Refurbished Favre jersey – Funny video sent by Zach December 16, 2009
Posted by Ross - a.k.a. The Fat Man in : Good , 3commentsZach in Santa Barbara sent this link to me and it was too funny not to share. (oh, and Zach, just remember that while you are enjoying your 70 degree weather while we are having a high of 2, Iowa/Wisconsin is not in danger of falling into the ocean 
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Mark Jordan Interview in Full September 17, 2009
Posted by Ross - a.k.a. The Fat Man in : Good , 2commentsDuring the show we needed to cut down the interview with Mark Jordan. Here is the full, unedited, interview with him.
Surprises abound in the draft April 27, 2009
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No surprise here with their top pick, Green Bay picks up B.J. Raji from Boston College. As we have discussed, Ryan Pickett was absent for most of last year and the need for a massive stuffer at nose tackle is absolutely necessary in the 3-4. Raji fits the bill. The most surprising part of this pick was not the fact that Raji was chosen, but that Thompson didn’t move down in the draft when there were surely offers to trade since Michael Crabtree was still available at this pick. More on this later. I love this pick and believe our defensive front is going to be a force to be reckoned with.
Clay Matthews wasn’t an overly surprising pick either except with the how and where. Ted Thompson made a shocking move to go UP in the draft for Matthews and paid a hefty price to get him. I wasn’t sure we weren’t looking at AJ Hawk with the hair and physique and maybe Ted wants to confuse offenses even more with the Hawk look-a-like. Who knows.
Walking away from this draft tells me something that I haven’t felt since the Ron Wolf era: we are ready to win NOW. The aggressiveness of the picks, the hiring of Capers and the apparent choice to say “we don’t need those rebuilding draft picks in rounds 2 and 3″ tells a lot to Packer fans. The Packers were 2 pieces away from being a superbowl contender.
Let’s hope this is true. Of course, the other thing TT is depending in is Justin Harrell….
The coaching staff is complete February 3, 2009
Posted by Ross - a.k.a. The Fat Man in : Good , 1 comment so farThis is a nifty detail from the JSonline
Most interesting to me was Winston Moss…
Packershow Supplemental #1 January 29, 2009
Posted by Ross - a.k.a. The Fat Man in : Good, Packershow , 4commentsMeet Chris Carnall of North Yorkshire, England.
NFL Launches “Game Rewind”, Every Game On-Demand In HD With No Commercials December 13, 2008
Posted by Ross - a.k.a. The Fat Man in : Good , 6commentsToday, the NFL launched a new video on-demand service called Game Rewind that lets you watch every NFL game in HD quality, with no commercials. The service, which costs $19.99 for the season or $4.99 for a week pass, also provides DVR functionality and lets you watch up to four games at once. While it is not known exactly how quickly games are made available after they end, for now the NFL is saying within 24 hours, but it is expected times will be much shorter.
The NFL is using Move Networks for the service, which is the same technology partner used for the NFL’s live video service called GamePass HD, available to those outside the U.S. As expected, the quality of video for Game Rewind is amazing and the NFL kept the interface clean and simple. While you can see a demo of the service at NFL.com/gamerewind, the interface I got through an actual account looks a little different. You have the option of just watching the game with no additional content, or including things like stats and chatting with others during the game or watch up to four games at once. Initial buffering times took about a second for me on my Mac, in Safari and I experienced no stuttering at all getting the 2.4MB stream.
While it’s not ideal that the NFL would charge for games on-demand, at twenty bucks a year, it’s very affordable and by providing HD quality and no commercials of any kind, I’d throw down twenty dollars for it. I’d prefer to see the NFL offer this kind of on-demand video with this kind of quality, for free, but with online video monetization models being what they are today, you can’t fault them for charging viewers. With the NFL now providing this kind of video quality for two out of their three online video services, I hope the games they broadcast on Sunday night in conjunction with NBC start getting the HD treatment, or least encoded into a much higher video quality.
GBU Correction December 10, 2008
Posted by PCastleberg in : Bad, Good, Packershow, Ugly , 5commentsIn the Good Bad and Ugly this week I screwed up (read didn’t check my facts before opening my mouth) and said that the 549 yards was the most a Packer defense had EVER surrendered. I should have known that was not true. Greg Bedard of the JSO posted in the post game chat the following:
The 549 yards the Texans rolled up on the Packers weren’t just the most in franchise history for the young team. It was 114 yards more than the previous high. As Jeremy Kapinos said after the game, “That was sombering.”
That led me to believe that “the 549 yards the Texans rolled up on the Packers” was the most in franchise history. How I could have deducted that from the quote above I have no idea.
The true facts about the most yards given up by a Packer D are these:
The Packers allowed 549 yards, their highest total since allowing 552 in the Washington game in 1983. In the last 25 years, they yielded 500 or more five other times: 539 at Detroit in 1984, 545 against Minnesota in 1998, 514 at Denver in 1999, 524 at the New York Giants in 2001 and 542 at Philadelphia in 2004. Green Bay’s three highest yields were 611 at the Los Angeles Rams in 1956, 599 at the Rams in 1957 and 594 at Chicago in 1980.
Just figured I should get that correction out there ahead of time. I certainly have some thoughts about the defensive performance. Not the least of which is that our DC and his scheme need to go. I don’t think the Scheme is championship caliber and I don’t think Sanders has the creativity to modify it to be so.
I’ll leave the rest of the commentary to the actual podcast.
