When you see the Green Bay Packers won by 14 points, it doesn’t seem like a rout. But this game felt like a blowout to me. Even though the Packers might not have scored 35 or 40 points, they still seemed to put the pedal to the metal in this one. Atlanta couldn’t do much on offense while Green Bay did just enough offensively. Even though they did well without Davante Adams and Allen Lazard, that’s not an easy thing to make an offense happen. Green Bay’s defense had their first game where they held a team under 20 points this season, and the Packers’ offense continues to make Aaron Rodgers look like an MVP.

FIVE STARS
Robert Tonyan – I sang his praises everywhere already, so, I will not do as much here. He had a great game. Eight catches, 96 yards, and three touchdowns. A Packers beat writer said the George Kittle-Tonyan relationship has become ‘Less cute’ which who the fuck knows what that means but cool to see Tonyan channel his inner Kittle out there.

Za’Darius Smith – What a game from Big Z. He finally started to show his teeth a little bit out there. Without having Kenny Clark, it must be tough, but Smith started to make things happen. He had three sacks and got into the backfield a few more times. It is a great way for Smith to head into the bye week. I wondered where the pass rush was to start the year, and finally, they showed up in the second half.

Aaron Rodgers – What a game from QB1. He might not have the PR campaign as Russell Wilson, but Rodgers is right there with the MVP conversation. Rodgers threw for 307 yards, four touchdowns, no interceptions, and only had four incompletions. He played great football out there. This is another example of a game where I’m not sure it happens under Mike McCarthy. Rodgers used everyone on the field, didn’t need the receivers too much, and took control of the game.

FOUR STARS
Raven Greene – Good to see Green Bay start to use Raven Greene more again. It appeared that the Packers were ramping up Greene after coming off a leg injury that held him out all last season. They weren’t ready to give Greene the keys to the car just yet. But with Christian Kirksey out, the time was right apparently for Green Bay to make it happen with Greene. He played well with six tackles and a sack.

Aaron Jones – Even though it was a quiet-ish game for his standards, Jones still had some big plays in this game. He established Green Bay’s dominance in this one early on with moving through the Falcons defense like a hot knife through butter. He also had some big catches out of the backfield including the first touchdown of the game. Jones got the load management treatment yesterday which is something you do when your team is damn good.

THREE STARS
Darnell Savage – Even though, there was the bad block from Matt Ryan that Savage sort of gave up on, he played a pretty good game. The middle of the field was not a sieve-like it had been for the last couple of games. Savage made a few nice plays on the ball. It is good to see a slight bounce back from him after a tough start to the season.

ONE STAR
Missed tackles – Green Bay still needs to clean it up when it comes to tackling. They’re not sharp in this area. There were multiple times in this game where Todd Gurley had a loss in the backfield and Green Bay couldn’t bring him down. While this did not bite the Packers, they need to continue to be better as the weeks go on. It doesn’t feel like it’s improving.

ESPN’s Monday Night Production – Woof. They need to start it all over again. Steve Levy is the opposite end of the spectrum as Joe Tessitore. Too much excitement from Tess, not enough from Levy. Greise and Riddick are alright, but a three-man booth is always tough. ESPN gave us no update on why Jones only took 16 snaps early on. And missed some other key things injury-wise. Shotty effort from their crew.

Charlie.