Our Tuesday regular season feature called "The silver lining" is back. Following losses, it's a bright spot from an otherwise gloomy game. After wins, it's an unexpected performance. This week's silver lining is:

Big Okie

Sunday's game against the St. Louis Rams saw the debut of a personnel package dubbed "Big Okie," in which Brandon Chillar in essence played the role of a safety/rover where Derrick Martin would leave the field of play. Essentially, it put the Packers with five linebackers on the field at once.

Yes, Brandon Chillar got exposed in coverage by a Rams tight end, but give credit to defensive coordinator Dom Capers to come up with a package that put the best 11 players on the field.

The purpose of the package was to help contain Rams power running back Steven Jackson, and it helped.

As I noted in this morning's Packers Daily Links, Packer Report editor Bill Huber quantified the Packers' success against Jackson when he wrote, "On the positive side, though, Jackson was held to 3 yards or less on 16 of his 27 carries."

Certainly not all of those short gain came against "Big Okie" but several of them did. And with the Packers facing another workhorse of a running back next game against Adrian Peterson and the Minnesota Vikings, "Big Okie" is probably here to stay. At least until Atari Bigby returns.

Some kinks need to be worked out. Perhaps using the package only in favorable down and distance circumstances such as first and ten or third and short is the way to go. Maybe utilizing it when the offense is on their own end of the field is another adjustment that needs to be made.

Capers might need Nick Collins to give Chillar some assistance over the top as well.  Whatever tweaks need to be made, I still applaud Capers for some creative game planning.

Now if the Packers could just generate some pass rush on Favre...