Really would have liked to see at least a 60 yard attempt from Crosby at the end... That would have been fun

McCarthy;s best results are when he gets creative due to injuries or he has a full arsenal. THis team will be fine no matter what cow says.

Sure, I'll give MM for a great offensive game plan & production with a depleted offense against a craptastic Falcons D if you give head coach MM discredit for allowing his Defensive Coordinator Dom Capers to allow the Falcons to slowly, slowly move the field down the field instead of coming after Ryan on the final drive.

Way to take the ball out of ARod's hands.

After hurting his knee/ankle, Jones was little more than a decoy. Did nothing. Atlanta did what I thought they couldn't do, and that's win with its second and third options carrying the load.

Yep. Upward and onward.

This is the Rodgers we have been missing.

And to do it with out 2 of the offenses most dangerous weapons. Very impressive!

Have to get healthy!

GO and get another beer or two.

When we scored our last TD, I thought we left them too much time. Sure enough.

The irony is our defense in the end played just good enough to lose. Neither stopped ATL nor gave AR enough time to work a drive in the end. The perfect poison.

Rodgers played his best game in 15 games, but because of him it was NOT good enough to win. When the Packers needed 3 yards for a first down with a timeout and still time on the clock, why make long throws? Makes no sense but he does it all the time.

4-3 in 2010 at this time....

"Way too many injuries to overcome. "

My thoughts exactly. It's why this game stings, but doesn't hurt.

With that being said, I was expecting our Defense to make at least one big stop towards that last scoring drive. Gunter had a chance. HHCD had a chance. We have to start coming up with those coulda, woulda, shoulda plays. They always bite us in the end.

d put on a good fight.
rodgers was not bad.
janis answers the bell like always when given a chance. not a single drop. hold on to the td after a hard hit.
geronimo was the red zone help we thought he would be and davis was not bad either. even adams was decent, get targeted a lot. not on the same page with ar on the last play.
tight end a non factor again

This one stings -- not hurt.

My only question:

Why wasn't Joe Thomas in and Jake Ryan out on the Falcons last scoring drive? They were obviously in pass-mode.

Conference loss will hurt. That said, reminiscent of 2010 when a loss showed them how good they are fundamentally as a team. Just get to postseason.

MM should have let the Falcons score with more time on the clock. you knew the defense would fold with not enough time to score.

Given all the injuries, the Packers played a great game. But after playing with so much energy in the 1st half, why did they come out so flat in the 2nd half?

This isn't the first time this has happened. After scoring 24 points in the 1st half, they score 0 points in the 3rd quarter and only 8 points in the 4th quarter. If they had played this game with as much energy in the 2nd half as they did in the 1st half, they would have won this game going away.

This forum has really taken a dive. "Gut reaction" was much better. This has just been a recap of the game. I'm surprise something different was offered today. Highly disappointed with the content on this site.

Now to the Pack

Defence played better than expected considering the injuries. Hopefully we get some body's back soon. That is all this team needs to go on a nice run.

GO PACK GO!

Happy Halloween everyone!

and why does MM feel he needs to run the football when you put up 24 points in the first half. i knew they would blow it when he put rodgers under center in the second half for the first 2 drives and failed to score. McCarthy can take a hike.

an if there is any kind of deph chart at WR, they are not seperated by much. non of them by the way. they all have different skillset with different strengths and shortcomings.
it depends all on 12, the weapons are there....

Hey Jersey AL, why bash Janis?
He had some good catches including a TD reception.
I would say he did about as well as Jordy.

The offense seemed to have rhythm and purpose. ARod was very good except for stretches in the third quarter despite playing with an injury-depleted supporting cast. More progress for the offense, but the W was there to be had...

The "get-well Packers offense" against lousy defenses string continues next week when Indy comes to Lambeau. The Colts can move the football and have greasy-quick WR...it's getting close to must-win time. Dropping another home game, against a very beatable AFC opponent, can't happen...

Quick impressions:
Not enough pressure on Ryan (2 sacks? )
HHCD again absent not much help over the top and maybe 3 tackles that looked like he didn't want to make, loved the stop Brice made though! And beat up secondary did good job on J jones.
Davis looked good.
Janis caught everything including a TD
Nice to see Allison make a nice catch on the sideline and a TD.
Good game for AR but again burned a TO in the 2nd half running the play clock down.
Fackrell offside on 3rd and 5 uggg.
R Rodgers a non factor (0 catches? )
MM said at the half they must run the ball in the 2nd half. Question: where did we hear that before? Answer: 2015 NFC Championship game, oh how some things stay the same with MM.
Good game that was theirs to win but GB has yet to beat a good team this season .

Valiant in defeat, but a defeat. Rodgers was exceptional, especially without a viable running game. My main criticism is not to cover Sanu who had been eating up the defense all second half.

The other criticism, one without a solution until the off season is: Richard Rodgers. What a waste of a perfectly good body. He couldn't block a gnat.

Spin any way you like. They lost. --- This game means nothing starting tomorrow.

I still see crap tackling, poor angles, and guys taking each other out of plays.
Entertaining game except for the last 3:33. Exciting plays by Davis, Allison, and Janis.

Richard Rodgers is a clunker. Throwing a little pass behind the line to the fullback and then Ripkoski has to turn around and run into a mass of bodies. Loses 3 yards. Stupid play calling.

Sorry, but this is still a woulda, coulda, shoulda 8-8 team. Certainly no Super Bowl contender, and being forced to play marginal 2nd and 3rd stringers almost guarantees it. All Rodgers really wants is to run 'n gun. The defense sucked when it needed to.

this game came down to the defense making one stop on the Falcons last drive and they didn't, the offense did all it could today. Capers might have been outmatched here.

This is probably the best I've ever felt after a loss. I wasn't expecting to go down to Atlanta and win, but this team played their hearts out today.

Aside from missing half the team through injuries, Rodgers is looking more like himself and Ladarius Gunter continues to impress. With Rodgers playing like we know how, this team is still dangerous as ever.

The only things that bothered me were the lack of a running game and no turnovers created. Also -- WHY THE HELL DOES DON BARCLAY KEEP GETTING PLAYING TIME?? He came in for one play vs. Minnesota and gave up a sack, he came in for a couple series when Lang needed to get something checked out vs. Dallas and got pummeled, then he comes in again tonight and gets bulldozed.

The good thing is this team has a soft schedule with very winnable games coming up. Unless Minnesota has an epic collapse, second place in the division is the best and most realistic outcome we can expect.

Rodgers probably wouldnt be looking for 20 yards on 3rd and short if WE HAD AN ACTUAL LIVING BREATHING TIGHT END. Also couldnt agree more about the where was HHCD comment.

How bad is Richard Rodgers though? It's remarkable that we have essentially 2 non existent TE's and can still run the ball. Cook please get well soon!!

Great game. I mean we lost by one point with half our team not even playing. Never expected RR to play so well especially with most of his weapons missing. That said we need a running game...bad. it's obvious that we need our secondary to heal up (and trade for Haden haha), but we need a freaking run game. Obviously they attacked through the air because of ATL poor secondary but if we are gonna win against a good d I hope we get these new RBs going and fast.

Anybody else think it was dumb to go for two at the end? Either way ATL needs a TD, but if you don't make the 2-pt conversion and then they score a TD, you're kicking a FG to tie at the end, whereas if you kick the PAT, you're kicking to win after they score. Turned out to be a non-issue, but it seems like the wrong choice to me. I'm not sure what we gained by going for it.

Also, I do wish Rodgers hadn't done the belt. It seemed rather premature.

All that said, I'm happy with a lot of this game. I think Rodgers and our O took a big step forward and got some swagger back. That is priceless.

Oh yea!

On a positive note:

I love when Rip gets a head of steam. No, I'm not a prisoner of the moment -- Rip should be RB #2.

Next season:
Either Lacy, Starks, or another (drafted) RB can be RB1. Rip can be RB2 and as a long as we have Cobb/Montgomery healthy, we can sub them in when Rodgers/coaches decide to speed things up. It's not like we use 3 RBs anyway. Remember Mike Alstott and Peyton Hillis?

Best effort, best game plan (for the most part) and best execution of any game this year. If they can duplicate this for the remaining season.... they will get into the playoffs.

I was wondering which Packer team was going to show up. Their best game in my opinion. There are continued issues with MM seemingly throtteling what works. He said he wanted to establish the run and wasted the first 2 series in the 2 nd half and gave the momemtum to Atlanta. That being said Im excited about what I saw..now I know they are capable of competing..this looked like the old Packers we are used to. Defense needs their guys back..played well missing so many pieces but could not hold onto the lead when it mattered. With Jones hobbled Capers and the D let a tight end kill us again. I was wrong thinking AR was slipping.
Go Pack Go

Being at sea, this was one of the few games I have been able to see all year. I must say that things looked improved since the last time I was able to watch our packers (loss to giants). AR looked outstanding and the D held up much better than I expected. I really anticipated another installment of the "Julio Jones Show". I was happy to see that that was not the case. I think there were more positives than negatives in this game. Onward.