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December
[h2]Packing the Stats: Green Bay’s Scoring Stats and Slow Starts[/h2]
Posted in
2010,
2010 Regular Season,
Chad Toporski,
Defense,
Mike McCarthy,
Offense,
Stats by
Chad Toporski
In their Week 13 game against the San Francisco 49ers, the Green Bay Packers were clearly favored to win the match-up. Not only were they playing at Lambeau Field (the first time since playing the Dallas Cowboys before the bye week), they were also facing a team whose mere four wins came against opponents currently boasting no better than a .500 record.
Perhaps that’s the reason, then, why fans were a bit frustrated after the first quarter of play.
Here were the Green Bay Packers – an offensive powerhouse and a defensive machine – down by two fields goals and with zero points to show for their efforts against the 49ers?
“Mike McCarthy’s teams always start slow,