This Packers Offense...

Watching GB vs CHI.. Seriously worst game I've seen from Rodgers in years. Some questionable routes/play calls at times.. But wow AR was bad

He has to come in for his share of the blame as well. Poor throws, late throws, not trusting his receivers... he has to get over it.

Rodgers sloppy on qk game passes (not giving WRs clean balls for YAC).. Left pocket premature, eyes dropped premature, didn't see open WRs..

Not to pile on poor Davante, but this article suggests he's having the worst WR season ever by some metrics. Basically when factoring in his awful catch rate and YPC compared to the quality of QB play he's receiving, he's having a season for the ages.

Davante Adams makes me long for the days of Antonio Chatman and Taco Wallace.

Okay, bad joke there.  In fairness to Davante, I thought he looked okay last season as a rookie, he didn't look great, but he did have a few pretty good games, at least enough to think there was something to build on.  I really can't say I've seen more than maybe 1 halfway decent game this season with him.

Maybe we'll find out as time goes on that he really was limited with an ankle injury and he'll "blossom" in his 3rd year.   Right now, he's got no confidence and he is a bit of a liability out there, hopefully that changes for him someday as he seems like a decent enough kid. 

Yeah, got to think it's as much mental as anything at this point. And I'm convinced the ankle has been bugging him. 

WR is a tough position to learn, especially when a guy is thrust into a position he's not ready for. I still have faith he'll be a solid contributor to this offense in the future, but I think its time his snaps be spread around a little bit for the time being.

The talent is there and all Adams needs is a good catch or two to help him regain some confidence.  Wouldn't be shocked if he bounces back tomorow with a nice game.

I'd agree, if the ankle wasn't still bothering him.

I don't know who is more of a longshot tomorrow due to injury; Adams or Abbrederis.  Either one of them heating up would be a huge help.

Adams isn't on the injury list, but supposedly the ankle still bothers him. Abby is listed as Full and Probable.

Cobb, Adams, Jones, Abby would be the best 4 they've had since game 3. 

Not on the list is credit to his toughness.

See if he looks 100%.  If he doesn't, then sit him down.  It's really that simple. If he's jogging around and rounding off his routes and not planting on the ankle, then no matter what he says, please Mike, TAKE HIM OUT OF THE FREAKING GAME!

Really don't want to watch a guy struggle like that again on National TV.

This from Next Generation Stats:

3. The speed issues at wide receiver resurfaced again in Green Bay for the Thanksgiving loss to the Bears. James Jones was held without a catch for the second time in three weeks. His fastest speed with the ball in his hands over the past five weeks is 16.79 mph, well below average. His inability to separate from coverage was also a prime culprit in Derek Carr's disappointing rookie season in Oakland.

Davante Adams, relentlessly hyped by the Packers all offseason, has been abysmal, dropping four passes including the potential game-winner versus Chicago. Shaky hands aren't the only issue. Adams hasn't topped 15.00 mph with the ball since Week 9. According to the analytics site numberFire, Adams' 2015 season is one of the least efficient of the past 15 years. On the receiving end of passes from the best quarterback of the past half-decade, Adams' performance has been one of the season's true head-scratchers

Finley is the most over rated Packer of all time.   Guy had a great game against AZ in the playoffs and next thing ya know Packer fans declare him on the same level of Antonio Gates.    

Reality check, he is more like Brandon Pettigrew
http://espn.go.com/nfl/player/...25/jermichael-finley

http://espn.go.com/nfl/player/...49/brandon-pettigrew

Also From Next Generation Stats....

Security Officers wearing red that died 128

Number of Times Pickard drank Earl Grey Tea  47

OK everybody, R-E-L-A-X. I found the new play caller and someone to groom to run the offense. He's a hot new college coaching candidate but we all know he has a 'chip on his shoulder' to prove himself in the NFL ranks. Ladies and gentlemen, meet Jeff Brohm! http://sports.yahoo.com/news/c...idate-175745670.html

**** your relax.

I am so happy you LOVE it!

At least it's not Brian Brohm. 

CB doesn't realize that. 

See one Brohm you've seen them all

LOL, joke is on me I confused the Brohm bros. Flog away! 

At the Milwaukee airport:

Secret weapon!

The Packers have promoted RB John Crockett from the practice squad and released RB Alonzo Harris, per a source.... https://t.co/BQdEjRYIyK

— Rob Demovsky (@RobDemovsky) December 3, 2015

Whoa. 

From what I saw in preseason Harris was a much better runner. 

Damn you McGinn

That's a bit of a surprise. Perhaps another team was expressing an interest in Crockett and their hand was forced. 

Definitely seems weird, especially 4 hours before kick off. Is it possible he was released with an injury settlement we'll find out soon? Don't know the rules on that.

In other happenings, Packers have promoted Bob McGinn to Asst GM 

It is amazing how far some posters go to prove what we already know.

Throwing another log on the old "scheme" fire, here's a good breakdown on how Bevell has reimagined the Seahawks offense from borderline putrid to the second best in football over the past month. He did this in spite of, and because of, losing two talents as valuable as Jordy in Lynch and Graham.

What a wild notion to adapt your scheme to your available talent rather than what you think your offense should look like.

I'll second that.  You can coach the Xs and Os all day every day but you have to realize the strengths of your players and take advantage of them.  sometimes we seem to force system rather than exploit advantages, I'll agree on that.

Andy Benoit at the MMQB digs down into what McCarthy brought back to the Packers' offense:

In Green Bay, Order Is Restored

Mon Dec. 14, 2015
On Sunday, head coach Mike McCarthy called plays for the first time this season. With a heavier reliance on the run game, a knack for ‘building offense,’ and Aaron Rodgers staying in structure, the Packers looked a lot like the Super Bowl contender they were expected to be.

Let’s get something clear: Green Bay’s season will not be reanimated because of the miraculous Hail Mary victory at Detroit last Thursday. That’s precisely how the narrative is about to play out, thanks to America’s tendency to Disneyfy every storyline. But the performance in Detroit was a microcosm of what, to that point, had been a very disappointing season for the Packers. The Hail Mary was the ultimate sandlot play from Aaron Rodgers, obscuring the passing game’s utter lack of rhythm and continuity. Overall, last Thursday was a very poor offensive showing.

Head coach Mike McCarthy verified this by reclaiming the play-calling duties from associate head coach Tom Clements this week. The last time McCarthy had called plays at Lambeau Field was last season’s Divisional Round win over Dallas. He faced the same foe again Sunday.

McCarthy’s impact was evident right away. On second-and-six on Green Bay’s second drive, he called an off-tackle split-zone run for Eddie Lacy out of a two-back set with Randall Cobb motioning to an offset wing position. Lacy’s run gained 14 yards. Two plays later, on second-and-eight, the Packers showed the exact same formation (including Cobb’s motion) and did play-action off the same run look, this time with James Starks. The play was designed to hit Cobb on a rollout in the flat; after some hesitation, Rodgers did, for four yards.

It wasn’t a big gain, but the concept was what’s important. McCarthy was “building offense”—calling plays that worked off previous plays and set up future plays. It’s what good offenses do and, frankly, it wasn’t common enough under Clements, where the Packers seemed to run one isolated play after another.

Cobb was at the forefront of many of McCarthy’s calls. Early in the game, when the Cowboys were playing a lot of zone (a bizarre choice, by the way, given Dallas’s recent success in man-to-man and the immense difficulty Green Bay’s receivers have had separating from press coverage), Cobb was often the primary option out of his usual slot position. That’s because against zone coverage, the slot receiver draws mismatches against safeties and linebackers.

As the game progressed and Dallas expanded its coverages, Cobb moved around, including into the backfield, where he got meaningful touches. This has been a Packers staple in 2015, though McCarthy amplified the approach by using it on successive possessions, with Cobb being the focal point in route combinations. Cobb also got three carries. The mere threat alone that he poses makes the backfield gambit worthwhile. Case in point: James Starks’s 13-yard touchdown catch-and-run was aided by a misdirection design that began with a fake handoff to Cobb.

Though Cobb has been up-and-down this season, he’s not the Packer receiver who needs help from the play designs. That would be James Jones and, especially, the floundering Davante Adams. Instead of consistently spreading both receivers wide in static 2 x 2 or 3 x 1 sets, McCarthy diversified his formations, even putting his wideouts in some stack alignments in order to compromise the spacing of Dallas’s cornerbacks. This is the wrinkle that’s been so badly missing from Green Bay’s attack.

McCarthy did all this without drifting away from Green Bay’s West Coast spread foundation. Frustrating as it has been to watch Packers receivers struggle out of widened 2 x 2 and 3 x 1 sets, those sets are still the fulcrum to Green Bay’s slant- and seam-based passing attack. And the spacing from those formations still propagates a lot of Rodgers’s sandlot playmaking.

This season, the Packers have been entirely too dependent on that playmaking. What success they were having seemed to come only after Rodgers extended the play. Everything was happening out of structure. Rodgers is great out of structure, but no quarterback can be consistent this way. McCarthy understands the value of a sandlot quarterback, but more importantly, he understands that the less the Packers rely on Rodgers’ sandlot mode, the more valuable it becomes. Sandlot will always be a part of Rodgers’ game; for Green Bay’s offense to evolve, it must be no more than a significant branch on Rodgers’ tree, not the tree’s trunk.

Really, Rodgers is a quarterback who needs disciplined football imposed upon him via the play’s design. With no leash, he’ll too often play out of structure. With a tight leash, you constrict his greatness. Give him a long leash and you’re all set. Jay Cutler is the same way. So is Russell Wilson. And perhaps the best example of all: a younger Ben Roethlisberger.

This in mind, it’s no wonder McCarthy kept the ball on the ground 40 times on Sunday (discounting scrambles and kneel-downs). The tone was set immediately with four run calls to open the game. Aside from a futile third quarter, the ground game kept the Packers ahead in the down-and-distance, fostering Rodgers’s discipline. Eddy Lacy’s season has been uneven at best, and some weeks his reps have declined accordingly. The one upside to this is it leaves the 230-pounder bruiser fresh for the stretch run. Lacy—and Starks, for that matter—got stronger as the game progressed on Sunday; the two backs combined for 103 rushing yards in the fourth quarter.

A freshly balanced, newly rhythmic offense paired with a young, talented defense that’s versatile in both scheme and personnel? The Packers, just in time for the holidays (oh, and the postseason) may finally start looking like the Super Bowl contender we all expected.

Lacy-Starks-Kuhn

197 yards on the ground, 2 TDs

70 yards through the air, 1 TD

Solid game from the RBs