Packers 31, Cardinals 14

Sweet! The Packers have won two in a row, keep improving every week and are on their way to .500. It's a whole new season if they can hit .500. Yesterday's game was fun to watch. We witnessed Brett Favre's first ever Lambeau Leap, as can be seen in this picture. He ran in for his first rushing TD since 2001. He didn't quite have the ups that the wide-receivers have, but who says white men can't jump :P It was so cool to see him having fun. I love this quote from Donald Driver on the whole thing: "When he did it, everybody was jumping up, hugging and clapping, and he gets to me and I look at him, and I said, 'Don't even try to give me a high-five. Go do a Lambeau Leap,'" Driver said. "He turns around, smiles, and I didn't think he was going to do it, and he went up there and jumped. I was just going nuts because I knew that was his first one." And Favre's quote on it: "I hope it's the last one." I love it!

Positives:

1. The Offensive Line: They were great this week, and they are definitely improving each week. They opened enough holes for two different running backs, Ahman Green and Vernand Morency, to each get 100+ yards. That hasn't happened since 1985!
2. The Packers being able to score 31 points in spite of not having Greg Jennings in the game.
3. Aaron Kampman: He had 2 sacks, bringing his total on the year to 8 1/2. That's two better than last year and he still has 9 games to play.
4. Ahman Green: He rushed for two TD's in the game, broke Paul Hornung's record for TD's of 50. He has quite a ways to go to catch Jim Taylor though with 81.

Negatives:

1. The botched fake-field goal on their first possession. Kind of a goofy play call, but I suppose, if there is ever a good time to try some trickery, it is when there is no score and it's early in the game.

Wow, that list of negatives is getting pretty short. Let's hope it stays this way.

Next week: Packers (3-4) at Bills (2-5)

Packers 34, Dolphins 24

Whoo Hoo!! Another good game by the Pack and this one even resulted in a win. Not only was this the first win ever by the Packers in Miami, but it brings them to 2-4. With two somewhat easy teams in the next weeks in Arizona and Buffalo, it's feasible we could be looking at .500 soon. I think that's pretty big.

Negatives:

1. Daryn Colledge (or should I say, the fact that Chad Clifton had to sit out with the flu): He was no match in the beginning of the game for Miami defensive-end Jason Taylor. Favre got sacked twice from his side with two fumbles. But, in the Packers defense, they saw the mismatch here and made adjustments accordingly.
2. The pass defense. Joey Harrington threw for 414 yards. Granted, they only held him to 2 TDs, but dang. And if it weren't for many dropped balls by the Dolphins, that TD stat surely would have been different and the game might have had a different outcome.

Positives:

1. Being able to win in Miami for the first time ever.
2. Ahman Green's 70-yard TD. It was so nice to see the new offensive line scheme finally work and just as good to see him with that burst of speed that so many of us questioned if he even had after his injury.
3. Donald Driver's TD catch. It looked good, but the ref called in incomplete. DD immediately got up and told Coach McCarthy to challenge it. He knew he had the ball the whole time. The best part about it was watching Favre carry Donald after the ref overturned the play. It was hilarious! That's why I love this guy!
4. 4. The defense was fantastic in picking off Joey Harrington. Especially Charles Woodson's TD return. Awesome...and this play really turned the momentum in favor of the Packers.
5. 5. Dave Rayner: He made every field goal that he had to, including two on drives where the defense intercepted. The interceptions mean nothing if you don't get any points from them. I felt bad for Dave Rayner at the end of the first half, though. What a mess...he kicked one from 55 yards out and made it. Well, there was a penalty on the Dolphins so they moved the ball 15 yards and he tried again from 40. Made that one. However, there was a penalty on the Packers on that kick, so it moved back to the 55. Only for the refs to decide that since there was an offensive penalty, there was time to take off of the clock, so the half ended. Poor Dave Rayner - he just wanted points for one of those and got nothing...it was pretty silly.

Next week: Packers (2-4) vs. Arizona (1-6)

Packers 20, Rams 23

Dang. This one hurt. The Packers were SO close to a come from behind win...I'm pretty down about this one. I think I've been pretty realistic about the Packers chances this year, but I thought they had this one.

Negatives:

1. More missed interception opportunities. Al Harris, Charles Woodson and A.J. Hawk all missed balls that should have been caught.
2. Dave Rayner missed a field goal.
3. Favre fumbling the ball on the biggest play of the game. Ouch. That leads to:
4. The O-line crumbling on the biggest play of the game and allowing Favre to get sacked.
5. The offense not getting TDs. Field goals are nice, but had even one of those field goals been a TD, the game would have certainly had a different ending.

Positives:

1. Noah Herron: he stepped up when Morency fumbled and ran for 106 yards.
2. The O-Line: you can tell that the new zone-blocking scheme is finally starting to work for these guys. They seem to get better each week, and proof of that is the run game.
3. Greg Jennings: Wow, this guy is going to be something special. He caught a beautiful TD from Favre. You can tell that he is quickly becoming one of Favre's favorite targets.
4. The Packers really seem to be improving each week. A lot of you think that the only sign that they are improving is to get a W. That might be partially true, but when this team is as young as they are and every week them seem to be getting better - I think that's promising.
5. Next week is the Bye week. Time for the team to regroup and rest up a little bit. Let's hope they come out of the Bye ready to go for Miami on October 22nd.

Next week: Packers (1-4) Bye Week

Packers 9, Eagles 31

Well, it was a rough one. That's all there really is to say.

Negatives:

1. 2 words: Ahmad Carroll. Apparently, the Packers agree, because they released him yesterday.
2. The Packers were a completely different team in the second half. What happened?
3. Donald Driver's dropped pass...yeah, you know what one I'm talking about. I think that was really when the momentum changed...
4. Where was Charles Woodson? Why was Carroll in there in the first place?
5. Heard in Mike McCarthy's press conference that there were two plays in which the Packers only had 10 men on the field in defense - one of which resulted a TD. What's that about? Isn't that what the preseason is for - to figure out personnel packages?

Postives:

1. Dave Rayner's field goals: it's good to know that he can kick the long ones.
2. RB Vernand Morency: who's this guy you ask? Well, it's who the Packers traded for Samkon Gado. But he had a pretty good game for his first start. Besides his fumble, that is.
3. Favre started his 225th consecutive game; 245 if you count playoffs. That's a pretty incredible streak for a quarterback and one that I don't think will ever be beaten. He got hit pretty hard at the end of the game...but I'm sure he'll be there for number 226.
4. Pulling Favre out and putting in Rodgers. It was obvious that the game was over at that point. No sense in keeping Favre in there any longer. Rodgers didn't do too much, but he did have a decent drive - too bad they didn't score.
5. That's all I got...I told you it was rough.

Next week: Packers (1-3) vs. Rams (3-1)