Packers vs. Patriots Prediction, Injury Update & Picks

I think I lean to Christian Watson getting the shadow from Christian Gonzalez, but also you got Matthew Golden on the other side. You got Tucker Kraft, so you got other weapons in this game that you can exploit this defense with. So it's not like you take Watson out of the game plan with Gonzalez, which probably absolutely happens because Gonzalez is him. But looking at that, it's not like the Packers don't have other answers to the problems that you're going to create. So I think the Packers win this game. But as the Pats fan. Tell me how I'm crazy bro You're not. Look, Mac Hollins is coming back, okay? So that's big to get him back. Especially against two-eye coverage, it helps. A.J. Brown, questionable. Trayvon Henderson, questionable. Hunter Henry, questionable. Kevin Byner, questionable. Christian Barmore, questionable. Carlton Davis, questionable. Morgan Moses, questionable. I mean, this is ridiculous. Like, they need more than half of those names I just read. To be active before I would bet the Patriots here. I know Drake has done incredible things. I mean, look, Pop Douglas and company, they've been doing great things, finding ways to get the football into that guy's hands. But Hunter Henry is the binky. If he can't play, that is a significant deal to me for this offense. I don't care about A.J. Brown at the moment because the Patriots made the Super Bowl last year without A.J. Brown. And up to this point, the trade has been an absolute disaster for the Patriots. Now it could wind up working out for them. He's here. For the playoffs, right? Because Stephon Diggs got shut down so brutally in the Super Bowl and in the playoffs that Stephon Diggs was awesome in the regular season and then he was a ghost in the playoffs and that's why he's with Washington now because the Patriots were like, we need someone for the playoffs. So now you got A.J. Brown, get healthy for the playoffs. We don't care about the regular season, so I'm not sure if we see A.J. Brown. They play in Germany next week against the Lions and then they hit their bye week. So I'm perfectly cool with A.J. Brown sitting down this week, next week, the bye week, and then come back healthy. At the end of all of that, in three weeks, we see A.J. Brown come back healthy with the knee and the high ankle sprain. That's what I hope happens. They may rush him back and play this weekend. But I love Jordan Love, okay? And Gabe Davis, to me, if he can't, if he's not going, and there's a big question as to whether or not he's going to play the kid out of Illinois, if he's questionable, if he can't play, they have no pass rush. And you give Jordan Love a lot of time to sit back there and pick apart and find whatever he wants. I like the over in the game, but I like the Packers too. Also, the one thing that we haven't brought up with this too is dude, Jonathan Gannon has been in his bag. He has that Packers defense humming. And over their last five games. And Parsons comes back next week. Yep. Dude, over the last five games, the Packers are eighth in pressure rate. I don't think many people would be able to tell you that. I think the Packers have this like. Where people discuss their defense and they're like, oh, they stink. They don't have Michael Parsons. Dude, I don't know what people have been watching. Their defense has been flying around. Jonathan Gannon's playing too high coverage. He's overloading certain sides of the offensive line and getting home with the blitz. I think the Packers get it done in this one.