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Well Trent held his own while he was in the game, but towards the end it got bad, and Jammal was getting beat by Clay Matthews when he was in the game. Cullen Jenkins was getting a lot of pressure as well. I would worry about it more if we start seeing consistent pressure on a weekly basis. So far this season they haven't looked as bad as they did today.

And I don't necessarily agree with you about your d-line case. Even when they did get pressure on some occasions Rodgers anticipated it and got the ball out quickly. That's just a matter of Rodgers knowing the blitz is coming and getting rid of it. And we did get sacks, and most of them came at crucial moments. I was starting to believe Orakpo wasn't doing enough to counter getting held constantly, but I was definitely wrong on that one. He can still get better at countering the arm around the neck, probably by going lower and beating that, but he is already very effective at selling the hold and getting pressure. Other guys were getting pressure too, Fletch and Alexander were able to cleanly beat their o-line on that one sack and Jarmon had pressure at the end as well. Guys were getting pressure from my pov.

Pass coverage I don't have an answer for. I assume they do what Haslett calls, and if Hasletts calls for them to give them room in respect for their deep capabilities, then that's what they have to do. Usually when a cornerback is back off the LOS it means they don't want to give up anything deep. Notice how Jennings didn't really get involved? We did give up some underneath-intermediate stuff but we were able to stop them when it mattered.

Everybody agrees about Banks. We just need to be more disciplined on special teams because it will get called back everytime with blocks in the back and obvious penalties on us. Once they become more disciplined we'll truly be able to benefit from his presence. And the secret will eventually get out and teams will stop kicking it to him.