Originally posted by FischerKing
I'm not worried about the O-Line, as long as the backups aren't playing.
And Najeh being fumble prone? Dude - Green was much worse at holding on to the ball when he arrived in Green Bay - don't you remember his years at Seattle - he was terrible. That's why he ended up there and he's a much better back now than he ever was there. Najeh will be okay - that's teachable.
Shawn
I was dissappointed in the backup R tackle Barry. He played well when pushed into the starting roll last year because of injuries and has great athletic potential, but he seemed to regress so far this year in training camp and in yesterday's game. We are OK at backup guards, but are kind of thin at backup L tackle. We need Clifton back there, otherwise Flannigan will have to move from center to tackle like he did last year when Clifton got hurt.
I was kind of dissappointed in Nall. I was hoping to see more from him. Time will tell and the jury is still out. He's got 4 more preseason games to prove himself
The offense I'm not worried about though as long as Favre is healthy, even though they didn't look that impressive. The way I look at it, yesterday's game was our scrimmage. We didn't have a live scrimmage with hitting because they canceled the hitting portion of it last week due to all the injuries we had. When we get Driver and Ferguson back at WR, plus add the newly acquiered TE Walls to the mix, Favre will have some weapons to throw too. So I'm not worried about the offense when we start firing all of our weapons and getting our linemen back
The part I liked was the rookie LB Barnett. He's going to be the real deal after he gets some more experience. He can fly around compared to Nickerson who looked like he had cement shoes last year. Lots of people said the Packers made a mistake taking Barnett so high in the 1st round. It looks to me like the PAckers scouting staff got it right.
The other part I liked was Harris at DB. He made some playes last night and looked better and more aggressive than Tyrone Williams did at that position last year. KC had an explosive offense last year, and they didn't do all that much either last night.
So we might have improved our defense with those 2 positions.
I'm still concerned about our D-line though. Overall I'm not worried. We looked worse last year in our preseason game against Cleveland. We'll be ready to rock when the season rolls around.