11/4/2007 Game Day
Right at home on the roadThe Green Bay Packers enter Sunday's game against the Kansas City Chiefs at Arrowhead Stadium with an 8-3 road record under second-year coach Mike McCarthy, and a survey of a cross-section of people — young players, veteran players, assistant coaches, Chiefs coach Herman Edwards, McCarthy himself — last week led to an array of explanations. "It's hard to point out one thing in particular," quarterback Brett Favre admitted. So, is it their focus? Their experience? Their inexperience? Their travel schedule? None of the above, according to Packers' veteran cornerback Al Harris. "Man, we're pretty good," Harris said. "I don't mean that in a cocky way at all. But we're pretty good... These guys, nobody's intimidated (by playing on the road). It's real, real hard to win in Kansas City, but we're not intimidated at all." [More]
Defensive backs hold the line
Woodson, Harris play old-school coverage
Green Bay - There isn't a wide receiver in the National Football League who will tell you that he doesn't crave press coverage from a cornerback. The chance to go one-on-one, face-to-face at the line of scrimmage, my moves against your moves, my speed against yours, it's like stealing Halloween candy from your kids. Give me that kind of man-to-man any day of the week. Cornerback Al Harris laughs when he hears that kind of talk. "Everybody hates it," Harris said, one of the top practitioners of bump-and-run coverage in the NFL. "When we watch tape of a guy, we have to watch tape of the Raiders or the old Dolphins because it's hard to find a tape on guys (receivers) getting pressed. They're getting free releases all day. When we go into a game, after a few plays, or two or three series, some guys are like, 'Are you going to do this all day?' 'That's what we do, dog. This is our scheme.' " [More]
Published by PackerPundit On Sunday, November 04, 2007 at 6:17 AM.
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