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MichiganPacker2 posted:
Va. Packer posted:

Sam Shields is getting the "backup QB" treatment. He never made a Pro Bowl. His best season was arguably his rookie year when Woodson and T. Williams were starting. He averaged about 3 picks a year and was a challenge flag away from being on a Dez Bryant poster for all eternity. Is he better than the flotsam the Packers are trotting out there now? Sure. But that speaks for itself. And he can't play both CB spots at once.

He surely isn't the difference between HFA throughout the playoffs and 4th seed.

Did you actually watch him play? 3-4 times a year he'd chase down a guy from way behind. The guy could run. He might not have been Darrell Revis, but he was a good corner. 

He could run indeed. He was a starting caliber NFL corner. He was paid like one. He wasn't a great player and he wasn't the difference in the Packers record and home field. I watched Julio Jones light up the Packers secondary for 259 yards in 2014 when Shields was there.

Lack of talent and constant mental errors, not injuries, is what ails the Packers CB's.

MichiganPacker2 posted:

0 sacks

0 interceptions (despite 2 gimmes)

1 fumble in the redone. 

If Ripkowski doesn't fumble, Crosby doesn't miss a FG and other pick happens, it's at worst 24-13 right now. That's the NFL - if guys don't make plays when given the opportunity (and I'm not even counting Ryan's non-fumble recovery) close games turn into routs. 

Given the momentum factor (such as teams playing loose with a big lead), I actually think it may have been a winnable game had the FG been made and Rip not fumbling.

Reminds me of Bellicheck.  Always says the same thing.

We made more plays than they did.

Has Atlanta ever made more plays.  And the Packers did not make so many plays that were right in their pocket.

2009 Warner has more touchdowns than incompletions. 

2011 statistically the worst defense in NFL history. 

2012 and 2013 destroyed by Colin Kaepernick. 

2014 one of the biggest chokes in NFL history.

2015 80 yards for a TD in about a minute of overtime.

2016 almost 300 yards of offense in one half.  37 points and counting. 

We should not be surprised. At all. Just another in the long line of epic McCarthy and Capers fails. Capers will be back again next year and we will be talking about the same stuff after yet another playoff collapse.

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