You mean like Seattle's final play in the 2015 Super Bowl?
I'd love for MM to dust-off tape of Sherman's "Jumbo Package" plays. Why must Rodgers even be on the field in short yardage? Substitute a 300+ lb lineman, overload one side and have Cook & Jordy lined up on the opposite side. Both receivers running slants behind the D on the stacked line will allow either the run or shorter pass in the soft zone right behind "the pile". AR could even bootleg out of that formation and possibly get outside and up the sideline.
McCarthy says there is nothing wrong with the scheme; the problem as he sees it is in the execution. The Packers, from top-to-bottom, are a process-oriented team, and those processes have been relatively fixed with very slow evolutions and at the margins. So, to be realistic, he's not going to drag out somebody else's playbook.
That he's a better blocker than Rodgers doesn't tell us much, since just better than "bad" is hardly encouraging.
I see Rodgers spending a lot of time on the bench.
You mean like Seattle's final play in the 2015 Super Bowl?
It would be interesting to see a breakdown on goal line plays. It's hard to throw a short ball against a packed box to start with; it gets even harder in the short field.
The 3rd. TE can't be just a ST player. There are going to be situations where you want to run behind a 7-man line. Having somebody other than Rodgers on the field would be a big help.
If you look through that footballoutsiders.com data, as poor as the Packers short yardage running has been in recent years, their success throwing has been even worse in those situations. Would Cook help in those situations? Can't hurt, but TEs have a hard time getting off clean against a jammed box.
You raise a very interesting point. Cook's career catch rate per target is 58%. That is an exceptionally low number for a TE, even among those who do a fair amount of work out of the slot and out wide.
If PFF's assessment is accurate, that answers a key question. Pass blocking? The Packers don't ask their TEs to do much of that beyond a chip going into the route.
Exactly. The guy appears to be a head case, but maybe Aaron will turn him into an all pro.
A TE who has a relatively modest yards per catch rate, indicating a fair percentage of short balls, should have a percentage catch rate above his QB's completion percentage.
It's fairly evident that McCarthy does not like running 2-back sets. He's suffered poor TE/H-back blocking deep into the last 2 seasons before giving Kuhn meaningful snaps. For McCarthy, putting a fullback on the field is evidently a hold-the-nose, last resort proposition.
Well, last year at this time I said the 2015 and 2016 seasons are the prime window, with the expensive 2017 free agent class bearing down. With cap room having gotten chipped away with every free agent signing this offseason, the cap carryover to 2017 will be fairly modest. My conclusion last year at this time was Thompson needed one h*ll of a draft in 2015 as a start. It was pretty good...we'll know how good by the end of 2016. Thompson will need a very good one this year to succeed with the rebuild-on-the-fly period that will be bearing down by next season.Or, as they post another winning season, win another North championship, enter another playoff game, et. al. Agree that Pack fans don't generally jump the gun as quickly as others, but I think I'd be able to find some "this is our year/time" posts since 2010.
I hope so. He is already probably sitting on 40 mil at least. My concern is that he is oft described as lazy and didnt practice hard. Hate to have anyine around showing that example to the rookies and younger players.
You sound a lot higher on him than when he initially got released...
