A Look Ahead To The Second Half of the Season

Post #1 » by **MickeyDavis** » Mon Oct 27, 2014 12:41 pm

Assuming Rodgers, Lang, Shields and Burnett are 100% in 2 weeks...

Chicago at Lambeau - Should be an easy win but diviision games are always tough. Bears will also be coming off a bye.

Philly at Lambeau - Philly is a good, not great team. They beat us at Lambeau last year (without Rodgers). SHOULD be a win.

At Minny - Win

New England at Lambeau - We will have to win a shootout. Tough game

Atlanta at Lambeau - Win. Falcons will have packed it in. Smith may already be fired by this game.

At Buffalo - Bills have surprised some and it's never easy to win on the road. Could go either way.

at Tampa - Win

Detroit at Lambeau - Could be the division on the line - I don't see Detroit ending the long Wisconsin losing streak.

My prediction - 6-2 ,We finish at 11-5 We lose to New England and Buffalo. I think Detroit goes 5-3 and wins the division on a tie breaker.

Ron Swanson · Post #2 » by **Ron Swanson** » Mon Oct 27, 2014 1:43 pm

I see us going no worse than 10-6. And that is only accounting for one win between Philly, NE, and Det. Considering all 3 of those are at home, odds are that we win at least 2 out of 3 of those games.

Weird to think that our toughest road game left is against Buffalo. I'll predict we end 11-5. I just don't see anyway Detroit beats us at home Week 17 with the division on the line.

Anything after that? This defense needs to prove that they can consistently stop average NFL RB's in order to go far in the playoffs, because the NFC is stacked with good ones (Murray, Lynch, Gore, Bush, Arrington, McCoy).

dedned · Post #3 » by **dedned** » Mon Oct 27, 2014 1:47 pm

Should make the playoffs but probably will get blown out once there.

FAH1223 · Post #4 » by **FAH1223** » Mon Oct 27, 2014 1:58 pm

Next 4 weeks will tell all

ReddRum · Post #5 » by **ReddRum** » Mon Oct 27, 2014 2:01 pm

We didn't beat any good teams the first half of the season, I'm not impressed. My guess is we sneak in as a wild card and lose in the first round. Our running game is weak, we are terrible against the run, and our success plain and simple depends on the success of our QB maybe more than any other team.

My prediction is that we lose to Philadelphia, new England, and Buffalo and win the rest. 10-6 is solid but almost all wins against sub .500 teams basically.

Post #6 » by **paulpressey25** » Mon Oct 27, 2014 2:34 pm

That is an easier schedule that I would have thought. Should go at least 5-3 and make the wildcard depending on what the Lions do.

DanoMac · Post #7 » by **DanoMac** » Mon Oct 27, 2014 2:39 pm

Gonna need Chicago to help us out with Detroit in the 2nd half.

Hopefully Rodgers is OK.

Wish the Pack would make a play for Jermaine Gresham before the deadline.

Kerb Hohl · Post #8 » by **Kerb Hohl** » Mon Oct 27, 2014 2:53 pm

I'd take Gresham for free, but is he an elite blocker (I believe he's pretty good?). He is pretty uninspiring in the pass game.

raysbookclub · Post #9 » by **raysbookclub** » Mon Oct 27, 2014 2:55 pm

I don't know if 10-6 is good enough for a wild card this year. One of Eagles and Cowboys looks like one wild card, and then you have 3 pretty good teams in the West. You'd have to think at least 2 of those teams will be 10-6 or better.

I think we have to go 6-2 for the wild card.

Games we should and need to win: Chi, @Min, Atl, @Buf, @TB.

Game that is less meaningful: NE.

Biggest games: Phi and Det, both at home.

None of it matters though if don't improve the ILB play. The Pack won't be able to get stops against teams with good TEs (that is, all the potential playoff teams) and good run games.

Flames24Rulz · Post #10 » by **Flames24Rulz** » Mon Oct 27, 2014 2:58 pm

Look at Detroit's schedule in the next month too: VS Miami, @ Arizona, @ New England, VS Chicago. They easily could go 1-3 in that stretch. They also end at Chicago and at Lambeau -- they've been notoriously awful at both venues in recent memory.

FAH1223 · Post #11 » by **FAH1223** » Mon Oct 27, 2014 3:04 pm

books wrote:I don't know if 10-6 is good enough for a wild card this year. One of Eagles and Cowboys looks like one wild card, and then you have 3 pretty good teams in the West. You'd have to think at least 2 of those teams will be 10-6 or better.

I think we have to go 6-2 for the wild card.

Games we should and need to win: Chi, @Min, Atl, @Buf, @TB.

Game that is less meaningful: NE.

Biggest games: Phi and Det, both at home.

None of it matters though if don't improve the ILB play. The Pack won't be able to get stops against teams with good TEs (that is, all the potential playoff teams) and good run games.

Tough to do when there's no NT on the roster

BradMKE · Post #12 » by **BradMKE** » Mon Oct 27, 2014 9:42 pm

dedned wrote:Should make the playoffs but probably will get blown out once there.

Wouldn't be surprised if it happened.

And our schedule next year is going to be extremely tough with the NFC and AFC west. This was the year to do something.

RRyder823 · Post #13 » by **RRyder823** » Tue Oct 28, 2014 2:45 am

Seriously guys there is no way we finish 5-3 the rest of the way barring catastrophic injuries. The 3 toughest games areat home against Philly, NE and Detroit. I dont see how we lose to Detroit at the end of the year so long as theyve misplaced that rabbits foot theyre holding on too all year. Philly and the NE game are tests but with both of them being in GB the odds of winning one of them is a pretty solid bet and how sooo many people can be chalking up a road loss to the bills is freakin amazing to me.... Yes thats our toughest road game left but that speaks much more to how favorable our 2nd half schedule is rather then how good the Bills are. Really we'll be like 13 point favorites going into that game....

I get theres allways a pessimism after a loss and shoring up the run defense is priority one but this is still a damn good team that just left WAY to many points off the board yesterday. 6-2 is the absolute worst record we'll have the rest of the way and thats accounting for us dropping a game that we have no buisness losing. 7-1 the rest of the way is a very real possibility also with me believing we'll go 2-1 between the Eagles, Pats and Lions.

All the tough teams we play the rest of the way we get at home. I like our chances there.... But seriously big issue is people need to stop penciling in the Bills game in as a loss..... In Buffalo or not its the freakin Bills.... Some people just have no faith

eagle13 · Post #14 » by **eagle13** » Mon Nov 3, 2014 3:56 pm

With our Defense We could easily loose even in Lambeau especially if Rodgers is even a little off.

Still I predict 6-2 and make POs as wildcard in tie-beaker with better record within Division.

IF we end reg season on a hot roll we may advance but no chance of SB appearance. More likely 1 game exit.