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Week 6 Game Recap: Green Bay Packers 27, Seattle Seahawks 17
What you need to know
| Green Bay Packers |
Aaron Rodgers is still dealing with a shoulder issue. He grimaced but played through it. He even ran sneaks and was aggressive with them. He showed some toughness and even shoved a defenders helmet into the ground when he was getting up after a hard hit. His numbers were great even though he was playing through obvious pain.
Ryan Grant ran hard and worked the whole game. He didn't break any big plays but still pushed the pile and burned up yards.
| Seattle Seahawks |
QB Matt Hasselbeck was in street clothes. Charlie Frye started as Seneca Wallace was also held back due to injury. Frye was not given the opportunity to throw the ball very much until Seattle had to. Green Bay pinned their ears back and went after him all day and had eight in the box most of the day. The Seahawk offense was not very successful and they did not run many plays so keep that in mind when looking at the offensive production.
Three defensive players are playing with casts. Marcus Trufant, Lofa Tatupu, and Patrick Kerney had casts on their wrists. This did seem to cause problems for all three.
Julius Jones did get most of the touches and he had one great run of 51 yards called back on a penalty. Jones was not afraid to run up the middle this week.
What you ought to know
| QB Aaron Rodgers, Pass: 21 - 30 - 208 - 2 TD / 0 INT, Rush: 6 - 23 - 1 |
You could see Rodgers grimacing in the first part of the game as he worked through his shoulder issue. The Green Bay coaching staff admitted that he wasn't going to be throwing four to five passes in a row during this game. Rodgers didn't need to. He did not let the pain show through. After one hard hit Rodgers actually pushed the defenders helmet into the ground as he was pushing himself up off the ground. His throws were very accurate and he hit Greg Jennings in stride on the long TD play. He was hitting timing routes with precision. Rodgers stayed in the pocket and did not rush plays. There were a lot of comparisons being made to Brett Favre because of how Rodgers played through this injury.
| RB Ryan Grant, Rush: 33 - 90 - 0 |
Ryan Grant just kept hitting the Seahawks and pounding them play after play after play. He worked very hard for his 90 yards and at the end of the game he didn't even look tired. He was not used in the passing game. Grant did not break any big plays and his longest gain was seventeen yards. It was a gutsy and hard fought performance.
| RB John Kuhn, Rec: 1 - 1 - 1 (1 targets) |
John Kuhn had a nice TD reception on a play action and blocked for Grant the rest of the game.
| RB DeShawn Wynn, Rec: 1 - 7 - 0 (1 targets) |
DeShawn Wynn's lone target was a nice reception but was short of the first down.
| RB Korey Hall (2 targets) |
Hall was a dump off candidate and was only used in check down situations.
| WR Donald Driver, Rec: 6 - 53 - 0 (10 targets) |
Donald Driver was targeted the most and he chipped away at the Seahawks. He took many hard hits across the middle and one was just incredible. Driver was not going to let go of the ball no matter what. He was not able to get many yards after the catch but it was a productive day.
| WR Greg Jennings, Rec: 5 - 84 - 1 (7 targets) |
Greg Jennings was the leading receiver even though was not targeted the most. Aaron Rodgers hooked up with Jennings on a 45 yard TD to start the second half and Green Bay never looked back after that. Jennings was the target on long balls but there were only two in this game. Jennings was able to create a few yards after catching the ball.
| WR Jordy Nelson, Rec: 4 - 42 - 0 (4 targets) |
Jordy Nelson was used on a few short throws in the game and made some nice catches that turned into first downs. He took some hard hits but delivered just as much on defenders.
| WR Ruvell Martin (1 targets) |
Ruvell Martin had one target of the game and he did not secure the ball before he tried to reach for the first down. The play was ruled incomplete rather than a fumble.
| TE Donald Lee, Rec: 2 - 9 - 0 (2 targets) |
Donald Lee had a couple short passes but was not targeted downfield or in the seam all game.
| PK Mason Crosby 2 - 2 FG, 3 - 3 XP, 9 points |
Mason Crosby had a very nice 51 yard field goal. He didn't miss any attempts all day.
| GB Rush Defense |
Green Bay made it very hard for Seattle to run the ball. The only time they broke down all day was when Julius Jones made a 51 yard play. That play may have happened because of the penalty but either way it was negated. The Packers dared Charlie Frye to throw by stacking the box with eight. Seattle was able to get over 100 yards rushing but 30 were on Frye scrambles. The rushing defense stuffed the Seahawks most of the day.
| GB Pass Defense |
Charlie Frye might not be the way to gauge your pass defense, but he couldn't do much against this defense. Both of the TDs were on short passes. The first resulted on a short field after the Rodgers fumble. The second TD was in garbage time when Green Bay was more relaxed. Green Bay made two very good plays reading Frye to garner both interceptions. Aaron Kampman was putting pressure on all afternoon. At the end of the day Frye didn't even pass for over 100 yards.
| QB Charlie Frye, Pass: 12 - 23 - 83 - 2 TD / 2 INT, Rush: 2 - 30 - 0 |
There wasn't much to see because Charlie Frye was handing the ball off most of the game. Frye had six pass attempts in the first half. Most of his passing stats came after Green Bay had a seventeen point lead in the fourth quarter. Even then he threw two bad interceptions and only led one scoring drive.
| RB Julius Jones, Rush: 12 - 44 - 0 (2 targets) |
Julius Jones had one very nice run for 51 yards that defenders had to catch him from behind. However, that play was called back on a penalty. He only had twelve touches and both of his targets were batted down by lineman before he had a chance to catch them.
| RB Maurice Morris, Rush: 4 - 16 - 0, Rec: 2 - 13 - 0 (2 targets) |
Maurice Morris was back this week but he only had four rushing attempts and two targets.
| RB Leonard Weaver, Rush: 3 - 14 - 0, Rec: 3 - 20 - 0 (4 targets) |
Leonard Weaver was the main safety valve for Charlie Frye. The rest of the time he was blocking for Julius Jones.
| RB T.J. Duckett, Rush: 2 - 9 - 0 |
T.J. Duckett had a couple touches but was not a big part of the game plan.
| WR Koren Robinson, Rec: 2 - 23 - 0 (4 targets) |
Koren Robinson was the leading receiver and was the target on deep routes. However he only had 22 yards to show for his day.
| WR Keary Colbert, Rec: 1 - 5 - 1 (2 targets) |
Keary Colbert made the most of his opportunities by catching one touchdown pass. There were four receivers targeted more than Colbert.2
| WR Bobby Engram (4 targets) |
Bobby Engram was targeted four times and had two drops. He was covered very well all day and was missed badly on one target.
| TE John Carlson, Rec: 4 - 22 - 1 (6 targets) |
The game plan seemed to be made around John Carlson. Charlie Frye was not throwing the ball downfield but he seemed to be looking to Carlson first on most plays. Carlson had a hard time with the LBs at times but still was able to haul in what he could. He found the soft spot on the TD reception and had a decent day.
| TE Will Heller (1 targets) |
Will Heller was targeted one time and was not heard of again during the whole game.
| PK Olindo Mare 1 - 1 FG, 2 - 2 XP, 5 points |
Olindo Mare made a very nice 50 yard field goal but did not get any other chances during the game.
| SEA Rush Defense |
Green Bay just kept coming at the Seahawks and wore them down. The second half was a totally different ball game. Green Bay did not have a huge day on the ground, but Seattle wasn't stuffing them much either. When they worked as a team and had more than one player on the play was the only time they stopped RB Ryan Grant.
| SEA Pass Defense |
Aaron Rodgers just would not let up. Patrick Kerney had a few sacks slip through his casted hand and Rodgers proved to be elusive. Marcus Trufant could not play up close on WRs and Rodgers took advantage of him all day. The pass rush did not provide a lot of pressure. Rodgers was able to get out of the pocket and make plays. They did cause one fumble and that was the only play of note.
