We give grades to the different aspects of the Packers game from Sunday or Monday. Am I too critical sometimes? Yes. Am I also too nice sometimes? Yes. I do not have a teaching degree in case you were wondering.
This is a couple days late. I had jury duty and could not stay up on things. For that, I am sorry, but here is the usual Classroom post.
A-Game
Jarrett Bush - Two years ago, this blog predicted a breakout year for Jarrett Bush. I felt confident in this decision, and I went to bat for Bush. It did not work out well for me. Bush still excels as a special teams player, but for the most part, that's all he has been for the Packers. He had two biggest plays that saved Green Bay's season for the time being. Bush broke up the pass to Tony Gonzalez, and then had an interception sealing the game for Green Bay.
Andrew Quarless - By far this is his best game of his Green Bay career. Quarless had six catches for 66 yards including a touchdown. Quarless did a great job opening up the middle of the field for the first time since taking over for Jermichael Finley. I do not know if this is Atlanta's shitty defense or Quarless finding his rhythm out there. If it is the latter, it could be a massive development for Green Bay's offense in the last couple games of the season.
Johnny Jolly - The best two moments of this football game featured Jolly. He had the game-changing fumble recovery basically flipping the game making up for the Packers unexplained interception leading to the fans chant 'JOLLY' 'JOLLY' 'JOLLY' which warmed my heart. He made another big play shortly thereafter and proceeded to do the Cousin Terio celebration again. I love it. (H/T @cjzero for the GIF)
B-Game
Sean Richardson - This might be hyperbole, but he looked like the best safety out there at least against Atlanta's weak wide receiving core. He will face Dez Bryant, Terrence Williams next week, but he deserves to start against Dallas. Richardson looked better than any other strong safety whose been playing all year. If MD Jennings start, I might walk to Green Bay to personally kick Dom Capers squarely in the ass.
Matt Flynn - Felt like we had the best Flynn game since his comeback against Minnesota. He did enough to get it down the field with dinks and dunks yet Flynn still cannot really find the end zone. The two turnovers were really not his fault. Eddie Lacy did not pick up his block leading to the fumble and the interception was just bizarre.
Nick Perry - One of those games where Perry played better than the box score actually said he did because the Packers linebacker only had three tackles for the game. Perry did seem like he was all over the place though which is encouraging to see although he did lose contain which is his one flaw as an outside linebacker. Coincidentally enough, this was also Clay Matthews' issue in his young career, must be a USC thing.
C-Game
Eddie Lacy - The reason I put Edward in the C category is missing the block causing the Flynn fumble. He only did have 65 yards on the ground, but the first drive was one of the best of Green Bay's season which heavily involved Lacy throughout the 19 play drive. Lacy recovered nicely from an ankle injury which was an injury that drew complete ire from Packers fans all over the world. I expect him to be fine for Sunday's game.
D-Game
Morgan Burnett - Another piss poor performance from Burnett. He is like the reverse Carlos Gomez where he gets a deal and instead of playing above it, he plays below it. Burnett paled in comparison with Richardson's performance and that's a guy whom only has not really played professional football. Hopefully, this is just a bad year for Burnett.
Mike McCarthy's near disaster final first half possession - I could not explain why Mac felt it was a good idea to have his offense run through a few plays with no chance at making it into the end zone with under .30 minutes to go in the game. Lacy was hurt in the process meaning he took even a bigger risk than he needed at that point of the game. Packers should have taken a knee there and went to half.
F-Game
Brad Jones - He looked really bad on Sunday. Jones allowed so much up the middle with Steven Jackson. I am blaming more of Green Bay's recent struggle on Jones not being healthy limiting his play leading to Green Bay getting gashed up the middle. Jones might be a liability with his health right now although there is no one to replace him so... yeah.
That interception return - I really have no idea what happened there. I like I usually do in-between plays... check Twitter and all the sudden, I see Sean Weatherspoon start running the football back with no whistles and T.J. Lang whiffs leading to a touchdown. Let's just add this to the scrapbook of ridiculous things that happened to Green Bay this season. Good tweet from Lang about this one.
Great to get a win today! And yes, I know I need to work on my tackling.
— TJ Lang (@TJLang70) December 8, 2013Charlie.
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