More Banjo - Packers vs. Vikings

[beveaux1]

I think we, as an organization, need to look at Murphy and what he has done creating silos. It doesn’t work as well in my opinion. Be a man and pick your GM and let him run the show. I think MM was afraid of losing Ball and didn’t think Gute was ready to run the whole show, so he created the 3 headed monster we have now.

Gute needs to take a deep look at the coaching staff. The Packers really haven’t developed a lot of talent. We haven’t improved the whole year. We haven’t had a game other than verses Chi where we have come out with any intensity. That lies on MiLF. I am no not sure he is the solution for what we need going forward.

I started thinking about this after the Vegas game and wondered what changes we would make. As it turns out, the answer was no changes. The OL looks the same from left to right even though people who study the film say that it's been a tire fire with only Tom and Jenkins playing at an average NFL level.
No one has been held accountable.

We knew the WRs and TEs would have growing pains and they definitely have with bad routes, wrong routes, and dropped passes. Seven games in, the same mistakes are being made. Who's coaching these guys? Our QB, though far from perfect, can't even be fairly evaluated because film study from quite a few experts show receivers widening routes, quitting on routes, and taking the wrong route. They do this game after game. What looks to the fan watching the game as an underthrow or overthrow or errant throw might be a receiver running to the wrong place on the field.

Probably the best way to check the accuracy of the QB is when he's running for his life because the OL can't block and he has to make a running throw to receiver that changed his route to help him. Strangely, those have been the best plays this team has made and seem to only happen in the 2nd half after MLF takes the leash off Love.

We can't win with this defense playing bend but don't break. With them not playing aggressively, keeping everything in front of them, and taking no chances. This young offense needs turnovers and field position. They need to get on the field so they can build up a rhythm. They can't sit on the bench for 7, 8, or 9 minutes without seeing the ball.
That's a coaching philosophy that should have already changed, but never seems to change.

Why has Sean Rhyan not replaced Runyan? Why is Nijman being kept out of games? Would our offense look worse with those changes? I can't believe that it would.

When will the defense change its philosophy and play aggressively. Will we lose more than we have been losing? Is this staff a staff that can help to improve a young team?

I'm fearing the answer is no.

[Fritz]

I started thinking about this after the Vegas game and wondered what changes we would make. As it turns out, the answer was no changes. The OL looks the same from left to right even though people who study the film say that it's been a tire fire with only Tom and Jenkins playing at an average NFL level.
No one has been held accountable.

We knew the WRs and TEs would have growing pains and they definitely have with bad routes, wrong routes, and dropped passes. Seven games in, the same mistakes are being made. Who's coaching these guys? Our QB, though far from perfect, can't even be fairly evaluated because film study from quite a few experts show receivers widening routes, quitting on routes, and taking the wrong route. They do this game after game. What looks to the fan watching the game as an underthrow or overthrow or errant throw might be a receiver running to the wrong place on the field.

Probably the best way to check the accuracy of the QB is when he's running for his life because the OL can't block and he has to make a running throw to receiver that changed his route to help him. Strangely, those have been the best plays this team has made and seem to only happen in the 2nd half after MLF takes the leash off Love.

We can't win with this defense playing bend but don't break. With them not playing aggressively, keeping everything in front of them, and taking no chances. This young offense needs turnovers and field position. They need to get on the field so they can build up a rhythm. They can't sit on the bench for 7, 8, or 9 minutes without seeing the ball.
That's a coaching philosophy that should have already changed, but never seems to change.

Why has Sean Rhyan not replaced Runyan? Why is Nijman being kept out of games? Would our offense look worse with those changes? I can't believe that it would.

When will the defense change its philosophy and play aggressively. Will we lose more than we have been losing? Is this staff a staff that can help to improve a young team?

I'm fearing the answer is no.

I think this is a very good and thoughtful post. The young receivers and tight ends are experiencing growing pains, as we expected. But they don't seem to be getting much better, seven games in. Maybe we're impatient, though the mistakes and drops from the second-year guys are a bit unnerving. Doubs and Watson. And Toure, who's JAG, I see now.

But can the line play much worse with Ryan and Nijman in at right guard and left tackle? Why not try something?

And yes, we're asking the defense to do a lot, and yes, the offense does them no favors with all the three-and-outs it's having. Yet there are seven first-round picks on that D, and they really are not imposing at all.

Can MLF help this team get better? Can he right the ship? I guess we'll see, but he seems pretty rattled right now himself.