9/6/2007
Starting Strong, Especially At Home, A Must
By Mike Spofford / Packers.com
Posted 09/05/2007
No one needs to remind the veterans in the Packers' locker room how they've struggled to get off on the right foot in recent years. They began 1-4 last year, 0-4 in 2005, 1-4 in 2004, and 1-2 in 2003. You have to go back five years to find the last time the Packers were above .500 through September, a trend that will be no easier to reverse this year with games against 2006 playoff teams in four of the season's first five weeks. "We know these games count toward our playoff run, and we want to come out and start fast," guard Daryn Colledge said. "We've got a tough beginning schedule, and we know that. We want to go out and try to prove ourselves right away." The Packers have plenty to prove against the Eagles in Sunday's opener. Philadelphia is a team that has beaten Green Bay five straight times over the past four seasons, and has reached the playoffs six times in the past seven years. Head Coach Mike McCarthy feels he's put his team in position, physically at least, to start strong. He changed the training camp schedule this year to give the players the first three Wednesdays off, lengthening many practices to two hours, 45 minutes (or more), but giving the players' legs a break in the middle of the week. "There's a lot of energy in the building," McCarthy said. "A confident bunch." More >>
Favre, Offense Prepare For Eagles' Blitz Packages
By Mike Spofford / Packers.com
Posted 09/05/2007
When quarterback Brett Favre studies the Philadelphia Eagles defense, he sees more than just the array of blitzes and disguises veteran defensive coordinator Jim Johnson puts into his scheme. He also sees a group of experienced players that has the chemistry, smarts and bravado to do what they want, when they want to, no matter the conventional wisdom, and he expects nothing less from the Eagles in the 2007 season opener on Sunday at Lambeau Field. "If (Johnson) wants to corner blitz with a certain look, I don't think he questions whether or not his guys will get it," said Favre, who has been studying bits and pieces of film on Philadelphia throughout training camp. "They just play. If they're going to corner blitz, they're going to corner blitz, and they don't care. Maybe you hit one on them occasionally, but they're going to keep rolling the dice." More >>
Favre asked to manage his miscues
By Jason Wilde / madison.com
"I've been classified or named a lot of things. Game manager? I don't know, I think they're asking me to win games without losing them. Which I would say the same thing if I was (a coach). I know what they're saying. I know what they're expecting of me." -- Brett Favre
GREEN BAY -- As he was about to hang up the phone Wednesday morning following his customary conference call with the Wisconsin media, Philadelphia Eagles coach Andy Reid was told Green Bay Packers institution Lee Remmel, the former public-relations director who 's now the team's official historian, was in the room. Reid, who worked as Mike Holmgren's tight ends and quarterbacks coach from 1992 through '98 and had gotten to know Remmel 's mastery of the King 's English during his time in Green Bay, had just one request. "Lee," Reid said, chuckling and recalling one of Remmel's more memorable descriptive phrases for Holmgren, "give me one Monolithic Swede.'" Yes, Remmel has always had a way with words, such as the many ways he's described Packers 'legendary quarterback Brett Favre over the years. Swashbuckling Mississippian. Freewheeling field general. Gunslinging southerner.
The one phrase Remmel never used to describe Favre?
Monotonous game manager.
And yet, when the Packers open the regular season Sunday against the Eagles at Lambeau Field, there 's nothing more coach Mike McCarthy, offensive coordinator Joe Philbin and quarterbacks coach Tom Clements would love to call their quarterback. More >>
By Mike Spofford / Packers.com
Posted 09/05/2007
No one needs to remind the veterans in the Packers' locker room how they've struggled to get off on the right foot in recent years. They began 1-4 last year, 0-4 in 2005, 1-4 in 2004, and 1-2 in 2003. You have to go back five years to find the last time the Packers were above .500 through September, a trend that will be no easier to reverse this year with games against 2006 playoff teams in four of the season's first five weeks. "We know these games count toward our playoff run, and we want to come out and start fast," guard Daryn Colledge said. "We've got a tough beginning schedule, and we know that. We want to go out and try to prove ourselves right away." The Packers have plenty to prove against the Eagles in Sunday's opener. Philadelphia is a team that has beaten Green Bay five straight times over the past four seasons, and has reached the playoffs six times in the past seven years. Head Coach Mike McCarthy feels he's put his team in position, physically at least, to start strong. He changed the training camp schedule this year to give the players the first three Wednesdays off, lengthening many practices to two hours, 45 minutes (or more), but giving the players' legs a break in the middle of the week. "There's a lot of energy in the building," McCarthy said. "A confident bunch." More >>
Favre, Offense Prepare For Eagles' Blitz Packages
By Mike Spofford / Packers.com
Posted 09/05/2007
When quarterback Brett Favre studies the Philadelphia Eagles defense, he sees more than just the array of blitzes and disguises veteran defensive coordinator Jim Johnson puts into his scheme. He also sees a group of experienced players that has the chemistry, smarts and bravado to do what they want, when they want to, no matter the conventional wisdom, and he expects nothing less from the Eagles in the 2007 season opener on Sunday at Lambeau Field. "If (Johnson) wants to corner blitz with a certain look, I don't think he questions whether or not his guys will get it," said Favre, who has been studying bits and pieces of film on Philadelphia throughout training camp. "They just play. If they're going to corner blitz, they're going to corner blitz, and they don't care. Maybe you hit one on them occasionally, but they're going to keep rolling the dice." More >>
Favre asked to manage his miscues
By Jason Wilde / madison.com
"I've been classified or named a lot of things. Game manager? I don't know, I think they're asking me to win games without losing them. Which I would say the same thing if I was (a coach). I know what they're saying. I know what they're expecting of me." -- Brett Favre GREEN BAY -- As he was about to hang up the phone Wednesday morning following his customary conference call with the Wisconsin media, Philadelphia Eagles coach Andy Reid was told Green Bay Packers institution Lee Remmel, the former public-relations director who 's now the team's official historian, was in the room. Reid, who worked as Mike Holmgren's tight ends and quarterbacks coach from 1992 through '98 and had gotten to know Remmel 's mastery of the King 's English during his time in Green Bay, had just one request. "Lee," Reid said, chuckling and recalling one of Remmel's more memorable descriptive phrases for Holmgren, "give me one Monolithic Swede.'" Yes, Remmel has always had a way with words, such as the many ways he's described Packers 'legendary quarterback Brett Favre over the years. Swashbuckling Mississippian. Freewheeling field general. Gunslinging southerner.The one phrase Remmel never used to describe Favre?
Monotonous game manager.
And yet, when the Packers open the regular season Sunday against the Eagles at Lambeau Field, there 's nothing more coach Mike McCarthy, offensive coordinator Joe Philbin and quarterbacks coach Tom Clements would love to call their quarterback. More >>
Published by PackerPundit On Thursday, September 06, 2007 at 5:18 AM.
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