pretty easy interceptions like Jaire said the ball came right to him.

IF this Defense is actually going to start to respond on a somewhat consistent basis, IMO it starts with Devonte Wyatt STARTING over Dean Lowry whether Lowry is healthy or not. I've seen enough the last two weeks even in limited snaps that Wyatt needs to be on the field more. Especially more than Lowry.

They just proved to themselves they can be better than they have been against IMO the most dangerous DUO at the WR position in the NFL. Hill and Waddle BOTH have the speed of our own Christian Watson, something NO Vikings WR has.

GET IN Jeffersons face at the LOS. Reroute him, disrupt him, but DO NOT play him 10 yards off and expect to be successful! IF the Packers play as a UNIT, like they did for the 2nd half against the Dolphins, they CAN be successful, IN SPITE of Joe Barry's coaching. Please, PLEASE, do not allow Justin Jefferson to start doing that ridiculous dance in the endzone at Lambeau

Was the secondary playing better or was Tua playing worse? Kudos to the coach and players for recognizing his tendencies yet I wonder if some of our success was more about their failures.

I thought I was watching a different game when I saw the DBs within 5 yards of the LOS. I hope Lowery is all right. I think he should sit a couple games to make sure.

Hope the O line can get healthy. Was very scared when I saw Newman trotting onto the field.

All the picks were very badly thrown balls. Is that the D stepping up because they caught them?

How many 3rd and longs did they pick up? Quite a few. It's been happening all season. Our db's are always playing behind them even on3rd and long giving up the 1st down line to turn on. So we keeping making the tackle after the 1st down because of the bend but don't break rule. If it's 3rd and 15, our db's should be dropping back a max of 13 yards and let the qb try to make the much harder throw of dropping the ball between the db's and the safeties. Obviously it isn't always that simple but many times it is and it is so frustrating to see time and time again.

And this business of Gray yelling at half time... You mean that's all that was needed all year? And he waited until now?

It's sad that after years of trying to get back to the SB, we now seem content to get to the playoffs. Does anyone really believe that even if we do, we will get very far the way AR is playing and it takes 4 turnovers to win a game? Maybe this was the year to think it through and plan for the long term.

But as long as we are here - GPG!

Defense has stepped up plenty, you just didn’t notice.

After the bomb to Hill, Ford was replaced by Savage. No more points.

Currently, Packers are #17 in scoring defense, about one TD more than #14 Saints.

Average, average, average.

I don’t know…some have been saying that Tua had a concussion in the 2nd half which impacted his thought process. If so, Tua better be careful with all of his head injuries.

But in the end…I’m hoping that our defense now has a little chip on their shoulders and keeps building the confidence they will need against Min and Det!!

Let's see how the Packers defense plays MN.

That was an A performance after giving up 9 chunk plays of 15 yards or more? Even with 21 fewer plays, the Fins out gained the Packers by 75 yards! That is a failing grade and certainly not an A.

The forced fumble by Reed was sublime. However the 3 ints were horrible passes gift wrapped by a concussed QB (first two) and a desperate and concussed QB (3rd) with no timeouts as the clock drained.

Take away those 4 turnovers, and Love would be starting this Sunday. Win is a win and winning the turnover battle is a great equalizer. But I am not going to wear the rose colored glasses watching Barry coach this D.

Stop, stop, stop immediately, don't encourage this organization to keep Barry. Tua's concussion resulted in a terrible performance in the second half. Dolphins averaged a strong 7.1 yards per rush in the first half, so what does McDaniel do in the second half? He pulls a MLF and stops running the ball (six run plays in second half) and has a brain rattled Tua throw 3 picks. Before anointing this D, let's see how they perform against a strong Viking offense.

Packers won a game they had to have, on the road, and still some of these turds just can't be happy..."Tua threw the ball right at them", "they got lucky he had a concussion", blah blah blah..same of shit all year...not much bitching about #12 on this story...very strange...

Here is Barry's record this year:

Scoring Defense, tied for 17th, about 1 TD out of 14th place. That puts us at 22.3 ppg, about 0.3 over the league average of 22.0.

# of times the Packer defense has held the opponent to 22.0 or less: Six. We're 5-1 in those games, including the last 3. When opponents hit 23 or more, we're 2-7. Overall, the Packers give up a score on around 35% of possessions, which ranks them about #11.

The interesting thing I saw is that the Packers defense is #1 in fewest attempts against. People have only thrown 409 passes against the Packers, so naturally, all the other volume numbers are also going to be suppressed.

-----In yards, 3rd, behind Philly and the Saints.
----First downs surrendered, 138, 1st in the league.
---Yards After Catch. Unbelievably, 1st in the league.

It is my opinion that the overall strategy on defense "encourages" the offense to stay on the ground, because it's better to give up 5 yards/carry on the ground than 7 yards/attempt in the air, especially since the majority of TDs are via the pass.

If that is the case, then Barry can say "I did what you wanted". And you could start making the argument that it was done without Gary and Stokes, and despite some poor play from our safeties, and that if we'd get them back and another stud defender in the draft, we could actually be ABOVE AVERAGE in 2023.

The problem isn't our run defense, it's that we're giving up a lot of gash plays. Too many. and I've noticed some consistent themes in many of those plays, and a poor attempt at a tackle is a major factor. In the game against Miami, the first long TD should have been stopped at midfield except for a very poor effort by two of our defenders to squeeze him out of bounds. The second one looks to me like Ford wasn't where he needed to be in time. I don't think I saw him on the field after that.

Like many fans, I hope this second half recovery of the GB defense does not save Joe Barrys' job come next season. Frankly, I was not encouraged to see MLF give Barry a big hug after the Douglas final INT to seal the game. If anything, he should have hugged Jerry Grey for the ass kicking he gave the secondary at halftime. It was that yelling and screaming that seems to have changed the GB secondary in the second half. I realize its not right to wish someone should lose his job but lets face it - this is the big time NFL. Players and coaches must be ready to accept the results of bad performance. Barry should never had been hired in the first place and he is the main reason this defense has so badly underperformed this season.

The Miami game is one game. The defense played excellently in the second half. And their 3 picks carried the day against the Dolphins. It's good to see the defense play well but it means nothing in terms of how they will play or what we can expect from the defense for the next 2 games.

Playing well against the Bears and the Rams in the previous 2 games isn't saying much. The Bears are the epitome of incompetence and the Rams are a broken team. Yes, I will always take a win regardless of the opponent or how the win occurs. The problem with the Packers defense is that in every game there are periods of time where they just stop playing. The first half against the Dolphins is a perfect example. If those plays had happened in the second half the Packers likely lose the game.

From my perspective I cannot identify anything that this Packers defense does well. They are not strong against the run, they are OK against the pass to a point but they also allow too many third and long to be converted. They don't tackle particularly well and until the Dolphin game they have not been very good at generating turnovers.

The DL has played better with Wyatt and Reed getting more snaps. Clark, Wyatt and Reed are the three best DLs and rotate in Slayton. Keep Lowry on the DL.
Considering that Gary is out for the season our LB corps is holding its own except covering passes over the middle. Alexander is our only DB having a decent season and even that is below his standards. Douglas is inconsistent but comes up with a few highlight reel plays. He also commits some bad penalties. Our safety play is hurting rather than helping the team. Ford had been playing but seems to have regressed over the last few games. Amos is ?????

Take it one game at a time and let's see how they play against the vikings. Thanks, Since '61

If only they got to play concussed quarterbacks every single week....

I'll beleive in this D once the Vikes game is over and we won. Unfortunately the last game maybe saved Jo lets berry him's job.
If the Vikes light up the secondary with big yards and we lose, out of playoffs, maybe Joe will be an off season topic.

Still many concerns but my main one is our inability to score TDs and have to kick FGs. Games like the Miami one usually don’t end up in the favor of the team kicking a bunch of field goals. Now I wrote “usually” so you crybaby types don’t have to spend your valuable, lol, time looking up games won with a bunch of field goals.
If we would happen to make the playoffs we will not go far out fieldgoaling teams