Green Bay’s Big Win includes 2 Major Losses

At 5-4 for the season, it was imperative that the Packers win Sunday's game against the San Francisco 49ers. The good news is that we did win and are now 6-4. Bad news is we loss two veterans and key players on Defense. Both Line Backer Aaron Kampman & Corner Al Harris are out for the season.

The Packers dominated the first half of the game 23-3. Just when all seemed well, Pack fans were devasted in the 3rd quarter when Kampman dropped like a fly! I’m not sure if it was a hit, but his knee just seemed to buckle. About 5 minutes later Harris is covering a pass and is suddenly holding his knee in extreme pain. This is a major blow to our defense that seemed to be getting into a real groove. Luckily all of our LB’s have been having a great season. With Kampman gone, I’m have 100% faith in Clay Matthews, Nick Barnett and AJ Hawk. I know they will make even bigger plays to fill the void. Matthew’s draft mate, BJ Raji may even begin to make a name for himself.

Tramon Williams is said to fill Harris’s roll at Corner. I have some apprehension about this because Tramon is unimpressive on special teams. I really think there HAS to be someone else who can make better plays on punt return. However, that’s special teams, and defense is another story. Williams has contributed at Corner and with Harris gone, maybe we will find that is Williams is best at Corner. We will find out in 3 days.

In the fourth quarter the Pack worked hard to keep the momentum. Jeremy Kapinos does his thing and puts a major foot on the punt and lands the ball on the 2 yard line. The 49ers are in terrible field position and Nick Collins intercepts and it seems the game is in the bag for the Pack. The 49ers rallied back with two TD’s and came within one touchdown for the win, but it wasn’t enough. Packers win 30-24.

The issues I have had with our Offense seems to get less and less apparent with each week and that’s all a girl can ask for. Aaron Rodgers was sacked only twice which was a much needed improvement. He was starting to really get on my nerves (reminiscent of Favre’s affinity to interceptions which has magically disappeared now that he’s in Minnesota, ugh!). Greg Jennings had the type of game we need him to have more often and Jermichael Finley came back better than he left after missing three games. Offense also did a great job reading the 49ers defense and making opportunities for Grant to do what he does best (1TD, 21 carriers 129 yards). His impressive performance earned him Hall of Fame featured player of the week in Wisconsin.

75% of my Family are Packer fans (most of the others are Raider fans) so the Thanksgiving Day game against the Lions will be a lot of fun. We’ve beaten the Lions twice this year but Coach McCarthy is not taking them lightly. I believe we will be ready and if we can get to 7-2, who knows what we can pull off for the play offs! GO PACKERS!

Sunset Brown