Disappointments

[Freak Out]

The Packers are incredibly arrogant as an organization. They need to come back to earth and focus on the basics.

This place just keeps getting funnier by the day.

[Freak Out]

The fact Poppinga is still overrunning plays and crashing into the backs of his own players on blitzes despite being paid much more to do so than he was last season.

Agreed. He overran Foster on a blitz that should have been a 5-6 yard loss. Only LBs that played worth a darn last night were Barnett and Hodge.

Hunter has signed his plane ticket out of town. (TWO personal foul facemasks!!)

Watching the highlights (many more lowlights) Lee made a big hit to break up a pass...but that was all I noticed of him. Did he have a good night overall? Of course Collins got burned......I loved the Nelson runback. Where the fuck was the running game? Farther down the coast?

[Brohm]

As bad as they looked, they were thrown a ton of looks by SF. Which in turn will give the coaches plenty to work with on Monday. The more they see now trhe less surprised they will be come the regular season.

[Gunakor]

OK, I feel better now. Hopefully it gets fixed next week and they get back to the basics, but that game made me sick. What a shitty way to start the season.

The preseason started on Monday, with the first team leaving the game ahead 10-0.

The regular season doesn't start for a couple weeks yet.

If our WR's make those easy catches, the game is no worse than 14-10 at halftime.

The Niners used a 3-4 defense, something we typically don't practice against. Especially in the preseason when teams don't generally gameplan for opponents.

Our first team defense has not allowed a single point yet this preseason.

WE'LL BE FINE!!

[RashanGary]

There are some things that are scary though. When Rodgers consistantly drops back and has no clue where to go with the ball there is a big red flag. I'm very concerned right now. I was assuming MM knew what the was doing when he chose Rodgers over Favre. I was assuming Rodgers was ready and knew what to do. Now, however, I'm not so sure. A guy how knows what he's doing drops back and lets the ball go. Rodgers rarely threw a pass in rythym. Maybe it was something SF was doing, but if SF can get our offense this out of rythym I'm concerned. Hopefully there is a simple explaination that will be solved next week but when you see a guy that unsure and that clueless in his 4th year it's definitly a concern.

[Iron Mike]

When you see a guy that unsure and that clueless in his 4th year it's definitely a concern.

Now you have some idea what it's like to be a Bears fan.

[pbmax]

I know you were writing this while upset, but who played 4 positions?

And while I am here, who played three? Wells, Tauscher and Clifton did not move. Spitz at RG and center. Colledge at RG and LT. Sitton on RG. Moll at RT and RG. Barbre at LG. Coston at C.

That leaves Ryan Keenan, Breno Giacomini, Ryan Considine and Orrin Thompson as the players you saw play 3 or 4 positions.

This happens every camp. You cannot often keep you 9 or 10 best O lineman and have two complete and non-overlapping sets. Some guys need to play two places.

The more logical position is the coaching staff thinks Sitton is better than the fifth best guy last year. That means improvement overall. It also means someone might have to get used to a new position (Spitz).

Why are we forcing our OL to play 3 or 4 positions? Why not stick to two positions where guys can acctually play well rather than forcing them to constantly switch their footwork. They got beat down and the coaching staff put them in position to fail IMO.

[Gunakor]

There are some things that are scary though. When Rodgers consistantly drops back and has no clue where to go with the ball there is a big red flag. I'm very concerned right now. I was assuming MM knew what the was doing when he chose Rodgers over Favre. I was assuming Rodgers was ready and knew what to do. Now, however, I'm not so sure. A guy how knows what he's doing drops back and lets the ball go. Rodgers rarely threw a pass in rythym. Maybe it was something SF was doing, but if SF can get our offense this out of rythym I'm concerned. Hopefully there is a simple explaination that will be solved next week but when you see a guy that unsure and that clueless in his 4th year it's definitly a concern.

I'm absolutely positive that the confusion was mostly due to San Fransisco's 3-4 defense. The Packers don't play a 3-4, so they aren't seeing that every day in practice. For regular season games you would gameplan against that defense, but in the preseason not so much time is spent on that. It's a much more difficult read when you aren't used to seeing it.

[SkinBasket]

There are some things that are scary though. When Rodgers consistantly drops back and has no clue where to go with the ball there is a big red flag. I'm very concerned right now. I was assuming MM knew what the was doing when he chose Rodgers over Favre. I was assuming Rodgers was ready and knew what to do. Now, however, I'm not so sure. A guy how knows what he's doing drops back and lets the ball go. Rodgers rarely threw a pass in rythym. Maybe it was something SF was doing, but if SF can get our offense this out of rythym I'm concerned. Hopefully there is a simple explaination that will be solved next week but when you see a guy that unsure and that clueless in his 4th year it's definitly a concern.

Well aren't you just the most dramaticly overreacting mother humper around?

[cpk1994]

There are some things that are scary though. When Rodgers consistantly drops back and has no clue where to go with the ball there is a big red flag. I'm very concerned right now. I was assuming MM knew what the was doing when he chose Rodgers over Favre. I was assuming Rodgers was ready and knew what to do. Now, however, I'm not so sure. A guy how knows what he's doing drops back and lets the ball go. Rodgers rarely threw a pass in rythym. Maybe it was something SF was doing, but if SF can get our offense this out of rythym I'm concerned. Hopefully there is a simple explaination that will be solved next week but when you see a guy that unsure and that clueless in his 4th year it's definitly a concern.

Well aren't you just the most dramaticly overreacting mother humper around?

Merlin is a close second. Check out his posts in the game thread for reference.