Offensive line in 2014

Agreed.  IMHO going for it on the goal line was the right call - punch that in and the game is all but over.  IIRC, there was a hole big enough to drive a truck through if Green hadn't simply tripped over Wahle's leg.  

 

To not go for it at the end of the game, with everyone on Philly's D sucking wind so badly that you thought at least one of them was about to Blair Kiel over, was mind-boggling.  Not to mention, since Bidwell was the king of the touchback you knew GB would only gain 15 yards or so of field position even before said obligatory touchback.

 

Ack.  I need to get away from reliving that nightmare.  I had a bunch of friends over at my place to watch it, and I was absolutely catatonic when that winning FG sailed through the uprights.  

Tripping on Wahle.

Not going for it.

Freddie effing Mitchell.

Favre insanely stupid INT that in the large wing of his "Dumb playoff INTs" might be the worst of them all.

 

So much stupidity in one game.

 

And, for me at least, it doesn't come close to comparing with the Rice fumble playoff game in 98.   Hands down the absolute worst, most painful loss I ever witnessed.

 

 

Still having watched that &%$@# game. Thank goodness I was in Ghana.

Not a phrase you hear everyday.

timesfour.forums% palate_cleanse on

 

Really jacked about the OL potential this year. Like Sitton said, they just need to stay healthy.

 

timesfour.forums% palate_cleanse off

 

 

Too bad you did not stay

Eliminating da brothas one at a time, huh?

Sorry, but nothing, and I mean nothing, will ever top that debacle in San Diego in early 1998.  Nothing.  The only thing the 4th and 26 game has going for it was at least that was only the second worst choke job during the previous 6 years.  

 

Great thread.  I'm gonna go start my car in the garage and hang out for a few hours.

XXXII was by far the worst. The Packers were the superior team in every phase of the game. Overconfidence, poor preparation, bad playcalling, and Gabe Wilkins/Darius Holland cost them that game. However, it was one of those rare games where the problem can be boiled down to one soundbite, this one coming from Eugene Roboinson: "This is not better than us, they're not even good!" That quote is always the first thing I think about whenever that game comes up.

Yeah, that SB hurt bad, but if a team is consistently running roughshod, maybe the Packers weren't as good as advertised.  Davis was unstoppable and he even sat out some with the migraine.

 

One of the games that really hurt me was the 1995 NFC Championship.  Not a choke job, but still.  I think Gilbert Brown was injured.  One of the Cowboys o-line leg-whipped Jurkovic, taking him out (so there goes two starting interior d linemen).  And there's Emmitt Smith gashing the Packers the 4th quarter.

 

I also remember the BLATANT pick on the first down pass to Deion Sanders.

 

I was so &*^%'ing pi$$ed over that one.

I would try to say something to get you to step away from the ledge, but there is no ledge in a car. 

I have no idea what ya'll are taking about in these past few posts.

 

Blueprint for being offensive.

 

Someday girl I don't know when 
We're gonna get to that place 
Where we really wanna go, and we'll walk in the sun 
But till then tramps like us 
Baby we were born to run.

 

Woody Hayes.

from SI.com

 

Guard-tackle transition. About a month before the draft, Rams general manager Les Snead and I talked about the Ravens’ decision in 1996 to draft future left tackle Jonathan Ogden and play him at left guard as a rookie.

Snead’s in the same position now playing Greg Robinson at left guard next to left tackle Jake Long. “(The Ravens) made a long-term decision and they made it work short term,” Snead said. “At the end of the day, that may have been something that helped Jonathan because you get to go in and get your feet wet at maybe a less vulnerable position, and also in going from tackle to guard and you have to think quicker, so that can make moving to tackle smoother transition.”

 

The Ravens are one of the better run teams in the NFL and they did the same thing as the Packers did - drafting an LT and starting him out at guard. I know many here loathe the practice, but GB isn't alone in trying that strategic plan to develop young OTs

 

 

David Quessenberry. A name that popped up quite a bit leading up to the 2013 draft as a possible GB Packer selection.

 

David was just diagnosed with Lymphoma. Link

 

He's going to receive some world class treatment in Houston. Hope he makes a quick and full recovery.  

For me it isn't the theory, it's the execution.  That's a two fold issue.  Unfortunately, the high draft picks on the Oline have been injury causalities so you're left with scrappy mid to lower tier guys being coached up by Flounder.

makes sense and I like the switch from Paulie Walnuts to Flounder; seems a better fit. Also noted some positive comments on Sherrods' activity during OTAs- might be a real battle at LT this year. Looking forward to the 1/2 line drills during TC

 

It would be amazing if Bakhtiari is our backup LT.

 

Sherrod / Sitton / Tretter / Lang / Bulaga

 

With Bakhtiari / Barclay & Linsley backing up?

 

Sure sounds solid on paper!

link from last week

“If we can stay healthy as an offensive line, I think this can be the best offensive line we've had in awhile, probably ever since I've been here,” Sitton said. “We've just got to stay healthy."

I don't think they need a new guy starting at LT. Play the guy that started all the games last year.

Whoever wins the job in camp & proves to be the best LT. That's who should be starting. If that's Bakh, then fine but I wouldn't mind seeing Sherrod step up & dominate at LT

I haven't seen or saw anything dominating about Sherrod's play. I think it is hard to prove anything in camp. Too little contact.

Bak played well last year.  Sherrod was a First Rounder for a reason.  Nice to have the problem of who's gonna be the starter....assuming they both stay healthy.

Rodgers just needs a little more time from this 2014 OL...

 

The sickest single pass I have ever seen.

Agreed on the Rodgers pass. Fire drill route by Cobb after the Rams jumped offsides. Rodgers rolls out with Long bearing down on him and does that. Not another QB in the NFL can make that throw. 

Sorry.  As great as that was, this is the greatest pass I've ever seen by a GBP QB:

 

 

3rd and long.  Team is leaking oil.  Pitt is ready to overtake the game and run away with it.  You know the rest.  The stakes don't get bigger than this throw, and it had to be millimeter-perfect.  And it was.  

 

You don't hear it much anymore, but if any idiot ever tries to trot out the 'AR isn't clutch' meme, just show them that play.

 

Big night for moronic memes here.

OK...I gotta give ya that one 

 

but check out throw number 1 and TD # 2 in Rodgers career

The pass left his hand through a tiny window and arrived in a smaller one

Holy WOW, and this was as a youngster just getting started

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...re=player_detailpage

 

Enjoy

I would appreciate that SB victory far more if Rodgers led a 4th quarter come from behind win. Good with the bad I guess. 

"I would appreciate that SB victory far more if we had Marshawn Lynch" - 

http://profootballtalk.nbcspor...ll-play-left-tackle/

Nice to have a plethora  of tackle at a time many other teams are desperate for tackles.  The tackle the Packers do not sign to an extension will get a nice contract in free agency next year.

One LT could get traded before the deadline

seriously doubt it With Bulaga and Sherrods' injury history....

 

Packers are building a Championship roster and other than for the 1st pick in the draft, neither of those guys is going anywhere in 2014 imo

Maybe Boris meant Bakhtiari?  

 

  

Not to keep derailing from the OL discussion, but the two TD throws two Jordy at MIN last year will always be in the conversation for me. Nothing with the weight of the SB throws, but a pair of ear hole buzzers you'll only see from a handful of QBs.

 

http://www.packers.com/media-c...6b-9226-1075f065c710

First off before Ted would trade a tackle I would think the Packers would need to get through train camp with all 4 healthy and playing well. Then consider that Bulaga and Sherrod will be free agents next year. Barclay will be some kind of restricted free agent. Again all 4 have to healthy and playing really well. What would it take for Ted to trade one of them?

With as hot as the market is for tackles if they left through free agency I think the comp pick for each would be a 3 or at worst a 4th.  

Personally I think Ted would not make any reasonable trade, but if was able to really fleece someone.

       
       


Ya the impact of that throw was beyond specIal, but the throw Satan posted,  that is a throw that only one guy can make in this league.   Rolling to his left, gunning that ball on a rope, on the money.  Ridiculous!

SB Toss to Jennings for the TD when he got plowed by Palomarijuana and the one JJSD posted are both better than the throw to Cobb.

 

 

 

This one.