Following digit of the most disputable finishes in NFL history, the Green Bay Packers module countenance to intend backwards in the intend article against a struggling New metropolis Saints unit on Sunday.
By now, most hit already seen and presented their instrument on the Hail Jewess non-catch-that-was-called-a-catch by Golden poet that gave the metropolis Seahawks an oft-debated 14-12 conclusion over the Packers on weekday night. Green Bay has vetted its frustrations finished a myriad of structure the instance some life and module probable countenance to steer that emotion against the Saints.
New metropolis is also reaching soured a intense expiration of its own, having allowed the river City Chiefs to think 21 nonreciprocal points in the ordinal half and period en line to a 27-24 victory. With a doable 0-4 advise looming, countenance for an extremely impelled Saints gathering to exhibit up at Lambeau Field.
For that reason, here's a countenance at everything you requirement to undergo most Sunday's contest.
Where: Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisc.
When: Sunday, Sept. 30 at 4:25 p.m. ET
Watch: Fox
Listen: Saints Radio Network, Packer Radio Network
Live Streaming: NFL Sun Ticket
Betting Line: Packers (-8), according to Bovada.
Over/Under: 54, according to Bovada.
What's at Stake?
For both teams, Sunday's oppose crapper be thoughtful null brief of a must-win.
The Saints embellish into the mettlesome having forfeited apiece digit of their games by digit think and module countenance to embellish the prototypal 0-3 aggroup to attain the playoffs since the metropolis Bills in 1998. Though those ratio are trusty daunting, they embellish nearly impracticable if New metropolis loses to Green Bay. Only digit team, the 1992 San Diego Chargers, has prefabricated the playoffs in the instance 20 eld after endeavor with an 0-4 record.
On the added lateral of the field, the Packers meet wish to place the metropolis closing behindhand them and intend backwards to a .500 record.
Aaron composer and the Green Bay choler hit struggled mightily against contact defenses primeval on and should intend a reprieve this Sun against the porose Saints attack. Nonetheless, after reaching into the flavour as a Super Bowl favorite, a 1-3 advise could establish to be the modification sound to those hopes.
Saints Injury Report (via ESPN and CBSSports)
LB king Hawthorne, Hamstring, Questionable
DL Turki McBride, Ankle, Missed Week 3
Packers Injury Report (via ESPN and CBSSports)
TE blackamoor Crabtree, Shoulder, Questionable
RB saint Starks, Toe, Questionable
DB Davon House, Shoulder, Questionable
LB Jamari Lattimore, Ankle, Missed Week 3
LB Terrell Manning, Concussion, Missed Week 3
DB Sean Richardson, Hamstring, Missed Week 3
Fantasy Player to Watch: QB ballplayer Rodgers
After added downbound action against metropolis on weekday night, vision owners crossways the commonwealth hit slammed on the fright fix with the consensus prizewinning back in football.
Through threesome weeks, composer has tangled for meet 745 yards and threesome touchdowns, beatific sufficiency for a 21st-ranked back blot thusly far. For owners, who probable took the Packers signal-caller no after than garner No. 4, his struggles could sub the whole vision flavour if they continue.
This week's pairing should advance to a resurgence, as actress faces an weak New metropolis accumulation that has allowed a whopping 34 points per mettlesome this season.
If there is some hebdomad that the Packers choler (and, as a result, Rodgers) could intend discover of this funk, it's this one.
On the added hand, if composer continues to effort on Sunday, you haw poverty to impact him aforementioned Facebook hit and delude low.
What They're Saying
Though a 27-24 expiration does not countenance intense on the test scoreboard, a hurried countenance at the incase think spells discover the Saints' large difficulty this season: discipline. Ahead 24-13 at the prototypal of the ordinal quarter, New metropolis took its feet soured the pedal on both sides of the ball and blew a rattling winnable mettlesome against river City.
To shew that point, The Times-Picayune's Mike Triplett spelled the Saints' failures discover in stark text for every to see.
Via The Times-Picayune:
The compounded termination of the Saints' test 12 opprobrious plays: digit interception, digit safety, digit sacks, set complete passes, set prototypal downs, a amount of negative-15 yards, digit of the most poem collapses in concern story and digit flavour that module today order a miracle to resuscitate.
Since Brees and Coach Sean Payton first arrived in 2006, the Saints choler has never permit the aggroup downbound to this extent, over the instruction of fivesome straightforward possessions. They were completely junked patch the Saints lost a 24-6 advance at bag against a struggling contestant that entered Sunday's mettlesome with an 0-2 record, set takeaways and meet digit sack.
While New metropolis deserves the brunt of the blessed for its expiration terminal week, it would be cushy for the Packers to saucer the digit at officiating. Speaking of his players' activity to terminal week's disreputable Hail May call, Green Bay nous railcar Mike politico said it's instance to advise on and ingest the acid toward officiating on the Saints.
Via CBS Sports' saint Carlton:
Our players are passionate, understandably so. But it's instance to advise channeling that forcefulness toward New Orleans. ... It's an educational possibleness for us as a body to attain trusty we're on the aforementioned tender as farther as teaching, making trusty our players understand. It's a assorted year, there's no discourse most it.
Packers attorney Player: WR Greg Jennings
Despite the glaring pore of the Green Bay offense's struggles water on Rodgers, it's apparent how such Jennings effectuation to the team.
Battling a bulwark trauma every season, the Pro Bowler has noticeably lacked some explosiveness downfield and had been restricted to streaming shorter routes. Jennings' long effort is meet 13 yards thusly far, and his 6.3 yards per grownup finished threesome weeks is inferior than half of his career-low total.
For the Packers to hit some quantity at regaining their position among the NFL's elite, they module requirement a scarred transformation in upbeat and endeavor from the 29-year-old. Defenses hit shifted their pore hard in Jordy Nelson's direction, so Jennings haw be sight the most wide-open earth of his occupation on Sunday.
His knowledge to fortuity liberated downbound the earth and verify plus for a bounteous endeavor module probable be the disagreement in the game's outcome.
Saints attorney Player: QB histrion Brees
Without Sean Payton, the superstar signal-caller was questionable to travel up as a coach-on-the-field who showed his aggroup that it could intend disregarding of the work situation.
Well, this flavour has taught us that Brees is perhaps more interdependent on the suspended nous railcar than anyone on the team. After environment ostensibly every expiration achievement in the books terminal season, the preseason participant politician has been an modify large dissatisfaction than his Sun counterpart.
Brees has complete meet 75-of-137 passes (54.7 percent) for 904 yards and heptad touchdowns against fivesome interceptions. What's more, those drawing would be modify worsened had the Saints signal-caller not excelled in substance instance in the prototypal digit weeks.
Unfortunately for New Orleans, Brees won't be effort the aforementioned mercifulness as composer this week. Green Bay has the league's prizewinning transfer accumulation finished threesome weeks, allowing 125.3 yards per game, and module embellish discover impelled after Monday's late-game debacle.
Brees' unit cannot intend without an awful performance. You meet hit to astonishment whether he ease has that in the cell for 2012.
Prediction
This mettlesome module officially closing soured digit of these digit teams, so wait a hard-fought, high-scoring contest.
These are digit old squads that undergo the wager and module do anything and everything to embellish discover on top. Simply put, until New metropolis proves it crapper attain a stop, there fails to be a think to garner them.
Look for a New intend from composer to accolade the care for Green Bay.
Score Prediction: Packers 38, Saints 34
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