[QUOTE=pistolpete21;7168]I'm sorry but this is DUMB.
How do you know the Packers are scoring at least 27? Oh that's right, you only know that AFTER the game's over. Please don't post this kind of BS. Nice hit, let's leave it at that and move on. You didn't provide any original analysis of why the Packers would take the Brownies seriously, why the Packers wouldn't be looking ahead to next week's game, etc. IMHO, they did both of those. The Browns were just that bad![/QUOTE]
Go back and read my other post, where I said they would score at least 27 points BEFORE the game started. There are no guarantees a team will score any points. If you want to take that attitude, stop gambling. The Packers have scored at least 21 points in every game this year. They scored 21 against Chi, 24 against Cincy and 23 against Minn. All good defenses although Minny is actually below average this year.
Against the poor defenses they have played, they scored 36 against the Rams (on the road) and 26 against Detroit. The average for those two is 31, which just happened to be their final tally. They allowed 17 and 0 in those two games. That averages out to about 9 points.
Cleveland has allowed at least 27 points to every good offense they have played (34 to Minny, 27 to Denver, 34 to Balt and 27 to Pitt). That averages out to 30.5 points. Cleveland hasn't scored more than 20 points this year and the two games they did that, seven of those points came on kick returns.
The Packers were not looking ahead. This team allowed five sacks to Detroit and once again had way too many penalties that killed drives against Detroit. They were looking to clean that stuff up.
I don't know how you can say they were looking ahead. They rushed for 202 yards, a season high. Cleveland was allowing 165 per game comning into this. Cleveland allows 407 yards per game, GB totaled 460 yards. Cleveland averaged 104 yards rushing, GB held them to 58 yards. Cleveland averaged 136 yards passing, GB held them to 81 yards passing.
If GB was looking ahead, those above numbers would have been much worse. Like I said in my post BEFORE the game started, GB has talent and they will destroy teams like this. They make too many mistakes (penalties and sacks allowed, etc) to beat the really good teams.
I'm not trying to be right here but you called me a dumbass and I'm just trying to point out this wasn't rocket science in seeing this.
Like you said, we move on, but keep this in the back of your mind when GB plays TB and Detroit. The TB game will be interesting because it is right after the Minnesota game. If they win the Minnesota game, they could be in for a letdown. The game against the Rams earlier (off a Cincy loss) and against Cleveland were set up very well for them because of losses and mistakes even though they had Minnesota ahead in both games.
