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The Postives:

- The run defense looked terrific. The Packers couldn't generate any kind of rushing attack. Ahman Green had one good run of 24-yards, but other than that, the Packers could not run the ball against our defense.

- Will Smith is going to be a special player. The guy is an incredible athlete and IMO is beter right now than either Grant or Howard.

- Courtney Watson showed me something tonight. He only made one tackle but he was where he was suppose to be and did an excellent job of dropping back in coverage.

- James Allen laid a couple of good hits tonight. Did a good job or pursuing the ball carrier on the outside. I thought he did a nice job overall.

- Devery Henderson is going to make some big plays for us this year. Write it down.

- Brooks did a good job considering he had guys in his face and the receivers kept dropping the ball.

The Negatives:

- The receivers dropped too many balls.

- Ashley Ambrose looked bad. I'm actually glad he played as poorly as he did though. Maybe Haslett will finally see he doesn't need to be starting. Or even on the field at all.

- The offensive line looked just awful. But we were missing 3 starters. I'm not concerned about our O-line at ALL !!

- Le Charles did a very poor job of snapping the ball in the shotgun. He needs to correct this.

- The secondary played poorly. Mainly Ambrose. Craft did OK. So did the rest of the DB's. One thing to keep in mind is we did NOT blitz and only rushed 4. This gave the Packers QB's a lot of time to throw the ball.

Bottom Line: Offense played very poor. This was a very misleading game for the offense. Brooks went out early and there were 3 starters missing on the O-line. Our offense will be good this year.

I feel better about our ability to stop the run. I'm not sold they can do it though. They did look good. It was encourging and it's the best I've seen them look since 2000.

I don't know how much I learned from this game. Hard to say.