The Stinky Cheese
James Sheldon |Nov 30,2007
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 The Stinky Cheese
Or...maybe you didn't.
The Dish Network discussion has been buried, exhumed and reburied, so let us leave it there. Yet, beyond the smell of poo rolling out of the Cable vs. Dish debate (and their respective execs), there were several other things smelling like 6 day-old, moldy macaroni and cheese on Thursday evening.
The First of the Smellies: The Green Bay Packers Offensive Line in the 1st Quarter.
Of course everyone is going to pin the poor early play on Brett Favre – his letting the ball fly with a Dallas D-lineman in his face, throwing two INTs – but if watching the game tape, it's easy to see that Favre took more shots in the 1st quarter of this game than he's experienced during the previous 11 games of the 2007 season. It was interesting to see the O-line “rally round the backup” when the very capable Aaron Rodgers entered the contest, yet he still ate some Dallas turf on multiple occasions.
The Second of the Smellies: The Green Bay Packers Secondary
As a former defensive back, I don't know that I've ever witnessed an NFL contest in which corners and safeties looked as lost as a high school JV squad. Yes, the game would have played out differently if Charles Woodson would have been able to play even in 3rd down situations, but it wasn't to be. The evidence was no more clear than T.O. being left wide open on several occasions as D-backs bit hard on play action, like an infant on a teething ring. Or perhaps, a T.O. catch overturned (because he has the worst hands of any big-time receiver in NFL history), as he bobbled the ball out of bounds, and the nameless and numberless D-back (the hair...it's gorgeous, but seriously doesn't it get heavy?) who never knew where the ball was – it only almost hit him.
The Third of the Smellies: Brett Favre Goes Down
For Packers fans, it's probably not as bad as it initially seemed. Partially because Aaron Rodgers completed the game with a QB rating over 100, and because Brett Favre is...well...Brett Favre. Regardless of the early turnovers, we all wanted to see Favre finish the game. The Pack was only down 10 when he was knocked out of the game, and a few adjustments may have painted a different outcome. Whatever the case may have been, it would be nice to see these teams meet again, same place, different time, in January...with a healthy Brett Favre.
Oh yeah, there are so many more smellies, including but not limited to: Penalties, blown coverages and poor special teams play. In the grand scheme of things, they qualified more in the 2 day-old milk category. It all comes down to the Packers needing to get healthy to really make their playoff push. They proved last night that they are easily one of the two best teams in the NFC – maybe the best – but they can't do it without key personnel, and the month of December must be about getting and staying healthy.
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