Packers/Chargers Week 8 Preview

The football season is moving entirely too fast. Were already at the halfway point of the season and what a great one it has been so far for Green Bay coming in at 7-1 against the Chargers who sit at 3-5. Both teams are coming off thrilling wins, Packers on SNF against Kansas City (without Mahomes) and the Chargers upset over the Bears at Soldier Field.

Key Injuries:

Nothing big to report here except....DAVANTE ADAMS. While it's not confirmed, my guess is he will be suiting up for the first time since his career-game in Week 4. Between this interview and him stating last week the toe is feeling "two million" times better, the Packers offense, which ranked 2 in his absence, will get their Pro-Bowl WR back.

Outside of Davante, nothing of note here really, which ask any Packer fan is a win in itself. On the Chargers, no real key injuries to report (not that I'm an expert).

KEY Match-ups:

Chargers O-Line vs Smith Brothers (Not Really Brothers)

This will be huge for the Chargers on Sunday to have any success. The Smith's have been the key addition to the GB pass rush and will look to exploit the banged up Tackle Okung. Rivers has only thrown less than 29 times once this year. If Rivers can get the ball out quick to Kenan Allen over the middle this game can get pretty dicey, but it all lives and dies by how well the Smith brothers can disrupt.

A-Aron Jones/J Swag Daddy aka Jamaal Williams

RUN THE DAMN BALL!!

This will be huge Sunday against the Lumberjack that poses as Joey Bosa. The Chargers have some very talented players in their secondary including former Packer Casey Heyward (shout out Ted Thompson for being cheap). The Chargers rank 28th against the run this year and should be in for a rough day when they face arguably the best 1-2 RB combo in football. My crystal ball says we will see a lot of quick hitters and runs up the gut the majority of the game. No reason to not think this will be a huge advantage for the Chesseheads and thankfully we don't have Matt Nagy running this offense.

Prediction/Final Score:

As I said this should be a statement game for Green Bay. The Chargers were absolutely gifted a game last week against the Bears. They needed Trubisky to absolutely soil himself in the 4th quarter with an awful INT, a phatom fumble (Halloween came early), and Matt Nagy with some of the dumbest end-of-game decision making ever to even squeak out that win.

Green Bay has yet to really out a team away but this seems like the match-up to do so. Phillip Rivers not only passes the ball a ton, which will give the Smith's plenty of chances to get home and should force Rivers to give us the ball (7 ints already this year). The Packers should be able to run a marathon on the defense and exploit the Chargers deep with MVS and hit Davante quick and often. Unless Rodgers falls off a cliff and Boyle gets lost on Sunset Blvd. I think GB win huge.

Green Bay 34

LA Chargers 17

#GoPackGo