Packers beat Redskins

Here's one description of this game: "17-14 victory over the bumbling Washington Redskins that, by most performance barometers, should have been a defeat."

Favre's take: "But to be 5-1 and kind of — I think we need to look into the negatives more than the positives, because once again, we are finding ways to win, but how can we get better? You know, because it's only going to get tougher from here on out."

Coaches comment: "We feel good about being 5-1 but we're a team that needs to clean our house. I feel like I stood here last week and said the same things. I still feel that. I feel like we're a football team that's just getting started. We have a number of areas that we need to continue to improve on."

My notes:

• The defense, especially the line, got dominant with pressure late.
• It was an ugly game, not so much given away, as not taken.
• The Packers running game sucks. But could they try running a little more? Coach says, "I felt that we were sticking to the passing game and the running game is a work in progress."
• They did throw deep but to no effect. Per Peter King Favre said "It's been a long time since I got beat up like that in a game,'' said Favre Sunday. He emerged from the game against the 'Skins with a bum ankle and knee.
• Donald Driver got back in the offense. James Jones, despite the called back TD, was not very effective.
• The pair of holding penalties cost a TD.
• The Franks catch definetly could have been a TD, ruled a force out rather than no catch due to out of bounds.
• Crosby the kicker had a putrid day 1 of 3.
• Still with a little luck could have been 31-14. Per Peter King "Referee Terry McAulay's crew at Green Bay-Washington, for an overall poor job and costing the Packers two legitimate touchdowns. First, there was a pathetic holding call on right tackle Mark Tauscher, negating one Favre touchdown pass; there was nothing close to a hold on the play. Last year, the officials were told not to call offensive holding unless it was something an official actually saw. Well, there's no way an official saw holding on Tauscher. Never happened. Then, a second Packers TD throw was negated when Bubba Franks cleanly caught a pass in the corner of the end zone with one foot down before getting driven out of the end zone by Washington cornerback Fred Smoot. Incomplete. Insane."