Green Bay Packers' Game Plan

The sports writers and announcers do not seem to have grasped what the game plan was for the great game between the Packers and the Cowboys. It was obvious to me that the Packers thought they could jump all over the Cowboy corners with long passes.

There were two goals: one, wear out the corners for more success against them later in the game, and two, get a lead so that Cowboy quarterback Tony Romo would have to play from behind, something he may not be able to do yet.

It almost worked. But the Cowboy corners held up well enough to stay with the wide receivers of the Packers and Favre was just a little off in his throws. Also, the offensive line was not as capable of holding off the Cowboys defensive line as they had hoped.

Even if Favre had not been hurt, the Packers' plan was most likely to go back to the short pass/five receiver scheme with which they had been successful and proved to be early on during the opening series of plays.

Now the Packers know how far they have come as a team, having played mostly teams with losing records. They know they need all their troops and that they cannot look on any of their up-coming games as "easy." They are capable of winning them all, but sometimes, having one or another key player out will make them vulnerable.

But they also know they can run with Dallas and are not afraid to return to Dallas for a play-off game. Favre still has to win at Texas Stadium. And he will.

Art Davis poem - By My Beard . . .

Mr. Davis is a good church member, a dedicated Christian who has not only given much time, resources, and skill to the churches of which has been been a part both up north and here in Port Charlotte, but he has lent his "bum" to more sermons than you. So he is aware of Scripture passages like, "You will know the false prophets by what they do" (Mt. 7:20) and songs like, "You will know we are Christians by our love," (folk hymn from the 1970s).

His fertile mind plays with phrases like that and he comes up with the some wonderful stuff:

By My Beard You Shall Know Me

Oh hear me, Muse,
I do implore.
Prevent my penning
Words that bore.

In searching through
My poetry books,
I found a sim-
Iliarity of looks.

Longfellow, Whitman,
Elliott, and Keats,
All giants of
poetic feats,

I realized,
You'll think it weird,
Those titans each,
I found with beard.

The question broached
Is not too hard.
Without a beard,
Can one be a bard?

Once I'm bearded,
I'll overnight
Then take my place,
Midst those classed erudite?

I label writing
Rather hard,
For I could end
With beard, and yet
Still not be a bard. . .


Arthur H. Davis
4/11/07
Copyright
6/12/07
Posted by permission of the author