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4th Quarter

6:14 p.m.  0:00  Packers' 4th Drive
Hmm...so far, my prediction is right.  If Rodgers and company just do their job here, again, I reign supreme among the experts.

Ryan Grant is just mopping up on the ground, wasting clock, and linemen absolutely enjoy run-blocking the clock out, mauling tired opponents.  Ryan Grant, 91 yards on 33 carries.  I'll take a 2.6-ish average when it helps the Packers' passing game.

Unsung hero, Ryan Grant.  Way to make my prediction stand up in the end, too.

6:04 p.m.  3:14  Seahawks' 3rd Drive
Green Bay 27, Seattle 17
Frye-Colbert 5 TD pass

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115 yards of offense for Seattle so far.  Make that 142 after a 27-yard run by Frye.  Not good.

Worse is the late hit on Kampman for a roughing the passer.  Questionable call.

Nice catch in the middle by Keary Colbert.  Too little, too late, hopfully.

5:56 p.m.  5:28  Packers' 3rd Drive
Now it's run clock down and kick the Seahawks' butts with the running game.  They're taking time outs wth 5:32 left.  Telling that they're desprate.

However, Ruvell Martin missed a possible catch and gave Seattle life - if you call needing three scores with 5:28 left life.

5:54 p.m.  6:22  Seahawks' 2nd Drive
The Packers' pass rushers can now pin their ears back and rush Frye like nuts.  A penalty wiped out a Colin Cole sack, giving the Seahawks life across the 50 yard line. 

TRAMON WILLIAMS!  Great job of coverage on Koren Robinson, perfect textbook coverage!

5:46 p.m.  8:59  Packers' 2nd Drive
Green Bay 27, Seattle 10
Mason Crosby 50 yd FG
A 2nd down sack outside the 40 yard line REALLY hurts and puts them in danger of not scoring.  A conversion here could take the air out of Seattle...but he gets a short pass completion to the 33.

Field goal?  Right down the middle, 50 yarder!

We like 24-0 scoring runs, too.

5:42 p.m.  10:26  Seahawks' 1st Drive
Charles Woodson - another INT!  What is this?  4 picks, all in the 4th quarter?  WOW!

5:36 p.m.  11:23  Packers' 1st Drive
Another 3rd down play, another CLUTCH catch by a wideout...this time Driver to the 22.  Give these guys credit - they are getting hit hard but making plays.

WOW!  29:11 to 17:17 time of possession advantage.  We like it.  Sometimes it's an overrated stat, but it's making the defense tired.

Another BIG 3rd down play by a wideout!  This time, Jordy Nelson on the sidelines.  All smiles on the Packers' sidelines.

2nd and goal at the one...JOHN KUHN catch in the end zone!!!!  What a drive, Aaron!  15 plays, 84 yards!

3rd Quarter

5:29 p.m.  0:00  Packers' 4th Drive
3rd down and 6 at the 18: Jennings with a great sidestep play on the sideline...a Baryshnikov-like move.  Again, another great throw by Rodgers to Jennings...the younger of Rodgers' meal tickets for a 13-yard scramble and pass.

Rodgers is nimble again making a 16-yard run and dodge-the-tackler-out-of-bounds.  Slick, as is the extra five yards on Trufant for defensive holdlng, going to the Seattle 35.  This time, Seattle's making the boo-boo's and the Packers aren't.  Great coaching job, Coach McCarthy.

5:21 p.m.  4:26  Seahawks' 3rd Drive
Nick Collins attacked Julius Jones along the sideline like a heat-seeking missle for a two-yard gain on 2nd and 10...then Aaron Karmpman by himself ate Frye for lunch.  Latte with that?

5:15 p.m.  5:56  Packers' 3rd Drive
Green Bay 17, Seattle 10
Rodgers-Jennings 45 TD pass
WHAT A THROW by Rodgers on the bomb!  He couldn't even step into it and had to just use his injured arm!  Also, Jennings beating an All-Pro in Trufant!

5:11 p.m.  7:37  Seahawks' 2nd Drive
Colin Cole making another BIG play to create another three-and-out, knocking down a 3rd and two pass!  Great return, too, by Blackmon to shimmy and Jimmy and get 15 yards out of nothing.

5:07 p.m. 8:28  Packers' 2nd Drive
Someone stop this three-and-out fest going on.  Greg Jennings does on a square out across the 50 for a first down.  Thank you!

Uh oh...3rd and 11?  Puhleeze, guys....Driver made the catch but was pushed short of the first down.  But that's not so bad because they can pin the Seahawks back deep into their own territory.  Frost does a good job - 17 yard line.

5:01 p.m.  12:11  Seahawks' 1st Drive
Seattle driven back to its 22...oh no...a 51 yard run for Julius Jones, but what a way for an old Packer to help out!  Mike Wahle for holding on Johnny Jolly.  Seeing the replay - he had the top of Jolly's "9" on the jersey.  That set up the punt by Seattle.

Aaron Rouse has a head injury.  He's out for the rest of the game.  The secondary is thinner than Kate Moss.

4:54 p.m.  14:06  Packers' 1st Drive
Big 3rd and nine to "start" the drive and he overshot Driver after underthrowing Jennings earlier.  Aaron, not the time to get cold.  Hmm...who pulled Jarrett Bush' helmet off?  Oh, he's complaining to the Seattle sideline about it.  After the kick, a 10 yarder on Seattle.

2nd Quarter

4:31 p.m.  1:08   Packers' 2nd Drive
Green Bay 10, Seattle 10
Aaron Rodgers 1 yd TD run
Another 3rd down situation, this time 3rd and seven - NOT where the Packers want to be...but a GREAT catch by Driver at the Seattle 44, getting a helmet-to-helmet hit by Tatupu.  Read below the whole commentary on cannonballs coming at you.

Ryan Grant busted through again for another first down!  He isn't doing a heck of a lot in open space, just a bunch of attitude runs which can shut up the Seattle crowd.

Pass to Driver complete and a FACE MASK on Seattle's defense.  Driver nearly got his neck pulled out of his socket.  Lovely!

Even more lovely, or maybe not, a nice motion penalty on Green Bay on first down.

Nice first down throw to Jennings on an improvised play to get the first down at the 2 yard line...huh?  Really bad spot there....PHEW!!!   That's a relief.  1st Down.

QB sneak on 2nd down?  Just short....or they're reviewing it?  He extended the ball over the line, but was his knee down beforehand?  More like it was down on 20 different guys underneath him on the pile...

The ruling?  TOUCHDOWN!!!  Boo all you want, 12th man!

4:10   8:17  Seahawks' 2nd Drive
Seattle 10, Green Bay 7
Frye-Carlson 6 yd TD pass
3rd and short - GREAT stuffing by Poppinga and Thompson on Duckett, but on 4th down, much more by Duckett for nine yards (stepping out earlier than he thought).  Still a big momentum swing. 

I have to say that Duckett's big head in that steel blue Seahawk colors looks like a cannonball coming at you.  Another reason why I don't play defense in the NFL as a career.

Big 3rd and 2 on the six...Frye hits the tight end Carlson who does a half gainer into the end zone.  Worse, Woodson's limping.

4:05  11:42  Packers' 1st Drive
Crowd gets a little louder - more space shuttle than 747, but a couple Ryan Grant runs create a managable 3rd down and 3.  Managable, until Julian Peterson beat his guy and forced a Rodgers fumble that Seattle records.  Really, it wasn't Chad Clifton's fault...Rodgers stepping up gave the opening.

3:58  13:10  Seahawks' 1st Drive
Green Bay 3, Seattle 3
Olindo Mare 51 yd FG
Starting the second quarter, Aaron Kampman makes a BIG first down sack by Kampman to drive them to the GB 36.  I love what Wayne said in his conversation with Iowa's Kirk Ferentz - no chance Kampman makes the Pro Bowl based on what he looked like in college.

Still, Olindo Mare makes a long-distance kick.  Mare's got to be 51 years old.

1st Quarter

3:52  0:00  Seahawks' 3rd Drive  (to be continued)
Charles Woodson, can you make any more big plays in different ways?  Another play - a sack of five yards.  But then Koren Robinson - did we really have to give him up?  He went back to his old team and made a circus catch for a first down.

I said the Packers needed to win first and second down to beat the Seahawks.  They're winning first, but not second - a great run by Julius Jones to just get on the cusp of field goal range.  Who said he couldn't run tough?

3:45 p.m.  2:25  Packers' 2nd Drive
Green Bay 3, Seattle 0
Mason Crosby 29 yd FG
The 12th man in Seattle sounds louder than Hendrix (from Seattle) doing the Star Spangled Banner at Woodstock.  Great way to shut up the crowd is with a march...and a great eight-yard square out to Nelson starts said drive.  Nelson looks hurt, but is sticking it out.

Awesome effort by Driver to wrestle out of Marcus Trufant's grasp to get a first down on another square-out.  It's like stealing for Rodgers right now.

AAAAAAAA!  Jason Spitz!  I don't care if 10 747's fly over you - you must concentrate past the noise and not get a false start penalty on 1st down.

Packers make it up?  They got to 3rd and inches, and a 1st down by Rodgers on his 35,189th QB sneak of the season.  (They run it pretty often, anyway.)

A 3rd and 10 on the 20, and Nelson's one yard short of the first down on a slant pattern, forcing the field goal, and McCarthy's not happy about missing that first down.

3:31 p.m.  8:37  Seahawks' 2nd Drive
What can the Packers do after pinning the Hawks' back?  Stuff the Hawks with a three-and-out.  Great pursuit on 3rd down by Cole and Barnett.  Ryan blasts a bomb of a punt - 62 yards, but he outkicked his coverage and Blackmon still got good field position at the GB 46.

3:25 p.m.  11:45  Packers' 1st Drive
We're liking 2nd and 2's, and easy Ryan Grant runs for first downs to start a drive.  Even better is Grant getting to the 3rd level on consecutive plays for a 16-yard run.

3rd and 5 at the SEA 40:.this time they go too many times to the well for a two-yard loss on a strung-out end run.

Crosby with a 60 yard attempt??  He'd better make this.  Huh?  Time out?  If Crosby misses, Seattle gets the ball at the 50 yard line.  Ah, better heads prevail with a punt.  A fair catch at the nine.  Great punt by Frost.

3:20 p.m.  13:33  Seahawks' 1st Drive
Hmmm...first play - KGB beating all-universe tackle Walter Jones on the first play. 

AAA!!!  Thank you, refs, for the illegal touching on the punting team on a call where the ball might have gone off of Jarrett Bush and gone back to Seattle.

Pregame Updates

3:13 p.m.  
The Packers call heads, it's tails, and the Seahawks get the football to start.

3:01 p.m. 
Injury update: who's out?

Green Bay - S Atari Bigby (hamstring), CB Al Harris (spleen), DE Jason Hunter (hamstring), WR James Jones (knee), DE Michael Montgomery (ankle)
Seattle - WR Deion Branch (foot), QB Matt Hasselbeck (knee)

2:11 p.m. 
Charlie Frye WILL start for the Seahawks, as Matt Hasselbeck is listed as the number three QB for Seattle.

Pregame Story

SEATTLE (AP) -- Musing over whether Aaron Rodgers will practice. Mystery over whether the quarterback is taking painkilling injections. Marveling over his ability to play.

All that may not matter on Sunday, because the Packers have their own remedy for Rodgers' sprained throwing shoulder -- one Seattle knows too well.

"They still have Ryan Grant," Seahawks coach Mike Holmgren said.

The last time these teams met, Grant tromped through a Wisconsin blizzard for a Green Bay playoff-record 201 yards rushing and three touchdowns in a 42-20 win.

"It should give you confidence," Grant said of that game, while finally healthy after a hamstring injury that has helped limit him to 269 yards rushing and no touchdowns in five games. "But at the same time, this is a matter of now."

Yet the now is in Grant's favor, too.

Seattle's undersized defense with 11 returning starters, including four Pro Bowl players, just got trampled by Brandon Jacobs. The Giants' 264-pound bull ran through missed tackles for 136 yards and two scores on just 15 carries last week as New York gave Holmgren his worst loss in 17 seasons as a head coach, 44-6.

That had the 60-year-old grandfather ripping into his four-time defending NFC West champions this week, a tirade he called a "truth session."

Here's more sobering truths for Seattle, which is trying to avoid its first 1-4 start since its last losing season in 2002: Grant is listed at 226 pounds and has the same rumbling, straight-ahead style that embarrassed the Seahawks last week. Plus, his offensive line is also getting healthier.

Grant showed signs of breaking out last week, when he had 83 yards on 18 carries.

"I know the line kind of felt they were getting into a rhythm and I felt like I was kind of getting into a rhythm," Grant said.

Yes, one gets the impression Green Bay should run Grant so much on Sunday that the Packers (2-3) will forget Rodgers' shoulder hurts or that Greg Jennings leads the NFL in yards receiving (569) and has three 100-yard games this season.

Sound the alarms.

"Yeah, absolutely. The way we gave up yards against the run last week, it's going to be a fire burning until we put it out," said defensive end Patrick Kerney, one of Seattle's frustrated Pro Bowlers.

Brandon Mebane is a brick wall of a tackle and one of Seattle's primary run stoppers. He also thinks Grant will be the focal point of Green Bay's quest to beat Seattle for the fifth time in six games and improve its 12-6 road record under coach Mike McCarthy.

"It's like, we've got to keep plugging until we get our respect again," Mebane said. "Teams are going to keep trying the run until we have to prove we can stop the run."

But one of the Packers' biggest problems is they have to prove the same thing. These is far from the same 13-3 team that rolled into the NFC championship game last season.

Green Bay's defense has just three true tackles inside after recently losing run stopper Cullen Jenkins for the season to a pectoral injury. It has allowed an average of 190 yards rushing in each of three consecutive losses to Dallas, Tampa Bay and Atlanta. After Rodgers' fourth interception of the season with 4:33 remaining last week, the Falcons ran three straight times for the decisive touchdown, then three more times for the clinching first down.

The Packers are allowing 161.4 yards rushing per game, 31st in the league.

That fits Holmgren's West Coast offense that seems to suddenly be going the way of Woody Hayes.

Matt Hasselbeck is the lowest-rated passer in the NFC, thanks in part to six of his receivers having been hurt. About an hour after Bobby Engram and Deion Branch made their season debuts last week, Branch bruised his heel and is out indefinitely.

Hasselbeck may not play Sunday, either. He didn't practice all week because of a sore right knee he injured last week and is listed as questionable. With backup Seneca Wallace out with a calf injury, No. 3 quarterback Charlie Frye is primed for his first start since the 2007 opener for Cleveland.

At least recently reacquired Koren Robinson is set to play his first game for Seattle since the 2004 season after being out with a sore knee.

Yet he may only have a bit role. By necessity, Seattle is sixth in the NFL at 143.3 yards rushing per game, thanks to new lead runner Julius Jones' first 100-yard days since 2006. And co-lead back Maurice Morris is expected to return from a sprained knee that has caused him to miss a month.

"A huge emphasis has to be on continuing to get better running the football. It appears as though that's going to have to be a big part of success this year," Holmgren said, almost rolling his pass-happy eyes. "We have never been that type of team, and it's not the football typically that I embrace, necessarily, but ... "

But running is what a Packers game now demands.

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