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I’ve had this nagging feeling for years now that the Green Bay Packers of Mike McCarthy’s tenure do very well against weak opponents, but tend to fold when it comes to stronger opponents, or at least not do nearly as well. So I went back and looked at every game, regular and post-season, that the Packers have played since their 2006 season opener against the Bears, Mike McCarthy’s first game.

My Theory: that McCarthy’s Packers have serious trouble beating teams 10-6 and above.

My categories went like this:

Category 1: Teams that went 0-16 to 6-10
Category 2: Teams that went 7-9 to 9-7
Category 3: Teams that went 10-6 and above.

(My reasoning here is that there doesn’t tend to be huge differences between 8-8, 9-7, 7-9 teams. Also, I wanted to measure how the Packers did against the best teams in the league, which I defined as teams with a 10-6 record or better.)

Year-by-year:

2009 Cat 1: 5-1, Beat St.Louis, Detroit, Detroit, Cleveland and Seattle. Lost to Tampa Bay.

2009 Cat 2: 3-1, Beat Chicago, Chicago and San Francisco. Lost to the Steelers.

2009 Cat 3: 3-4, Beat Arizona (weighted), Dallas and Baltimore. Lost to Arizona (playoffs), Cincinnati, Minnesota and Minnesota.

2008 Cat 1: 3-1, Beat Detroit, Detroit and Seattle. Lost to Jacksonville.

2008 Cat 2: 1-4, Beat Chicago. Lost to Chicago, Houston, New Orleans and Tampa Bay.

2008 Cat 3: 2-5, Beat Indianapolis and Minnesota. Lost to Minnesota, Atlanta, Dallas, Tennessee, Carolina.  Read more... (720 words + 1 image, estimated 2:53 mins reading time)

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By Guest Author, Andy Tisdel…

Let me just say it: I don’t think that Brian Cushing’s  Defensive Rookie of the Year award, as voted on by the AP, should be going to a re-vote (as it currently is). Nor do I think Clay Matthews should win, should it come to that kind of a re-vote.

Brian Cushing had a hell of a year. He had one of the best years of any defensive rookie this decade, ranking sixth overall in tackles and picking off four passes and defending 14–by far the most of any linebacker in either category (this year). On a defense that ranked 13th overall in yards given up, Cushing was a leader on the field. He subsequently ran away with the DROY award, receiving 39 votes from the AP. Nobody else was even close; Buffalo Bills safety Jarius Byrd got six and Green Bay Packer Clay Matthews had three, out of fifty.

That’s Cushing wrapping up Chris Johnson. I’m not sure you understand quite how much ass this man kicked.

Now Cushing has tested positive for using a “nonsteroidal” banned substance. And he stands to lose a lot more than just an award or tw0. Yes, it could cost him $2.6 million dollars in incentives and escalator clauses (You can read the full story on NFL.COM). We don’t know what that substance was. Nobody seems to, even Texans owner Robert McNair.  Read more... (1194 words + 7 images, estimated 4:47 mins reading time)

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