GREEN BAY PACKERS 2021: GAME #13
Vs. Windy City Barelys at Lambeau; Sunday, December 12th, 7:25 Packer (Central) Time
Sunday, 11/28/21
I can guarantee that the Packers will not lose next week.
The week after that, following their bye, I predict they will beat the Windy City Barelys 28-20.
Monday, 11/29/21
Another headscratcher from the Insiders Inbox on packers.com:
What’s the connection between it being a badly officiated game and the amount of viewers it had (I’m assuming what “highest-rated” means is largest number of eyeballs peeping or peering at the screen)? Could people have known ahead of time the officiating would be bad, and tuned in for that reason? It seems like a coincidence to me, and thus moot.
Would people actually call their friends and relatives and neighbors and say, “Hurry! Turn on the Cowpokes/One-Armed Bandits game! The officiating stinks!”
I’m not grokking the logic.
9:12 pm Pacific:
Again there was an incident in yesterday’s game that, although I didn’t see it (I only read about it), really burns my biscuits: Aaron Donald Trump choking Lucas Patrick. Not only is that an atrociously shameful and indefensible act (like the shoe-throwing and other shenanigans perpetrated by the Seahoax and their dipwad coach Cleat Peril a couple of weeks ago), it’s also incomprehensible that the zebra who saw it didn’t call a penalty and toss the miscreant/malcreant out of the game. Where are the fines, NFL? Turning a blind eye to these mischievous and malicious acts is malfeasance and tantamount to condoning the childish and brutish tantrums.
Monday, 12/6/21
From the weird statistics/analytics department: The Buffalo Bills are outscoring their opponents 336-196 after 12 games, an average victory for them of 28-16, and yet are barely over .500 at 7-5.
The Packers, after 12 games, are only outscoring their opponents 283-242, an average score of 24-20, and yet are 9-3. Even if you throw out their first atrocious anomaly game (a 38-0 loss to the Saints), it’s 283-204 / 26-19.
But still, even though the Bills have a more potent office, and a more stifling defense (on paper at least, so far at least), I’ll take the 9-3 record; that’s what counts the most: the Ws.
GBG!
Tuesday, 12/7/21
A day that will live in infamy. 80 years ago today. My tough-as-nails grandfather slumped to the floor when he heard the news over the radio.
Onward to lesser important things: In today’s Insiders Inbox on packers.com, the following:
A double negative, from a professional writer? Really?!?
And he wasn’t done. Czech this out:
I don’t mean to be mean, but what purpose does “I mean” serve? Even in speech it’s iffy at best, but in writing? You mean what? You haven’t said/written anything yet. Just leave it out.
Wednesday, 12/8/21
It’s not a huge deal, but the sentence below:
… would be better as, “On Wednesday, Packers cornerback Jaire Alexander “the Great” practiced for the first time since injuring his shoulder during…”
Most will know what is meant, but as written it could be construed that Alexander is practicing for the first time on a Wednesday since his injury (IOW, he may have practiced some other day or days of the week, but this is the first Wednesday that he’s been active at practice).
Thursday, 12/9/21
Another instance of the packers.com writer apparently not carefully reading the question:
The questioner said “people thought” the Packers would let Preston Smith go; he didn’t say or even intimate the Packers themselves were saying that.
Sunday, 12/12/21
It’s finally that time (almost), after a two-week wait. Starting today, though the Packers play three times in the next 14 days (today, next Sunday, and the following Saturday). Whirlwind!
6:29 pm Pacific
Razzle Dazzle does it again, with another pick-6. Two games in a row. Plus, he had the pick to seal the game against his old team, the Cardinals. What a pickup he was!
Unfortunately, the Bears just answered, and they now lead 17-14, but there’s enough time left for the Packers to score again before the half. And then they get the ball first in the second half.
6:56 Pacific
Packers special teams is Stinky Cheese
8:39 Pacific
Wild game; Bears up 10-0, then Packers 14-10; then Bears 24-14. But from that point, Green Bay outscored the Windys 31-6 for a final score of 45-30.
Yet another costly injury for the Packers, to RT Billy Turner.