Pack wins out west

Posted by Mark Daniels on

The Packers evened their pre-season record by beating the Seattle Seahawks 27-24 at Qwest Field Saturday night, the identical score but opposite result from the opener against Cleveland.    I'm not sure he has to take another snap, Aaron Rodgers looks ready to roll in 2010.  He directed two touchdown drives in his only two posessions, hitting 8 of 11 passes for 116 yards and scoring strikes to John Kuhn from a yard out and Jermichael Finley from the 12.  In about a half's worth of play this summer, Rodgers has been lights out, now 20 of 24 for an 83 percent completion rate for 275 yards, 3 touchdowns, no picks and a near perfect passer rating of 153.99.  The starting defense, playing without Nick Barnett, AJ Hawk, Charles Woodson and Al Harris, gave up 14 points to Matt Hasselbeck and the Seattle offense which has plenty of nice receiving weapons.  Hasselbeck repeatedly found TJ Houshmanzadeh, Deion Branch and former Lions bust Mike Williams in the first half.  Branch caught an 11 yard touchdown behind Nick Collins in the first quarter.   The backups did a better job however, allowing only 113 yards in the second half when Charlie Whitehurst was in there.  Matt Flynn led the second stringers to a pair of field goals and third stringer Graham Harrell directed the game winning drive, capped by Brandon Jackson's 26 yard run to the 12 and then a dash around the right end for the winning score with 3:34 to play.  Sam Shields and Spencer Havner had interceptions for the defense but Shields continues to struggle fielding kicks.  He fumbled a kickoff but Havner denied a score with his pick.  The special teams are still very sloppy, allowing a 54 yard kickoff return after the Pack's first score, another 30 yard runback later in the game.  There were several penalties on special teams and backup safety Derrick Martin was ejected from the game for apparently punching a Seattle player during a punt return play.  No serious injuries reported by the Pack but Seattle may have lost their number one pick, offensive lineman Russell Okung had to leave the game in the first quarter with an apparent high ankle sprain.  It's a short week for the boys as they practice only twice this week before playing the Indianapolis Colts at Lambeau on Thursday night.   Here's a quick swing through the locker room for some post game quotes from the Pack after the sleepy night in Seattle:

 

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