After watching the Vikings dominate the division in the 70s I hope the Packers win on Sunday and continue dominating the North. That said, if they have players who are hurt, let them rest.

Washington is 6-2 at home this season.

Kirk Cousins is completing 75% of his passes with a 16TD:2INT ratio at home this season.

But we're judging them by their current 8-7 record? Not sure what makes them any less scary than Seattle who just lost at home to the Rams.

Win, gain confidence and momentum, get a home playoff game, and play Seattle/Minnesota. Everything breaks the Packers way they host a NFC Champ game.

Resting players because the matchup looks better on paper (even though stats show it doesn't) is laughable.

"I’m not advocating that the Packers should concede...."

followed by a "but..."

Absolutely logical.... My comments today reflect this concept and I have been receiving heat for even thinking of it....glad to see it. But the Packer Organization has on many occasion played games they would benefit from losing but sportsmanship ruled the decision. For Example: the Troy Aikman award for the first place draft pick...if the Packers lose to the St. Louis Cardinals it was theirs....but no....they played to win....turned out they dropped in the draft..passed on Barry Sanders and chose Mandrich...go figure.

Some of you are making an assumption the Packers have a chance to beat the Vikings who put up 38 points or more in the past two games and are running on all the cylinders one would want to be running on going into the playoffs versus at team, that for the lucky early 6 wins has shown to be a less than average team at best that last half the season.

I'm way tired of hearing about all the O line injuries. Had these guys been in shape, had they been bigger and stronger like the average size O lines our there this may not be a problem. Mike likes em small.

I think this is a very reasonable option. It's a good strategy and you're so right: They need to heal if they have any chance to have success in January.

I don't know what the hell is wrong with you people... Fire Thompson, Fire McCarthy, Trade Rodgers... grow up and deal with a season that hasn't exceeded your expectations. You are like the little brats at the store who's parents won't buy them candy so they throw little tantrums.

Enjoy your 10 win seasons that are so satisfying for you. "Stay the course" until another hall of fame QB retires with one ring and enjoy your satisfaction with the one ring. Sorry some of us are not going to do that. The NFL is a consistently fluid league and if your approach from top to bottom is not as fluid and you rest on your laurels you will sink as we are witnessing now. McCarthy has not changed a thing in his game planning. They still call a game as if they had Jordy healthy and Jennings and Driver in their prime. How can you not adjust to quick passing west coast schemes to protect your QB from the rush. McCarthy couldn't scheme his way out of a paper bag. For years talent and winning one on one battles had been successful, now without that talent he is showing an inability to adjust at all. Guys run 20 yards down field and turn around, that's not going to work Mike as the last 3 months of film have shown!! Yet McCArthy expects different results each week. And you're insanely OK with it! Look at the next opponent for an example of proper adjustments. Vikings line is playing very poorly in pass pro and Peterson is being keyed on by defenses; Turner goes to short quick hitting west coast routes and completely adjusts his schemes with a new approach base on his offensive deficiencies. What happens??? Teddy starts having career days with dink and dunk shit because thats what the current personnel allows them to do. What does McCarthy do in the face of the same problems??? "STAY THE COURSE," of course. Same plan each week, same results. The QB, the coach and the O-line are all doing something different and are at each other's throats and don't trust one another at all. Say what you want for those of us that expect better but the fact is you are already like a Detroit, MN, and Chicago fan without the need for annual staff/coaching/ office turnover. You just feel blessed to get 10 wins and into the playoffs. Sorry some of us refuse to be happy and satisfied with a 10 win season after being so close to a championship last year and we try to elaborate on what could make it better and vent a little when frustrated with the lack of answers or ideas from the head guy. If that makes me a brat then so be it. Id rather expect greatness and be a brat in your eyes then be satisfied with 2 hall of fame QBs combining for 2 rings in 30 years. It's the NFL and if you are not getting better you are getting worse. And its the Green Bay Packers, and Packer backers are NOT satisfied with what is being put on the field every week as of late. F the Vikes!

Exactly

Thanks Duke. Well said

Didnt read,post was to long

Duke, No one is ever happy about losing. No one. Where you get this totally asinine idea that anyone is ok with what happened at the NFCCG last year is mystifying. Where you get any idea that people are satisfied and don't want anything to change is offensive and incredibly stupid. No one is satisfied, Ever. When the Packers win a Super Bowl in 2010 what I want next year is of course another Super Bowl win. Everyone does.

But the idea you espouse to me are the surest way to take a team that can win 11 games and win the division again and turn it into a team that can win 4 games ad be a blight to watch every Sunday. So yes to answer your question I would rather have a team that competes every year than to have one that goes totally south leaving us to wonder when and if it will ever come back again.

Duke --- Good to see that there are still fans that understand the bottom line. -- This team is AR, has been for years. --- Both TT & MM are JAGs as GM & HC. -- They've been riding AR's coattails for years. --- The window is closing fast.

Ha!

Hey Spud... chill.... fan is short for fanatic...that is what a Packer fan is, passionate, loyal, emotional, and most of all...they love and know football.

Any reaction or comment on this site is just as equal in their opinion as the next guy...like the opinion or not... you belittlement isn't worthy of you.

I guess you haven't been watching the games this year, Spud. But stay with the name-calling if that helps you make your trite point.

Finally... Someone has a brain! Spud is soooo correct!!!

No one is content.
No one is ever content.

When you're a winning team change is adding Lacy and Clinton-Dix and Tretter and Bakhtiari and Linsley and R Rodgers and Hyde and Randall and Adams and Rollins the past few seasons Those are changes and if they don't work you change again. And yes I would rather watch a 10 win team with a chance in the playoffs than to watch a 2 win team and hope someday they get better. I really think you'd rather watch the 2 win team and fiddle while the franchise burns.

Not News flash, the Packers really aren't that good this year. Sad, for sure. Perhaps we need a down year to get that hunger back.

You can't do anything about injuries, they just happen. Yesterday we hit one extremely talented and hungry football team. Got took out behind the wood shed and got schooled.

Hats off to the desert birds. Sympathy to the home boys. The next two weeks will probably be the toughest they will see in a very long time. These are the times character shows through, whether you have it or don't. We are about to see one way or the other.

So what is proposed is that the Packers have a better shot at beating the Skins at Washington than beating Minny or Seattle at Lambeau. In addition, if Minny beats Seattle, then the Packers then have to win in Minny. Interesting proposal, very interesting proposal.

I don't really care who they play in the first round. My main concern is having a fighting chance with, hopefully, a first string offensive line and a qb who hasn't spent most of the game on his back. That's why they should treat this like an exhibition game.

No.

They aren't winning the Super Bowl so I want the NFC North. Simply because it makes the Vikings angry and crabby we win it every year. So I want it just for that. Even if we lose the following week. OH WELL. I'll cling to whatever I can.

They suck!

Neither the Packers nor the Vikings are getting past the divisional round this year, so I'd rather win the division for a 5th straight year and reload at WR, TE and ILB for next year.

Plus, beating the purple trolls twice in a row to end their season would be pretty sweet.

So essentially the Packers walk into a euthanasia drug store and are given a choice of which poison and speed of its workings for their death they may wish to have the deed done.

Yup

Redskins? Racial Slur?

How about this. Local HS here calls themselves the "Indians'". Now that these folks are supposed to be called Native Americans is that a slur also?

Just checking the PC (political cowardice) meter.

"“But we should try to win another division title!” Nobody cares about division titles. Nobody." Sure. I do. Maybe I don't matter, but regardless, I care about those.

Plus, Washington is 6-2 at home. They are not that bad. I taped and watched the Seahawks against Rams, they don't scare me. And, should the Packers finish as 3rd seed in the NFC, then there is another chance for the home playoff in the NFCCG, should they get there. If they lose to the Vikings, I don't think there will be any chance for that to happen.

I would prefer them to play the players who are able and do their best to win. Throwing a game is never the route to go. The Redskins will notice that and come motivated to play in their own house. Backing into the playoffs and losing to a Redskins team you wanted to play is far more embarrassing than trying your best and letting the chips fall where they may.

Good call! Let them fall and go try and beat the queens!

When I go to work, I don't go to do as little as possible just to get by. For these guys, it's about one thing and one thing only, Lombardi trophys. In order to get one, you have to beat the best of the rest. If you want to prove your the best, you have to be the best each time you play.

If you can come in with a better team (meaning healthier), then rest your beaten up guys. This doesn't mean you concede a thing vs. MN though. You still play to win otherwise close down shop and let someone else field a team cause your not worth the price of admission.

Yea, yesterday sucked, but our guys need to deal with it and move on. There are a ton of things to fix and they aren't all getting fixed this year. So what, you go with what you got, give it your best shot and take what comes. There is no disgrace in not being the better team. It takes class to admit when you've been beaten straight up. No shame in it. It shows character. Folding up to get an 'easier' opponent down the road is gutless.

Sitting injured players can be a prudent move, as long as those who take their place take it upon their shoulders to kick MN's tail on Sunday. Anything less and I don't care what happens in the playoffs, the team will be a loser of massive proportions.

I'm sure the Packer leadership are taking their advice from the cheeseheadtv commenters. McCarthy is giving the 1st string walking wounded a week off. But then again they've basically taken the last 9 games off, give or take a few miraculous moments.

Adam, I lived in Washington ,D.C. for 10 years --so, I feel like I can intelligently speak about this issue. The tribe that brought the lawsuit was about 1300 strong, small tribe. The politically correct organization went from the largest tribe of over 300,000, to the tribes over 200,000, to tribes over 100,000, 50,000, 10,000 who had no prbblem with Redskin. The group went through over 100 tribes until they finally found a council in a small tribe of 1300 who agreed to support the lawsuit You can always find someone who has a problem with something..It doesn't mean that they are right. This is all by memory from an investigative report from a local Virginia newspaper.
You wanna be politically correct Adam, the packers could be a gay slur..So, what do you think about being PC.

Favre's gonna play on Sunday night so he can retire as a Viking. That Thanksgiving game really pissed him off!

Unfortunately, I'm not sure it matter what team we see in the playoffs. If they play press-man, our offense will continue to display complete incompetence (assuming MM continues the same gameplan).

1) I seriously doubt that any team ever benefitted by adopting a mindset of "we're better off losing."

2) I most certainly do care about division championships. More than that, I would positively revel in the warm glow of beating the Vikings not once, not twice, but three times in the same season.

Even Adam thinks this is silly. As they say on MNF C'MON MAN! Beat the Viqueens and try to get some momentum.

I'm really enjoying the comments on this one. I need to get back here and post more. Trumps is outstanding.

I'm not normally in the "fire them!" group. But times change. There is no reason our backup o linemen should be on an NFL roster. That's on TT and MM both. MLBs not wearing #52 all stink. Our TE position group is far below average. Honestly Hundley should be the backup QB given preseason play. And the WRs--Even McGinn said we are slow at that group. And I'm being nice. We have unaddressed deficiencies in multiple position groups.

There is no reason aside from stubbornness that we couldn't have signed some mid to low cost FAs to help out. Scott Chandler would have been a great, low cost TE.

Thompson turns 63 next month. He's going to retire in the next five years. Rodgers probably only has 4 or 5 high quality seasons left. Might be time to force TT into retirement to have a better shot at one last run for 12.

And I'm not even going to get into McCarthy right now.