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p0pe said

This, and I think if Moore and Smith had played, we would have won that game. Moore would have helped us in the red zone, and Smith to help get pressure on Rodgers. The playcalling was bad at times last night, but that'll get better as the season goes on. Not worried much at all.

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Yeah, on the first 4th down call, it was really obvious that they were going to run play action the moment they put Thomas in for Ingram. I didn't have an issue with the play action pass, but I think it would have been much more effective with Ingram in. If I knew they were going to play action, I'm sure Dom Capers knew it too. That being said, it sure would have been nice to have had Lance More running a slant or a little out route near the goal line.

And they were still one shot by a DB as Ingram leaped for the endzone from having a shot to tie it up and win it.

The defense is a concern, but I think they are better than what happened last night. Rodgers just torched us despite good coverage and McCarthy had Gregg Williams off balance all night with the play calling. Other teams don't have Rodgers, Finley and their TEs so I'm sure the defense will look better when very good coverage is good enough and when we can blitz without getting torched every time.

The really good news is that Brees is stepping up into the pocket again, not making dumb throws, is looking like the 2009 version of Drew Brees and the addition of Sproles and Ingram to go along with Thomas gives us the best group of running backs in the league.