5-10......who ISN'T to blame

[Patler]

Who is NOT at fault for the 5-13 record?

This should be a less complicated discussion. I nominate:
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Maybe this will be a tougher discussion than I thought!

[RashanGary]

Eh, f-it. Tear the whole thing apart. I'm sure it's not one thing, two things or maybe three. We need a whole new team, new coaches and a new GM.

[The Leaper]

When a team goes from 13-3 to 6-10 (we hope), there is plenty of blame to go around. Everyone is responsible for lapses in some respect...from Murphy and Thompson down to the last slot on the practice squad and the janitor.

[GrnBay007]

I bet the water boys did their jobs properly!

[Patler]

When a team goes from 13-3 to 6-10 (we hope), there is plenty of blame to go around. Everyone is responsible for lapses in some respect...from Murphy and Thompson down to the last slot on the practice squad and the janitor.

But who is NOT at fault?

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[Patler]

I bet the water boys did their jobs properly!

I don't know. Didn't we see a lot of players out with cramps in early games? Dehydration....water boys...? Everyone has their responsibilities!

[Patler]

Eh, f-it. Tear the whole thing apart. I'm sure it's not one thing, two things or maybe three. We need a whole new team, new coaches and a new GM.

Now, now, now! faults can be corrected. It doesn't always require amputation!
This can be a learning experience for us all.

[Fosco33]

Clearly axing Frost led to more victories :P

Short list:

Rodgers
Woodson
Driver
Jennings
Collins
Kampan
Lee
Nelson
Harris


Mostly not to blame:
Blackmon
Grant
Hawk

Injured, played ok, therefore - blameless:
Jenkins
Bigby
Tauscher
Barnett

[Bretsky]

I have a hard time blaming the WR's much

I won't blame myself either........even though I've picked Green Bay to win in seven of the 10 losses in the confidence pool

[Gunakor]

Clearly axing Frost led to more victories :P

Short list:

Rodgers
Woodson
Driver
Jennings
Collins
Kampan
Lee
Nelson
Harris


Mostly not to blame:
Blackmon
Grant
Hawk

Injured, played ok, therefore - blameless:
Jenkins
Bigby
Tauscher
Barnett

Now now, I'm sure at least one of those people you have on your short list was at least partly responsible for the deep completion to Steve Smith at the end of the Panthers game. You have 3 members of our secondary listed there. As well as our defensive backfield has been this season, they are not without blame themselves.

[Patler]

I won't blame myself either........even though I've picked Green Bay to win in seven of the 10 losses in the confidence pool

I'm not sure you should get off that easy, Bretsky!

[Gunakor]

I won't blame myself either........even though I've picked Green Bay to win in seven of the 10 losses in the confidence pool

I'm not sure you should get off that easy, Bretsky!

It's the chair...

[texaspackerbacker]

Crosby directly lost two games. Should we panic and get rid of him?

Rodgers played like an all pro about 90% of the time, but with six games lost by four or less, he had to be primarily responsible for several. Should we give up on him? I bet the Jets would give us back Favre even up for Rodgers.

Grant was sub-par early in the season with injuries and rust when the rest of the team was going pretty good. He probably gets a large part of the blame for at least a game or two. Cut him?

Tramon Williams had his moments, but wasn't it him who got beat by Steve Smith? Either way, he gave up several other game breakers late in the season. Shall we let him go?

Driver, Jennings, etc., just about everybody choked a few away at critical times. You don't lose six by four points of less--several to highly seeded playoff teams if there ain't choking and dropping balls and missed tackles, etc. going on. Maybe we should just tear down the whole team--that's always something the lame-brains like to talk about.

Let's see, that damn Bates/Sanders D scheme--with all the turnovers and points it generated--kept us from losing at least two or three other games. That really screwed up our draft prospects. We could have been up there right behind the Lions if damn Sanders hadn't messed it up with all the pick sixes his scheme brought us. Can him and go zone coverage and blitzing over half the time next season. Then we can really clean up in the 2010 draft.

[Gunakor]

Crosby directly lost two games. Should we panic and get rid of him?

Rodgers played like an all pro about 90% of the time, but with six games lost by four or less, he had to be primarily responsible for several. Should we give up on him? I bet the Jets would give us back Favre even up for Rodgers.

Grant was sub-par early in the season with injuries and rust when the rest of the team was going pretty good. He probably gets a large part of the blame for at least a game or two. Cut him?

Tramon Williams had his moments, but wasn't it him who got beat by Steve Smith? Either way, he gave up several other game breakers late in the season. Shall we let him go?

Driver, Jennings, etc., just about everybody choked a few away at critical times. You don't lose six by four points of less--several to highly seeded playoff teams if there ain't choking and dropping balls and missed tackles, etc. going on. Maybe we should just tear down the whole team--that's always something the lame-brains like to talk about.

Let's see, that damn Bates/Sanders D scheme--with all the turnovers and points it generated--kept us from losing at least two or three other games. That really screwed up our draft prospects. We could have been up there right behind the Lions if damn Sanders hadn't messed it up with all the pick sixes his scheme brought us. Can him and go zone coverage and blitzing over half the time next season. Then we can really clean up in the 2010 draft.

It's all black and white to you, isn't it Tex?

Changing DC's automatically means we are playing zone coverage? Is Sanders the only guy on the freaking planet that plays press coverage? I mean, couldn't we get another guy who plays press coverage but is a bit more aggressive when this defense needs to bear it's teeth?

I've said this before, so it's getting a tad redundant, but I'll say it one more time. I don't give a shit about the turnovers and the points scored. It's not the defenses job to score points. Their job is to PREVENT THEM. Our defensive scheme is NOT very good at preventing points against even halfway descent offenses. Especially at crunch time. I'd gladly sacrifice 6 TD returns by our defensive backs for 10 fewer points given up per game. Or a 3 and out on the opponents last drive.

[packerbacker1234]

Simple: The defense, and Offense, could not get it done in crunch time.

Who is to blame for this?

Well, first lets look at two key players that really control the flow of each side.

Offense: Rodgers - he has to prove in crunch time he can be reliable. Right now, he's been a liability. There is little doubt in most packer fans minds that a certain #4 would of pulled out at least a couple of those 4 point losses. Afterall, he was doing that last year for us. Rodgers has to perform better when it matters most. You can't be good most the game and crumble when the team needs you most. Hopefully, this is just inexperience.

Defense: Nick Barnett. Did anyone notice how our defense really started going south after he got hurt? He was the leader of the defense, and the attitude of the whole defense seemed to change once he was not on the field. Say what you want, but he was effecting that defense in more ways then just his stats, which were average. The guy is a leader, and our defense sorely missed him.

So, the difference for next season?

1. Get healthy. Jenkins, Barnett especially. Lets get them back and going 100% into game 1 next year.

2. Coaching Rodgers. Settling him down in crunch time. If you have to blow a timeout on the final drive to talk to him, then do it. Get his head back in the game,a nd out of the clouds. He is not Brett, and he needs to stop, in crunch time, pretending he is Brett.

3. Play Calling: Could of been better, but it's progressively gotten better each year this coaching staff has been together. Should improve naturally.


4. OL. Needs improving. Tauscher I think is gone after this season, so we need a real replacement.


Outside of that? Our leaders need to stay healthy (AR, Driver, Kampman, and Barnett), and AR just has to improve in crunch time. It's pretty simple really, the talent isn't that far removed from the 13-3. Oh, and please, TT, bring Woodson back. For christs sake, he's got 3 good years left in him, and maybe 5 decent ones. Harris has about 2.