Nobody Cares

I had no idea this team was this good. Knew it had to be a perfect game. Close. 

Of course tomorrow's another day. Hell, an hour later, and the sting's already fading a bit.

 

Definitely rooting for the AFC in the Superbowl as of right now, admittedly out of spite. Maybe that will change, but it's not changing tonight!

3 minutes from perfect, dam. They had it just couldn't finish. Agree the sting is gone, 5 years ago I'd still be stomping around....perspective is a good thing.

You know what?

 

I'd rather lose in the NFC Championship game than the Super Bowl----it doesn't go on your "permanent record" as much.

Not sure about that

Getting to the Super Bowl under these circumstances would have been a great story especially when you consider how good Seattle has been at home

Now we'll never know and that sucks because once again, like Philly in 2004 and against the Giants in 2007 and Arizona in 2009 they snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.  This one might be the worst of all of them.

A 5 minute equivalent of the 2014 Brewers season!!!

Good thing there's always next year

I think the Packers would have beaten NE or Indy in the Super Bowl.  That's another thing that makes this loss maddening. 

Mega dittos. 

 

It was all right there.

Terrible premise. 

Well, it made me feel better.

 

Well that and being fabulously rich with great hair and the temperature will be 70 degrees tomorrow.

Permanent record?  You mean like replays over and over again for the next two weeks?  I will avoid ESPN and the NFL Network like the plague.  It's going to be hard to stomach the "highlights" of this one.

Probably be a 30 for 30 to rival the Canes

****, I'm watching Caillou tonight instead of the AFCCG. Trying to put life in perspective.

****

Mother****er

I'm just a boy with a bald head, I'm Caillou. 

Maybe, but I don't think New England is going to be denied this season.

I'm going to need some ****ing help this week at least. Sorry guys.

Personally, this game sucked, but knowing that we're in a good spot for the next 5 year, makes thus bearable and that we won 5 years ago. 

I can't believe it's gonna be 240 days before I care about football again.

My first wife(of two) would grab my cigarettes out of my pocket the day her college finals ended and would smoke like a chimney for 3 months. A week before classes started she'd take one last drag and crumple up her pack (wouldn't even give it to me). She wouldn't touch a cigarette for 8 months. She was a woodwind major.  Drove me nuts that she could quit like that. Now I understand.

To everything there is a season...

Hell yesterday if someone had told me that the pack was gonna lose in overtime I would have been all right with that, at least we played good enough to make it a game and went to overtime with a gimpy Rodgers.

 

In the end we lost a very close game in overtime against the defending super bowl champions in their house with our hobbled quarterback.  

It would have been an epic win, how did it become such an epic loss???

 

Just got done watching the UFC, it's nice sometimes to be able to have a sport that I have no personal investment in whatsoever..

I wasn't going to post this because it sounds contrived, and like the title of the thread says, Nobody Cares. But it's after 1:00 am and I decided I don't care who thinks it is or not.

 

My wife had a very good friend that was diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer. When she found out, she set some goals. The 1st was to make it long enough to see her youngest son graduate. The prognosis wasn't good, but she made it 2 years and met her goal. So she set another one; she wanted to live long enough to see her eldest son get married.

 

Three years later she met that second goal. She was in and out of the hospital, but she fought on. The treatments were Hell. She had beaten death's door for 5 years when the doctors didn't know if she could last two. So she set a 3rd goal; see her 1st grandchild born. She fought on for 2 more years hoping this would happen. Her thought process was that if she kept setting these milestones, her will to live would help her fight the disease.

 

She was buried yesterday (Saturday). She fought terminal cancer for 7 years. She didn't make it to that 3rd goal.

 

My 6 year old grandson stayed over night Saturday, and Sunday morning we watched the animated movie The Book of Life. There's an afterlife in the movie called The Land of The Remembered where if you are remembered by someone, you never really die. My grandson Hunter hopped up on my lap and said, "Papa, I hope I'll always remember you."

 

I guess what I'm saying is that my wife's friend's family and friends, 6 year old Hunter, and quite frankly me could not really give jack**** whether Bostick dropped an onside kick, Hawk got lost, or MM went conservative today. It's a release from reality for 3 hours a week and entertainment. That's all it is.

 

Win or lose, some of us still have to get up and go to work tomorrow, and some of us wish we were fortunate enough to be able get up and go to work tomorrow. I used to let stuff like this kill me. Maybe I'm just getting old.

 

So that's where I am tonight. I actually took this loss quite well and got over it pretty quickly. I'm sorry if I posted anything this year that offended anyone. I know some people got upset I guess for sometimes having a different opinion. No hard feelings on my part, hopefully not on anyone of yours either. Because in the whole scope of things...Who Cares?

 

See ya at draft time. Peace out.

Heckuva post antiworst.

 

Just my 4 cents.

1. Part of sports is the historical perspective of stats, different eras, etc.

2. JMHO, that was the worst last 4 minutes in Packers franchise history.

3. At halftime I told my friends the first team to 25 points wins. 

4. First time I noticed #50 on the field (first saw him on the fake field goal TD) I immediately experienced fear and loathing. Before the ball was snapped when lynch ran right at hawk for his TD, I said it was coming. Teams have been targeting hawk's side of the field for 2 years. So transparent it's sickening.

What makes this one so tough is that for me & probably all of us is we let ourselves think of the Packers in the SB, what the 2 weeks leading up to it would be like, etc. ...looking at the sidelines after the 4th INT, the players did too. 

The finality of playoff football.  All season long it's, "We'll do better next week." Now there is no next week, only next season.  I hope this is like the Packers after the 1995 season playoff debacle in Dallas.  Reggie White was supposedly  so mad on the flight home he couldn't talk.  I hope Peppers, Rodgers, and some of the other leaders feel the same.  We saw what the 1996 season turned into and I have a hunch the 2015 season will be the same.  Don't know why, I just do.                        

AS is often the case-----I should have been in a straight jacket thru out the game…and as is often the case, afterwards I was okay. This morning not so much…..what a terrible loss….It will fade as did every big loss from the past….but I'm going to wallow in disappointment and pity for awhile.

I'm so much worse off this morning. Green Bay went to Seattle and punched them in the mouth and was beating the ever living **** out of them. They just couldn't land the knockout. This feels just like Philly. GB was the better team. And somehow they are watching from home. 

 

If im taking any singular positive away from this game. It's that Green Bay went to Seattle and roughed them up. I didn't see that happening. That's the kind of thing that will carry over to 2015. 

 

Today really sucks though. 

I slept like a baby.

 

I woke up every hour and cried.

 

 

Next year looks good, real good.  Get a couple of strong, fast ILB's, keep the hunger which I am sure they have today and it's Super Bowl baby.

Get back to us when you sleep like an adult

I wish the thrill of victory lasted as long as the agony of defeat.  It never does.

 

Having said that, I appreciate antiworst's post.  It puts the whole thing in a much more proper perspective.  It's only a game.

The defense played 55 minutes of a 60 minute game. After Burnett's interception, the defense was celebrating like the game was over and from that point they played like it was over. The offense then came out and played prevent offense after the interception. Burnett could have at least got them into field goal position, just don't run out of bounds. If Rodgers was healthy, they would have hung 50 on them.

Burnett running out of bounds had no bearing. Clock stops on change of possession. Or did you mean Packer offense players running out of bounds? 

So doubtful. I am as big a supporter of Aaron Rodgers as anyone on this board, but our QB simply hasn't come up big in the playoffs since the SB run, and the second half against the Cowboys.

 

Yeah, I know he's hurt, and yes, he was facing the league's best defense yesterday. But put me in the "show me" category when it comes to Rodgers and the playoffs (yes, I was born in Missouri). Shat the bed vs. NYG, middling-good against SF, many unforced errors yesterday. Both he and MM have come up short when the team has needed them most. If he is truly to be considered an all-time great, Rodgers has to do much, much better. 

Jesus fukk... there are 50 reasons why GB lost that game.  Arod ain't one of them.  

 

I hate to see what happens when you watch Dora the Explorer.

 

Waking up every two hours to pee?

Agree to an extent, Pakrz, but my point (which I've made before although not to obsession levels) is that Rodgers' playoff performances have to be better. I truly think he could considered the best ever after he retires but not if he continues this post-2011 level in the playoffs.

Come on.  Rodgers?  Really?

 

2011 the defense gives up 20 first half points including a god damn hail mary as the clock expires, then the defense gives up 17 4th quarter points after pulling to within 7 at the end of 3.  Only INT Rodgers throws is final drive of game while down 17.  

 

2012 the defense gives up 45 points, including 14,523 yards combined to Kaepernick.  Rodgers throws a pick in 2nd tied at 14.  

 

2013 Rodgers drives the team to tie the game with 5:20 left in game.  Defense allows SF to march leisurely down the field to kick a GW FG as time expires.  

 

2014 Rodgers gives the ball to the defense up 19-7, 4:00 to go, Seattle on their own 31.  Rodgers gets the ball one drive and leads team to tying FG.

 

Let's also ignore the 50 burger AZ laid on us in 2009 where Kurt Warner had more TDs than incompletions.  

 

Fact of the matter is, Rodgers has been forced to play otherworldly to win playoff games in his tenure.  Unfortunately, if he's not absolutely brilliant (and in one case even when he is) this defense and special teams have proven time and time again that they can't get it done.  

 

 

His QBR, for what that's worth, has not been so great in the playoffs since 2010.  He agreed to the media last week that he needed to play better than he did in his last NFCC game.   I agree, he's near the bottom of the list of concerns for this team in the playoffs but he can play better in the post season without having to play his absolute best.  

QB's get the credit for wins and the blame for losses. No matter what the circumstances. Its the way of the NFL. But the Packers played it like they had Ryan Lindley at QB the last 7 minutes. And they paid for it.