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Normally, I like to start a franchise with a lower rated team but, this year I decided to go with my favorite team in real life, Green Bay. I have to say that this is the first football game ever that made me care about the preseason. The first couple of weeks were easy decisions but, once you get to Week 3 you have some tough decisions to make. Especially, since those moves haven't been made, in real life yet.
I'd say my toughest cut's where RB Brandon Saine and WR Brett Swain. Saine probably had the best preseason of all of my backs. However, he put up those stats against other 3rd and 4th stringers so, that's kind of how I justified that. With Swain, he was made expendable because of Rookie Wideout's Randall Cobb and Tori Gurley.
As far as position battles RB was the most interesting battle. Grant and Starks both played well however, Starks played a hair better. I had thoughts of putting Grant on the Trading Block and going with Starks, Alex Green and Saine but, in the end I decided against it because if Starks went down, I would've been screwed. My plan going into my first game of the season against New Orleans is to split the carries with Grant and Starks about 60/40.
My first game was at Home versus New Orleans. They jumped out to an early lead behind the arm of Drew Brees and timely forced turnovers by their D. The score at the Half was 27-14 New Orleans. In the Second Half our defense played much better. We scored the first two TD's of the Half to take the 28-27 lead with 8 minutes left in the game. Brees then, connected with Devery Henderson on a 31 yard TD pass with 1:37 left in the game. After a failed Two-point conversion they had a 33-28 lead. Rodgers and company just couldn't put it together on the last drive and ended up turning the ball over on downs.
| Sep 8, 2011 - NO at GB |
| TEAM | 1ST | 2ND | 3RD | 4TH | SCORE |
| New Orleans (0-0) | 10 | 17 | 0 | 6 | |
| Green Bay (0-0) | 0 | 14 | 7 | 7 | |
| Team Stats Comparison |
| NO | | GB |
| 333 | Total Offense | 395 |
| 50 | Rushing Yards | 132 |
| 283 | Passing Yards | 263 |
| 11 | First Downs | 19 |
| 20 | Punt Return Yards | 36 |
| 0 | Kick Return Yards | 63 |
| 353 | Total Yards | 494 |
| 2 | Turnovers | 3 |
| 7-14 | 3rd Down Converstion | 4-13 |
| 0-0 | 4th Down Conversion | 2-3 |
| 0-1 | 2-Point Conversion | 0-0 |
| 3/4 | Red Zone Touchdowns/Field Goals | 4/4 |
| 2/20 | Penalties | 5/30 |
| 18:20 | Posession Time | 29:40 |
| New Orleans Boxscore |
| PASSING | RATING | C/ATT | YDS | TD/INT | AVG |
| Drew Brees | 87.9 | 16/28 | 297 | 2/2 | 10.6 |
| RUSHING | ATT | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG |
| Mark Ingram | 22 | 44 | 2.0 | 1 | 10 |
| Darren Sproles | 2 | 6 | 3.0 | | 6 |
| RECEIVING | REC | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG |
| Marques Colston | 4 | 46 | 11.5 | | 26 |
| Lance Moore | 4 | 54 | 13.5 | | 21 |
| Robert Meachem | 3 | 64 | 64 | 1 | 42 |
| Mark Ingram | 2 | 39 | 19.5 | | 28 |
| Devery Henderson | 2 | 39 | 19.5 | 1 | 31 |
| Darren Sproles | 1 | 55 | 55.0 | | 55 |
| Green Bay Boxscore |
| PASSING | RATING | C/ATT | YDS | TD/INT | AVG |
| Aaron Rodgers | 95 | 23/35 | 281 | 3/2 | 8 |
| RUSHING | ATT | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG |
| Ryan Grant | 17 | 66 | 3.8 | | 16 |
| James Starks | 8 | 40 | 5.0 | 1 | 16 |
| Aaron Rodgers | 5 | 22 | 4.4 | | 8 |
| John Kuhn | 1 | 4 | 4.0 | | 4 |
| RECEIVING | REC | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG |
| Greg Jennings | 5 | 52 | 10.4 | | 17 |
| Donald Driver | 4 | 41 | 10.2 | 1 | 14 |
| Jermichael Finley | 3 | 19 | 6.3 | 1 | 15 |
| D.J. Williams | 3 | 24 | 8.0 | 1 | 15 |
| Jordy Nelson | 3 | 30 | 10.0 | | 13 |
| Ryan Grant | 2 | 53 | 26.5 | | 30 |
| John Kuhn | 1 | 6 | 6.0 | | 6 |
| Randall Cobb | 1 | 46 | 46.0 | | 46 |
| James Starks | 1 | 10 | 10.0 | | 10 |