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Line of Scrimmage: Packers, Saints in early state of urgency

There's no such thing as a must-win game during the second week of the NFL season. For the Green Bay Packers and New Orleans, however, their next outing is about as close as one can get to the critical stage at this point.Both projected powerhouses, who combined for a sterling 28-4 record in the 2011 regular season, put forth performances more resembling also-rans in highly disappointing debuts. The mighty Packers were outmuscled on their home turf by the NFC's new bully on the block, the San Francisco 49ers, while the Saints became an unwilling facilitator to the growing legend of Robert Griffin III with a sloppy and shocking loss to the rising Washington Redskins on the same Superdome field they were virtually unstoppable on a year ago.Those defeats weren't only alarming, but painfully revealing in regards to the two teams' vulnerability in a conference that at first glance appears to be even more jumbled and wide open than last season, when the New York Giants emerged from the pack ...

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