Yeah, I want to see them consistently cover ppl. They were mostly great yesterday, though he's right, until the strip-sack it looked like what we saw earlier in the year. The defense allowing chunk plays. But credit where credit's due, they stepped up yesterday. Go! Pack! Go!
It was Jerry Gray. The players said he screamed at them during halftime of the Dolphins game.
The giving up the chunk plays still bothers me. Packers always takes their foot off the gas when they’re comfortably ahead. That’s going to burn them one of these days and we’ll be right back where we started. Talking about next year. Yes the win was great yesterday and assuming they beat the Lions this week, I still don’t see this team being a contending playoff team.
But right now with his experience I'd rather go with AR than Love. If our D keeps playing like this we don't need Aaron to be Godgers.
I would hate to go through life looking at things the way you apparently do.
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How many playoff wins before you consider them a legit contender? Win the 1st game? NFCCG participant? Get on record now. I would be disappointed with a 1st round loss. Everything after round 2 is gravy the way the season has played out.
If they get past the wild card then I’d start to come around, they get to the NFCCG then yeah, they’re contenders. Barry’s schemes, stubbornness to adjust at the half and some offensive play calling at times still scare the **** out of me. Especially against teams like the Eagles, and God help my heart if we get that far, teams like the Bills and Chiefs. Like I said yesterday, I along with everyone else is thrilled of how we beat them. It just doesn’t erase what we’ve seen more so than not all year long. I’m skeptic as we should be.
Given that the Packers previously had 3 straight seasons of 13 regular season game wins and didn't get past the Divisional round (once) or NFCCG (twice), the success bar is set pretty high for many. Personally, I would be disappointed if they didn't make the Super Bowl. While getting into the playoffs would be a pretty cool thing, considering where they were just 5 weeks ago, that magic wouldn't offset what they lost. That is, playing Love for a number of games and better draft position. I would look back at the season as a failed one for sure if that happened.
That's a reasonable position Jayzee. I mean why did it take Barry, and MLF, to realize they were getting killed with soft zone? It wasn't that long ago (and I forget the opponent, but they did this often) on 3rd and long (10-15 yards). The corners would face off with the WRs at the LOS, and then slow walk back to the first down marker. The opponent would easily complete a pass underneath and either get the first down, or set up a very makable fourth and one.
Hard to disagree. But by not giving up and playing Love, the Packers are on the brink of getting the seventh seed. The seventh seed. Don't wanna be a buzzkill but if they had been playing like they are now from the beginning (the personnel haven't changed), we wouldn't be in this position.
Well said
You and me both buddy. I didn't want them tossing it in playing Love, but I didn't think they'd pull er off.
Correct. These guys are pros and they are paid to win. I really believe that once they start a game, they forget which game it is, where they are in the standings, all that ******** that we fans track. They don't care. They know who they're playing and they play to win. And it's fun to watch that.
Vikings kind of were taken out if their running game early. Cousins was the running highlight.
Yeah the D was great, and Slaton has been a pleasant surprise.
I was thinking/hoping MLF got involved. That crappy scheme where the DBs are lining up ten yards off the receivers was a disaster. I like the more aggressive scheme. Also allowing Jaire to cover Jefferson most of the time makes sense too. WTH were they thinking in that first game.
I was thinking the same thing. Somebody got through to Joe Barry and his shit show defensive scheme.
Although I agree that there is only one winner each year, and 31 losers, if you look at being a loser every year that you don't get a Lombardi trophy, you've got to be pretty darned bitter, unless you're my age, and have seen all the Championships since 1961.
I know we're accustomed to offensive minded coaches, but the head coach is the head coach. If there's a problem on the defensive side of the field, I expect him to get involved. So yeah, I like to see it.
I was also confused about where that came from, but I just saw the post that he is referring to:what the....
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Jerry is an old timer that knows the game well.
Your 2nd paragraph kind of contradicts your first.
Can't really have both. 
