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Cheesehead TV Matchup: Wild Card Defense
Win One-on-Ones Outside When Cardinals Go Spread It’s no secret how the Cardinals plan to try and win this game. You know it. I know it. Every football fan in America knows it. The best bet the Cardinals have is to spread the field with 3, 4 and even 5 receivers and go to work [...]
Cheesehead TV Matchup: Wild Card Offense
Attack Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie And yes, I’d be saying this even if he was fully healthy. Rodgers-Cromartie has been spoken of as one of the best young up-and-coming corners in the game. While I think he has truckloads of athletic ability, I don’t share most NFL observers opinions on the second year corner. And I’m pretty [...]
Cheesehead TV Matchup: Week 14 Offense
Finley, Finley and More Finley Leading up to the season-opening matchup with the Bears, the buzz building around second year tight end Jermichael Finley had gotten completely out of control (perhaps with a slight assist from your faithful blogger). The Sunday night matchup ended up being a complete washout for Finley due to the Packers’ [...]
Cheesehead TV Matchup: Week 13 Defense
Move the Defensive Line – Don’t Use Static Rushes It’s common to hear about defensive line ‘twists’ and ‘stunts’ – but this is usually noted when analyzing how teams us their defensive line when defending the pass. But line stunts and twists are common against the run as well and I think the Packers will [...]
Cheesehead TV Matchup: Week 13 Offense
Short Passes Are As Good As Running I don’t expect the Packers to have much success against Nagata, Gregg, Pryce and Edwards when it comes to the running game. Oh they may hit an off-tackle stretch play here and there and the counter-pitch could produce some yards. But overall I don’t see Wells, Collegde and [...]
Cheeshead TV Matchup: Week 10 Defense
Finish It’s simple really. Last week we saw a very lazy squad who didn’t seemingly take their opponent seriously. Ask anyone on the team and they’ll deny it – but play after play you saw guys in position to do their job…and fall flat. For a team that has more than its share of problems [...]
Cheesehead TV Matchup: Week 10 Offense
Bring the TE’s Back Into the Backfield Back when Mike McCarthy first got the job as Head Coach of the Green Bay Packers, he was promptly handed a rookie 7th round pick and two of the worst street free agents imaginable to take over the starting guard positions for the recently departed Marco Rivera and [...]
Cheesehead TV Matchup On the Way
So yes between work, family and the firing heard around the Blogosphere, I am way behind. But fear not – the oldest has a sleepover and the wife is going out for drinks once we get the other two down for bed tonight. This means that yours truly will have time to focus, cut some video, and [...]
Cheesehead TV Matchup: Week 9 Defense
Seriously? Stop the run and cover Winslow. Have a great weekend everyone. See you here on GameDay. Tweet
Cheesehead TV Matchup: Week 9 Offense
Work The Smash Route Against Barber, Talib The Buccaneers defense is a study in having the wrong players stuck in a particular scheme. One year after losing Monte Kiffen, the Bucs now run every Packer fans’ favorite scheme, Jim Bates’ 4-3 featuring press coverage from the corners. Unfortunately for the Buccaneers, they have one of the, if [...]
Cheesehead TV Matchup: Week 8 Defense
Use Harris, Woodson and Williams In Press Coverage A couple of days ago, I looked at what Dom Capers needs to do to get pressure on Favre. What I didn’t touch on, but is something I think is probably as important, if not more so, is Capers’ use of his defensive secondary. Yes, Atari Bigby being [...]
Cheesehead TV Matchup: Week 8 Offense
Get Grant Going The temptation for Mike McCarthy going into Sunday’s game against the Vikings will be to throw the ball around the yard. His offense had major success working downfield last game against Minnesota’s suspect safeties and the temptation will be even greater this week if Antonie Winfield does not suit up. However, McCarthy [...]
Cheesehead TV Matchup: Week 7 Offense
Keep It Simple, Stupid (Especially In Pass Protection) Look, no one is under any illusions about this weekends game against the Browns. Or at least they shouldn’t be. If The Packers lose, everyone should be fired. OK, maybe not, but you can bet the doom merchants that populate the comment sections of the Journal Sentinel [...]
Cheesehead TV Matchup: Week Six Defense
Don’t Overplay The Blitz I know much of Packers Fandom (this blog included, not to mention Charles Woodson) has wondered just what in the heck happened to the aggressive, multiple blitz scheme we saw in Week One against the Bears that seemed to disappear over the course of the next three weeks. And I know [...]
Cheesehead TV Matchup: Week Six Offense
Win The One-On-One Battles Nothing more needs to said about what the offense needs to do heading into this game against the Lions that hasn’t been beaten to death over the course of the last two weeks. We know the offensive line, whatever configuration happens to appear at the start of the game, needs to [...]
Cheesehead TV Matchup: Week Four Defense
Get Favre Off His Spot Containing (you’ll never stop him) Adrian Peterson is obviously priority number one on Monday night. In a way, the Packers are lucky to be coming off the game against St. Louis and Steven Jackson. While the Rams’ offensive line is nowhere near as good in the run game as their [...]
Cheesehead TV Matchup: Week Four Offense
Make Off-Tackle Work Against Allen I know I’ve spent the last two weeks telling anyone who would listen (which consists of a Jets fan here at work and my 1 year old) that McCarthy needs to start passing on first down to set up the run throughout the game. Coach certainly did not take my advice last [...]
Cheesehead TV Matchup: Week Three Defense
Stop. Steven. Jackson. Simple, right? Everyone knows the St. Louis offense is going to flow through Jackson. As he goes, so go the Rams. The Rams’ only real offensive threat, Jackson tore through a Packers defense manned by many of these same players the last time the Packers traveled down to St. Louis. Marc Bulger [...]
Cheesehead TV Matchup: Week Three Offense
Protect the Quarterback By Spreading the Field Mike McCarthy has caught a lot of heat, both in the last two weeks and over the course of his tenure in general, for running what some in the local media have dubbed a ‘spread offense’. Aficionados would scoff at this notion, but the truth is McCarthy was [...]
Cheesehead TV Matchup: Week Two Defense
I feel almost sub-standard to requirements this week knowing that the great Mike Tanier took it upon himself to breakdown a few of Capers’ blitzes in his weekly Walkthrough column over at Football Outsiders. Having just praised him, let me now tell him, if you’re reading Mike, that your fancy-shmanzy game capsule over at the [...]
Cheesehead TV Matchup: Week Two Offense
Pass Protection Really a no-brainer, isn’t it? Everyone in the NFL saw the Packers and the horrible job their offense did protecting the quarterback on Sunday night. Much has been laid at the door (revolving, apparently) of Alan Barbre, but as McCarthy indicated earlier in the week – Alan Barbre was not the only one [...]
Cheesehead TV Matchup: Week 1 Defense
DEFENSE Jenkins, Jolly, & Raji vs Omiyale & Garza Much of the attention leading up to Sunday nights game has focused on the linebackers and the secondary and how they will fare versus Jay Cutler, Matt Forte and the Bears two tight end sets. What has not got a lot of attention, apart from the [...]
