Basking in some vicarious victory today!
Like Clark Griswold, Blaska could not be more surprised if he woke up with his face sewn to the carpet. Going into this season we were certain Jordan Love would make Packer fans yearn for the glory days of John Hadl. Seemed wobbly when he filled in for A-Rod. Convinced the 2023 Green Bay Packers would be playing for high draft picks.
Instead, Mr. Love took the youngest team in the NFL to the playoffs (“PLAYOFFS! PLAYOFFS?”) with a masterful evisceration of the much improved Chicago Bears, a team strong on defense.
The Packers back in the 2020 draft irritated our favorite prima donna QB by plucking one Jordan Love out of Utah State University with its first pick (#26 overall) when the team needed immediate help to get over the hump. They had just lost yet another NFC conference championship, this one 31-26 to Tampa Bay. Love spent the next three years holding Aaron Rodgers’ clipboard. And absorbing.
Mama said “You can’t hurry love
No, you’ll just have to wait”
She said, “love don’t come easy
Well it’s a game of give and take”
Love had one really good year with the Aggies and it wasn’t his senior year, when his production fell off dramatically. Utah State is no Power Five conference school, either. Plays in the Mountain West conference with teams like Wyoming and New Mexico. Lost to Georgia State 45-22 in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl in Boise ID this season.
Meanwhile, how many can’t miss college quarterbacks fizzled? Tim Tebow (maybe the greatest college QB ever at Florida), Robert Griffin 3rd, John Manziel, Ryan Leaf.
And those first and second-year receivers! Dontayvion Wicks, Romeo Doubs, Jayden Reed, Bo Melton, Malik Heath, Christian Watson if he ever gets healthy. Tight ends Tucker Kraft and Luke Musgrave. (Oh boy!!!) All hail general manager Brian Gutekunst!
We were touched, by the love a very mellow Packers’ coach Matt LaFleur gave Love after the game. “I’m super happy for him. It’s not always easy when you’re a first round pick and have to sit and watch, wait your turn.” Is there any praise higher than this:
“His family did a helluva job raising him … He’s about all the right things. The guy comes to work everyday, great attitude, one of the guys, really improved over the course of four years. … He’s resilient, those are things you can’t coach. … his ability to stay even-keeled. … Great things are in store for him.”
— Packers Coach Matt LaFleur
Blaska’s Bottom Lines: Jordan Love did something Aaron Rodgers and his favorite receivers — thank you for taking them with you to the Jets — just one year ago could not.
Last time Packers won the Super Bowl (after the 2010 season) they did it all on the road as the #6 seed, the lowest at the time.
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“Dare we dream?”
Yer damned skippy! Heck, even the refs couldn’t help ’em pull it out.
Bookending the 13 Time World Champion Green Bay Packers 2023 season with @$$whuppin’s of the hated chicago Bi-Polar bares?
Priceless!
Holding them under 200 yards of offense, keeping them out of the end zone, AND sacking the soon-to-be-dearly-departed J. Fields five (5) times?
Priceless, 2.0!
There an Over-Under that projected 2024 1st overall pick USC C. Williams elects to stay in SoCal another year collecting NIL $ rather than get drafted by certified dead end QB Killers?
“thank (A-Rod) for taking them with you to the Jets”
Whaddya bet the two (2) he didn’t take (Equanimeous St. Brown and Marcedes Lewis suited up for the bad guys last night) wished they were still wearing the Green-n-Gold?
In The Gotch’s best Assistant AG James A. Wells (Wilford Brimley in Absence Of Malice) voice: Mr. Gutekunst, Are You That Smart?
FUN FACT: 1st year starter Jordan All You Need Is Love’s stats were better than any midgets of the midway QB EVAH!
One more thing:
After Further Review, The bares STILL SUCK!
GO PACKERS!!
The Gotch
One and done. Go Cowpuppies.
The only thing more pitiably pathetic than the None and None Bi-polar bares?
Their idiot fans!
Jordon Love 2 midgets of the midway ZERO
Coach Of The Year Candidate Matt Lefleur TEN Bi-Polar bares ZERO
Since 1992:
13 Time World Champion Green Bay Packers 45 Duh bares 18
You can’t turn around without recalling an epic Title Town b!tchslappin’ of the eminently b!tchslappable bares
Who can forget 2013’s 4th and 8 From The 48 for the win and the NFC North Title:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRPmDkXAPlQ
Or the 11/05/1989 INSTANT REPLAY GAME
Speaking of which: After Further Review, duh bares STILL SUCK!
GO PACKERS!!
The Gotch
The Gotch is right…I’m truly concerned about the basic NFL proficiency level of the Mammals to the South. Are they fit for professional-level competition?
Like the POTUS, should they resign, and serve no further terms in their chosen calling?
Halas, Sweetness, Sayers, Butkus, et al, are turning in their graves!
Singletary, Urlacher, McMahon, Dent, Ditka, et al, are hiding their heads in shame!
To call the McCaskey’s irredeemably inept morons would be an insult…to truly deserving irredeemably inept morons…
The Gotch
Despicable Lefty Rag SLATE: Bi-Polar bares THE_BLEAKEST_TEAM In Recent NFL History
Et tu, SLATE…?
MONEY QUOTE: “There are different ways to go 0–4, but getting there by ALLOWING 24 UNANSWERED POINTS TO A DIFFERENT WINLESS TEAM IS THE WORST A TEAM HAS DEVISED YET.
There are holes, AND THERE IS WHERE THE bares NOW RESIDE.” (bolds/caps/italics mine)
The Gotch
NFL Week 18: PFF Team of the Week & Player Awards:
QB-Jordan BEST OF MY Love
OLine 13 Time World Champion Green Bay Packers
The Gotch
Da Bears have a tough choice to make. Do they stick with Justin Fields, their current QB and spend their high draft picks to build around him, or do they trade fields (who would certainly draw interest from that half of the NFL without a quality QB) and then draft the kid at USC?
I have no idea what they’ll do. I just have complete confidence that whichever way they go, it will be wrong. It’s Da Bears. These are they guys who traded UP so they could take Mitch Trubisky over Patrick Mahomes.
“I just have complete confidence that whichever way they go, it will be wrong.”
Bravo Indigo November Golf Oscar!
“It’s Da Bears.”
The midgets of the midway live in INTERESTING TIMES…
The Gotch
OT, but that Sunday A.M. Northwoods Earthquake hit smack dab in Werkes Platinum Subscriber nemoofthenorth‘s bailiwick.
The Gotch
The damage from the early morning tremor is still being assessed. So far the scarring includes displaced patio furniture, cracked lake ice, and possibly bruised gin on the bar’s rail. Thanks to Love and the Packers’s stellar performance later that day, many local residents have found the will to go on. We will rebuild!
FTR, Nemo has a fully stocked tavern on site.
It gets better.
Not only that, but also a basketball court sized deck which faces Sunset West overlooking a beautiful Northwoods lake.
Whatta life!
The Gotch
Jordan All You Need Is Love named NFC Offensive Player Of The Week 2nd straight week.
In possibly related news, the Bi-Polar bares (THE_WORST_TEAM_IN_THE_NFL) fires their OC.
Like THAT’S gonna help?
Heh! FF‘sS…EberFLUB‘s still there, am I right?
The Gotch