Lombardi Ave » University of Wisconsin Badgers Football http://lombardiave.com A Green Bay Packers Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and more. Tue, 21 May 2013 19:43:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Packers’ offense partly to blame for defensive woes http://lombardiave.com/2011/11/09/packers-offense-partly-to-blame-for-defensive-woes/ http://lombardiave.com/2011/11/09/packers-offense-partly-to-blame-for-defensive-woes/#comments Wed, 09 Nov 2011 18:22:51 +0000 Jonathan Schweitzer http://lombardiave.com/?p=7373 Expectations were high for the Wisconsin Badgers football team in 2000. The year before, they won the Rose Bowl and Ron Dayne won the Heisman. Despite Dayne’s departure to the NFL, UW fans weren’t worried because the new starting running back, Michael Bennett, looked like another superstar in the making. But when the Badgers switched [...]

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The quick-scoring abilities of the Packers' offense has caused problems for the Packers defense. Raymond T. Rivard photograph

Expectations were high for the Wisconsin Badgers football team in 2000. The year before, they won the Rose Bowl and Ron Dayne won the Heisman. Despite Dayne’s departure to the NFL, UW fans weren’t worried because the new starting running back, Michael Bennett, looked like another superstar in the making.

But when the Badgers switched running backs it also altertered the way they played games. How could just one player affect nearly all other aspects of the game, including the defense?

The answer lies in a couple statistics that are wreaking havoc on the Packers’ defense this season: Time of possession and number of possessions.

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