Confessions of a Polluted Mindset: A Packers Brain Drain
Random thoughts swimming around in the Packers' section of my brain.
By JerseyAl
Penalties: Packers were called for 12 penalties for 112 yds lost against the Lions. The Packers have the second-most penalty yards (413) in the NFL. Only the Steelers have more.
Packers vs. Lions Stats: 30 1st downs vs. 18. 523 total yds vs. 264. 0 punts vs. 5. The Packers are simply a poor team right now finding ways to lose. The biggest culprit could be Aaron Rodgers. He continues to eschew the easy completions, continues to believe he can extend every play.
Mason Crosby: There is just no way I'm going to get on him after being so good for so long. The bigger picture question is, why is he getting so many attempts game after game?
McCarthy: As much as I criticize his in-game decision making and lack of creativity, I've always said he is a guy that the players know has their backs His move putting Crosby back out to kick that last second field goal was a perfect example of why.
Aaron Rodgers: As hard as it is for me to fathom, Rodgers looks to me like he's lost some confidence.in his arm. Noticed him aiming and subsequently missing some easy throws.
Jimmy Graham: He looks slow as all hell. One would expect that the only catches he's going to make are by winning jump balls, because he's certainly not beating anybody - and yet, he's he's not making those plays either.
Aaron Jones: No carries in the second half. And I don't want to hear, "You can't run when you're losing like that." With 30 minutes of football left, of course you can mix in some runs. And even if you don't run, you can throw Jones some passes. It's an easy 8 yards or more every time. But the Packers don't do easy. And, as Peter Bukowski pointed out on twitter, they still played running backs in the second half, so why not use your best players?
The "We were down" excuse doesn't track because they still played RBs. So play your best guys. That's Aaron Jones. https://t.co/Ls7LSsIAj8
— Peter Bukowski (@Peter_Bukowski) October 8, 2018
To that point, here's an interesting fact:
Aaron Jones finally finds the field with only a minute left and the game essentially over. Up until that point, the Packers ran/threw to running backs 10 times in the second half. None were to their biggest offensive threat at the position. #MoreMcCarthyMadness
— Jersey Al - GBP (@JerseyAlGBP) October 8, 2018
And one final one pertaining to the reasoning that Jamaal Williams takes away Aaron Jones; snaps because of his Pass Protection:
More anger about Aaron Jones: I just viewed every second half pass play by the #Packers. Out of 35 plays that started out as passing plays, the Packers kept a RB in to block 3 times - all by Ty Montgomery (awful). So don't give me this "Jones doesn't get snaps because they need Williams to pass block."
— Jersey Al - GBP (@JerseyAlGBP) October 8, 2018
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Comments (85)
Lphill
October 10, 2018 at 05:44 am
Crosby gets a pass he had a bad day , Rodgers did enough to win but ball control was an issue the most puzzling thing for all of is the limited use of Aaron Jones , MM needs to be called out on this , the after game press conferences are to easy on him someone needs to confront him about Jones and get some answers about this.
Kb999
October 10, 2018 at 05:59 am
Lp, no one gets a pass. They are not ametures. No excuses!!
Big_Mel_75
October 10, 2018 at 08:49 am
So does that mean you cut every player if they have a bad day?
TheBigCheeze
October 10, 2018 at 10:47 am
.....yes.......yes you do......
Kb999
October 10, 2018 at 11:30 am
He gets paid to kick. Do the math. He makes them we win. That being said, the whole team played like he kicked. Go Brewers!!!
GBPDAN1
October 10, 2018 at 09:09 am
There's so much wrong regarding this team right now. I hope a lot of these shortcomings can be reversed soon. Even if things turn around this year, We will need to upgrade the talent in the off season. Especially OLB and Safety . I hope we don't need to upgrade the TE position 3 years in a row. Just another TT blunder by not resigning Cook.
Hawg Hanner
October 10, 2018 at 06:14 pm
Look at what Thompson invested in safety, Dix and Jones. Jones isn't even playing and Dix looks like a Free Agent rather than a first rounder. It will take some years to overcome the damage Thompson caused.
TKWorldWide
October 10, 2018 at 06:10 am
12 penalties? Yikes.
When 33 DOES block, does he do okay?
RCPackerFan
October 10, 2018 at 06:14 am
12? 12 is nothing compared to the 123 that the article says. :)
jeremyjjbrown
October 10, 2018 at 08:59 am
Most NFL games seam like they have 123 penalties these days. It's getting worse than basketball.
JerseyAl
October 10, 2018 at 07:52 am
dammit! lol
RCPackerFan
October 10, 2018 at 08:49 am
Hey, it made me laugh.
JerseyAl
October 10, 2018 at 07:56 am
Someone on twitter posted the blocking success rate of the Packers running backs. Jones had the best rating - 100%. Take that, McCarthy!
Thegreatreynoldo
October 10, 2018 at 08:45 am
PFF wrote that Aaron Jones allowed no pressures in 4 chances. Williams and Montgomery allowed 2 pressures in 29 chances. Every RB has good stats in pass pro.
dobber
October 10, 2018 at 09:10 am
I was just going to say that 4 isn't that many chances and 29 is quite a few, in comparison, so the pressures don't bother me, here. When you look at the box score, there's certainly nothing systemic in their usage except to say that when Jones is in the game he's more likely to touch the ball than Monty or Williams.
Offensive snaps:
Jones 22
Williams 33
Monty 29
Carries:
Jones 7
Williams 6
Monty 4
Targets/catches:
Jones 3/2
Williams 4/2
Monty 3/1
Coach Cleve Steamer
October 10, 2018 at 09:26 am
Well, with Rodgers holding the ball for 1 missssssssisssssippppppiiiiiii, 2 mmmmmiiiiiiisssssiiiipppii, 5,6,7....and so on I think it’s hard for any of them to hold blocks.
RCPackerFan
October 10, 2018 at 07:02 am
Penalties - It seems penalties are up all along the league.
Some of these penalties that they are calling are just ridiculous. The one that hurt them the most was the "not being set" on the play where they hurry up to the LOS, and snap the ball. They get the first down on that play, but instead get moved back making it 3rd and really long which they then don't convert and they have to settle for a FG which Crosby misses.
3rd down - Its not always what happens on 3rd down but what happens on first and 2nd down. Rodgers is some of the problem on this. He passes up open WR's to get a deeper play. Its time he realizes he has to just hit the open player. Get whatever yards you can. The game is pretty simple really. You basically get 3 downs to get a first down. Average 5 yards per play and you will never get to 3rd down. And as soon as they get to the redzone and its 3rd and whatever, go for the first down. Have 3 more plays to try and get into the endzone. Trying to go for the endzone every time when all you need is a 1st down is getting aggravating.
Rodgers - He is his own worst enemy most of the time. Especially with him being injured he needs to just find the open WR and hit them early. He looked his best in the 2nd half of the Bears game, because he had to get the ball out quick. He needs to do that again. There were plenty of open WR's all day long. Yes sometimes there weren't but there was a lot of plays where guys got open and he didn't pull the trigger. Even the play he got reinjured on he had a guy wide open and didn't throw at him. Would have been a huge gain too.
He looked a lot better in the 2nd half when he was getting the ball out faster again.
Also. Some of these 'guys aren't open' things are ridiculous. Rodgers is one of the most accurate QB's in the history of the game. He should be able to put the ball where a defender can't get to it. Trust the WR to make a play even if its contested.
McCarthy - He and Rodgers need to get together and realize that they need to have the offense run a lot faster. Shorter throws, shorter routes. Have 1-2 options going deep but not 4.
Also he needs to start finding ways to get his players the ball easier. Aaron Jones is a play maker with the ball in his hands. He needs more then 8 touches in a game. He needs at least double that. Montgomery is a versatile weapon who could be a complete mismatch for defenses. They don't use him like that. MVS has speed and size. Find ways to get him the ball in space. ESB showed he can also play. But he also has size. FInd ways for them to use that size.
Also, I don't think I have seen anyone that can cover Adams at the LOS yet. Start feeding him the ball with slant after slant until they try to take him away. After they start coming down on that slant do a slant and go.
Graham - I heard that during the game they had to keep icing his knees. If his knees are that bad, i say sit him this week that way he can have this week and the bye week to try and recover.
jeremyjjbrown
October 10, 2018 at 08:59 am
"Shorter throws, shorter routes."
Those recievers can run 20 yards in 2 seconds. It doesn't need to be only short routes to get rid of the ball in under 3 seconds.
dobber
October 10, 2018 at 09:01 am
It's a catch-and-run league, now. Get the ball out to your players in space and let them create. Even if they aren't particularly elusive, the percentages go up and the chances for negative or zero plays go down.
Defenses will start to jump those routes if you run them all the time, too. This is in part how you get successful deep routes out of receivers who aren't burners on double moves and pump fakes.
TarynsEyes
October 10, 2018 at 10:01 am
" It's a catch-and-run league, now. "
Yes and the Packers do neither,either by design or ineptitude.
Pauly
October 10, 2018 at 10:20 am
Rodgers should watch a lot of Brady film. Brady throws a lot of 8 yrd passes then uncorks something long after safety's come in.
Watching Brady,, pass, jog forward 6-8 yds, pass, jog forward, pass, jog forward.
Watch Brady win and be in SB. Easy peasy! Simple game.
dobber
October 10, 2018 at 10:32 am
Who was the last real downfield receiver to thrive in the NE offense? Gronk is that guy now, but--Randy Moss? It's all Julian Edelman, Danny Amendola (now moved on), RB dumpoffs. They only carried 3 WR on their active roster to start the season. They only have 2 active RB now.
Thegreatreynoldo
October 10, 2018 at 10:41 am
Brandin Cooks with his 16.6 yard/reception average and 1082 yards in 2017. He had 155 yards and a 15.5 yd/rec average in 3 playoff games. Catch rate wasn't good though.
dobber
October 10, 2018 at 12:46 pm
Man...I missed that. Good call.
4thand10
October 10, 2018 at 11:57 am
RC..... I agree with all of this.
Tundraboy
October 10, 2018 at 08:14 am
Why does it take a huge chunk of the season before MM figures things out?? This season I doubt he will at all.
NickPerry
October 10, 2018 at 07:22 am
I think Aaron Nagler said it best in "Gut Reactions". He made ONE very simple to the point reaction.
"This is a bad football team".
At this point through 5 weeks this is pretty much dead on. Sure they've had some nice half's or a good quarter here and there but they still haven't put in a game we've come to expect from a Rodgers lead Packers team.
I wear my Green & Gold glasses with the best of them. I actually thought the Packers could possibly make it to the SB this year after saying all Spring they were probably at least a year away. I felt with the draft class Gute put together and added in the players from the 2017 draft who were injured and didn't really get to play, this team would be able to contend as long as Rodgers stays upright. If you look at last seasons draft class it's really quite pathetic. Josh Jones is lost. Kevin King is brittle. I don't even know what happened to Adams and Vince Biegel is playing in New Orleans. Yancy was cut and then resigned to the PS.. As for the rest WHO CARES. They were horrible and still are. WHY TO GO TED! Now I suppose Rodgers can put together one of his miracle runs and CARRY this team into the playoffs but I'm not counting on it.
McCarthy's "Redo" of the playbook wasn't much of a Redo at all. Rodgers is doing what he's seemed to do the last several years...Hold the ball forever instead of taking the easy completion. But this year he's fumbling to go along without the easy completion.
One last thing, this on McCarthy. I'm a little cloudy on exactly when it was in last weeks game but in was sometime in the 2nd quarter...Right before I shut off the TV for good Sunday. The Packers RUN THE BALL all the way to the Red-Zone for the most part with Aaron Jones and then attempt 3 pass plays, all incomplete setting Crosby up for his 2nd or 3rd miss. WHY Mike? Why completely get away from what was working and get cute without 2 of your starting WR? WHY not put in the 6'7" TE and RUN.
UGH!!!!!
Tundraboy
October 10, 2018 at 08:19 am
Ugh is right. How many times have we seen this pattern.
dobber
October 10, 2018 at 09:02 am
Sometimes the game is really simple.
Sometimes coaches outsmart themselves.
JerseyAl
October 10, 2018 at 10:05 am
said te same thing about Jones. He got them to the 24 yd line, they couldn't stop him and then...
https://twitter.com/JerseyAlGBP/status/1049309712116862976
Roadrunner23
October 10, 2018 at 08:13 am
New assistant coaches and OC on Offense
New scrubbed down version of the same old Offense
Same old Stubborn McCarthy stressing is Fundamentals
Same slow plodding Offense
Same old excuses
Same failure by McCarthy to adapt to the new NFL
Prediction: McCarthy is going to lose the locker room if he hasn't already.
First Aaron Rodgers fires a shot across the bow and now Josh Jones is publicly expressing his lack of playing time. The wheels are going to come off after the bye week when the Packers get pummeled on the road in L.A. and New England. It is time to move on from BIG MIKE!
egbertsouse
October 10, 2018 at 09:09 am
Even HHCD is quoted in the media today saying it’s his last year in GB. Is this the beginning of a mutiny? I don’t know but it doesn’t sound positive.
packerbackerjim
October 10, 2018 at 09:23 am
I wish him well, hope he signs a big contract and we get a supplemental pick. That’s what I would call a win-win.
JerseyAl
October 10, 2018 at 09:51 am
doesn't sound mentally tough to me. and he plays like he sounds
Thegreatreynoldo
October 10, 2018 at 09:25 am
Every time I see HHCD quotes, the less I want him on the team. The former Alabama standout had hoped to work out a long-term deal with the Packers.
"I don't think I'm going to be here next year. That's how I look at it. This is my biggest interview of my career, so I've got to perform, regardless of what the record says. Some great things that a lot of guys, a lot of individuals are doing, including myself. But there's always room for improvement. I think for myself, I want to put a complete game together myself...."
Link to the article:
https://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2018/10/ha_ha_clinton-dix_thinks_hes...
On getting stiff-armed by Golladay:
"For one, I shouldn't have gotten relaxed on the play," Clinton-Dix said. "I thought it was a PI, I thought he was going out of bounds, so I relaxed going into the play. That's not the first time that kid has stiff-armed me. That's the second time in two years. So I don't know. I have a problem with that kid all the time. I even tell him that. He's got these big dinosaur arms, and I can't figure out how to get away from him. I just have to be aggressive and get him out of bounds. I'm the last line of defense."
Hematite
October 10, 2018 at 02:12 pm
The first thing that I thought of when I read Dix comments, McCarthy is losing this team.
Hopefully that is not the case!!
Pauly
October 10, 2018 at 10:27 am
To me HHCD is playing like he doesn't want to get hurt and is planning on taking his millions of $ and retiring at the end of the season. Out of football and into his other career he talked about liking last yr.
Tundraboy
October 10, 2018 at 08:17 am
Name one thing new in the scrubbed playbook.?
https://www.theringer.com/nfl/2018/10/8/17951344/green-bay-packers-mike-...
Thegreatreynoldo
October 10, 2018 at 08:54 am
The Ringer made MM look like Shrek.
jeremyjjbrown
October 10, 2018 at 09:02 am
Did you ever see "Chef"?
I feel like the food critic who's asked to come back to the restaurant for something special, and then gets served exactly the same food.
Mike McCarthy said, “So we’ve taken a scrub brush approach to the whole system.”
BullShit.
dobber
October 10, 2018 at 09:03 am
I don't know what people expected. Who built the old playbook? Who built the new playbook? Who's still calling the plays?
TarynsEyes
October 10, 2018 at 09:14 am
Out with the old, in with the new, the only changed, is the word new for old.
splitpea1
October 10, 2018 at 11:54 am
The playbook must be the size of a church pamphlet.
dobber
October 10, 2018 at 12:48 pm
The dictionary is huge...how many words do we use out of it?
splitpea1
October 10, 2018 at 02:37 pm
Going a bit off track here, the dictionary and thesaurus are incredible tools that not nearly enough people take advantage of.
Tundraboy
October 10, 2018 at 09:11 pm
True, but still I'd like to have seen another word or two added to our vocabulary.
freddisch
October 10, 2018 at 11:48 am
Same play book, just changed the cover “New Improved Play Book”
Tundraboy
October 10, 2018 at 09:12 pm
That's what I was afraid of.
JHitTheB
October 10, 2018 at 08:18 am
Rodgers 2018 stats so far
Completions - 131 (8th)
Attempts - 208 (6th)
Completion % - 63 (not sure)
Passing Yards - 1,572 (8th)
Passing TDs - 10 (T8th)
Passer Rating - 100.1 (10th)
INTs - 1
Pass YDS/game - 314.4 (9th)
Even on a bum leg, repaired shoulder, and with limited practice reps he's STILL top 10 lol. I'm not saying he's perfect - I've seen him miss some throws he usually makes in his sleep and he doesn't run as much as he usually does - but he's not the problem.
JHitTheB
October 10, 2018 at 08:33 am
EDIT: The Packers are tied for the league lead in drops with 11.
If those 11 passes are not dropped that puts his Completion % up to 68.2 which would put him 9th.
TarynsEyes
October 10, 2018 at 09:19 am
Boxscore devotee....Prevent defense's allow for stat padding and Rodgers is one of the best when the game is lost.
JHitTheB
October 10, 2018 at 10:13 am
Boxscore devotee? Please. It's called knowing football. He has put the team in position to win every game this year - the exception being maybe the Skins game even though some bad calls killed momentum. Put Kizer in there and GB is winless. No boxscore perusing needed to know that.
Penalties/players out of position = coaching
Drops/missed throws = lack of practice reps
Mismanaging game situations = coaching
Injuries = bad luck/lack of players maintaining their bodies
Again - he's not the problem.
splitpea1
October 10, 2018 at 12:08 pm
You must mean "he's not the only problem." Nobody is sure which percentage of blame should be assigned to either AR or MM.
packergal
October 10, 2018 at 12:16 pm
JHitTheB,
WRONG...AROD IS one of the problems but he's not the only one.
In addition to his throwing motion change, (resulting from injured leg, arm strength change, injury fear--it does not matter).
His decision making on choosing the open receivers is well below previous year performance.
Now, to this issue, identify which playmakers on both sides of the ball are playing at above average--enough to be starters on other teams: Here's my list:
AROD,
Aaron Jones,
DaVante,
Bahktiari,
Martinez,
Kenny Clark,
Jaire Alexander (maybe/too soon to tell)
There may be a few more but this small number of players will likely not produce a consistent, high performing offense, defense and playoff team.
Therefore, the personnel problems, execution issues, coaching failures combined with AROD average performance means AROD does share some of the blame.
Skip greenBayless
October 10, 2018 at 11:11 am
Boxscore devotee? Somewhere some young band is going to use that as their song title. The last one similar that I can think of off hand was Jukebox Hero by Foreigner. Has a nice ring to it. Well done.
PAPackerbacker
October 11, 2018 at 05:15 am
All those stats and his rank and AR is also #1 in salary. And how about fumbles?
Christopher Gennaro
October 11, 2018 at 04:40 pm
Are we already question the man salary? Ugh how about we wait to see if he can adjust before question his salary.
Since'61
October 10, 2018 at 08:55 am
I think we know that there is enough blame on this team to go around for everyone, players and coaches. Second in the league in penalties is just bad football even in this recent era of ridiculous penalty calls.
Like everyone else I have no idea why we are not giving the ball to Aaron Jones more frequently. I know that Rodgers was removed from the injury list but I think that he is still playing hurt. I agree with Jersey Al that something is wrong with his throwing motion or he just can't use his injured leg to throw off of. Just another reason to get the ball to Aaron Jones IMO. As for his decision making on not hitting open receivers I just don't understand it at this point. Decision making has always been one his strengths as a QB.
One thing that AL did not mention was our lack of a pass rush. We better find one before we go on the road to play the Rams and Pats. And yes I know there aren't any pass rush or edge player trees out there. Another very good article AL.
Go Pack Go! Thanks, Since '61
Christopher Gennaro
October 11, 2018 at 04:47 pm
I agree 100% that Rodgers usually makes great decisions and its one thing that separates him from most players. I think he needs to understand that dump off, right now is just as big as the 60 yard dart. Its sometimes hard for race horse to slow down. On the pass rush, I have no idea what they can do this year, with the personnel we have.
dobber
October 10, 2018 at 09:23 am
Looking at the snap counts, four things jump out at me...
1. Kenny Clark can't play this many snaps. He might have played all of them if he didn't get temporarily dinged up in the first half. They're going to wear him down to nothing at this rate.
2. Guys who need to start figuring into the rotation: Montravious Adams, Josh Jones. Adams got only 1 snap? That's a problem...he needs to step up and create some breathers for the rest of the DL group. Based on this, I wouldn't be surprised if the Packers started using Lancaster on obvious run downs. Josh Jones is in that category, too. He needs to be a functional piece, but he's clearly been passed up by Burks in that coverage/hybrid ILB role.
3. The Packers played mostly nickel on Sunday (no shock) and a fair amount of base looking at the defensive snaps.
4. I see no real plan in the RB usage. It's a true committee and it doesn't feel like there are established roles here.
Thegreatreynoldo
October 10, 2018 at 10:29 am
I don't expect to read any articles titled "Why isn't Montravius Adams playing more?" We know why he got 1 snap.
If GB gives Josh Jones some snaps, there is a chance we won't see any more articles wondering why he is in the doghouse. We'll know. [I still have hopes for Josh Jones. I'd give a 2nd round draft pick the benefit of the doubt over UDFAs IF ITS A CLOSE CALL, but it seems clear to me anyway that Whitehead is noticeably better than Jones was last year. Not sure that Brice is better except when we play dreadfully bad QBs like Trubisky and Allen.]
dobber
October 10, 2018 at 10:35 am
I understand what you're saying, and you're right. Really, my point was that those were guys who need to step up, but they aren't demanding play time with results...just (Jones) with his mouth. It's a problem: they're going to need that depth.
TarynsEyes
October 10, 2018 at 09:29 am
" One thing that AL did not mention was our lack of a pass rush. We better find one before we go on the road to play the Rams and Pats."
The pass rush has been missing for years and all the writers here have denied it being an issue along with the vast majority of those that comment.
What we have is a collection of blind squirrels finding a nut now and then....nothing more though less is still a possible.
Josh Allen was the most recent nut to be found but they don't appear on the schedule and the privious 2nd half Trubisky won't be the same easy nut either.
JerseyAl
October 10, 2018 at 09:54 am
"all the writers here have denied it being an issue". Really? I've been screaming about it so long I'm tired if doing it. And I'm not alone...
TarynsEyes
October 10, 2018 at 10:15 am
Have you not supported Perry being retained? Did you not support Perry before being resigned? Did you support the signing of Matthews to the highest paid OLB for however short time he was?
I know I didn't and was persecuted about it and still am by some. I recently said Gilbert,without some help will get washed out. I was mistaken about Fackrell and atoned for it last season unlike many who still pound the desk for Matthews in any form or Perry when he 's healthy which still isn't anything special.
I don't recall you being slurred, mocked etc for your damming of Matthews or Perry, our 1-2 punch of air.
If I'm in error,apologies, but nobody here has taken the abuse I have concerning the mighty duo and no one screamed louder or more often than me.
JerseyAl
October 10, 2018 at 10:28 am
Perry no. Matthews yes, because there was no better option. I've long maintained Perry was a desperation reach as a first-round pick when the critical pass rush need first reared its ugly head. I didn't like him before the draft, was meh about him as a Packer, and was surprised by the contract extension - again out of desperation. Matthews I believed still had something left, and I think he does. You can thank the NFL for cutting his heart out this season.
I know you have had plenty of Nick Perry arguments with many in here, but not with me. Sometimes I react to excessive negativity, so maybe that's what I did. But I've never been a Perry fan.
Lare
October 10, 2018 at 05:42 pm
The one constant during the last few years of LB futility in Green Bay- Winston Moss. Poor coaching or poor talent?
ILPackerBacker
October 10, 2018 at 11:06 am
If you see it on twitter it must be true!
Nothing says great insight like posting your own twitter.
the pack has more than 11 drops in just the last 3 games.
2 dropped TDs just last weekend. (giving adams credit for the roll)
adams missed a td v the queens.....before blaming the guy making the throw look at who is not catching them. Nobody is doubling or scheming away adams
WRs are NOT open because the defense leave them when the ball is thrown else where.
JerseyAl
October 10, 2018 at 12:53 pm
Nothing says insightful comment like worrying about if I save myself some typing and want to establish when something was said by showing a tweet. Sheesh.
ILPackerBacker
October 10, 2018 at 11:08 am
Finally and with humor
the packers have WRs who can run 20 yards in under 2 seconds.......
where does this stuff come from?
certainly not twitter
LambeauPlain
October 10, 2018 at 11:26 am
MM is an incredibly stubborn man and seriously immune to change.
He attempted to be a HC for one year where he said he would devote roughly equal time to O, D, STs, and personnel. That lasted a year and he was back being an OC.
He kept Capers on board for 5 years too long and it cost him many victories and maybe another SB appearance or two or three.
And he states his O playbook would be scrubbed this offseason and be rebuilt with creativity and new looks. It is the same playbook!
Stubborn and immune to change.
Time for change at HC.
croatpackfan
October 10, 2018 at 12:20 pm
NIce points Al... Very good article...
croatpackfan
October 10, 2018 at 12:40 pm
I want to ask one question. I wonder if the age is the cause of the problems we see in Aaron's game.
I've been riding vars for over 40 years and I have noticed that in the course of time my peripheral vision slowly diminished. I remember that as a very young driver I noticed a lot of events on both sides of the vehicle. And I drove faster and more energetic. After the time I stopped to observe these events, that is, my visual field became more and more narrower. That is why I drive so much more calm today, It takes me longer to observe all the details I have just observed and processed as a young driver. I can not remember when I noticed that detail in driving, but I know I had some unpleasant situations just because I did not have this vision anymore as at the very beginning of my driving life...
I also remember how many people mentioned, I think during 2011 or 2012, how Tom Brady sees the ghosts in his pocket. That was so obvious that it looks ridiculous.
Maybe Aaron's field of vision began to narrow, so he stopped to notice the open WR on the other side of the field, or the movement behind him in his pocket ...
What do you think of that?
Community Guy
October 10, 2018 at 01:24 pm
i hadn't read this theory before. if it holds some weight wouldn't the trend be true for all older QBs?
croatpackfan
October 10, 2018 at 03:54 pm
Well, it should be applicable for all QB that not goes only through first and second reading, but those who making the magic on the field...
4thand10
October 10, 2018 at 12:20 pm
Packers are playing like shit right now....no doubt. Use of RBs and tight ends is a problem..especially knowing the situation the Oline was in prior to the season.
Yes talking penalties and refs is loser talk. However one would have to be completely blind NOT to see for some reason officiating crews have a full Hard On for the Packers. The Packers were very vocal about calls, as has been Mike Tomlin for the Steelers ( he’s a pretty good coach)...and yet the NFL and officiating crews are trying to teach them a lesson....it sucks and it’s Obvious. I think it’s time for fans to start throwing garbage at the officials again because something has to level the playing field.
TarynsEyes
October 10, 2018 at 01:16 pm
Oh boy !!!
Doug Niemczynski
October 10, 2018 at 01:19 pm
He sounds a little upset. I could be wrong
Skip greenBayless
October 10, 2018 at 03:06 pm
" I think it’s time for fans to start throwing garbage at the officials again"
Ah, no it's not time for that type of behavior EVER. Unless you are a member of Antifa or the far left, good decent people do not use violence or throw things at innocent people to get their way. This is just a game man. You need to voice your displeasure at the top and that's getting rid of Roger Goodell.
4thand10
October 10, 2018 at 03:41 pm
No...not too “upset” . Players and coaches have been very vocal about calls...more so this year than any I remember except maybe the fail Mary game. Lol...no, not a member of anything ,lol , anifta or teabaggers. But clearly nothing changes until so many fans are upset and talking about it
( see Clay Matthews legal /not legal sack/ training video debacle ) and the complete flip of positions on the matter. Coaches have been chasing down and yelling at officials....NFL flip flopping on sacks after maintaining such staunch positions... it’s a problem. Your right, I shouldn’t advocate throwing trash, that’s wrong.
Skip greenBayless
October 10, 2018 at 03:55 pm
Your right, I shouldn’t advocate throwing trash, that’s wrong.
Thank you. I think the guy in this video also agrees with you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm66Ww6qTpA
4thand10
October 11, 2018 at 01:04 am
http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000972507/article/nfl-fines-mike-to...
Community Guy
October 10, 2018 at 01:32 pm
like others have said: nice commentary.. really. that said, the theoretical under-usage of Aaron Jones feels to me more like a political talking point to justify getting on McCarthy's ass, rather than a main reason the Packers have struggled. after all, everyone would agree that the Packers are a passing team, so, dismissing relative backfield pass protection skills seems disingenuous.. Williams is absolutely solid in pass pro. also, the Lions game reinforces the importance of ball-security.. Williams has repeatedly shown ball security skills.
PeteK
October 10, 2018 at 06:48 pm
The #1 problem that has beaten us this season are dropped passes in very critical situations, everything else is true, but secondary. Drops are on the individual players and will correct itself because the players involved are better than that. Jones has improved and is running with more power, but I have no problem with Montgomery and his receiving skills being in the game when we're trying to make a comeback. Let's take a very deep breath. We're destroying everything green and gold. We had arguably the best team, Minnesota, beat. We're a half game back and the rest of the league is in disarray. The only team playing as they should are the Rams. Must win Monday and then my money is on the Pack as they always play great after a bye against great competition.
Tundraboy
October 10, 2018 at 09:14 pm
"But the Packers don't do easy."
May have to make that a wallpaper.