MM may have had the biggest revolving door at the O-line that I've seen this year, up until kinda the last few weeks it's been a mess there. Plus as questionable as some of those plays looked that were called, Rodgers' usual pinpoint accuracy has been far less this year due to running for his life, pressing the throws, and simply not having the finesse that we're used to seeing. Plus a few deep routes run by James Jones and a few others had them giving up on the play, something I've usually never seen our receivers do before.
These things, more than anything have to get fixed instead of firing Mike McCarthy. I get that when things go wrong people want changes, but making a change to head coach and having a new guy bring a new system in town that would undermine our players' strengths, is not one of them. I sincerely hope Rodgers's struggles are only temporary, and I'm still waiting to see what becomes of Jordy and Ty Mont this offseason, but fix the O-line up a little, just get back into those patented slants, seams and stay on what the original identity of what this offense is and I'm confident we will get back to the Packers we all know.
Am curious to see what's going to happen with Dom Capers though, I am not suggesting or hoping he goes unlike a lot of people do, and I don't think MM or TT will fire him, but I didn't see Slocum going last year either and believe it or not, MM and co have not been afraid to make surprising changes in years past so .... can't totally put such a notion out of possibility.
To set the record straight, there is not any sky is falling propagation going on here, the year as a whole was not up to par with normal standards, but for all that, we were still competing against the best team in the NFC and only lost to them in OT, a game we were supposed to be highly outmatched in. Considering we lost to all 3 of our divisional opponents at home and had some tough to watch games this year, I think we ended on a high note. Only time you make a complete team and coach overhaul is if the team clearly is heading in the wrong direction for what looks like the next few years, and I don't think we are. If next year things get even worse, then it might be time to start panicking a little more, but I think you gotta stay the course and let things get ironed out.
Probably my only criticism with MM is that sometimes the plays he challenges, such as that Larry Fitzgerald catch, can be real head scratchers to me, and I do feel like sometimes he could do a better job of saving his timeouts till under the last 2 minutes when they're needed the most, but when you got struggles that gotta be addressed, I suspect this makes that even more difficult.
