Happy New Year!
An all-in-all good game, but don't be fooled.
The guy NBC kept showing in the booth dressed as Joe Barry was an imposter trying to save Barry's job.
The real Barry will surface again, hopefully its Not in Green Bay.
A pig in a dress with lipstick is still a pig.

How many snaps does Jaire Alexander get next? Can we trust him to give this team his all, with the playoffs on the line?

I’ve had faith in Gutey when he drafted Love, I even loved Love’s college film and can see why some analyst had him in the top 10 of the draft. I also have been on Mlf side throughout his up and downs. I think he is a very good coach, one who holds one of the highest winning percentage in the history of nfl over his first 5 years. Not many coaches could take this young team, with a first year starting QB and have so many KEY injuries take his team to the final game of the year with a chance to make the playoffs. He’s the right blend of empathy and relate ability, wihile not being a push over….see Alexander for an example. IMO, The Packers future is bright with Gutey and Mlf at the helm.

EDIT: TGR, you’re a great writer and really appreciate you knowledge and time to put this together.

“Love completed 24 of 33 attempts (72.7%) for 256 yards (7.76 yards/attempt) with 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions. His passer rating was 125.3. Love still misses some layups but he remains poised“ In the last 7 games, he has thrown 16 TD’s to 1 INT and added 2 rushing TDs. Yes, it might seem to miss some passes that seem easy, but name me a QB who doesn’t. Love is rated as a Top 10 QB now and that is with no known except A Jones, as a pass catcher. If you take his last 9 games his rating would sky rocket to Top 5. So, that takes me to ask a question that I’ve been pondering.

Do you sign him to an extension this off season or wait till you see how he does after the opposing teams have a year of tape and see if he can duplicate this season? The way I see it, if you wait and he does succeed next year you are probably going to be in the 45+M per or probably 5-10 M less per year than if you sign him this off season. I’d lean to signing him now.

Walker @ 74,
Thank You, Bahk. Bye.

Dear James Reynolds, aka :The Great Reynoldo, or TGR",

Thank you for all you do here at CHTV.

Your efforts are very much appreciated by this CHTV poster as well as many others.

Happy New Year into 2024, all the best to you!

So what do the Packers do with Alexander next weekend? Can we trust him to do whatever it takes to win, or will he be petty and keep working his way out of Green Bay? Any predictions??

and more thanks for TGR's work on this site.

i find it interesting as a psychological matter that it is somehow more fun to read the day after comments after a lousy performance when everyone is often quite funnily venting their rage, than it is when we finally play well and everyone is happy as a clam.

We won this game in the trenches on both offensive and defense. Tom and Rhyan looked great both on passing and running plays on offense. Also, our running game needs the back to hit the hole fast vs watching Dillon slowly get there. KUDOS to Jones!

But my biggest observations were on defense. I still hate Barry for his BS, conservative, softy schemes. He is who he is, and won't change long term. But I saw a trend - the Packers weakness against the run is not on the D linemen. It's the positioning of our DBs! When the corners or safeties are off, we give opponents a free 5-10 yards. So why do it? Because it's Joe Barry, playing Barry Ball...

One last observation on D - we look far better with this DB combination than previous ones. Why do we need headcase Jaire in there? Hopefully, he's nervous after watching these 2 young safeties performing well? We need to win against the Bears. Keep Jaire out. The young corners DESERVE to be in!

""""The offensive line was very good all night.""""

Agreed. People were "baffled" early in the season that the coaches, who aren't as smart or knowledgeable as them, weren't putting our 5 best on the line, or playing people at their best position, etc. Line coaches should be fired. Starters should be benched. Blah blah blah.

Here's what happened. We lost Bakhtiari. We also had Jenkins out for a while, and Runyan playing hurt. So we had guys on the field that we didn't want. But we stuck with Walker, Jenkins and Runyan both healed up, and they got to work with each other, in practice and games. They got to study film together, polish technique, etc. And now it's a pretty good line, IMO. It's cohesive. It has help keep Love from missing any snaps because of injury, which is paramount, because an injured Love is not practicing or playing or developing and neither is the offense.

Anticipating the losses or Runyan and Nijman, we really need to put some quality beef on this unit in the offseason.

I also wish you a Happy New Year and many thanks for the articles and comments TGR!

There are more major roster decisions to be made this week that have implications for next game, a potential playoff run, and provide a hint as to what the Packers maybe thinking for next season and the draft. Snap counts give a peak into some decisions looming. You have Musgrave, Wilson, and Tenuta coming off of IR. As mentioned previously, players are potentially coming off of injuries/suspensions and perhaps ready to play... Watson seems close, Alexander, Campbell, Wicks, & maybe Reed...Will they all be back? Kinda reminds me of 2 years ago with everybody wanting to return, but perhaps not totally ready. MLF will have to make some tough decisions, while managing egos.

And, YES, TGR!! Your expectations that Melton would be signed to the roster has happened.