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He played a better 2nd half but my, God. This guy looked awful. The play where Rodgers got hurt he nearly got put in Rodgers lap smh. Surely he can’t be the long term solution at RG can he? That just shows how bad Spriggs and Murphy and depth on the online as a whole is. That spot has to be addressed in the off season if he looks like that next week. The guy looked like the African American version of Don Barclay
 

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it was a bad first half for everyone. that's the rust factor AND the hold the ball and look for the home run mentality that MM and Rodgers employ. when they were forced to throw that out, we saw the result.
 
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it was a bad first half for everyone. that's the rust factor AND the hold the ball and look for the home run mentality that MM and Rodgers employ. when they were forced to throw that out, we saw the result.

You clearly didn’t see him in the run game getting pushed back into the backfield did you? At one point they stopped running behind him. I’m not just talking about his pass blocking. Your guards should be your best run blockers.
 

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Surely he can’t be the long term solution at RG can he?

Bulaga had a tough time against Mack and that exposed McCray. Against other teams, he'll probably fare better and gets more solidity from Bulaga. But yeah, we need to upgrade that area.
 
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Bulaga had a tough time against Mack and that exposed McCray. Against other teams, he'll probably fare better and gets more solidity from Bulaga. But yeah, we need to upgrade that area.

How does Mack affect him blocking the guy in front of him? I kinda see your point but Eve in the run game he was bad
 

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He can't be the long term solution at RG if he continues to have stretches of play like that, no. In fairness, Akiem Hicks is quietly one of the best interior defensive linemen in the league. But even with that said, you can't implode that bad for stretches of plays all in a row. But McCray is young in the position so we will see what happens over the course of the season. Unfortunately, his main competition at that spot never reported to camp.
 

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I have been saying for quite a while that the Packers need to address the interior line situation long term for the guards. I firmly believe that balaga bakhtiari and Lindsley are still the long-term answers at their respective positions. But to have a truly Elite lying again we are going to have to address the guards situations. I really hope that we use one of our first-round picks or at least our second round pick next year on a high-quality guard in the draft.
 

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What would evans cost? I would have signed him in the off season already. And a better back up tackle is a dang must!!! You think bulaga got blown up too much? See what spriggs does against mack.....
Yikes.
 

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What would evans cost? I would have signed him in the off season already. And a better back up tackle is a dang must!!! You think bulaga got blown up too much? See what spriggs does against mack.....
Yikes.

See what pretty much all OT’s do against Mack. He’s really freaking good. And I agree I’d like to upgrade Spriggs, but if you look around the league, nobody has OT depth. At least we’re not starting Ereck Flowers.
 

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I was disappointed in McCray. He got blown up far too many times. Hicks is a very good iDL, but McCray really struggled.

Next week will be a tough challenge for him (and the whole OL) as well, we’ll see how he recovers.
 

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I agree with a lot of what people are saying on here that expecting bulaga to completely shut down Mack is frankly unrealistic especially considering it was his first game back coming off his ACL injury. The fact that he did so well on him in the second half I believe is a testament to how good he actually is as of a right tackle. As others have alluded to, looking around the league I'm not sure you're going to get a quality replacement for Bulaga at a better price.
 
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We didn’t get the ball out quick enough during the 1st quarter. That’s on the whomever was sending plays in.. not the Guard. Everyone’s brother n sister knew Mack was going to play and play to prove a point.
McCray got blown up early but then settled in once we went no huddle. Its week 1 he’s not alone in looking lost out there, there’s veterans at every position that play substandard the first couple series. Even Rodgers was uncomfortable that first half, you could sense frustration in his body language.
Let’s give McCray a quarter or 2 to develop (being fiscetious here)
 
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I think many people lose sight of the fact that McCray is basically a career backup and JAG.
 

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I agree with a lot of what people are saying on here that expecting bulaga to completely shut down Mack is frankly unrealistic especially considering it was his first game back coming off his ACL injury. The fact that he did so well on him in the second half I believe is a testament to how good he actually is as of a right tackle. As others have alluded to, looking around the league I'm not sure you're going to get a quality replacement for Bulaga at a better price.
I'm very please at how he looked against mack. Like a couple grizzleys scrapping. But mack basically legitimized the gross price tag in one game...against bulaga...
I did like how greenbay got knocked on their assets and came back swinging. And won. That's champion **** right there...
 

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We didn’t get the ball out quick enough during the 1st quarter. That’s on the whomever was sending plays in.. not the Guard. We also had some early success running and then abandoned it in subsequent series, we got anxious rather than being patient in early down n distance.
This isn’t rocket science here. When there’s an over aggressive pass rush you slow it down by expeditious ball transfer. You don’t go to a 3-4 read play on consecutive downs. You plant n slant.
I'm going to go ahead and say, with confidence, that what ever we did in The 4th quarter last night..... Do that. Lol. Because THAT was awesome...

I still think evans is available... Call him up.
 
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I'm going to go ahead and say, with confidence, that what ever we did in The 4th quarter last night..... Do that. Lol. Because THAT was awesome...

I still think evans is available... Call him up.
That was a remarkable finish. My emotions were like Porpoise going into a deep sea dive, then resurfacing while doing water acrobatics.
 

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I have been saying for quite a while that the Packers need to address the interior line situation long term for the guards. I firmly believe that balaga bakhtiari and Lindsley are still the long-term answers at their respective positions. But to have a truly Elite lying again we are going to have to address the guards situations. I really hope that we use one of our first-round picks or at least our second round pick next year on a high-quality guard in the draft.

The *RG situation. Lane Taylor is probably their second best player on the line at this point.
 

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I think many people lose sight of the fact that McCray is basically a career backup and JAG.

I think a lot of people have seen a lot of supposed JAG’s become much more than that in Green Bay under Campen and thus hope for the possibility (and that’s all it is) that McCray will do the same.
 
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I think we had our guy first pick in round 5. I hope he is able to get back next year but we never really seriously addressed the Oline depth once we learned Cole was out. Cole likely would’ve been that versatile player could’ve been
 

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I'm going to go ahead and say, with confidence, that what ever we did in The 4th quarter last night..... Do that. Lol. Because THAT was awesome...

I still think evans is available... Call him up.

Does anyone remember how bad Evans was the 2nd half of the season last year? He's 35 years old. He's done. Every other team in the league knows that, which is why he's available. Green Bay just pulled off a fantastic season opening win, and here everyone is whining about the play of McCray because he had a bad first half in the first game of the season against tough competition? Can't wait to see the "Fire Gute" posts pop up when we lose our first game. Geez.
 

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I'm going to give McCray more time. He was a highlight last year, even if unspectacular. He wasn't great, he just went out at practically every position on that line and did a decent job. He's not going to make the probowl, it's ok. But he had an entire season where his level of play was just fine for this league. He had a bad half and a better half in the 1st game of the season. Judge him on 1st half bears and disregard last season and 2nd half Bears? I think as they play together it gets better. They had some problems up front, on one play, may have been the rodgers injury, Linsley and McCray were at the LOS with nothing to do while 2-3 guys blew past them and almost knocked out our QB. Obviously both are better than that and have proven it over time. I have faith they'll both get it together.

and Yes, Evans level of play was declining last year. I don't think he has more than 5-7 weeks at most on his body before he'd start breaking down again. That's if he has anything left to give. He was a warrior, but he was fading last year. He's a guy I'd sign in November if we needed some help, give him a week or 2 of practice then put him out there for his last hurrah if we needed him. He wouldn't last to the money games if he started playing now though.
 

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Linsley didnt look too hot out there either
Several plays where the Dline just bull rushed him into the QB.
He had more than a couple plays where he looked like he had no business being out there that's for sure.
 
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Ive said for many years this is the softest team in the NFL. I’m gonna my to stand by that until proven otherwise.
 
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