2009 NFL Offseason: Green Bay Packers

[MadScientist]

My one major quibble is the fact that they harp on 0-7 in games decided by 4 pts and say that Rodgers needs to be more clutch, but don't bother to mention the fact that 2 of those games would have been won if Crosby makes FG, and a couple others of those he gave the team the lead only to see the defense blow it. You want to say Rodgers needs to be more clutch fine, but it is disingenuous to not mention all the reasons for that 0-7 mark.

You are correct, CPK, this has become common
in many NFL sports' columns, makes you wonder if the
writer is just "padding" for his column? Easier to toss
the blame off onto other units. Who's going to argue it?

Unfortunately whatever the technical reason, there is a psychological aspect to this. If AR pulls a few miracle comebacks out, the rest of the team will believe or even expect it will happen the next time the situation occurs. That belief may become self fulfilling.

[sharpe1027]

Bear's offensive line a 4 and ours a 2? Wow. Bear's offensive line better than our secondary? Wow.

[The Shadow]

Bear's offensive line a 4 and ours a 2? Wow. Bear's offensive line better than our secondary? Wow.

The Bears are going to have big-time troubles with that offensive line if they go into the season with the indicated group.

[cheesner]

Some notes:

The only "1"s - Vikings coaching and Lions OL. Seems fair.

Packers 4 on Special Teams? I thought we were below average overall.

Not sure who (other than the Cardinals) has better WRs, as a whole, than us.


Personally, I would go with:

Quarterbacks 4* Offensive Line 3* Secondary 4*
Running Backs 3* Defensive Line 3* Special Teams 2*
Receivers 5* Linebackers 4* Coaching 3*

This is reasonable, but the homer in me believes the QBs, RBs, DL, and ST could all go up a star this season.

[Tyrone Bigguns]

Some notes:

The only "1"s - Vikings coaching and Lions OL. Seems fair.

Packers 4 on Special Teams? I thought we were below average overall.

Not sure who (other than the Cardinals) has better WRs, as a whole, than us.

Personally, I would go with:

Quarterbacks 4* Offensive Line 3* Secondary 4*
Running Backs 3* Defensive Line 3* Special Teams 2*
Receivers 5* Linebackers 4* Coaching 3*

This is reasonable, but the homer in me believes the QBs, RBs, DL, and ST could all go up a star this season.

Cheese,

don't be a homer..all of these are better: broncos (marshall, stokely, royal, lloyd, gafney, chad jackson, graham scheffler), pats (moss, welker, galloway, greg lewis, watson), bills (to, evans, reed, parrish, ), Saints (colston, shockey, moore, henderson, arrington, meachem, miller), Chargers (chambers, jackson, floyd, davis, gates, manu...fuckit..can't spell that shit), Texans (johnson, walter, davis, jones, daniels).

About the same: Eagles (jakson, curtis, maclin, brown, avant, baskett), Falcons (white, jenkins, finneran, gonzalez, douglas), bengals (ocho, coles, henry, caldwell, chatman, kelley/utecht/coffman), steelers.