I thought you were the one who was light in the loafers.
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This isn't good, rom Bob today: http://www.jsonline.com/sports/packers/323330421.html
It was the third preseason game. It was the dress rehearsal for most teams, even the Packers on defense. Exactly what is it about Chip Kelly that made the difference yesterday? Was it his disregard for traditions and orthodoxy? No, he played it straight and he torched an underperforming defense that had its normal 11 out there for the first time in preseason.Quote:
Green Bay — Chip Kelly doesn't care about NFL orthodoxy, reputations, traditions. Nothing.
Show up soft, slow, disorganized, unemotional and unprepared against Kelly's Philadelphia Eagles, as coach Mike McCarthy's Green Bay Packers did Saturday night at Lambeau Field, and you'll get taken to the proverbial woodshed.
This game was evidence of Chip's ORTHODOXY Bob. Writing on deadline doesn't lend itself to deep arguments. These two paragraphs read like click bait. And only one of them applies to the game.
I think Chip Kelly treated it as regular season game; we treated it as a preseason game.
Most of our looks and play-calling were straight-up vanilla. MM and DC are not going to show anything even if it is the so-called dress rehearsal for the season.
Show up with mouth-breathing histrionics, and the players will never talk to you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scoops McGinn
Here are all the D linemen Ted has drafted since he became our GM:
Micheal Montgomery
Jonny Jolly
Justin Harrell
Jeremy Thompson
BJ Raji
Mike Neal
Jerel Worthy
Mike Daniels
Datone Jones
Josh Boyd
Khyri Thornton
You can question the picks ultimately made on most of these guys but you can't say Ted doesn't address the D line in the draft.
McGinn is one of the very best at doing what he's paid to do - meeting deadlines and capturing eyeballs. He's a good writer technically, not great stylistically, horrible interviewer, poor podcaster, good researcher (his draft and grading work are top notch because of this), average football knowledge but good at steering his analysis to support his thesis and giving it an edge (with sources for credibility and personal cover) that charges up his readers one way or another - thus getting the attention his bosses need.
I probably read everything he writes because of the subject matter, though I don't particularly respect the integrity, consistency or accuracy of his views. One day the Packers are in the worst shape in recent history and the next they're Super Bowl champs. One day the Packers won't lose a beat without Rodgers and the next they can't win a game. One day Ed Williams is a rising player and the next he's at the bottom of the roster.
My opinion is that this camp his stories have been OK but they're a week late. Everyone paying attention already knew Josh Walker was coming on and the Casey Hayward has been inconsistent by the time he wrote about them. I didn't know Ed Williams was a roster bubble guy with Janis and White but apparently neither did the coaches.
Maybe it's time Bob gets in touch with the team first hand on the practice field and in the locker room rather than just from 30,000 feet atop the press box and through his contacts and stat sheets - and keep up. He seems to be above all that though. His reputation carries him but times are changing - and he's not.
He'll keep playing to his audience, who will laud his journalistic bravery and independence - and ride off into the sunset of Packer beat legends (along with Cliff Christl) and eventually be memorialized alongside his typewriter, calculator, voice recorder, rotary phone and little black book of scouts' numbers.
He may have one last glorious run of wave-riding Thompson down when the inevitable transition to the next regime occurs. Teddy may just outlast him though. If that were to happen, McGinn would, in fitting fashion, pull out the ol' keyboard and craft one last article about how ol' Ted just refused to keep up with the times.
My take on the game. One team is returning something like 21 starters, the other is trying to get a roster ready for the regular season. Since we were returning 21 starters we played bland, sat most on offense and took a good look at some guys we wanted to see. As a result we got our dick knocked in the dirt. It happens. Its preseason. I am not too concerned at this point.
I wouldn't say physically over matched - except perhaps Barrington - but we weren't prepared for that kind of tempo for sure. By the time we pulled our starters they all looked gassed. It didn't help that our offense was inept and couldn't sustain anything at all in the first half.