The over hyped angle
The PACKERS are the hottest team with the best QB in history, yada yada. They are on an 8-0 run and can’t be stopped. Well let’s look at it. Let’s take the last 6 games in the regular season they won, but, also the last 6 games of their opponents.
Eagles- rookie QB and tanked last part of season. 2-4 last 6 games with 1 of those wins vs Dallas who just laid down.
Houston- No offense to deal with. 3-3 down the stretch
Seattle- Not the Seattle of old. 3-3 L6 of season
Chicago- 1-5 really? Green Bay won by 3
Vikings- 2-4 L6 and 3-8 over L12. Vikings suck
Lions- 3-3 L6. Not a good team once Stafford hurt his thumb
So, let’s see, that 6 game streak to end the season was against….teams that went 12-21 in that same period. HMM. No one with a winning in that part of the season.
But wait they beat the Giants… Giants were frauds all season. At home, in that cold, coupled with the Giants dropped TD’s that kept them from getting momentum. Not impressed.
Dallas? Dallas had the off week and came out slow. Green Bay jumped on them 21-3 half way through 2nd quarter. The rest of the game it was 28-13. Dallas domination really. Packers may be a little overhyped is all I’m saying
The Vegas angle
Ok, let me see if I follow. Earlier in the season the Falcons are -3 at home vs GB. The Falcons won by 1 point. Now, with the HOTTEST team in history coming in the Falcons are -5. Green Bay is a hell of a lot healthier now than they were back then. Depending on where you look, 65%-70% of the bets are on the Packers. Damn near 70% of the money line bets are Packers. Yet, no real line move. The odds makers could of opened this game up at -3 again and still got GB money. Hell, probably even PK and got money. So why the high line? Unusually high line. Set up? Time to make some money back?
Vegas has had a bad start to the year. Clemson hit them hard. Probably didn’t help with GB and Pitt winning outright last week either. Would they make it this easy again to be took? Not likely.
Give me the DIRTY BIRDS!! This offense can’t be stopped, especially by that D.
That all said, I was 2-0 last weekend but 7-14 in the month before that. So what the hell do I know.