Gameday 11/18/2007
Didn't see 8-1 coming?Neither did Favre
Didn't quite see the Green Bay Packers' 8-1 start coming? Don't worry. The guy wearing No. 4 is as surprised as you are. "There's not a time, at least once during the course of a day, where I don't go, 'I can't believe we're 8-1,' " Brett Favre said. Of course, Favre also couldn't believe it when the Packers went 4-12 two years ago. And it's beginning to look like one of those head-scratching lost seasons for the Packers' opponent at Lambeau Field on Sunday, the Carolina Panthers. The Panthers (4-5) were considered playoff contenders coming into the season, but lost starting quarterback Jake Delhomme for the year and now have scored a total of two offensive touchdowns in their last three games, all losses. [More]
Leadership in tune
McCarthy, GM Thompson work well together
General manager Ted Thompson and head coach Mike McCarthy couldn't have less in common if they were from different planets, yet they have forged an alliance that has the Packers moving forward faster than Wolf and Holmgren did in the early '90s. When he sought a replacement for fired coach Mike Sherman, Thompson looked for someone with whom he could have strong chemistry, and it appears he has found him in McCarthy. "I believe this now even more than when I started that you're not hiring the coach or the Xs and Os or the system, you're hiring the person, especially in a place like Green Bay where the general manager and the head coach have to have that sort of relationship," Thompson said. "It doesn't mean you have to be alike, you don't have to like the same music, but you have to have the same core beliefs, and I think Mike and I get along very well." [More]
Published by PackerPundit On Sunday, November 18, 2007 at 5:45 AM.
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