We knew the Buffalo Bills would be a tough opponent for the Green Bay Packers, but they dropped a 21-13 decision to them for reasons none of us predicted.
It was more or less a comedy of errors for the Packers — two interceptions by the supposedly infallible Aaron Rodgers, a blocked field goal and numerous dropped passes by the Packers’ receivers, including one that would have turned into a 94-yard touchdown by Jordy Nelson.
That isn’t to take anything away from the Bills. The Buffalo defense was as advertised and their Neck Beard-led offense did enough to win the game, most importantly, they didn’t turn the ball over as many times as the Packers.
In addition to the blocked field goal, the Bills benefited from some big, unconventional plays. Those included a 75-yard punt return touchdown from Marcus Thigpen and a safety, which was caused by Mario Williams that sealed the win.
While the Packers defense rebounded in a big way from last week’s debacle — they allowed just 253 yards, had three sacks and pick — the offense went the other way.
Rodgers threw for just 185 yards and no touchdowns, in his worst game since the early-season match-up with the Lions. QB1 was off from the start, tossing numerous passes that landed nowhere near his receivers.
The receivers didn’t help much, dropping at least five passes among them.
Offensively, Eddie Lacy carried the load, rushing 15 times for 97 yards. Unfortunately, Mike McCarthy refused to ride him, despite the fact that Rodgers was obviously off.
Despite all of that, the Packers still had a chance to win. They had the ball, down six, with just under two minutes to go. And that’s really all you can ask for in a slugfest like they got on Sunday.
That’s when Williams struck, stripping Rodgers on the first play of that final drive. The ball rolled into the end zone, where Lacy recovered it. However, because of some insane rule that a player who fumbles into their own end zone under two minutes is the only person who can recover that fumble, the ball was ruled dead on the spot and the play was ruled a safety.
Game over.
If there’s a bright side, it’s that the loss was to an AFC team. Playoff seeding comes down to head-to-head record and then goes to division and conference record. If you’re going to lose, a loss to a team in the other conference is the least damaging.
So, now our eyes must turn to Detroit.
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That was fucking terrible
That’s the “holy roller” fumble rule I believe, to stop guys from intentionally fumbling forward for 1st downs and TDs at the end of games. You have John Madden to thank.
Overcome by events. Lacy didn’t make it out of the end zone anyways, so even if the rule didn’t exist it still would have been a safety.
Did you not hear the whistle blow? They stopped that shit the instant they could, Lacy heard and gave up. Lacy had that bitch out of the endzone dead to rights!
That’s because he stopped trying because the play was blown dead; regardless, the Pack had plenty of opportunities to win and they failed spectacularly. Still sick of reading your pessimism, even when they win you almost never have anything positive to say. It’s as though you don’t want the Packers to win, not because you want something to bitch about, but because you simply don’t like them.
GREEN BAY PRETENDERS
you’re fickle & obviously didn’t see the 10 games we’ve won
ONCE AGAIN THE GREEN BAY PRETENDERS
HAVE COME ALIVE
DOES MOM MAKE YOU TYPE THIS WAY?
That safety rule is probably the dumbest rule in the game. Never even heard of it. That jordy nelson drop ended up costing them
Didn’t see much of the game. It wasn’t on tv here and the streaming I tried using was horrible. Last thing I seen was there was two minutes left, Pack down by six, and the offense had the ball. Then the stream froze. When it came back the game was over and the bills had two more points. If Lacey got out of the endzone with the ball and they considered it a safety that’s the dumbest rule.
I’ve had a Rodgers away jersey for about three years. I wore it for the first time for this game and Rodgers has his worst game of the year. I don’t think I’m wearing that jersey ever again.
Does Rodgers or coach McCarthy know you were wearing that jersey? This could have been prevented if you wore the green one.
I said we’d lose today same as Monty & Shawn. Monty almost nailed the final score. Now we’ll win the last 2 & get the 2 seed. R-E-L-A-X
First seed still isn’t out of the question. 2nd may be just as good anyway, depending on your perspective.
Any particular reason Eddie Lacy only got 15 carries when he was averaging 8.1 yards per carry in the first half and Rodgers was 8 for 24 at one point. McCarthy trying to prove a point rather than win the game. Better hope Seattle doesn’t get the one seed. Nice game calling Mike.
Averages can be misleading. Lacy got stuffed at the line many times. The average is inflated by those plays where he broke free and took a good bunch of yards. Say, you have a run for 22, then runs for -1, 3 and 0. Avrg: 6yds/run. Not bad at all, but the defense just got a stop.
So that’s what a Championship level D looks like. Well done Bills, well done. Teams have ID’ed our kryptonite. We must find a way to overcome adversity yet again. Our D played much better, can’t say the same for that O. Poor play calls in the second half…we should have ridden our horses (backs) and been more strategic with our pass route calls. With elite corners it’s best to try and exploit other areas. This is a game where not having an elite TE option hurt us. Or perhaps the predictable calls to our RR receivers coupled with their 6 drops.
Ah well. Losing is over. Now time to start a new win streak. Let’s hope someone knowcks out SEATTLE for us.
That was a tough loss. BTW, who the hell are Miciah Hyde, David Baktari and Bryan Beluga?
Yeah, they didn’t get a single name right.
Complete disaster. Sure hope Niners and Vikings win today.
5 letters : C-H-O-K-E
Way too much relaxing going on for the last 1-1/2 games……
That was terrible, but not unexpected after reading the great predictions (thanks Monty and Shawn).
#12 Threw as many INTs as Johnny Goofball…. He looked like him on that strip to end the game-winning-drive-that-never-happened.
Having to root for Viqueens and Whiners really sux !!
Awful all around
Methinks QB1 had sex with Munn on game day. I’d not he needed to
Jordy’s drop was huge
Lacey was rolling. Why stop using him?!!
Some crucial phantom penalties combined with “letting em play in the secondary. Multiple egregious no calls on receiver rape.
Pathetic tackling. Multiple times when back was contacted far
behind line of scrimmage and we resorted to touch football.
SMH on play calling or choice of targets. Why are we throwing 30 yards down the field on every 3rd and 7??!
Go Vikes. Go 49ers. I need to vomit
Kyle Orton came into the NFL the same year Aaron Rodgersdid. Though their careers haven’t followed the same path, Orton will always be remembered for the day in 2011 when he led the Chiefs to a dramatic upset of the then-undefeated Packers.
It was Week 15 of the season. The Packers were 13-0. They left Arrowhead Stadium with their only loss of the regular season.
Yeah this game reminded me of that chiefs game. Our offence was just bitch slapped around and receivers just couldn’t catch the ball. We really need home field as we have been total shit on the road. 3 blow outs, and some sloppy wins. I think we can still get the 2, but if we catch a road game against a physical d like Seattle arizona or detroit we are fucked plain and simple. Cannot match up with those teams on the road.
The Chiefs provided a blueprint for defeating the Packer offense. Maybe the Bills have done the same thing now.
I have already forgotten that loss to the Chiefs, say nothing of Kyle Orton.
Johnny Goofball…..HA!
The Bills held Rodgers to zero touchdowns and two interceptions, something no other team has done to him in his entire career. He finished with the worst quarterback rating of his career. The Bills have now limited Peyton Manning and Rodgers to a combined zero touchdowns.
Pack got a bad one out of their system…not the end of the world. D played a game worthy of a win. The lack of a good pass catching tight end really hurts this team because we need to work the middle of the field vs these two deep safeties we see every week.
Win the next two games and we have a 1st round bye and probably end up with either zona, philly, Dallas ,New Orleans,Carolina or Atlanta at lambeau (which are all winnable games) and then at Seattle for the nfc championship instead of playing them at lambeau if we had the 1 seed. (Which is essentially what this loss today cost us)
You want to be the best you have to beat the best in their backyard And the Packers will have to prove their worth if they want to be super bowl champs.
It wasn’t the TE position that was the problem in this game-it was the WRs, QB, and in the end LT, as well as not enough runs. MM made some great adjustments at half, but his/Rodgers reluctance to pound it down Buffalo’s throat with Lacy cost us.
Conditions were obviously shit, guys dropping the ball everywhere on both sides of the ball. Bills are a tough D and the Pack are kind of shitty on the road so that’s what you get. Kind of expected a loss.
What I can’t even believe is what a complete liability special teams have been, holy hell. Dujuan Harris regularly getting stopped before the 20, blocked/missed kicks, terrible coverage on returns.
It was 39 degrees, no precip. and the wind was blowing parallel to the field, conditions were actually pretty fucking stellar considering it was Buffalo, NY in the winter.
Bills do have a tough D, but we ran all over them all game, just didn’t run enough, and we had plenty of opportunities in the passing game, particularly in the 2nd half. The offense just flat out shit a mansion’s worth of bricks.
Coverage units had been quite good this year, specifically in the punts (just not the blocking portion); punt return has been good, kick return has indeed been awful.
Fuck you Slocum..tired of watching your shitty special teams!! The whole offense looked like they partied too hard last night!! Kick ass next 2 games..hope to get homefield through out…this team sucks on the road!!
Partied too hard?
I’m guessing you’ve never been to Buffalo.
Wow, would going to Seattle suck…that would be real B-A-D….this team needs a reliable tight end and another receiver, Adams is nothing but mediocre and can’t seem to grasp the back shoulder throw concept thats vital to the Packers…and why does Slocum have a job year after year…our special team have sucked for three years now….
Kudos to the Buffalo D. They were all over us, except for when Jordy has the dropped pass.
Better now than in the playoffs….learn from this, move forward, and BRING IT!
“Had the dropped pass”….sorry for the typo.
And our D played well too.
Slow cum did us in finally.
6 blocked kicks in 11 games, repeated penalties on punt team, punt return for TD. I’m sure Slocum is worth every penny we fools are paying him.
holy shit, no sense in playing out the string here, if you read any of the Lion posts anywhere they are already in the SuperBowl and will beat the Pack at Lambeau easily this year….whats the use…we are doomed….(win two get a bye..sweet)….
On Rodgers’ deep interception Jordy was uncovered on right sideline- 6 pts missed there, and another 6 on his drop reminiscent of James Jones.
Defensive stats look good, but there were multitudes of missed tackles: HHCD whiff on a safety blitz converted a 10 yard loss to a double digit gain, Hyde and Company let Boobie convert a massive loss to a double digit gain + lots of examples of Bills getting YAC.
Run game was effective- why would MM abandon it? That’s the antidote to Cover-2. 6 consecutive quarters of offensive ineffectiveness….
I think I hear a fat lady warming up her singing voice.
Somebody please teach HHCD how to tackle. I love his closing speed and knowing where the ball is going to be but missed so many tackles in the backfield. He lunges at their legs and they hop around him. Just wrap the guy up at the torso.
He does not want to get hurt . . .
Cowboys won. Seahawks won. They will win rest of their games. Playoffs starts now. We need more muscle on d. Bring back jolly.
Need screen passes to lacy. That is the most successful play. Statks cannot catch. Common man. If you te dropping balls run more.
SMH: screens don’t work well vs. the Cover 2. Our D-line dominated, just kept going for big hits instead of wrapping up
I haven’t seen hands that bad since the knitting classes at The Parkinson’s Institute.
Ha, good one ’57.
I haven’t seen so many cases of butterfingers since I worked in the nestle warehouse.
Packers receivers dropped more balls yesterday then puberty.
Nice Murderer’s Row, you three.
I hope we fucking annihilate the Little Lions week 17. I hate their cocky moronic self loathing fanbase. Fuck them, they don’t deserve to win a fucking thing.
I do too! However I believe that McGlurpy the Buffoon will shit the bed again and the Pack will be ass raped properly by the better PREPARED team. Buffoon cannot get these guys up for tough games. His loyalty to these fucktard coaches, and players that suck is starting to make differences in the later season games again as it always does. Hell, if Adams was Janis, he would be on the fuckin’ bench! Bring in Janis! he can drop passes and fuck up routes just as easily . . . Not!
It’s like a disease with dropped balls. It all started with Jordy letting ball go right through his hands in endzone. Then it snowballed from there. Why can they catch the balls at home and not on road. That does not make any sense. Is it that they can’t concentrate on the road? Get a psychologist in there to figure it out damn it.
TT needs the psychologist to figure out why he allows McGlurpy the buffoon to call plays, and why Slocum and Dom Capers are still coaching here . . . This is a great team that is poorly handled.
The, “not give a shit game” strikes down a hot team again. Might as well get over it, at least it didn’t happen in January.
I got already got warned over on the PackerForum for being a dick to Lions fans coming in and gloating over their win yesterday. UGH, fuck being nice to division rival fans.
I share your frustration with the powermad mods over there. Total killjoys overcome with self-righteousness.
Here’s the bottom line. The game sucked. Rodgers had his worst game imo, receivers didnt help. Run game and defense were good enough to win. Special teams shit the bed (again).
It’s over, nothing we can do but piss and moan i guess. But i choose to look forward.
Any team can shit the bed in any game. Now lets see how this team reacts the next 2 weeks instead of going off the deep end.
With 2 wins, we will still win the NFCN and this game will be forgotten. If we lose one of these games, or win both of them, then shit the bed in the playoffs, there will be plenty of time to bitch then (me included).
But for right now this season isn’t over, and i’m gonna not gonna jump off the ledge. I will treat this game as “sometimes shit happens” and move on, as the Packer players should be doing.
Can’t wait for the next 2 games, especially Detroit at lambeau to win the NFCN and on to the playoffs.
Agreed, first paragraph says it all. IF we do indeed make the Playoffs and the Universe with it’s infinite supply of Irony fates us to play Seattle in Seattle, that’ll fuckin’ suck, but I won’t have any remorse about it because this team did it to themselves by playing the crappiest overall game I’ve ever seen a winning Packer team play.
The Nelson drop changed the whole game. He won’t have an easier TD opportunity the rest of the season. We don’t drop easy balls at home, why do we do it so much on the road? It’s a mystery. A wasted effort by our defense, which was superb.
I have no doubt the Packers want the Lions real bad on 12/30. Just don’t screw up the Tampa game in the meantime. It would be a hoot if the Lions lost to the Bears next week. It’s not out of the question. The Lions keep winning these low-scoring games right at the end. That good fortune is bound to run out.
As a Packer fan, i’m in the position that i should be cheering for the bears next week.
I don’t know if any fiber in my body or mind is capable of such a feat. FUCK!!
Actually, even if the Lions lost to the bears and the Packers beat the Bucs, the Pack still has to beat the Lions for the NFCN so i guess the Lions/Bear game outcome doesn’t matter. Saved again…phew
If we lose another playoff game, you think McCarthy gets canned?
Not a fucking chance. Thank God.
No way. And he shouldn’t either. Capers on the other hand….
In all seriousness, if that defense shits their pants in the playoffs again, I have to believe there will be some kind of change.
Hey guys lets not forget that Aaron Rodgers doesn’t exactly have the best record playing Tampa. I think this game could be pretty interesting.
Good point K.
Aaron Rodgers Record Against Buccaneers: 1-2
He hasn’t been all that great in the state of Florida either, nor against Lovie Smith’s defenses. Better O slightly worse D than Buffalo, I highly doubt it’ll be an easy W. At least Rodgers and MM are pretty damn excellent coming off a loss.