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Green Bay Packers wide receiver Greg Jennings acknowledges that a bad loss can linger into the next week and damage a team's confidence.

The Green Bay Packers suffered their worst defeat in more than a decade on Sunday despite having nearly their entire team intact from the NFC championship game just 22 months ago.

It was another loss to the Vikings and another day of damage control for the Packers.

Packer fans are not happy with Dom Capers right now. And they're not the only ones.

B.J. Raji has learned his lesson about publicly pushing for playing time, but he'll make this much clear: If this is the week the Green Bay Packers decide to ramp up their top draft pick's workload, Raji is ready.

Almost halfway through the season, the 2009 Green Bay Packers are just another NFL team.

After each game, former Green Bay Packers all-pro safety LeRoy Butler teams up with Journal Sentinel beat writer Tom Silverstein in our "5 Questions with LeRoy Butler" feature.

Clearly as frustrated as the fans were by the two recent embarrassing losses to the Vikings and He Who Shall Not Be Named, Cullen Jenkins became the second Packers defenseman to tell the media he's not so happy with what has long been the vaunted change to the 3-4 defense under new coordinator Dom Capers.

Brett Favre and Minnesota are in control in the NFC North after sweeping Green Bay.

But if the angry buzz generated by the mere appearance of in-stadium video highlights of Favre and the Vikings during the first few Packers home games is any indication, the once-beloved face of the franchise will be booed.

Last week, an executive in personnel for another National Football League team offered this frank assessment of the Green Bay Packers' new 3-4 defense.

It was just like old times for Aaron Kampman on Sunday. Since the 3-4 defense was installed, the Green Bay Packers veteran has been playing an outside linebacker position where rushing from a standing position is the norm.

The Green Bay Packers could be playing a stretch of games with rookie T.J. Lang at left tackle, protecting quarterback Aaron Rodgers' blind side, after Chad Clifton reinjured his right ankle during a 26-0 victory over the Detroit Lions on Sunday.

With his team trailing 7-0, Lions quarterback Daunte Culpepper threw an interception on his first pass of the game.

All the good and all the positives that came out of Sunday's 26-0 victory on Sunday at Lambeau Field have to be tempered by that the Detroit Lions basically fielded a JV team.

The plan was hatched during the bye week, but in reality, this is what the Green Bay Packers had in mind on April 25 when they traded into the first round to take Clay Matthews.

It's a fact of life in the National Football League that any team switching from the 4-3 to the 3-4 defense will have defensive linemen and linebackers suffer reduced effectiveness.

Just when it looked like the Green Bay Packers were going to get some continuity on their offensive line, they were forced to make alternate arrangements in their final practice before Sunday's game against the Detroit Lions.

When the Green Bay Packers lost Will Blackmon for the season because of a knee injury, they used his roster spot to re-sign tackle Mark Tauscher.

It was certainly an interesting off-season for Green Bay Packers assistant head coach Winston Moss.