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It's all McCarthy's fault! He was too conservative!!
Unless that wouldn't have worked, in which case it's still all his fault because he shouldn't have taken so many risks up by 12 in the 4th!!
Ha ha ha!
Did you find a photograph on the internet?
Wow, way to go!
Here's my contribution.
When the NFL network show the top ten chock jobs of all time, this one will go down as # 2 on the all time list behind the 92 Houston Oilers
1998 Rice fumble, Owens catch
2004 4th and 26, 4th and 1 and punt, Favre int.
2007 Brint int. in OT
2015 about 6 plays like this.
Its a a good thing 2010 happened because this is about as brutal a string of playoff losses. 2 losses in overtime in the NFCC game in 8 years.
4 choke jobs in the playoffs in two decades. Without 2010, this is a sports curse Of epic proportions.
Not a choke per se but losing SB32 was much worse than this.
Call me kworst here but what concerns me most about yesterday is it was another new way to fail in the playoffs, something this team has become really good at producing every year since 2009 (2010 excluded). Each year is another year in the bank toward MM&AR becoming a "fart in the wind".
How's that for a pants pooping?
Pretty much what I was thinking MichiganPacker. Looking at it now, had we lost SB45 this game would have hurt even more since it was our best chance since 2010. Thank god we won that Super Bowl. If not we might be in a similar situation as the Niners.
Not a choke per se but losing SB32 was much worse than this.
Call me kworst here but what concerns me most about yesterday is it was another new way to fail in the playoffs, something this team has become really good at producing every year since 2009 (2010 excluded). Each year is another year in the bank toward MM&AR becoming a "fart in the wind".
How's that for a pants pooping?
Denver had a roster of future hall of famers and played grEat. It was also a very well played game. There is no shame in losing like that.
DEN did play great. GB was heavily favored and did not. Holmgren also choked late in the game. It was supposed to be that team's 2nd title and rightfully so. They were overconfident and got punked.
SB32 was just the worst for me simply for no other reason that it was the Super Bowl. It was a close game all the way that took a future hall of fame QB and a 2000 yard rusher to beat us to start with. Yesterdays game was like no other playoff loss I have ever seen the Packers produce. Everything at the end had to happen the way it did for Seattle to win in such a short amount of time its mind boggling.
SB32
2007
2011
Yesterday
4th and 26
I might move 4th and 26 back up to 4 eventually. Those first 3 are pretty much cemented in place. GB should have won all 3 of them. Favored to win all 3 of them Didn't win any of them.
Watched the end zone highlight of Morgan's pick. Nothing but room. Ha Ha was looking to block. Peppers could have blocked but just tossed up a "get on the ground" hand and trotted toward the sideline.
****
Yeah, I almost changed underwear when he kneeled down. That was the first chip to fall, and as someone else pointed out, an appropriate symbolic gesture to what the rest of the team would do from that moment forward: lay down and choke.
Chilli that's about my top 5 worst but I would also include the 1995 NFCCG against Dallass. I couldn't even bring myself to watch SB30 after that game.
1. Super Bowl 32 - Huge favorites, coaches interviewing/openly campaigning for jobs during the week, players partying and showing up hung over against a vastly inferior team. It'll take a lot to move this one out of the top spot for worst GBP postseason losses ever.
2. Yesterday - Simply an unimaginable collapse. If you told a football fan about this game who did not see it, he/she would simply not believe you. I've never seen anything like it in my 40-plus years of watching football.
3. Bert Faver's gag job against the NYG in 2007 - I think we tend to forget how many opportunities there were to go win that game at home only to have Bert play so horribly that he never put on a GBP uniform again.
4. 4th and 26 - Worst coaching job and quarterbacking when it counted combo I have ever seen from the GBP.
5. Tie between 2011 NYG bed-crapping and the 1998 Owens catch in SF - One terrible loss ended a 15-1 season ignominiously while the other ended the Holmy era. Both teams were flawed, though and most knew trouble was lurking for them.
There may have been awful postseason losses before 1998, but they went basically decades without playing in the playoffs so those would be before my time.
When you root for a team that contends as often as GB is, you're going to have some great wins and some gut-wrenching losses. Yesterday went from one to the other inside of about 15 minutes of real time. Unbelievable.
C'mon JJSD. You must remember the 15-1 Vikings and Gary Anderson being perfect on FG during the season. He misses and Atlanta scores twice in the 4th to beat the Vikings. Just as big of chock IMHO.
I'm talking exclusively about GBP games.
I'm vacillating between shock and pound of flesh and laughing hysterically.
I'm sure they'll do better next time. Top notch from the Hang Yourself High gang.
MM does not have a killer instinct. He should have stepped on the gas for the full 60 minutes yesterday, but as usual he didn't, and you can't do that against a team like Seattle.
I just don't think that MM is a big game coach. With two HOF QB's under his watch, there should be more than just one SB appearance under this Head Coach.
The worst possible ****ing thing about yesterday is that for 56 minutes yesterday Green Bay was doing to Seattle in Seattle things I didn't think any team was capable of doing to Seattle in Seattle. And then everything instantly went to ****. Offense, defense, special teams collectively all went instantly to ****. Never seen anything like that happen that damn fast
Meh, I'm just getting moving on my day. About the only thing that's changed for me is my TV-watching schedule over the next couple of weeks.
That and this game will now become part of the 'lunge for the remote immediately' list along with SB 32/T.O. TD on the last play types of games.
"Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth." Best summary of SB 32.
CJX2.
They were nearly (offense still choking on 1yd line) dominating the last team in the last place anyone expected them to. I couldn't believe it myself and never really relaxed and bought into what I was seeing until just before the fake FG. After the fake FG it was pins and needles because I KNEW SEA was on the march. SEA has been a 4th Q team all year. I celebrated again when Burnett picked off that pass but seconds later shat myself when he laid down, uncontested, in 1/2 acre patch of fieldturf, virtual zen garden free of any menace in blue and green. I thought that couldn't be a good omen.
Meh, I'm just getting moving on my day. About the only thing that's changed for me is my TV-watching schedule over the next couple of weeks.
That and this game will now become part of the 'lunge for the remote immediately' list along with SB 32/T.O. TD on the last play types of games.
Pretty much. It's funny though, I turned the tv off last night, chocked it up as the turd it was only to wake up this morning with a brief "WTF was that?" and then poured myself a cup of coffee.
It definitely stings when your team goes down as the foil in the annals of some other team's success.
Its just yawn/ho-hum status quo then for next year, I mean that is some serious meltdown that happened.
Here my 2 cents:
It was a calculated strategy of game management by MM, relying on his guys where he calls off the dogs. 1 of his dogs forgot the script (Bostick and Slocum) and suddenly it was Oh Fukk, and defensive coast mode had no more gas in the tank when the pedal was hit again.
Like Beef said, its what I like about Belicheat, he tries to keep his foot on the throat for the kill.( by any means)
BTW, any organization that went with Hawk n Jones in the middle for 2 years has some serious issues in the thought process.jmo.
I was seriously ready to just let it go. Then I made the mistake of going to ESPN.com and linking the story about Jon Ryan doing "the belt" gesture at the Packers sideline after the fake FG attempt that went for a TD.
Gonna need a bit more time now.
I'm hoping Capers retires. Bostick is probably going to get cut. Slocum needs to be terminated today
After the last few years, I dont look at MM the same way. Can't fire him, wouldn't be right thing.
He won't fire anybody, that's him.
So its just yawn and go on to next year with really a blah-seh feeling about packer football.
JJSD that is so true about the tv remote lunge. This game will be another like the 98 Owens catch, or the SB32 highlight where you can't change the channel fast enough.
It's officially a joke. If dealing with angry people, "must be a Green Bay fan". Heard it about 5 times today.
Slocum needs to be terminated today
The article today about the fake field goal should be the nail in that coffin.
The Seahawks said it wasn't just a tendency, Jones broke containment every single time he was in on field goal defense.
Forget about the spread Denver took it to our boys. They DESERVED to win. It sucked and Elway is a POS but I can't go there
Yesterday vaulted to #1 on the list because no team in the NFCCG had ever choked like that. EVER.
Underdogs have won the Super Bowl many times.
My list is as follows:
1) yesterday - a for the ages suck that will be tough to duplicate. The final score did not indicate how badly GB was dominating them and those fukkers advance
2) 4th and 26 - GB beat them to a pulp until Bert got cute. God I hate that fukking game
3) 2007- dammit I was POd after that one. Thanks Brent
4) 1995 - almost as mad as 2007- GB would have destroyed Pittsburgh in that SB
5) 1997 - maybe I am jaded because they won it all the year before but the Broncos simply wanted it more and our guys blew it
Here's one---that was Dom Capers best game plan of all time---I have been wrong for the past 3 years..keep that combed over s.ob. around until he dies….
As good fans, we need to send McCarthy some really creative hate mail…knock him down a peg……his conservative plan was the product of being way over confident…he needs to be a more sniveling, go for broke, over-compensating bundle of freakish mania…you're going to run on first and second down with 5 minutes left….but not on 4th and six inches?… He should wear pink every week, not just for the breast cancer awareness games.
I'm typically not sure where I'm headed….I will say that McCarthy usually ignores the advice I scream at him every week and he is typically right to do so….yesterday he should have listened…. a little bit anyway.