Green Bay Packers at New Orleans Saints: Are You Ready For Some Football?

Monday night's game between the New Orleans Saints and Green Bay Packers in the Superdome will be a classic showcase of strength against strength. Drew Brees, who is on pace to break Dan Marino's single-season passing yardage record, will lead the Saints' pass-happy offense against Green Bay's excellent pass defense. Recent history and common sense tell us that great defense usually beats great offense, but Brees and his teammates in the pass offense are playing like no great offense has played in the history of the league.  It all depends on how good the Packers pass defense really is.  Are their numbers against the pass (176 yards per game, good for third in the league) reflective of how good the players are? Or are they a sign of teams choosing to run against a porous run defense (147 yards per game, 27th in the league.) I believe that the passing defense really is that good for Green Bay.  Yardage is unreliable when it comes to pass defense because it can be skewed by how ... (link)