I was utterly shocked not to see a lot of Lewis blocking...especially given the play of the Oline . I was logged in to chat as Deepfriedcheese and mentioned as much. I’m still mildly disappointed to see a 3-4 defense. Although it was nice to see 3 DL on the LoS for inside pressure. I think the secondary is going to settle down and be really good. Brice played really well in particular. Alexander played well.

I was expecting more Mercedes and Jimmy G though. I was down until Rodgers came back and it was electric from that point on. The timing got quicker and neutralized Mack in the second half. My beef is with coaching...Why wasn’t there quick timing earlier??

Mr. Nagler should really watch the salty lingo.
Twitter is 99% useless 100% of the time.

I agree. You had to really feel for Bryan Bulaga. The guy is coming back from major knee surgery and in his first game he has to block one of best pass rushers in the NFL. Man he went thru hell tonight but at least we won the war. Can't believe it. What a comeback!!

Why MM - Oh why!

That was just a disaster waiting to happen.

Why does it feel like that was the greatest game in NFL history right now?

Yes Jamal Williams showed why he is the lead back, he was great in pass pro, especially in the second half. Picked up the rusher the TD pass to Allison, huge play

Jamaal Williams is solid in run blocking and a solid bruiser-- if you need 1 yard. BUT he has really really poor vision. He spends 50% of his carries running into the back of his own lineman. Cannot wait for Aaron Jones to rejoin. His vision is second to none in the NFL.

Cobb owes Ty two beers then, because his blocking by the end zone was fantastic on that play!

deleted. The dreaded double entry. :(

"Randall Cobb owes Geronimo a beer: if G-Mo hadn't cleared the safety with him on that crosser behind Cobb, #18 never gets anywhere near the endzone."

And Monty for hustling downfield all the way with him. Monty didn't get a real good block on either of the two defenders that had legit shots at tacking him short of the end zone. But he did enough to allow Cobb to dance his way past both.

Nope. No beers given for simply doing your job.

Cobb also had multiple clutch plays in this game, not just the amazing 75 yard TD where he broke 3 tackles to get it the endzone. The guy is crucial to this offense.

Someone needs to *poot* in his stead.

That first half OL looked an awful lot like the scrub lines we saw in the preseason, but it started to work things out in the second half. They'll see a better, faster defense next week.

Down by 17 in the 4th quarter and win! Someone will have to tell me when that last happened. Whew!

I hope that it become obvious I was right 2-3 years ago, when I said that preseason games should be used to gel offense if you want to start fast. Packers wasted 40 minutes of game on gelling the offense.

Do not forget that Jimmy Graham had 3 targets and 2 catches for just 8 yards. And he was mention to be our main weapon!

To lose one of your starters in preseason game looks terrible, but there is no much different if you lose your starter in the first half of the 1st season game...

I pray Aaron injury is not serious nor he will need to carry that injury through the season.

The Packers D gave up under 300 yards and 16 points. Its a start.

I wonder if GB’s 52 is jealous of Chi’s 52.

Clay is pretty much just an average player now. It's not the first time he's done the exact same late hit move. It's inexcusable. I think if they weren't so desperately thin at OLB, they would have cut him to save salary cap money. Also, the defense was hampered with Burks and Josh Jones out. They really had no ILB available beyond Martinez. That limited what Pettine could do. Great win, proud of Allison, Cobb, Arod, and the OL stepped it up in the 2nd half. Young DB's are a huge improvement. Lack of a dominant pass rusher remains a problem.

Should note that our inside linebacker corps was pretty depleted/new to the team. I will hold judgment on them. Largely 1ILB all the second half

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Mack is really, really good. But a couple of those plays, including the TD, we made awfully easy for him.

Agree. Clay Matthews should be tarred and feathered. He never came close to getting to the qb so on the final 4th down he decides to reach out and touch Trubisky just because. That's a rookie move. He should know better. He owes a case of beer to Nick Perry for saving his ass.

I was a little afraid coming into the game that it would be tough to gameplan against a team with a new coach that didn't show much in the preseason, and for 30 minutes it looked like the D just didn't know what to expect. They caught on pretty well though before too long.

As far as the O goes, it's a rite of passage that happens every season where we start out with plays that take too long to develop and there's lots of sacks and no running game. Then at some point MM/AR wake up and start calling quicker-hitting plays. Some seasons it takes several games to get to that point. Thankfully it just took one half this time.

Well most of the plays Matthews was on the field it was as if they where rushing 3, except with less coverage.

A performance like that by a backup QB is the sort of thing that makes you search for whos out there available.

"BUT...One of the REAL bright spots was going over to the Windy City Morons site and reading the 2nd half thread. .....PRICELESS..'

Impressive NP! That's hard core. Btw , how did you manage the time to be there? it was hard enough for me to watch the game and be here on CH TV. What a roller coaster that was. Great great victory.

And Aaron Rodgers plays to win the game!

Preach

Been saying that for close to a decade. What is his record without Rodgers ? Probably worse than Dan Devine.

But, don't forget McCarthy had a part in nurturing, and the idea to proceed with Rodgers to begin with (Favre trade), so some credit has to come his way. I did feel that game-plan wise, McCarthy was out-coached in the first half. But whether it was Rodger's injury or the score, we finally saw a team and staff having a sense of urgency in the 2nd half.

He was awfully good on one leg in 2014.

If anything, it forces him to get rid of the football and not dance around.

It took more than 2 ones to get Mack but we will never know what the Packers offered. But I don't think telling Rodgers we are going to hold off on your contract extension until next year because we are going to sign Mack was going to work out so well. Actually Mack's cap hit on Chicago is 14 mil so the Packers never had that to spare anyway.

I wonder if he was yanked because of the late hit.

Rodgers was playing poorly before he got hurt. After he came back he started throwing the ball on time. Maybe he would have adjusted if he didn't get hurt, but if he hadn't changed they would have lost.

Mack made a great play on that TD, though. Sniffed out the screen, backed off his block, reacted well enough to pick off the pass. Most DL never get close to that.

Where was Jimmy Graham

^^this^^

"How can you pile on after that? "

Have some Packers fans throw the dirt in the grave?

Glad somebody pointed this out. Thanks, Joe!

"Kirk" Cousins

Ha Ha had that one big stop. But otherwise he did seem lost out there. Brice was present some at least.

Box score says HHCD made 7 tackles tonight...I only can think of 2.

Also says the Packers got 4 sacks. Stats inflated by scrambling QBs...

Great game. Agreed on all points.

And CM3 is bad at the game of football now. He should be an ILB and Gilbert should be starting.

Oppy, Well, I'm still here. I'm Happy to say I agree with everything you say here. I hope you'll agree with me, when I say, "I'm glad you & a few others are finally picking up on Clay Mathews. I've been saying it for the last 3 years, & getting Smack!!" for it. Someone said he made a tackle last night. I didn't see it. The only one I saw was 5 seconds late on the QB. He is, & has been a Horrendous Waste of money, as Bad as A.J. Hawk.

No question, it was a Great Game, with an unbelievable finish. Other than Mathews, I only have one other minor complaint. While one of your favorites, Tyrone Williams must have played a Good Game, maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think he made 1 tackle all night. I'm surprised Chicago didn't throw more in his direction. At times it looked as though he was all alone on his side of the field. Never the Less, he had a good game.

It was a Great 1st game, but in my opinion, GB lacks Badly in 2 areas:

#1 GB needs an established Back-up QB. I don't know if anyone is out there, but if someone is, GB should pull the plug RIGHT NOW!!, & make some kind of deal to get him. Enough of this, Trying to bring a New QB along. This guy won't be any better 5 years from now.

#2 Just my opinion, but I would say the same thing about the Wide Receivers. As Good as Cobb & the others played last night (At Times), Rodgers needs a Game Changer. AR is throwing to maybe an above Average Receiving Core. GB needs to get Someone Special.

In conclusion: I think it's going to be a Stretch to keep AR healthy all year. He's hurt right now, & right or wrong he's a target. Basically, he's all we have on offense right now. Go out & get him some Quality Help, & get someone who is capable of backing him up. I don't care how many draft picks it costs us!!
LVT

I won't pretend the words "welp, there goes the entire season" didn't roll off my tongue, but as a Packers fan, I stick in there and watch the game, figuring I can watch the development of the run game, and look for signs of life from the defense. Correct or not, I know in my heart that Kizer is an endless trail of Packers Fans' tears and that Boyle is a project not anywhere near ready to play.

None the less, I watch, because I am a Packers fan. And while I wasn't optimistic, I was rewarded with an amazing story unfolding before my eyes none the less.