Randy from Klamath Falls, OR<\/p>\n
So, now I’ve had the answer to one of my questions referenced in someone else’s question. That’s gotta be worth something, right? A month’s free subscription to the Inbox maybe?<\/p>\n
Or Jelly of the Month club. Take your pick.<\/p>\n
Ugh, what a moron. I apologize for missing the context of the running back question. I generally pride myself on my reading comprehension but missed the boat on that one. Well done, Mike.<\/p>\n
All good, man. You were far from a lone wolf there. I posted this not to excoriate you but to commend your mea culpa.<\/p>\n
Nathan from Williamstown, MA<\/p>\n
Sorry, Mike, I think my memory of the attempt to “fix” pass interference calls in 2019 was erased by the one of Clete Blakeman suddenly remembering that pass interference existed with two minutes left in the 2020 NFC title game.<\/p>\n
All this talk about win probability with turnovers, etc. I wonder how many games Favre should have lost and was able to overcome statistics.<\/p>\n
ATMR (WCBW), and for what it’s worth, in Favre’s 16 years as starting QB, the Packers finished the season with a negative turnover margin seven times. They still made the playoffs four of those seven years (1993, minus-1; ’95, minus-5; ’98, minus-11; 2004, minus-14). They also made the playoffs twice when breaking even (1997, 2003).<\/p>\n
Mike, I love the Eddie Lee Ivery reference! He gave me so much hope when he touched the ball as a very young Packers fan. Didn’t he share the backfield with Gerry Ellis? Anyways, there have been mentions of Tucker Kraft<\/a>, Micah Parsons<\/a> and Zach Tom<\/a> injuries, but I believe the loss of Devonte Wyatt<\/a> ranks right up there especially after trading Clark. How would you rank all four injuries?<\/p>\n Wyatt’s absence was especially glaring in the Derrick Henry game, and he would’ve made a difference in others, too, particularly against Chicago’s running attack in all three meetings. But on balance, I thought the Packers still matched up pretty well against the Bears without him, and the other injuries hurt worse. Based on how it played out, I’ll put it this way: In the wild-card game, I don’t think having Wyatt would’ve produced a win. But if the Packers have Kraft or Parsons or Tom in that game, I think they would’ve been off to Seattle. Or just make a kick or two, but I digress.<\/p>\n Matt from Forest Falls, CA<\/p>\n Mike said, “I think it’ll be difficult to top last year, when 11 of the NFC’s 16 teams won at least eight games, and a 12th team had seven wins and a tie.” Maybe, but the NFC has an extra home game this year which might affect the outcome.<\/p>\n I’m not seeing how that matters one way or the other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Randy from Klamath Falls, OR So, now I’ve had the answer to one of my questions referenced in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":766431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[11977,4718,15716,349,99],"class_list":["post-766430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-homepage-cp","tag-news-all-news","tag-news-insider-inbox","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=766430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/766431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}