Rivers looked at his receiver all the way yet no Packer DB jumped a route and intercepted let alone bat away a pass , whenever woodhead came in he got the ball yet no Packer DB played him tight . Awful performance by the D regardless of giving up 20points .

Well said Nagler. That bit you said about "elite QBs" is what concerns me too. The pass D has by and large looked GREAT this year. That said, Rivers was the first REAL test of a top quality QB they've faced - and they failed all day long until the last play. And even then, GB was bailed out by SD inexplicably running twice in the final 4 plays when they'd passed the ball all over the lot.

Hope this is something that can be fixed quickly. Peyton doesn't scare me. But there are several QBs left on the schedule (and more than that assuming playoffs) that would have LIT GB UP today.

Rivers was on fire. I was surprised at how good his pass protection was. He just looked to me like he was playing fearlessly, aggressively, all out, with nothing to lose. That approach often seems to lead to the crucial interception, but not today. Give the guy some credit.

It looked so easy at first. The Pack was ahead 17 - 3 and had just recovered a fumble deep. Another score there and the game may have toppled big time for the Pack.

And then the game totally turned on its head. What followed for a little over a quarter of game time was as big a domination as I have ever seen on a football field. One team moved at will up and down the field. And the other team went backwards and never got a first down.

I guess you have to give credit to the Packers for getting it back together and scoring some points to keep the defense finally off the field. The defense was out schemed and executed today but they made a few red zone stops that won the game.

This one was hard to watch at times but 6 - 0 and some time off for all the injured. Go Pack!

Lol, that pic couldn't be more inaccurate.

There's nothing wrong with this defense, but I just can't understand why Rivers was so damn comfortable all game w/3-starting O-Linemen out. It doesn't make sense. Does Raji make THAT much of a difference? If so, PLEEEEASE let him be completely healed for Week 8.

So glad that this team gets to rest next weekend, but what am I supposed to do?

Broncos looked pedestrian and beatable today. Looking forward to that one.

I generally agree, especially about Raji. Dine got no push up the middle today.

I don't feel qualified to judge DB play, especially not knowing what everyone's assignments were, but it really seemed to me like Hyde was constantly in the area when passes were being completed.

I think our oline can - and will - play better than this.

Uh oh. No, "I love this team". Is Nagler questioning his affections?

6 games and they badly need a bye week. Ugh, there are up to 14 more games left his season.

The Bye week couldn't have come at a better time for this team. Clearly Cobb, Jones and Lacy are hurting, Adams still hasn't made it back from his ankle injury and now Montgomery is hurt. Hopefully Montgomery's injury won't keep him out long. The offense seemed to really sputter after he left the game.

It was great to see Janis step up and make a couple of big plays when they needed it the most. Hopefully this will be a confidence boost for him.

ZACK- please leave out the "it was over when" on your quick takes. Been awhile since a game has been decided early enough to make that relevant. The "dagger" was the last play. Loving the bye- much needed.

This team hasn't hit their stride and they're 6-0. SD is a better than their record, man they've had some tough loses. Cobb 2 catches and a horrible drop. The o-line was bad again, the long Starks run was all Starks by reversing field. If Lacy is hurting, why isn't Harris getting any reps?

Well I if I ever criticize the Packers play calling again refer me to the Colts call tonight in the fourth. The center snaps to a substitute QB with all their teammates lined up way over to the right. He of course gets smothered for a loss and the Patriots decline the obvious penalty to take over on downs. Weirdest stupidest play I've ever seen.

The Pack won. Can't believe it since the offense sputtered most of the game and the D leaked yards all game long. There is something wrong with this offense that goes further than just WR injuries. Don't know if it's the play calling or execution, but something isn't clicking.

Rivers put a clinic on getting the Bolts into a second and short the majority of the game. A lot of short crossing stuff which GB couldn't stop. Almost no attempt to run in the second half, but that didn't matter, they kept driving with the short passing game.

Don't know what to make of this game, but GB was fortunate to win. Would have been interesting to see if SD would have gone for two at the end.

Rodgers QB rating was 107.7, Rivers 99.7. Capers game plan, win the qb rating, WTF it worked.

It's awesome Randall got that great breakup to seal the deal today, but he had one of his shakiest performances today as a CB overall, IMO.

It is convenient to say that missing Raji was the reason our pass rush up the middle was lacking, but if you look at the Rams game, we had consistent pressure on Foles up the gut (and off the edges, for that matter) from all various fronts when blitzing with or without Raji, and continued to get consistent pressure up the middle after he went out with injury. The Chargers handled most of our cross dogs with ease today, but Dom just kept sending them.
All that said, I'll agree we clearly had zero 3 or 4 man presssures, either, so I guess Raji was missed in that respect. Any way you slice it, our entire D at all levels got worked by the Chargers offense. I feel lucky we snuck out of there with a W today... but I'll take it.

Any news on Montgomery's injury? He looked BAD getting walked off the field. Zero weight could be put on that thing.

The defense had to have been exhausted. Time of possession was 38:00 for the Chargers vs. 22:00 for the Packers. The Chargers ran 89 Plays on offense to the Packers 49. That is a huge difference and tiredness had to have played a factor. It's especially demoralizing when a team goes 9 for 18 converting 3rd downs. That's also a lot of time Aaron Rodgers was not on the field.

Im thrilled the Packers are 6-0, but this team has room for improvement. Also, opponents now have some good film from the rams and chargers games about how to beat the Packers.

I look forward to this article and What You Might Have Missed on the Packers web site every week. Nagler does an outstanding job of being both fan and analyst when he writes it.

For all the angst about the Packers D, and there should be some, Rivers has been having an exceptional year passing the ball. He leads the NFL in passing yards by about 350 yds, so even an average game by him would have meant he was still well ahead of 2nd place Andy Dalton, and that was w/o Gates at TE till last week. Rivers passer rating is 103, so the Packers pass D held him below his average in passer rating.

The guy is just on fire this year and putting up huge numbers.

And the Packers D was w/o Raji, Perry and Burnett. That's 3 quality starters.

WAIT ONE DAMN MINUTE!!!

Was our final Defensive formation 3-3-5!?

*Throws hands up*

Eff yea!

The more I look at that final play the more I love the play call.

I don't if know Matthews or Peppers played the biggest role.

If Matthews were to rush, there would've been single coverage on Gates and probably would've have cause Rivers to pass even quicker. Rivers holding the ball /hesitating actually helped Randall.

If Peppers didn't quickly beat the RT and force a throw Rivers could have decided to go through his progressions and target Sam Shields, who was one on one...

- Janis down field blocking is gonna score that guy some more playing time
- I love redemption plays. Haha gets a late hit flag.....and then causes a fumble.
- Ummm.....we ran the ball 15 times? And they never stopped it. Hmmm. Perhaps what's wrong with our offense is.......we stop taking what they give us. Keep running Starks. We had a lead most of the game. He averaged 10 yards per carry.
- Maybe the announcers could come on to this website and mention back shoulder throws a few more times

Packer Nation, I ask for a moment of silence for my lovely wife who passed from Breast Cancer this past Sat.

go pack.

#*** Cancer!!!!!!

My condolences Big Moe, too. Lets hope she is at nicer place now...

My condolences, Big Moe. I used that minute to pray for your wife, my wife, parents and other loved ones who have passed away.

God bless the care givers, Packer brother.

Sorry for you loss.

My condolences Big Moe, blessings to you and your family.

So sorry for your loss Big Moe. Praying for you and all who are going through that terrible disease.

My condolences and prayers to you and your loved ones. Be well.

Best of health to you.

My deepest condolences Big Moe. I wish you and your family strength and peace during this difficult time. Since '61

GB did have 13 QB hits and 3 sacks, albeit on 65 pass attempts (20% QB hit percentage). Still, a lot of those pass attempts came out really fast. Just watching the game in real time once, I'd say GB generally got good pressure on the longer developing pass plays.

It is true that one can't tell whether the WRs are open w/o looking at some tape. That said, Aaron Rodgers completed 19 passes, had 13 incomplete, for 55%. Rodgers was only hit 5 times, including 3 sacks (17.4 QB hit %). Most of the hits came after he had decent time to throw the ball, imo. So...I suppose the WRs aren't getting open, or they are getting open but not in sync with the QB getting set and having a throwing lane, or A. Rodgers isn't seeing them, or he's ignoring open receivers while waiting to see if a longer developing route opens up, or....

There are several relatively new guys out there at receiver. It may take a few weeks for everyone to be where AR wants them. Unfortunately Starks is not the greatest check down receiver (interesting because he's made some excellent down the field catches).

How are the children TGR?

SCREEN PASS

So many of our offensive woes could be solved by bringing back the Screen Pass. Whether its to Janis, Starks, or Cobb it doesn't matter.

The redzone incompletions at the end of the 4th quarter by Rodgers should of been short passes to Kuhn, or take the sack to run off time, when in short FG range.

#12's demand for mental perfection is fine, but it has led him to spats in the past - e.g. Finley. And we saw some fallout with GJ and DD after they left (although if memory serves the DD thing was an assumption I made about the identity of an anonymous source based on timing). Maybe he needs to take his leadership style to the next level. Be demanding, but find a way to do it without creating drama publicly or privately. How about, "He did some good things today."

If this defense can't get home without Raji then that may be why TT is hesitant to give Daniels $10M a year. He's gonna need a little jack for Raji too.

Loved 21s forced fumble....dude is scary. Good to see Janis finally make some plays. I thought palmer played pretty good. Montgomery is so good hated to see him go down. Other than that not a ton of positives to take away except it was a dog fight and we came out on top. Oh yeah starks run was awesome too. We need this bye pretty bad. Battle of the beatable unbeatens in 2 weeks ...go pack!

Rivers was letting loose of the ball in less than 2.0 seconds. No amount of pass rush is getting to him in that short of time.

Green Bay had two rookies playing in the defensive backfield most of the game.

Those are the facts. My opinion is Green Bay didn't clog or jump those short routes like teams have done to them over the last few games. Not sure if maybe the rookies had adjustment issues in jumping those short routes.

Why didn't the Pack go after those short routes after seeing the mid to long routes were covered? Don't know about that one. Also they should pounded the run game with Starks. Lacy should have been rested to heal that ankle.

They won and that's what matters. MM will make sure some adjustments happen for the future and frankly......if I were Denver I wouldn't want to face the Pack after the bye.

Shields was being eaten for Lunch all day, thank god he wasn't on Woodhead on the final play. Some weeks teams can't complete a pass on Shields and then he has a game like this. The defense was completely gassed out there today, 32 first downs by the Chargers? Now for 2 weeks we'll have to hear those idiots on NFL Network and ESPN talk about the Packers defense.
I think the Packers had Montgomery as a huge part of the offense this week and when he went down they were pretty screwed. They HAVE to get healthy during Bye Week, Rodgers simply doesn't have a healthy WR to throw to. If I was TT I might consider a trade for someone, anyone who can get off the LOS, this wasn't a great defense by any means. But then again I thought TT should have taken Malcom Brown instead of Randell. I love this kid Randell!!!

Whew. That was a cardiac type second half. I think I need a bye week as well!
Hope Montgomery injury is not serious. 6 - 0. Go Pack Go.

Rivers got the ball out quick. Period. I am going to re-watch the game tonight. I was to deep in my feelings to really get a good look at was going on.

The whole secondary was abused till we got in the red zone and the open man was less visible.

Just an embarrassing day on defense. "Bend don't break" has always been our motto but it is worrisome.

The good news for everyone here:

We won't face another elite QB of River's quality the rest of the season. Unless Romo is 100%. And Carson Palmer....good...but not as good as Rivers at those quick release passes, so our pass rush should get home.
(Please don't mention Manning as elite at this point - their D will give us fits, but not QB play)

And then.....playoffs? No big QB threats in the NFC...... Unless Romo.

So....that leaves the Superbowl. If we make it that far. Potentially a Brady or a Luck or a Big Ben. And hopefully we'll be healthier and Rookies will be veterans at that point. Other than those few, none of the others scare me.

Question- Why give 10yd cushion to WR if they are throwing everything under 10 yds? What happened to jamming the WR on the line and getting him off his route?

Question- Why give 10yd cushion to WR if they are throwing everything under 10 yds? What happened to jamming the WR on the line and getting him off his route?

Packers had no answer for Rivers. I think they should have dropped the LBs into coverage more often rather than blitzing when it became obvious that Rivers was beating the blitz all day. Also, Dix was a total mess on that 3rd and 17 play that went for 50 yards. Burnett and Raji were missed badly today. On offense I think that the Packers had planned to rest Lacy for this game. Then when the Chargers stayed close and tied the game they brought Lacy in but he was cold and ineffective. Fortunately Lang recovered his fumble. My positive take away from this game is that both the Packers offense and defense stepped up when the game was tied and they put up another 10 points and made defensive stops in the 4th quarter, including the final goal line stand. How the Packers played in the 4th quarter of this game showed me a lot about the character of this team. In recent seasons the defense would have folded up in the 4th quarter but not this season, at least not yet. Considering all the injuries this was a good hard fought win. 6-0, get healthy and Go Pack Go! Thanks, Since '61

The Packers' problems start and end with the reduction in receiving potency. Even the vaunted 1996 Packers struggled for roughly a four game stretch when Brooks, Freeman, and Chmura were all gone. They nearly went 1-3 until the defense reared up in the second half against a Tony Banks led Rams team. And they didn't lose another game after Freeman and Chmura came back. If the Packers had a reasonably healthy Cobb, Adams, Montgomery, and Lacy the offense would control the games more, and the D would be in a better position to do what it does. So here's hoping to gaining some health the second half of the season.

I think Rodgers favorite play is using Lacy as a decoy. He tends to throw the opposite way of him. Aaron made a great point, Eddie needs to get warmed up. Here's to hoping everyone gets healthy and the weapons are locked and loaded.

To the person that disliked my comment to Moe for his loss....

Please show some respect for for the grieving man. If u have a problem with me, fine. But that is very disrespectful.

Who's been feeding Lacy? My God, I swear my eyes were going after 70 years. Then I got a good look and this guy is absolutely huge. Not the muscular ready to pound it huge either.
He is so out of shape he can't play.
MM can't keep saying he is nursing and ankle, he eating Buffalo wings and pizza or something.
This is a guy who just let it go

Who's been feeding Lacy? My God, I swear my eyes were going after 70 years. Then I got a good look and this guy is absolutely huge. Not the muscular ready to pound it huge either.
He is so out of shape he can't play.
MM can't keep saying he is nursing and ankle, he eating Buffalo wings and pizza or something.
This is a guy who just let it go

Who's been feeding Lacy? My God, I swear my eyes were going after 70 years. Then I got a good look and this guy is absolutely huge. Not the muscular ready to pound it huge either.
He is so out of shape he can't play.
MM can't keep saying he is nursing and ankle, he eating Buffalo wings and pizza or something.
This is a guy who just let it go

Who's been feeding Lacy? My God, I swear my eyes were going after 70 years. Then I got a good look and this guy is absolutely huge. Not the muscular ready to pound it huge either.
He is so out of shape he can't play.
MM can't keep saying he is nursing and ankle, he eating Buffalo wings and pizza or something.
This is a guy who just let it go

Who's been feeding Lacy? My God, I swear my eyes were going after 70 years. Then I got a good look and this guy is absolutely huge. Not the muscular ready to pound it huge either.
He is so out of shape he can't play.
MM can't keep saying he is nursing and ankle, he eating Buffalo wings and pizza or something.
This is a guy who just let it go

Who's been feeding Lacy? My God, I swear my eyes were going after 70 years. Then I got a good look and this guy is absolutely huge. Not the muscular ready to pound it huge either.
He is so out of shape he can't play.
MM can't keep saying he is nursing and ankle, he eating Buffalo wings and pizza or something.
This is a guy who just let it go

Who's been feeding Lacy? My God, I swear my eyes were going after 70 years. Then I got a good look and this guy is absolutely huge. Not the muscular ready to pound it huge either.
He is so out of shape he can't play.
MM can't keep saying he is nursing and ankle, he eating Buffalo wings and pizza or something.
This is a guy who just let it go

Who's been feeding Lacy? My God, I swear my eyes were going after 70 years. Then I got a good look and this guy is absolutely huge. Not the muscular ready to pound it huge either.
He is so out of shape he can't play.
MM can't keep saying he is nursing and ankle, he eating Buffalo wings and pizza or something.
This is a guy who just let it go

Who's been feeding Lacy? My God, I swear my eyes were going after 70 years. Then I got a good look and this guy is absolutely huge. Not the muscular ready to pound it huge either.
He is so out of shape he can't play.
MM can't keep saying he is nursing and ankle, he eating Buffalo wings and pizza or something.
This is a guy who just let it go

DOOM AND GLOOM! DOOM AND GLOOM!!

No, seriously now, we should all be quite happy with our packers. Rivers just had a "madden set on easy difficulty" kind of day against our defense and our packers still won. Think about that: our team won despite a career day by an opposing quarterback. This year's packers are finding ways to win each week while still trying to figure out the team's identity. I am stoked for our trip to Denver.