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+ HHCD Really good game until he whiffed at the worst possible time. A relatively small positive and the only one. - Everything. Poor play in all three phases and Colts looked like they had more energy and wanted it more. Inexcusable and goes right to MM.
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+++ Monty had a few nice runs Clinton Dix with a couple of picks Schum looked OK Badgers and Bucks basketball ---- Too many to ****ing list starting first with this ****ty coaching staff Next game up but the way Tennessee runs the ball they might have 200 on the ground
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If I could pick one word for this team. It's stagnant. There is no flow to this team. Nothing is moving in any direction. I mean 4-4. I realize this is a bull**** generalization but it seems like everyone is kind of sick of everyone and even sicker of answering questions about everyone else. Stagnant.
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Positives. + A couple young guys looked good. Ryan taking a jump, Dix making impact plays and Adams starting to look like a NFL caliber WR. Negatives - Rodgers back to beyond bad QB play. Staring down his guy and not reading the D. - Special teams cost us 13 points. TD return for 7, long return for 3 and missed FG for 3. - Defense has no heart two weeks in a row. Can't make a play when it matters most. - Pass rush. Colts can't pass protect for ****. Our front 4 couldn't get home. What...
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The "standard" offense continues to look predictable, stale, and overmatched by NFL teams that continue to adjust to things that work. They don't have WRs that can consistently just "get open" and "beat their man". Sometimes the do, but not anything close to consistently. Haven't for the last 2 seasons, yet they simply tell the WRs to beat their man. When they play in a spread formation they at times have more success. But, they use it sparingly until in desperation mode. Manbeaters are not...
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HHCD was so inconsistent today. He made some big plays but was blown out of the tackling lane on the opening kickoff then failed to tackle Luck with the game on the line.
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Janis watching a TD bounce off his chin was comical. I have to give credit to the Colts. With three minutes left, McStupidface would have run two dives and a sweep for negative 1 yards. Colts went for the jugular and threw killer passes (granted, they were to the middle of our defense, so, it was a pretty safe play). 4-4, time to stop being stupid and start kicking ass. Dom Capers sucks
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There's more than enough talent on this team to be 6-2 right now, injuries or not. Aaron Rodgers is still an MVP caliber player, the problem is coaching. McStupidface is content to run this team into a brick wall; doing the same things week after week, year after year. McCarthy is an incredibly overrated coach. He's no better than Mike Sherman, not in any respect. Considering how awful Mike Sherman's GM was (himself), you can make a strong case that McCarthy is an inferior coach (and don't...
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Let's be honest. The only reason the Packers even made it a game was because the Colts went into the classic prevent defense. Inflated numbers to make McCarthy believe it's still about pad level.
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Ok- I agree with that. When a team isn't ready to play, it's on the coaches. I have gone back and forth on this subject- if McCarthy's time has come. I guess I just don't understand why a guy who used to be so ahead of the game, so innovative, and right there with the best coaches in the game suddenly loses it. Last year the play-calling debacle it was "They miss Jordy"... this year not much has changed. And I go back to that Bleacher Report article- is Rodgers seeing ghosts? Today's game...
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The defense failed yet again today to make a key stop when it mattered. Indy converts on 3rd down and it was game over. That's a running theme. The score might have looked close but it wasn't. Packers were badly outmatched and honestly played without much emotion and intensity. Cue up another Colt "In my opinion that sucked"
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Positives: We have a very talented team, we have a HOF QB (that is in a slump), good young talent at WR with Ty Montgomery, Randall Cobb, Davante Adams, Jordy Nelson (for another year or so) and Trevor Davis. One of the best offensive lines in the league. There is a question at TE, hopefully Jarred Cook can get healthy but not much after him. Rodgers can catch the ball but blocks worse than I do. Eddie Lacy when healthy if a credible threat a RB and Rip is improving at FB. On Defense we have...
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I don't know who should be brought in. I just know the people they have coaching this team now are completely in over their heads right now. There's no excuse for this team being 4-4, there's too much talent on this roster for that BS record. I'll be thrilled if McCarthy can get off the mat and prove me wrong, but I seriously doubt that's going to happen.
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A wonder coach?? We don't need a wonder coach, we need to break from the status quo that has exists today. We need to break from the same stubborn game plans start changing what we do and how we utilize the players we have. If being an "owner" gave any input I would look for a defensive minded Head Coach and get a young offensive coordinator to innovate and invigorate the offense. We don't need Gruden, Dungy or Cowher.
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Capers called the safety blitz which worked almost perfectly until HHCD failed to make the tackle.
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I just don't know if its coaching and/or playcalling...when I see AR missing guys that he should have hit. It's a quick hit offense, or at least it appears that is the way he should be playing it...he had SOOO many open guys that if he followed the design of the play, would work - he either :1. can't do it anymore, 2. has no faith in the system, 3. has no faith in wr's, 4. is not into the game. At every point in the game, I had said all of those things to myself. I get a bad game, everybody...
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+HHCD finally playing like a playmaker +Ryan showing glimpses of a good ILB +Montgomery showing what an x factor can do for an offense +Adams showing progress - losing to a 3-5 Colts team that deserves to be 3-5. That's a bad omen. Game wasn't as close as score. -middle of the D again proving fatal -OL. Our OL was getting a lot of praise through 5 or 6 weeks because D's were rushing 2 or 3. Now that they're sending more, we see that really are average. -MM. Glimpses of creativity to bust out...
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I have missed the majority of the last (2) games because of other commitments. At this point, the Packers have relieved me of the feeling that I NEED to watch every moment of every game. Not that I will not watch, but my dog needed to go out late in the 4th quarter and I was just fine taking him out without even once thinking that I had to get back and see what was going on. It is a positive for me being ok with disconnecting myself and a negative for the Packers.
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Again, I'm not sure he deserves this position without also listing him as a negative at least. He was in the lane on the opening kickoff and was blown out. He also missed Luck for the sack on a great playcall to give them a chance to score and win the game. Those were two huge plays had he made either one they have a good chance to still win the game. IoW: He had the chance to make four big plays, he made two.
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I for one think that he can get this team up off the mat and turn things around. I am way in the minority on this one but I don't blame MM for this record. On offense I blame the complete lack of running game and nothing from the TE position. In the NFL they are going to figure out your offense really quickly if you cannot run the ball and make things balanced. Defensively, I am not as inclined to be as lenient about it. I think that Capers scheme has gotten stale and teams have figured out...
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Maynard: I don't believe for a second that Jordy, Cobb, Monty, and even Adams are not as good as Freeman, Brooks, and Rison. Lacy and Rip are likely as good as Bennett and Hendo. They are missing the catching threat out of the backfield with Levens, but Monty might fill that. Biggest weakness is TE, but Cook could provide that. OK, I'll stick to the 96 team which I admit may not be fair, but here goes. At receiver, Brooks is out (hurt against SF regular season game). Freeman was a #1 level...
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If they win out, they probably need one other thing to happen to get in. They were at #7 last week and Texas AM lost, so they should bump up to #6. If they win out that means that both OSU and Michigan will have lost, so the only other teams currently ranked above them are Alabama, Clemson, Washington, and Louisville. If all those teams win out, they would be out of the playoff. If Alabama, Clemson, and Washington lose once, they still might stay in front of a two loss Wisconsin team. There...
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Cowher had 15 seasons, made playoffs ten times, lost in the AFC championship four times, made two Super Bowl appearances and had one Super Bowl win. Not that dissimilar to McCarthy and his playoff appearance record, and he has been out of coaching 10 years. Not seeing it. Not that this is an endorsement of MM. Since the loss to Seattle in the 2014 championship game, the offense has been mediocre to awful, he and the QB don't appear to be on the same page (or, at least, AR doesn't respect...
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I have no doubt that MM is a very good coach, but his team is in a rut since Game 7 last year. The same issues with the O keep cropping up, and the insistence on going with 11 personnel and iso routes is purely coaching. The same issues with the D not being capable of carrying off-days for the O under Dom, middle of the field being open, giving up last second scores, etc. is again on coaching. The coaches understandably may not see the forest for the trees as well - who gets playing time,...
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No one. We must stick with Mike McCarthy of the rest of eternity, because he won a Super Bowl 6 years ago. And, it's better to stick with something that clearly isn't working instead of risking something may not work either. So stick with the ineffective guy, because you might pick another ineffective guy. Top notch thinking. #leadership
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From Peter King today..... Stat of the Week In their past 20 games, Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers are: a. 9-11. b. 4-5 at Lambeau Field. c. Two wins worse than the Oakland Raiders. d. Three wins worse than the Detroit Lions. e. Owners of the same number of 300-yard passing games (three) as Cleveland.
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Nice strawman there. Didn't say MM is a coach for life. Just merely asked who the better coach replacement is. Rather simple question. Ready, fire, aim. #set up for failure
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I agree that game is a much bigger hurdle especially if they play O$U. Getting that team on a neutral field in a dome is kind of scary and this feels like 2014 all over again. I don't think they would get whacked 59-0 again but it would be a tough situation to play them. I have tickets to the Big Ten championship so hopefully it will be more competitive this time.
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I disagree- I think the Badgers can win out and get in the playoffs, and it just depends on who they beat in the B1G title game. If its an undefeated Michigan team, I think they're in. There's no way to ignore what they've done. Wins over (what would then be) 4 top 10 teams in 6 contests against top 10 teams would garner a lot of support. But if its OSU then that's not as good. Then Washington and Louisville are in play. But I think Washington loses before then. To me the real threat is...
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Saying McCarthy should be fired is easy. Offering a real solution is the difficult part. Who do you replace McCarthy with is a legit question? Go to perennially underachieving HC lIke Lovie Smith? Bring in an up and comer with no HC experience like Darrell Bevell? Or steal from the Belichick tree with Matt Patricia or retread Josh McDaniel? Yeah it's been 6 years since McCarthy won a SB, Bill Cowher went a decade after losing a SB before he even went to another. He kept his team in the hunt...
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First of all, pay me like the Packers top brass who's job it is to live, study, and know these kinds of things. I'll quit my current job and spend from now until the end of the playoffs researching, studying, turning over every rock, consulting with every good football mind I can find, etc.. I'll look into every assistant currently in the NFL, every viable college coach, any head coaches who I think could become available, and every ex-head/assistant coach who is currently not employed and...
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Gotta believe Philbin helped quite a bit yesterday. He knows McCarthy better than almost anyone as far as the coaching mindset. Goes beyond that though, McCarthy has had over a year of evidence that his offense has been figured out by NFL opponents. Adapt or go home. As far as the game yesterday, the offense and special teams were brutal, but the thing that pisses me off (almost as much as the stagnant offense) is the lack of pressure created by the defense. Colt opponents have been feasting...
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Slowmo... Seriously considering some changes doesn't in any way mean that I think M.M. has been a complete failure or that he's not a good coach. His record and accomplishments speak for themselves and put him right up there with other very successful coaches. I wouldn't be surprised at all if he went on to do well with another team at some point in his career. In addition, I'm not sure that I'm completely enamored with the way T.T. has done everything throughout his tenure with the Parkers...
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Positives As I almost always do-I taped the game, even though I didn't know the outcome, it is a quicker, less painful alternative to live action Montgomery is turning into a hell of a player The offensive comeback showed that they are still alive and kicking Better draft position and no doubt a new D-Coordinator for 2017 The whole league other than the Pats seems pretty average. Negatives That was a 1970s style loss...we received two unforced gifts and still took a beating......not good...
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Today Mike said "it's a man to man game. Didn't do enough to win those matchups". He also said after watching the tape again he felt the energy yesterday was actually pretty good. Look. It's admirable stuff that Mike thinks his recievers are capable of more and he just needs to unlock their inner greatness. But that isn't a young Jordy, engaged Jennings, and crafty Driver running ISO routes. It's Adams, a not yet back Jordy, Janis and Dick Rodgers. If the plan is to have those guys work...
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The shaking up needed to occur after that awful loss in the NFCC game in Seattle. A team poised to be in, and I think could have won, the SB.
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Bingo. The game management in that game cost them a Super Bowl. They had already beaten the Patriots and I think they'd have beaten them again. Oh they did fire Shawn Slocum though, maybe that was good enough.
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There is no point naming names. First off, no one has been fired. Secondly, there are no names that anyone that could list that would satisfy you. Hell, you already listed off 4 coaches that you *know* won't come and it would be stupid to suggest. How about we suggest an OC with no head coaching experience of a sub .500 team? Would that work for you as an answer for your "simple question"? Of course not. You'd **** all over that. YOU WANT TO FIRE A GUY THAT WON THE SUPER BOWL FOR A...
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We don't know if Harbaugh would refuse until we ask him. I don't think a defensive minded coach is the answer either. I want someone who can utilize what we already what we have on offense and pick his coordinators. I think we have seen a talent drain on the GM staff and maybe that needs to be addressed as well.
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Actually, I didn't ****** all over the hiring of MM, although I did prefer Sean Peyton, but feel free to project. Sherman needed to go because, after being dumped as GM, he was clearly feuding with TT and the two weren't on the same page. Kind of reverse of what happened when Sherman was hired, when he was given the GM job because the Packers didn't want to upset the apple cart and hire a new GM who would want his own guy and get rid of Sherman after he had only been head coach one year.
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Good rationale post. The personnel issues related to the RBs have to come under some scrutiny for TT/MM did there. Letting go of Sitton might have been the right choice, but somehow thinking that Barclay was an adequate option was shortsighted at best. This is still a borderline playoff team, but I think that's the ceiling this year. At best, this is a team that will likely just miss the playoffs this year or limp in and get beat in the first round. I agree with others, this team has never...
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Are you ****ing kidding me? I thought the energy was actually the worst part of the game. Whatever.