Sorry Green Bay fans for the most part the picture depicts the Packer running attack. Long gone are the days of the Green Bay Packers simply running over people.
Gone are the days of power backs like Hall of Famers Paul Hornung and Jim Taylor (the first running back in NFL history to gain over 1,000 for five consecutive seasons)would run through and over defenders challenging the defense to stop them.
Missing are the offensive linemen like Jerry Kramer leading the way for great running backs like Elijah Pitts. Pitts scored two touchdowns in the first Super Bowl.
What Green Bay does have is late season God send running back James straks and fireplug of a fullback in John Kuhn. However this does not give the Pack a running game that scares anybody, especially the Pittsburgh Steelers.
What the Packers face in the Steelers is the NFL's best run defense, one that has crushed better running attacks than the Packers will be able to throw at the steel Curtain. Green Bay doesn't need to establish a running game that the Steelers fear just on that forces the respect from Pittsburgh.
What the Pack must do to take full advantage of the talent Rodgers and the receivers bring to the game is establish a running attack that will force the Steeler defense to play honest. If the can get some first downs and develop short and second or third downs via the run, the Steelers will have to respect the run and keep from becoming a one dimensional offense. Anything short of that and Green Bay is in for a long day.
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