Let me say first that this was a fun game to watch and what made it better was the win. Not sure if the Packers would have pulled it off if Carr would have played the whole game. I am saying no they would not.

The defense played very good even though we lost players. Berry did a good job with the play calling and the players executed.

MLF is showing that he is willing to take chances. Yes some worked and some did not. He called a game that showed he is willing to let it all hang out. Championship teams go all in. The young team responded. They looked like they were having fun.

I am having a hard time figuring out this team. It will be interesting to see what happens when we get players back from injury.

Win or lose they are fun to watch.

I was at the game. The energy was the best I have seen at lambeau. The old folks who usually are asking everyone to sit down were on their feet. Pretty cool to see. Jordan Love is a young QB but there are no training wheels on this kid. He is 1st in the NFL on average depth per target. I like it. Now he needs his weapons back. Frustrating at times with a young team but the talent is clearly there. Enagbare, Doubs, Brooks, Wicks, Tom, Walker and Valentine are all day 3 picks in the last 2 years and appear to be steals. That isn't the norm folks...

Thanks JA!! When I saw the title of your article, I was thinking that it was a song. :) And then I remembered this oldie but goodie that pretty much summed up the result of last week…ah the good ole days!!…

https://youtu.be/87eq53LkVrU?si=ibIf61rYt61kGeKR

Yes, lots of things to clean up with technique and knowing where to be and when. But the troops seem energized and motivated to work even harder based on winning their first 2 out of 3 games. And knowing that even being shut out in the 4th quarter may still lead to a win!! We’ve got some tough games coming up so we’ll see how this all shakes out!!

Intetesting takes, Al!

I was expecting that after every TD would be some kind of "love" song released in Lambeau Field and when that was missing I was dissapointed. But after I had second thoughts, maybe it is better not to, because that is how you are starting personal cult. I know that Jordan is pretty balanced person, bit, by time that may produce similar nehaviour as we had witnes with FPQB. And, consequently, somewhat diminish contribution of other players in the team. After all, fooball is team sport. Ans as every team sport need all players to play in coordination, not just stars. We saw the outcome of that disrespect in divisional roundnearly 2022. And we all knew how that finished.

Jordan Love will be top 5 starting QB in a year or maximum 2 years.

False starts are bad habits that snowball. The home team getting them is inexcusable. If as Al says they should get away with ones where his 3-things don't happen, the O-lines will start to find ways to take advantage in a game that leans too far to the O already.

I guess that is what is making this team so much fun this year...they're not 'expected' to be Super Bowl champs. In past years it was constant disappointment. This year the idea is 'lets see what we can do!' and that is refreshing. As the game was going Sunday I told my wife, "this team is going to be awesome in a couple of years".

I Love all the Love Talk. You should have been a preacher.
Still I find it hard to disagree with anything you write.
But I still think a flip here, or there, is more truthful.
Really, we can’t compare Love to Favre or Rodgers.
But I can compare him to Doug Flutie NOW.
You know the guy that was a Bear,
CFL, Bill, and SD player.
(The heroics, Hype, and the beginning of a new era.)
Seems- every fan felt the same in those cities too.
And at some point, maybe he’ll win an award or two.

Good points on Quicks, Uptempo, And Switch.
All good credits for Love for sure.
But Olave tells you the difference per greatness,
and scheme. The waiting is the downer.

LOL on Newman. Everyone here wanted him cut.
Incredible how things turn -out. But for how LONG.

First, Al, can anybody fix whatever is destroying a reply to this site on any subject?

I just tried responding a simple paragraph to Bure, and, POOF! GONE!!! Frustration in exponents. (Have experienced this hundreds of times over the past year or so).

Secondly, great stuff.

Agree with everything JA wrote here except the false start. It was pretty evident even live, and the fact that the defense pointed it out, the flag had to come out.

Did anyone else see after the play...can't remember if it was Reed or Wicks that went into the Saints bench area and got a Gatorade bath...Aaron Jones over on the sideline toweling him off. Man, what a teammate and leader. I love Aaron Jones!

Hopefully, most of the injured heal up for Thursday. GPG

It’s interesting to me that one win makes so many happy about all things. There are a lot of positives to take away from that game. Most of those go to the mental strength of Love and the seemingly radically more cohesive team identity evidenced.

However, we were playing a team that has been offensively challenged in terms of both retaining time of possession and the red zone, is missing arguably its best player on O and can’t run even as well as we have been able to in his absence. In addition, its OL hasn’t held up well and its QB wasn’t mobile. This was the archetype of an opponent out D matches up well with. They have also been vulnerable to the run, but we saliently continue to fail to be able to capitalize on that.

This game was exciting for the turn around, for the apparent potential of Love as a leader and when he is given more freedom there’s now clearly more room for him to lift a team in future. It does not however in any way suggest that we’ve faced up to or resolved the ongoing structural problems on O & D (and STs had a bad day too). In fact, New Orleans despite injuries probably illustrated how less temerity in the secondary can produce more not less with less, as Al noted in his Three Plays post yesterday.

This roster is exciting. These coaches less convincing. We didn’t learn much or grow much off field. We weren’t well prepared seemingly. This was a day when the players showed that their make up is great and their collective attitude can turn corners in game. Now it’s time for the coaches to show that they can do the same between them.

Well written article. IMO, the OLine really needs coaching & development on run blocking. Terrible. Need coaching emphasis, now as season moves on & games become more critical. GPG!!!

Thankful for Love hanging in there when nothing was working. And, I wish that I could roll it up to "Love Will Find A Way" but I just can't turn a blind eye to all the bad football this team is playing. Been watching tape on our O-line and it is not good. The interior of the line is as weak as I have ever seen it. Counting on your QB to throw 44 times to squeak out a victory is reminiscent of Rodgers hero ball offense which we all complained about for a decade. Enjoy it for the short week but shit is about to get real. Sorry for the tether.

Nice, Al, and I am in full agreement with the silliness of that false start flag. The NFL Competition Committee should replace it with the offender receiving "two for flinching" in the huddle before the next play.

https://clip.cafe/stand-by-me-1986/two-flinching/t/1/

DBak will never be the same.

The picky false-start penalties seem to be league wide; and it’s ridiculous.
The D-Line is beginning to stand and point at the O-Line on every series—followed by the Ref robotically and obligingly reaching for his flag.
The most infuriating is the Hoculi crew. They’ve decided to become the focal point. There over-officiating is nauseating.
Go Packers!!!

I didn't see any false start.

It's like the refs are being bullied. Maybe give players trying to do that a yellow card or something? Lol

Whitney Says:
Whitney is very mature.

Love -
The message he sent to the team was believe in me. Trust me, trust us. That performance was bigger then just 1 game win. He has the trust in the team now.

26 and Under -
This is a pretty good team. They are just young and inexperienced. They should be 3-0, could be 1-2. There will be a lot of ups and downs this year. But they are building something here.

Wicks Got Quicks-
WIcks is becoming a key player in the offense. I really like what I have seen in Wicks. He has probably been the most reliable pass catcher. I don't know if he has a drop yet.

Delayed Uptempo -
I absolutely loved the uptempo on 3rd downs. It didn't allow the defense to substitute and allowed them to find the mismatches. I wouldn't be surprised to see more of this.

Returner Switch -
I was thinking they maybe made the switch because the offense needed the boost? That they needed Reed to go on offense. I was wondering about why they did it though.

Cheers to Ballantine -
Ballantine was much better then I anticipated. When he had to play I was questioning how we were going to be able to stop the Saints. But Ballantine stepped up and played well.

#MoreMusgrave -
Musgrave needs to be have more targets. He had 8, they could target him 10 times a game. He will get the big plays and the key 3rd down plays. Musgrave is quickly developing a rapport with Love. Musgrave has so much potential with his speed alone. But he is becoming the reliable player they need. Musgrave has a very bright future!

Pet Peeve Dep't. -
The part I don't get is how is it when a player like this flinches and its penalized. But an OL in a 2 point stance set down in, can stand up turn and look at the QB, and reset themselves. If a player is set, shouldn't they have to remain set?

I am delighted that this Packer vs Lions game is attracting so much attention. I am happy for we Packer fans and almost equally excited for the Lion's fans...they have waited a long, long time to be relevant.

I loved listening to Jim Irwin and Max McGee on the radio (tv volume down).

Which brings me to this beautiful nugget involving Sterling Sharpe. "He's open, wide open"!

* Now if they could simply run the geese flying south formation on kickoffs...hmmmmm

Too bad the pack is already in deep do do and the game thursday didnt even start. Gimpy wide receiver and running back, no oline to speak of and a rookie Qb playing behind it. All these dam injuries, and ya other teams have injuries too, but not like this. Something to be said about the conditioning program or lack of. Good luck with this. Going forward it doesn't look good for the pack. Bahk is done put a fork in him. He is taking up room now and money and serves no purpose. Medical discharge time.

Like my teenage years, and still to this day, quite fond of Tesla's "What You Give" and pertinent "Love Song" (Love Will Find A Way)...hopefully a recurring theme. Perhaps Lambeau sound producer(s) can adopt it as mainstay airplay during games going forward.

At a soccer tournament for most of the game, tuned in the van radio for the last 8 minutes to a pleasant surprise. Seems as though Wayne & Rock have been rejuvenated by the unpredictable nature of this youth movement landscape.

Pet Peeve avoided: Mine is bogus roughing the passer calls. So when Gary sacked Carr and forced him to leave the game, I was thankful the officials didn't invent a personal foul for "slinging the QB to the ground" or something stupid like that.

Well, I finally got to see a game at Lambeau Field for the first time in over 4 years and it was spectacular. I live in California so it was a fairly long flight and stayed in Appleton at the same hotel as the Saints stayed. My wife and I rode up the elevator with two of the Saints linemen and we chatted a bit and they were very friendly. I'm just under 6'2" and 200lbs and I felt dwarfed by those guys. I wished them luck, but not enough to win. This was perhaps the most exciting game I've ever attended and the crowd went crazy at the end. I don't recall the noise level every being so loud. I had hoped to make it over to Milwaukee to say "hi" in person to Green and Gold, but I couldn't squeeze it in...perhaps in the future.

I had the same thought on the false start. Then I started thinking back to Landry's OL doing their thing, and when I watched Eagles (?) or some team the guard was looking back and doing all sorts of junk to move like looking back, then telling center to snap by hitting him.

Then on another call, the WR had a slight flinch where he only bent his trailing leg slightly which was even dumber to call.

Football game, 3 hours long and 45 minutes of actual playing.