NO:
veteran QB rotation Brees, Jamie Martin, Todd Bouman
preseason week 1 273 +1 @TEN
CLE:
starters out: C (season), RT (4-6 weeks), CB (4-6 weeks)
CIN notes:
Projected starter @QB Anthony Wright (Preseason Game 1, 2, 3, 4 and regualar season).
QB Palmer is perhaps @50% after week 1
GB notes:
RB Noah Herron looked much more comfortable w/zone blocking scheme and performed better than RB Gado during intrasquad scrimmage on NFL Network.
FG Kickers sucked, missing ? ? ? ? ? so many tries in a row even alternating kickers.
QB Favre is still the same, very good, will take chances
QB Rodgers looks much more comfortable than last year
QB Wrobel(Winona St) not bad(not a threat to Rodgers), needs more seasoning
Rookie WR Jennings looks ready to start
LB Hawk has great speed and range covering both the right side of the field and impressively coming over to the left again and again during the scrimmage.
I liked LB Hodge as the bookend he's fairly stout and they are deeper and talented at the position this year.
Clayton's observations are much more thorough than mine.
Take this quote on D:
"The Packers have enough athletes on defense that they won't fall into the Cover 2 trend that's taking over the NFC North. Cornerbacks will be playing mainly man-to-man. Linebackers will be aggressive. Defensive linemen will fire up the field. The Packers are carrying over the aggressive Jim Bates defense from a year ago.
"We're using about 95 percent of last season," Barnett said. "It's the defense that allowed Jason Taylor to get all of those sacks [in Miami]. There will be a lot of third-down blitzing."
The addition of Woodson solidifies the Packers' pass coverage for the first time since the team traded Mike McKenzie to the Saints during the 2004 season. Woodson teams up with Al Harris, moving the oft-penalized Ahmad Carroll into the No. 3 cornerback role. " nice....
and this one on O:
"Longtime Packers like McCarthy's fresh approach to the offense. In some ways he's giving Favre a little more freedom than Holmgren and Mike Sherman did. Though the system is still the West Coast offense and McCarthy teaches it in its purest form, McCarthy isn't as rigid with the progression system. He's allowing for more playmaking.
"Now, we are going deep," wide receiver Donald Driver said. "We're airing it out past 20 yards instead of just the short, underneath routes. He's trying to jump on people from the beginning. It's not more one, two, three progressions. Whoever wins against the defensive backs gets the ball."
One of the staples of the Packers' West Coast offense has always been the decoys. In most routes, one receiver would go deep to clear out an area for the intended receiver. With McCarthy, all the receivers are in play."
Keep in mind w/Favre at the wheel this will happen, hopefully Rodgers will rise to the challenge should he be called upon.
I noticed DE KGB speed and the LT was beat, w/Favre he'll see it coming ( he is a lefty right?) but I need to check the other QB's I believe they are righty's and thus the LT position would need to play better.
275 GB +4 travels to SD for 1st preseason game. I like GB's QB rotation. I need to check on who plays after QB Rivers. Note: GB won last year 10-7 1st game preseason w/a team not as good/deep and SD has pretty much the same team w/all starters penciled in and RB Tomilinson does not play.
"Tomlinson almost always sits out exhibition games, so odds are fans won't see him when the Chargers host Green Bay next Saturday and Seattle on Aug. 26." see "Sore Neck? LT practices"
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