Inbox: This defense has some really intriguing pieces – Green Bay Packers

Inbox: This defense has some really intriguing pieces  Green Bay Packers

Ryan from Satellite Beach, FL You wanted to see a finish? Are you not entertained!? Just win, baby! I was going to start the column with that famous “Gladiator” line, but you beat me to it. Ron from Round Lake, IL Mike, I hope your medical insurance covers ulcers. Wow! Just another typical NFL Sunday. Given all that had transpired since the Packers’ last victory, it was practically a certainty it wouldn’t come easy or pretty. I didn’t have it scripted as … ugliness for three quarters, followed by a comeback, then blowing two potential opportunities to win late in the fourth quarter, before finally winning in OT … exactly. Not quite anyway.

But this was not a beggars can be choosers kind of day. Davy from Watertown, WI The team heard the “play better in the fourth quarter” mantra, and unfortunately decided the easiest way to do that was to play so badly in the first three quarters that the fourth looks good by comparison. I’m not going to argue, and I balanced all that in both my Game Recap and Rapid Reaction pieces. All I know is this team has a TON of work to do, but I’m glad they’re doing it at 1-1 instead of 0-2. James from Superior, WI Why do the Packers have so many