To Dean from Belmont, MI, I love that song. Based on Mike’s response, I’m not sure he got the reference.
I thought maybe it was an ICP reference. Nope, just Judy Collins.
No international game this season for the Packers, that’s a good thing? What are your takeaways regarding the Packers’ schedule?
Interesting is the word that comes to mind. Obviously, no schedule is gonna be perfect, but the overall layout strikes me as a bit odd. The Packers got their long-awaited Week 1 home opener but not much else. They play Washington four days after the Detroit opener, have the NFL’s earliest bye and face a 13-game gauntlet to the finish line. Whoa, Nelly, indeed.
I’m sure players would rather have the bye a few weeks later but the first Thursday game should be to our advantage. Not only are we home but also both teams have the same amount of rest, and we are the youngest team, right?
Time will tell on the youth front, but I’m not a fan of the early Thursday night game. That’s a whole lot of sitting around before playing the hardest sport in the world twice in five days. As Spoff mentioned on “Unscripted,” it’s a tough break for the Packers not catching that first Thursday “mini-bye” after the actual bye in Week 5. On the bright side, the Packers can do plenty of scouting and game-planning to prepare for both matchups.
Dean from Leavenworth, IN
The first two weeks won’t make or break the Packers’ season! But I do think they will set the tone for the next 16. The first couple games have tended to look more like preseason than regular-season games recently, and I’m curious how you think they might speed up the process to be in-season ready and come out of the gate strong?
I couldn’t tell you, Dean, but I’m sure Matt LaFleur and the coaches will take all the data they’ve gathered over the years and channel it towards a fast start. Again, that five-day stretch is critical not only because it’s the first two weeks of the season but it also represents a quarter of Green Bay’s home slate of regular-season games.
Edward from Sioux Falls, SD
I thought it was an unwritten rule that if you were a visiting team on Thanksgiving that your TNF game on Amazon Prime was the previous game or the next game, so you only had one four-day break during the season. Looks like the NFL found a new way to mess with the Packers.
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