And with the 28th pick in the 2012 NFL Draft the Green Bay Packers select NICK PERRY.
The Packers 2009 draft turned out big time with Clay Mathews. The Packers are going back to USC and grabbing Nick Perry. He’s a quick and powerful defensive end. Might play some outside linebacker. Mike McCarthy must be jazzed.
QB Matt Flynn has signed with the Seattle Seahawks for 3 years/$26 Million. $10 Mill of which is guaranteed. Though Flynn is somewhat unproven, he was highly sought after by a few clubs, including the Miami Dolphins, who now have missed on on him & Peyton.
Flynn will battle for the starting gig against vet Tavaris Jackson.
“I told you not to do the sparkles, and you told me to do it, it looks pretty. I don’t care about pretty! I wanted the Packers to win the Super Bowl MEGAN!!”
If it seems like we’re picking on Green Bay, we’re not. This just had to be posted and you know it. You’re welcome.
(Source: deadspin.com)
We’d like to think that a team called the “Packers” could do a little better than just throwing their stuff in black trash bags after cleaning out their lockers.
Lambeau Fail?
Whenever a team does well on the road in Green Bay, they’re given extra credit because of the location. The frozen tundra of Lambeau Field is legendary! Green Bay is cold, it’s snowy, and it’s full of rabidly cheering Cheeseheads. Opposing teams are lucky to come out of there alive, let alone victorious.
Or, they used to be. In the last decade, Lambeau Field has been far from unwelcoming. Here’s the results of the last ten years of playoff games in Green Bay:
The Packers also defeated the 49ers 25-15 in 2002, a game that falls just outside of our ten-year window. Even including that game, that leaves the Packers at only 3-4 in home playoff games, all against lower-seeded teams. Three of those losses were blowouts. Not to take anything away from Eli Manning’s performance today, but it’s no longer that impressive to play well as a visitor in Lambeau. I’d be much more worried about the “Field Turf tundra” of the Superdome than the antifreeze-heated sod of Lambeau.
Winners and Losers…Divisional Round Edition
Each week throughout the playoffs, we’ll be recapping winners and losers from the week’s action. Let’s get right into it:
Winners
Tim Tebow: Wait, we’re going to start this write-up by calling the quarterback who got embarrassed 45-10 on the road this weekend a winner? Yes. Yes, we are. Tim Tebow made sense out of everything that wasn’t supposed to make sense this year. He was a cultural phenomenon, helped revive the city of Denver and brought them back to the playoffs, and most of all: made it possible for us to all doubt whether we know anything about the sport we love to watch. I’ve always valued the unpredictability and ebbs and flows of sports. We all like to pretend to think we know more than we do. It’s why we make predictions, use statistics to form our analysis and all of that. But Tebow ran counter to all of that, and whether it means he is an overrated quarterback, an underrated runner, or just a player with a unique set of skills at his position: I think we can all look back and appreciate the breath of fresh air he represented for the game of football. That’s my main takeaway from his entire narrative, and that’s why he’s a winner.
Tom Brady: 6 touchdowns against the Broncos. 3 Super Bowl rings. Married to Gisele. Y’all must’ve forgot.
Alex Smith, the 49ers defense, Jim Harbaugh and the entire city of San Francisco: I love to talk about teams and players having relevant moments. The Houston Texans were the classic example. Until they beat the Bengals last week, their franchise were not relevant. Same for Alex Smith. The former number one pick wasn’t given much credit for the Niners’ success this season. You win in spite of Alex Smith, not because of him. If I told you the Saints would score over 30 points yesterday, you would’ve assumed a blowout for Dree Brees and company. But instead, the 49ers defense set the tone early on, and when the game evolved into a shootout in the fourth quarter, Alex Smith led two late-game drives and earned himself relevancy amongst NFL quarterbacks. I still can’t believe I just wrote that.
Eli Manning: Two post-season wins in Lambeau Field. Marinate on that for a minute, or a whole week.
Anyone who owns a Best Buy franchise in Green Bay: Read this, going to be lots of gift cards tomorrow.
Brett Favre: Free drinks on him tonight, where ever he is.
Arian Foster: Here to stay.
Ed Reed: Legend.
Bill Belichick’s hoodie: I hope the NFL institutes a dress code for coaches, just to see if Belichick would dare to cut the sleeves of his suit and wear it with a long sleeve shirt underneath just because.
Hakeem Nicks: Or as he prefers to be called, “New York”.
Losers
Zoltan Mesko:The New England Patriots punter’s job is pretty redundant enough because of Brady’s offensive efficiency. It won’t be good for job security this week when he looks at the punting stats against the Broncos. Mesko: 2 punts, 39 yards average. Brady: 1 punt, 48 yard average. Expect minimal conversation between these two at practice this week.
The referees in the Giants-Packers game: Did not overturn an obvious fumble by the Packers, and a strange roughing the passer on the Giants in the fourth quarter that kept the game alive. Luckily, the result makes all their mistakes moot. But a concern going forward.
Dome teams on the road: I’m not sure what the stats are, but after the Falcons loss to the Giants last week, and the record setting Saints offense falling at San Francisco, it’s not going to help quell the perception that dome teams are at a significant disadvantage when playing with outdoor elements in January. By the way, New Orleans has still never won a road playoff game.
Green Bay receivers: Out of sync all day.
Philadelphia Eagles and New York Jets: just because you were both supposed to be playing this week.
Jacoby Jones: That fumble on the punt return in the first quarter ended up being pretty important didn’t it.
The fans: Just three more football games left (I made the executive decision to not include the Pro Bowl as a legitimate football game) until the off-season.
Giant win for New York
Did the Giants win this? Or did Green Bay lose it?
(Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images)
As we head to the fourth quarter of Giants-Packers..
Peyton Manning: on a couch somewhere in an Eli Manning jersey and Wrangler jeans calling audibles at the TV.
Brett Favre: on a couch somewhere in an Eli Manning jersey and Wrangler jeans sending dong shots to everyone.
You can’t convince me this isn’t the case.
Giants are up 20-10 on Green Bay thanks to Hakeem “New York” Nicks* two touchdowns (including a hail mary grab before the half).
How does it end!?
*Nickname courtesy @steve_lebron
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