If we told you the Green Bay Packers defense would force three turnovers against the Detroit Lions, you probably would have taken that in a second and assumed you’d be pretty happy right now.
Well, you would have assumed wrong. That’s probably because you forgot that the Green Bay Packers offense is a flaming bag of dog shit. And that flaming bag of dog shit was stomped out by the Detroit Lions on Sunday, by a final margin of 19-7.
Yeah, look at that. The Packers managed a whole one touchdown.
High-powered offense my ass.
The Packers defense played admirably, giving up only 10 points and forcing those three turnovers — two interceptions and a strip sack and recovery by Julius Peppers.
This came against a Lions team that supposedly has a high-powered offense of their own. The Packers kept that in check, limiting all-world receiver Calvin Johnson to a pedestrian — for him — six catches for 82 yards and no scores.
The Packers did give up 115 yards rushing, but they allowed only three yards per carry. Certainly good enough to get it done and get one in the win column.
Nope.
The offense insisted on starting out just like they did last week. Although instead of turning the ball over on their first play, they waited for the second, when Eddie Lacy fumbled. The fumble was returned by defensive back Don Carey for the game’s first score.
Lacy would be at least partially responsible for giving more points to the Lions in the second quarter when he followed a Davon House interception by getting tackled in the end zone for a safety.
That play…
First of all, nice play call Buffoon. Second of all, you fucking suck T.J. Lang.
Lang decided to double team Richard Rodgers’ guy to the right instead of taking on linebacker DeAndre Levy. Levy, who was right in front of Lang, went virtually untouched to the ball for an easy two points.
But really, this day was all about Aaron Rodgers.
Have we mentioned that he’s been playing like shit this year? Yes we have and his 345 yards in week 2 were just an aberration. Almost two-thirds of those yards came from one guy’s career day.
The first three games of 2014 have been a series of poor decisions and poorer throws for Rodgers. Week 3 was more of the same.
When he isn’t dancing around taking sacks, Rodgers is throwing the ball too low or behind one of his receivers.
The accuracy he’s known for? Gone.
The prowess outside of the pocket? No longer exists.
The making plays with your legs? Not this year!
This guy is an average fucking quarterback right now. He should go have a drink and a laugh with Joe Flacco sometime.
Rodgers was 16-of-27 for 162 yards and a touchdown on the day. The Packers offense never had any sort of rhythm. Mostly, what’s both disturbing and disgusting, is when your defense hands you three turnovers, you go out and put some fucking points on the board.
Well, other teams. Not this team and this quarterback.
Also disturbing is the fact that the Lions not only have a weak secondary, but one that was missing three cornerbacks and a safety on Sunday. And the Packers just couldn’t take advantage.
It certainly doesn’t help that they have no running game to speak of. The Packers had 76 yards rushing and averaged a decent 3.5 yards per carry.
You might say the Packers should have run the ball more and you might be right. Of course, it probably wouldn’t have mattered because they would have had to throw eventually. And obviously that wasn’t going to get them anywhere.
If there’s a silver lining in a game that dropped the Packers to 1-2 on Sunday, it’s that the defense is rounding into to shape. Now, if the offense didn’t look like one where Forrest Gregg was calling the plays and Randy Wright was playing quarterback, the Packers might be in good shape.