All the Planets are aligning, Green Bay at Home on Xmas Day against the new Kids after Farve plays a stinker.
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Rex Grossman has made six starts in his NFL career and has thrown for 200-plus yards and two touchdowns in only one of them. One of those six was a road win last season in Green Bay, against a Packers pass defense that was far worse than the one Rex will see this Sunday. He completed 10 passes and finished with 118 yards, one touchdown, and one interception
Cramps aren’t an unusual injury in the NFL, but seeing a number of players come down with cramps in a single game is, especially when it happens on both sides of the field. Odder still, the game wasn’t played in the heat of Texas or California, but the cold Chicago day – 12 degrees at kickoff, Michael David Smith tells me – makes it even more surprising. Cramps usually come in heat or from dehydration, so unless the Gatorade froze up, I’m stumped. One source I asked told me it may be the coaches: “I don’t know either of these [coaches], Lovie Smith or Jim Mora, but they’re both young. Maybe their teams aren’t quite as conditioned as they should be and we’ll see this next week as well.”