Yes that new Defensive Coordinator doesn’t look like He has made any improvements. Same old crappy Packer defense! Don’t understand why they brought King back again either??!! He was a gigantic bust of a draft pick. I am starting to see why Leonard turned the job down and stayed at Wisconsin. Rodgers is looking like a joke too! No one will want Him after this Season if He does want to leave GB. The whole team was a walking disaster yesterday. We could be in for a LONG season!
Trust me, I don't expect them to come out playing at that level either while they figure some things out either. Half of their problem on Sunday was effort to start the game. They were better in the 2nd half at least in the effort catagory. In the first half, if half of them were playing with effort it would have been an improvement.
And this was the problem I said from the start. Some people were knocking me for saying this, but that DL is awful. It is hard for me to understand how they could not find better guys upfront than what they trotted out there on Sunday. I'm sorry, Clark, Lowry, Keke, Slaton, Lancaster, Heflin are not putting the scare into any offense or OL. Probably quite the opposite. Clark is probably the only player on that squad that deserves a starting spot on an NFL team. Lowry is garbage. He just is. I know he made a few tackles, but he rarely gets any push up front. Keke is almost nonexistent. For his first game, Slaton played okay. I said for this line to be successful he would have to step up and that is a lot to ask out of a rookie. Lancaster, I'm just done with him. He continually gets beat up and down the field. Then take a look at the ILB. Campbell, Barnes, Burks, Summers and McDuffie. Same story. Barnes and Campbell with quite a few tackles. That's just in the stat book though. With no push up front they were tackles down the field. Rarely at the point of attack. Secondary is okay, but King was constantly getting picked on all game long and by ole Crab Legs himself. Just a disappointing group all together. It didn't help much that the DC in Barry played super vanilla. I'm not sure how they fix this, but hopefully they make some changes and quickly.
...and even that defense was shaky for the better part of the season.
Maybe 2010. But 1997 sticks out.
True that on the Safeties.
You said it perfectly. The defense played worse. Physically they cannot matchup to other offensive lines. Not now but after last year Gute should have been thinking not just a new coach but a new coach for a 4-3. Then get the players who are made for that front 7. When you have a run defense that can get gashed like that it does not matter how good your corners are. Super Bowls can be won with an average QB like a Trent Silver but they cannot be won by a weak defense. Especially one that is helpless against the run. But we talked for years to get a couple studs on that DL to control the line of scrimmage. Never happened and never will. Two strong DLs will take up at least 3 bodies and allow your linebackers to roam a step earlier. The Urlachers, the Ray Lewises were able to do that because of their fronts.
True. They lost a lot of close ones. The defense was decimated by injuries. But our offense was not the big striker it was in 2011. We played more ball control and lacked in the run game without Ryan Grant. And to be honest we had a pretty soft schedule that season. New England was our toughest opponent. And the NFC was not so good. Eagles went to Vick due to an injury in game one. Atlanta could score but did not have much pass rush. And the Bears were a Lovey team. Not much offense. Dallas lost Tony Romo also. We had the Jets, Fins, and Bills that year. None had a decent QB.
And maybe no worse than what we have now. Need more DLs than LBs on the roster to do it. But we were a 4-3 until Capers came along. Aaron Kampman was a decent DE.
'96 maybe?
97 was still very dominant. Sean Jones had retired but we were 13-3 and solid on D. Went into Frisco and stopped Young and Rice and co. But got outsmarted by Shanahan.
I don't remember ever saying anything about the hire. I didn't like it. I mean, he was on the 0-16 Lions staff. Regardless, I truly believe it is a lack of talent. I said it in the offseason and after this last game. That DL is terrible. I don't care if we have Clark or not. He can't do it on his own. Slaton is a rookie and I do like his potential. However, that is not helping us now. For a lack of a better term, the rest of that line is garbage. If there is not push up front the rest of the defensive unit suffers. I think we will have to get used to giving up 28-30 points per game. I hope the offense wakes up, which I'm wagering it will.
One thing you’ll learn about me is that I’m generally not one to subscribe to “popular” opinion. It’s obviously a new D setup, but you’ve got to give anyone more than 1 road game to evolve. That’s just common sense and I realize that’s in shortage these days.
I think it’s easy to pile on to the kid that’s already knocked down. Cmon. It’s game 1 and imo we played a pretty good team there in NO, they weren’t a bottom feeder last season. You ad to that our O getting a late start and it’s how life comes at you. Being prepared is more important than people think and I didn’t see a prepared team. Did you?
