as he possibly can.
