I would not even dream of starting Rodgers this weekend. GB is going to get smoked on the road. Titans will easily win. See what the Bucs did to GB at home; expect more of the same here. GB has no running game and Titans eat teams that only pass the ball.
My perspective is that Green Bay's shutdown corners will make a mockery of Collins and his anemic wide receiving corps, nabbing at least 2 picks.While I agree that it will be tough sledding for Green Bay's offense, I don't see Tenn having the success against Green Bay that they had against Indy.
(To a degree) It doesn't matter that GB has two shutdown corners. They'll run alot and throw to the TE like they've done numerous times. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a game this year where all WRs combined to have less than 7 catches. That'll be more like "so what, they shut down the WRs, so what". The Packers are simply going to have to play tough, play after play after play. That talented group takes plays off and misses tackles. CJ will destroy them if they do that. All in all though, the Titans are bringing it with the run game behind one of the top OL and the Packers have to "tighten their chinstrap and go to work".
I think it helps them in that they can commit the safety to stopping the run and helping out on the TE or go with 4 LBs if they want like Indy did and not worry as much about Collins picking them apart to the outside with any WRs.And I agree...they have to get tough for sure.
I think the 4-4-3 bit Indy some. Kerry looked like he was the ol QB for the Panthers at times.Early on this season LBs were "cheating" (taking a step one way or the other) to adjust or to Johnson's speed and Heimerdinger will just call a play that counteracts that. Mike is very sharp and while their skill position players are not uber-talented, they have tons of depth at skill positions to call any formation and do it well. IMO The best way to defense them is probably (oddly enough) how the Titans did the Colts. Don't blitz, don't get fancy, just man up. Aside from CJ, they have no game-breakers. Just stay in your lanes, hit em' hard, and play disciplinned Defense. Mike will hurt ya, if you don't. He's one of the best at finding matchup probs for the defense. Don't feed that ego, just man up.Rambling on about Mike....if ya think of it during the game, try and pay attention to the defensive set and what offensive set Mike sends out. He's quite clever.