Video (different from above) :
http://m.packers.com/news/vide...48-87fe-97a0d788ff51
Henry posted:One can hope.
Tretter's sister is my choice.
Can she pull a train?
Looks like they're going to hire the former Browns TE coach, according to Alex Marvez:
Keep pruning.
Herschel posted:So, himself?
My point exactly. McGinn gave him a D- for his job this year and one could argue that's a bit generous. Easily his poorest coaching job since he's been in charge, IMO.
10-6 with a playoff win is his worst coaching job of his career? I'll take it. If McCarthy gets a D- then Bob must have given Chip Kelly like Z- I assume?
"A 'Z-'"
You could say MM was all over the map this season from a coaching standpoint.
A in the first 6 weeks, D in the next 6, C in the next 4 then B+/A- in the post season.
Using my mathomatics that's a solid C for the regular season. If you don't weight the playoffs, C+. Weigh the playoffs as twice the value and you get a B/B-. My gut says B.
Compared to the average of the rest of the coaches in the league, MM probably gets a C/C- for the year. He had a HOF QB in the prime of his career and the offense grossly underachieved. Most NFL head coaches would have won 7-8 games minimum with the talent on the team. Without AR, even at his level of play this year, this team would have been a 4-12 team.
Compared to MM's previous standards, the season was at most a D-. Everyone has off years, and this was easily MM's worst coaching job. The positions that make the biggest difference (and are the hardest to fill and typically end up with high draft choices filling them) are QB, CB, edge rusher, and LT. The Packers are at the top of the league at QB, have great depth at CB, have two HOF-level edge rushers (CM3 if he's played at OLB and Peppers), and at least an average LT. The overall OL talent, while dinged up, had as good a depth as any in the league and had a high caliber backup (Tretter) for the OG and C positions.
TT and MM deserve a failing grade for the offensive struggles. MM and/or TT grossly mismanaged the TE, WR, back-up OT, and RB (with help from Eddie Lacy's many trips to the all-you-can-eat buffets) positions throughout the year. These are places where you normally don't need superstars to succeed in the NFL.
TE- I would blame TT for the TE position's failings - I think most of us non-experts could even see that relying on RichRod and Quarless was a non-starter. MM and the offensive coaching staff deserves some share of the blame for continuing to design plays whose success was based on RichRod breaking some tackles in the open field. A 3 yard check down to RichRod was often a catch and fall down as soon as a DB weighing up to 75 pounds less hit him.
WR- Even after Monty and Nelson went down, they were still playing with 5 guys who had been in the system for multiple off seasons and were either high round draft picks or had plenty of physical talent. Maybe they overestimated the talent of Cobb and Adams, but the fact that there seemed to be little improvement over the course of the year was very telling. The refusal to play Janis and Abbrederis despite the failings of Adams, the inability of Cobb to raise his game, and the inability of James Jones to run anymore (although give JJ props for being their best contributor just on guile) is probably the biggest failing of MM's career. MM is also ultimately to blame for what appears to be a lack of accountability for coaching the WRs up.
RB- These guys are professionals, but in the end the head coach sets the tone for accountability. Eddie Lacy figured he could get away with not being a professional player during the offseason and, for all intents and purposes, he did. They covered for his lack of preparation most of the season. The playoff breakaway run where he couldn't even finish off a TD run with 5 yards on every other player was one of the most embarrassing plays I've ever seen for a Pro Bowl level talent in what should be the prime of his career.
Backup OT. No one can have an elite backup tackle sitting on the bench - the NFL just doesn't work that way. Why they thought they could get away with Don Barclay there is beyond comprehension. They need a serviceable old pro capable of getting them by for a couple of weeks. You could argue that two losses (Arizona and Minnesota) had as much to do with the mismanagement of personnel at backup tackle than anything else.
I'm not advocating firing MM. He's still a top 10 coach in the league based on his track record. If he and TT learn from their mistakes, it will work out in the long run. Let's see what happens going forward.