Sunday, the Packers handily beat the hapless St. Louis Rams, 24-3. This is the first 6-0 start by Green Bay since 1965 and the seventh in franchise history (1929-31, 1944, 1962, 1965). The last time the Packers were the last remaining undefeated team in the NFL came in 1965 and including the playoffs, they have won 12 straight games, which matches the longest streak in franchise history (1961-62).

However, as is the case every week, there is some good to celebrate, some bad to build on and some ugly that just leaves us all shaking our heads.

The Good

In the first half, the Packers were nothing short of spectacular. A pass-to-run ratio of 15-12 was effective and kept the chains moving. Twelve offensive first downs – seven of them passing, four of them rushing – gave Green Bay all of the momentum and balance it needed.

Aaron Rodgers was 11-15 for 234 yards and three touchdowns for a quarterback rating of 154.9 in the first half, as the Packers led 24-3 at the intermission.

"We've got some great weapons and some guys who can get open and make plays," Rodgers said in his postgame news conference. "I think the protection has been really important to our success passing the ball."

Rodgers made former teammate Al Harris bite on the fake leaving Jordy Nelson's path the end zone wide open for the Packers second touchdown, a 93-yard scoring strike.

"We were backed up and when we're in that mode we just want to convert some first downs and get out of that hole," according to Nelson. "I knew the way (Harris) liked to play, he's an aggressive DB. We put a little double-move on him, gave him one step in on the slant. He jumped it and Aaron put it out there, and I was able to split the two and score."

Nelson now has three touchdown catches of 80-plus yards in his career, which is tied for No. 2 in franchise history behind only Greg Jennings, who has four.

Also in the category of "good" was the pressure linebackers Clay Matthews and A.J. Hawk were able to put on St. Louis quarterback Sam Bradford. Bradford took just three sacks, but was under the gun every time the Rams started to move the ball inside Green Bay territory.

"We ended the game with two sacks, but that really doesn't tell the whole story as has kind of been attested to the whole season," Matthews said after the game. "We got some good hits on him and we knew he was feeling it, so anytime you get pressure, get him off the spot and get some hits on him, that's generally what you like to do as a defense. Obviously, the sacks will come and you'll get those numbers, but in the meantime I thought we did a good job of putting some hits on him and forcing him off the spot."

Hawk's seven solo tackles also qualifies as good, however, his obscene gesture made towards the Packers bench (and caught by the FOX cameras) had him trying to explain what was, for the genial Hawk, odd behavior.

"I definitely wasn't mad or upset with anybody," Hawk explained afterwards. "It's kind of a running joke with a couple of my teammates. I guess we got caught up in an emotional game and sometimes forget it's on TV. I definitely apologize to everyone if kids were watching and got offended. I understand and I'm sorry that got out there."

How much Hawk will be lighter in the wallet is unknown, but is thought to be somewhere in the neighborhood of $10,000 after the league doles out its weekly punishments.

The Bad

Unfortunately, it was a tale of two halves for the Packers offense on Sunday. After throwing for 234 yards in the first half, Rodgers, the early season favorite for NFL MVP, threw for just 76 yards (with no touchdowns and one interception that wasn't his fault) after the intermission.

"It's a feeling of minor disappointment, I think, in that locker room," Rodgers said. "We just, in the second half, offensively just struggled."

Compounding the problem was the running game never got going either. Take away Rodgers 15 rushing yards and the Packers running backs only were able to accumulate 81 yards on 25 carries (3.24 yards per carry average).

"We straight-up just didn't execute well enough in the second half," right tackle Bryan Bulaga said. "We can't be doing that. From a line standpoint, we have to string together better drives than that to help the offense along."

Bulaga returned to the lineup after missing two games with a sprained knee suffered at Chicago Sept. 25.

Offensively, we didn't do a very good job of handling the football," coach Mike McCarthy said of his offensive unit's performance after the game. "We didn't convert the third downs, we had a number of drops."

One of those drops led to Rodgers third interception of the season, when the usually reliable Greg Jennings had one go through his hands at midfield on third-and-five halfway through the fourth quarter.

In all, the Packers were just 4-13 on third down conversions, which would have been a recipe for disaster if the Rams, somehow, weren't actually worse (3-13) in the same category.

While the Packers defense certainly made some big plays, notably Sam Shields end zone interception, once again they played the dangerous game of bend but don't break, surrendering a startling 424 yards, including 96 on the ground to Steven Jackson.

"That's kind of been our thing all year – kind of bend, but not break," Hawk said. "We're definitely glad to hold them to three points, but we let them rush for too many yards on us. They made some big plays, but when it came down to it when we needed stops, we got it."

The Ugly

This could have been written before the game. It's the 700-pound gorilla in the room. The very definition of "ugly" are those 1929 ACME Packers togs they decided to trot out once again.

First of all, there is a reason the Packers went away from these monstrosities in 1933. To be clear, I am not that I am a fan of anything Packers uniform-wise pre-1950, because as coach Gene Ronzani said, "We are the Green Bay Packers." Ronzani is credited with eradicating the franchise of the blue that was in play prior to the widespread use of color photography.

Considering Ronzani's dismal .311 winning percentage, changing the uniforms was unquestionably his most significant contribution to Packers team history.

But here is where I am coming from: The Packers have the greatest tradition on all of football. In so many ways, they are by their very existence a throwback. It is only because of both the vision to make the franchise owned by the public and the NFL's economic model can the best franchise in the league – from top to bottom – reside in professional sport's most desolate outpost.

NFL fans that root for other teams make once-in-a-lifetime pilgrimages to Lambeau Field to see the league's oldest – and best – stadium. They travel from all corners of the world to gaze upon the sideline that Lombardi stalked or to imagine Starr sneaking into the frozen end zone as the temperature dropped to 15 degrees below zero.

So let me ask you this: During the Lombardi era, what did the Packers uniforms look like? Strikingly similar to today. Why do you think that is?

The answer is because they are so classic; so iconic; so instantly identifiable worldwide that any attempt to permanently tinker with them, as then-General Manager Ron Wolf tried to do in the early 1990's is met with such fierce resistance that common sense eventually prevails.

If you want to see what the Packers used to wear, pay the $9 and go tour the team Hall of Fame in Lambeau Field's basement. There you will see what the 1929 uniforms really looked like, as opposed to the modern-day Powerball tops Reebok conjured up to conform to today's rules.

The Packers classic green and yellow uniforms and "G" logo is their trademark. Just as much as the 'swoosh' is to Nike; the interlocking "NY" and pinstripes are to the New York Yankees; the little leprechaun and clover is to the Boston Celtics.

Like Granddad Russell used to say: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."

Granddad Russell was a wise old man.

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