Expectations for next year

[esoxx]

16-0 regular season.

Win the Super Bowl.

The bar has been raised and nothing less is acceptable.

[The Shadow]

It will be interesting. The overall roster is young and on the way up; the player at the single most critical position is on the way down. With the maturation of the bulk of the team, the emerging defense, and McCarthy's focus on building an even stronger running game, the major key - at least in my opinion - is how well the coaches continue to transition Favre away from the 'hometown gunslinger hero' mindset into more of an efficient game-manager one. The approach paid overall big dividends this year, but notable, costly slip-ups came when regression arose.
If Favre can be taught to trust the running game and defense more, the sky is the limit.

[Joemailman]

Before Favre can trust the running game, the coaches have to commit to the running game. Favre threw for over 230 yards in sub-zero temps, and the Pack ran the ball only 14 times. MM talks about committing to the running game, but at times he's too quick to abandon it.

[jramsey495]

what was great about this season was that it came out of nowhere. what sucks so bad about last sunday night was we couldn't have played much worst and they couldn't have played much better and we still only lost by 3 in overtime. it was right there for us and we just didn't execute. players, coaches, nobody.

now the expectation has to be improvement, and we could be a better team and end up with a worst result because we play a 1st place schedule, people will be ready for us this year, and we prolly won't be as lucky.

i think we'll be a better team but we'll be lucky to win the division and real lucky to get the NFC Championship just because that's how the NFL seems to work these days unless you're the patriots, or maybe the colts. that being said, i hope we're turning into the NFC version of the Patriots and these guys figure out how to sustain success.