Sit starters in preseason to avoid injury? Why? Your team comes out looking sloppy, disjointed and you lose... On top of that, you get your franchise QB injured on one of those sloppy disjointed plays...
I know Im old school, but I fully believe you need to have contact to ready your body for contact. And if your executing technique correctly and efficiently, less chance for injury.

Not taking advantage of pre-season games with the starters. So, here we are again talking about a never ending theme with the Packers. And I imagine next year, it will be (again) part of the early season discussion. Not sure why Matt LaFleur doesn't see the light? Three offensive plays in 3 pre-season games...mind-boggling?

edited: what they said ^^

Disappointed in the defense - poor tackling and very few stops against the Eagles offense. They did create some turnovers and the safeties looked much better than last year, but the linebackers and Alexander did not look good. Yes, the Eagles offense is loaded, but I expected a bit more from Hafley's D.

Of equal concern was the Packer O-line. Walker had a bad game and Morgan didn't look ready to handle NFL interior D-linemen. They opened no holes for the RBs in the first half and allowed pressure on Love all game. You can have all the weapons you want, but without a decent O-line the offense will not dominate.

Poor coaching again. Also poor drafting of first round picks. Walker, Wyatt, Morgan, and Savage. Pathetic gute. Ed please replace gute

Wait… what?!?!? Quay Walker with a game ball? Good God, he was awful….

Also, it's his 3rd year. Are we even talking about the same dude?

That last drive by Philly was reminiscent of past years. We just couldn’t stop them. Philly made plays at crunch time and we didn’t. And we left a lot of points out there.

Wow, talk about negative Nellie’s! Let’s fire the d-coordinator…… It’s one game against a good Eagles team.

Top of the 2nd quarter, Jacobs has had 6 carries for 8 yeards, so put in Wilson and watch him gain 37 yards on 3 straight carries. Then we don't see Wilson carry again until 5 minutes into the 4th quarter where he gains 9 yrds. Offense could have made an in game adjustment and gone with a hotter hand, especially in the sloppy first game of the season. I think Wilson had a block on the Reed carry for TD, and caught both his targets. Maybe Wilson should get a mention for a pretty solid game.

These comments crack me up. 3 plays in the preseason and the offense still puts up 29 points. New d coordinator and they have 3 takeaways with 2 more that should have been. When is the last time that happened? Rookie kicker in his first ever pro game and he misses one FG. You would think the world is ending by some of these comments. One of the youngest teams in the league folks. Just like last year, it’s going to take half a season to get going. And let’s not forget how the cap of recent past has affected all this. Take a chill pill.

Tackling effectively has nothing to do with playing in pre-season games. The Packers need to bring opposing players to the ground.
Linebacker room and O-Line are not adequate and it's past the 11th hour.

Well, at least we got this final exhibition game out of the way and can start working to improve the play of the team. Not playing starters any meaningful snaps in the preseason almost guarantee's this type of game. We saw a little of everything including missed tackles, missed blocks, offsides, holding, too many men on field, poor decision making, doinked field goal (if that was a Carlson miss we'd be crucifying him). Let's not forget bad game planning for both sides of the ball and questionable play calling throughout the game. Where were the screens, quick passes and creativity in the red zone? Nothing deep for CW? Never ever seemed to get in a rhythm offensively as everything was totally disjointed and unconnected from one play to the next. But this is just one game and the season is long. This is the wakeup call. GPG!

No words

They looked out of sync, kinda' what I feared from a team that hasn't played together in the preseason? MLF needs to re-think that!
I'm sure I'll have enough bitching to add over the next weeks, so I'll hold most of that for now with one exception. Where's Showtime?

Speaking with an Ortho customer of mine. He believes this is likely a grade 3 MCL tear with High ankle sprain.
4-8 weeks usually. Ryan Tannehill should be signed now.

As for lame calls, how about the zillion dollar QB who missed WRs who were open, missed them high, missed them low as in a ground ball and threw into traffic a few times....I was not impressed...only one game and if Love misses time its on to next year...

Game in Brazil was a mistake awful field, 12 hour flight, 2 hour bus ride to field, hopefully Love injury not serious, Cooper with only 11 snaps was very productive hopefully he takes over for McDuffie who was constantly out of position, Jacobs is going to be a great addition ,lets just look for improvement next game.

the BIGGEST error in the game was Nixon's running out the kickoff with no time outs and 30 seconds on the clock. IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN DECIDED BEFOREHAND BY BISACCIA TO TAKE A KNEE ..NO EXCUSE FOR THAT ! NEXT TIME DEMOTION FOR HIM-another historical special teams screw up !!

Didnt see game but your lame calls and game balls suggest a poorly coached game. Basacia should be taken to the wood shed from not having drilled into the heads of the kick returners when to run when not to run. Those mistakes are really on his un coaching ability.
Lame call on LeFluer for refusing to play the ones on defense knowing you have a new scheme, new coach and they need the work to get the kinks our and find what works what doesnt and correct it. The game last night relected bad decisions on his part.
Game ball to the kicker. Hey he is a new guy who missed one field goat but pretty much was solid for having no game experience. Certainly no worse then Carlson.
Lame game. Obviously the defense doesnt have the talent or were just out of shape and not game ready?

Keisean Nixon: Not a good defensive back. Maybe people like Mr. Krim should consider moving Nixon to LB- that's the skill set he seems to display. Tackling? Disruptive on blitzes? Check, and check. Coverage? Watch that game again and watch the coverage. Not good.

The team looked sloppy and out of sync across the board, except Reed. Again, more playing time for starters during preseason is ignored. Every season, this mistake is made with MLF! But the big question is Love's injury and how we adapt to another QB quickly?

I must have watched a different game.

McKinney and Wilson deserved game balls. Walker did not. Alexander should have been on lame calls, constantly getting beat and missing tackles. MLF going for 2 early in the game and choosing to run it into the strength of Eagles' D, which hadn't worked at all to that point, was a lame call. Wasting all 3 time outs in the first half was a lame call. Missed tackles was a definite lame call. Constantly calling run plays up the middle, which wasn't working at all, was a lame call. Having to settle for 2 early FGs after inheriting excellent field position was a lame call.

I give Hafley credit. He had players in position to make plays pretty much all game long, only to have them whiff on tackles. Maybe not a game ball but better than most are giving him credit for.

Bottom line is that a young and inexperienced Packers roster had chances to win but didn't take advantage on offense or defense. Love made some great plays and dodged at least 2 bullets throwing into coverage. He also had some stinkers, throwing into the dirt and often behind receivers. His receivers, other than Reed (who also dropped a couple), didn't help him much. Other than Love's health, I'm very concerned about our O-line run and pass blocking. The Eagles have a very good front 7 and they dominated our O-line all game long, both running and passing. Next week is a must perform much better for our O-line. Go Pack go!

This is what happens when most starters do not play until first game. Sloppy mistake filled mess. Kind of a hallmark of MLF teams. Almost every penalty was a drive killer or drive extender if on defense. It's amazing the game was close given the penalties.

What I saw was a defense that is clearly better than any we have seen in MLF's tenure. Then offense was quite frankly offensively bad, yet still managed to look good at times. I saw Bullard, and Cooper, come up like shot out of a cannon for run support.

Without Love, this is going to look like Brett Hundley time.

Do you realize how much better this defense was at containing a premier running QB?! Then they just kind of ran out of gas at end due to conditioning and first game and all.

I don't know how Matt prepared the team, but whatever he and his staff did should burn the protocol and erase it from the histories.

He said the coaches did things differently for this opener and something about "we'll never do it agin" in a very irritated, peeved tone.

Excessive penalties, missed blocks, missed tackles, dropped passes and poor throws is symptomatic of poor preparation and that is on the coaching staff. The missed tackles were a surprise given how much Hafley says they stress it...looks like they don't practice it much, however.

OL is still a mess in the middle. No dominance whatsoever. Walker was leaky and grabby. Most plays at least one of the 5 got beat and wrecked the timing of the play at the snap.

That is probably going to be the sloppiest game of the season. It better be.

It's not as if the Packers were blown out of the water. Still with all their penalties, miscues, poor tackling and vanilla game plan - they were in it - right up until the end - against one of the top teams in the League! Shall we recall the Denver pre-season game - when the doomsayers began to congregate? So how did the team perform in their next game against the Ravens? Being the first game of the season - I believe that the team deserves a pass. However while the final score did not favor the Packers - the larger loss was the injury to Love. This will certainly de-celerate the offence (my prediction for the next 1-6 weeks as Love recovers). Giving the D an opportunity to garner more of our attention (and enjoyment).

Is anyone else tired of over officiating. They’re becoming more important than the game.
It’s insufferabl.