12/18/2007
Focus Is On Chicago / Notes
With the Packers and Dallas Cowboys now tied for the NFC's best record at 12-2, there will be plenty of talk about fighting for the No. 1 seed and home-field advantage throughout the playoffs. But Head Coach Mike McCarthy isn't going to preach about that to keep his team jazzed up to play. He's going to focus on something a little more emotional. "I'm going to make a big deal out of beating the Chicago Bears, and everything else comes off of that," McCarthy said. "I think it's important to stay focused on the immediate target, because (if you don't) that's how you set yourself up for not playing your best football. We will be focused on the Chicago Bears." That shouldn't be hard. The Bears handed the Packers their first loss of the season in a game Green Bay felt it should have won. Five turnovers (to just one for Chicago) negated a 439-285 advantage in total yards in a 27-20 defeat. [More]
Packers fans grateful that
Daisy Duke is no help to Romo
There was no sighting of Bo and Luke Duke. Must have been racin' the General Lee. But you couldn't miss Boss Hogg (Andy Reid) on the Philadelphia sidelines, or Rosco P. Coltrane (Wade Phillips) on the Dallas sidelines. And because Fox Sports is really into star-gazing, you couldn't miss Daisy Mae Duke, either. She was cheering on young Mr. Tony Romo from a luxury seat in Texas Stadium; a view that will run $150,000 (for the seat license) when the Cowboys open their new venue. Even though Daisy -- Jessica Simpson, never to be confused for Catherine Bach, the original Daisy -- could afford the tab, she was on Romo's guest list, and Packers fans can be grateful for small favors. The last time Romo had one of his celebrity girlies (Carrie Underwood) in attendance, it was also a disaster for the Cowboys, a 23-7 loser to these same Eagles on Christmas Day last year. Romo was terrible, too, completing just 14-of-29 passes for 142 yards. He was also intercepted twice, prompting a number of people to question whether Underwood's presence might have been a distraction. Those questions will likely be raised again after Sunday's debacle, a 10-6 loss to Philly during which Romo bruised a thumb, and maybe an ego, after connecting on just 13-of-36 passes for a sub-par 214 yards. Adding insult to that injury, Romo threw three interceptions. [More] No time to rest
Mike McCarthy wasn't playing Nostradamus or The Amazing Kreskin. The Green Bay Packers coach was simply doing what he thought was in the long-term best interest of his team. So when McCarthy decided before cornerback Charles Woodson and pass-rushing defensive end Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila had even stepped off the bus at Texas Stadium that the two injured starters wouldn't play against the Dallas Cowboys on Nov. 29, it wasn't because McCarthy was sure that the game wasn't the end-all, winner-take-all showdown for the NFC's No. 1 playoff seed it was hyped. "I'm not going to stand here and tell you I knew the Dallas Cowboys were going to lose (another) football game," McCarthy said Monday, one day after the Packers' 33-14 win at St. Louis and the Cowboys' 10-6 loss at home to Philadelphia left the teams tied for the conference's best record at 12-2. [More]
Will Packers bowl over voters?
If you were a cynic, Nick Barnett's performance Sunday against the St. Louis Rams - arguably his best of the season - could be interpreted as a post-Pro Bowl voting message to those who conspired to leave him off the NFC team. Of course, Barnett has not yet been left off the team and could find himself with a free trip to Honolulu in February. But it's not hard to imagine the alternative in which his stellar season goes unrecognized and two better-known players are selected. When the Pro Bowl team is announced today, Barnett knows many factors weigh into the outcome and he's prepared for whatever happens. [More]
Published by PackerPundit On Tuesday, December 18, 2007 at 5:25 AM.
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