Daily Brew 8/12

The Packers kicked off their exhibition season last night with a 10-7 win over the Chargers. Here are a few things I took away from this game:

1. The Offensive line needs some work, but lets not panic yet. They still have the foundation of the line in their three main anchors (Clifton, Flannigan and Tauscher) and they are very deep at those positions with Bedell, Wells and Barry all capable of filling in for a game or two. Because they have those anchors, the line will be good, but don't expect 5 yards a carry again just yet. I think Adrian Klemm and Grey Ruegamer will be the starting guards come september 11, with Will Whittaker, Atlas Herrion and Matt O'Dwyer as the reserves.

2. Mike Montgomery, I like him. He's got a motor and doesn't stop working. We all know what we've got in Kenny Peterson, not much. I'm hoping Montgomery will take Peterson's spot on the roster. He's big, has long arms, and doesn't quit on plays.

3. Granted it wasn't that great of a play, but does Nick Collin's interception last night show you that he's got a knack for beeing around the ball? It just might. The kid is very athletic, and made a few good plays last night. Let him continue to work with LeRoy and lets see what he can do.

4. Al Harris, Ahmad Carroll, Joey Thomas, Chris Johnson, Jason Horton and Mike Hawkins. I know it's only a preseason game, but is anyone reading this really comfortable with any four out of this group serving as your secondary? Me neither. They are in desperate need of another corner. They don't have the pass rush to make up for their inadequacies in the secondary, and I saw Al Harris bite on a lot more plays than I'm used to seeing him bite on last night. I do think Bates scheme where his corners play the bump and run will help out immensely, because other than Carroll, none of these guys have recovery speed to make up for biting on a fake and getting burned, but there's still a long way to go.

5. Man did Brett Favre look sharp.

6. Get Bubba Franks a contract. David Martin and Ben Steele are good for one thing, dropping passes. They aren't that far off, the Packers have offered him $2.5 million a season, Bubba wants $4 million per. I didn't major in finance so Gaddis you'll need to tell me if this works, what about offering $3.25 million per?

7. Just as I said earlier in the week, new number, same bad play for Mark Roman. Seriously why is he still on the roster? Fabos, does he have compromising pictures of Bob Harlan, Mike Sherman and Ted Thompson? Please shed some light on this former Packer employee.

8. I didn't really see him stand out last night, but regardless I can already tell that Raynoch Thompson is better than Hannibal Navies.

9. Najeh Davenport went to Weight Watchers? How did I miss that story? That is absolutely hillarious, but then again it comes from the same guy who took a crap in some girls closet at Miami. Najeh if you're reading this, you've gotta do the "taking a crap" endzone celebration on your next TD and use the ball as a prop. That would put him in the Packers Hall of Fame instantly.

10. Did I mention Brett Favre looked pretty good last night?

After seeing the season 2 finale of the OC again last night, I am finally willing to admit that Trey indeed could have died from that gun shot. That being said I still stand firm in my believe he is not dead and is assembling the four horsemen of super heels.

I just went to the vending machines here at Charter and Nate Kaeding was filling the soda machine. Did Marty cut him already, and how did he already find a new job that quickly?

The Brewers open up a three game set with the Reds at Miller Park tonight. I will settle for nothing short of a sweep.

Did you see how the A's beat the Angels yesterday? You won't even see that happen in little leauge. Anahiem lost the division last night on that single play.

Jason White announced his retirement from the NFL yesterday and said his career is officially over. The 2003 Heisman winner, White had been in camp with the Titans. Here's my question, don't you have to actually have a career before it can "officially end", and don't you have to do something other than practice with a team as the fourth string QB to retire? If not them I might retire from Baseball next winter.

David Stern has given his approval to remove Steve Belkin as the Hawks representative on the NBA's board of governers. All this means is the Hawks may get Joe Johnson afterall, and might actually care about winning now.

TO and Drew Rosenhaus went on TV last night and played victim during the halftime show on ESPN. First of all could Chris Berman have tossed him bigger softballs? Seriously those were like bowling balls. Just shut up already. I'm not one of the highest paid recievers in the league, at least that's what TO and Drew Rosenhaus said when in actuality if you include bonuses he's making over $7 million a season which only puts him behind Marvin Harrison and Randy Moss. He also said he had to sign a "secret waiver" before the Super Bowl that would allow the Eagles to dissolve themselves of his contract should an injury happen. Well TO, it wasn't that much of a "secret" and what do you expect, you weren't medically cleared to play. He also said the Eagles won't be happy with him if he doesn't get a new deal and then in the next sentence said "I'm not trying to be a distraction." What? The kicker was when he compared what he's done to, are you ready for this...Brett Favre. Favre said it's not his job to make sure Aaron Rodgers is ready to play, that's Aaron's job. Who would argue with that? Apparently TO. He asked why Favre wasn't villified for saying that but TO is for what he's doing. I'm so disgusted with this Prima Dona, Selfish, Self Centered, Baby that I'm not even going to discuss this anymore.