The Official Packers @ Falcons Gameday Thread

[pbmax]

< is confident we'll never win the "big one" as long as M3 is in charge. deer in the headlights every single time

This argument always looks good when the team has had a setback. But it tells us nothing about the game or McCarthy. It is simply looking at the result and blindly assigning blame.

[Willard]

Pretty much you don't come back from a goal line turnover and the resulting drive being stuffed down your face. 14 point swings are tough to overcome vs bad teams much less good ones.

Of course, you're right. I guess I'll go Christmas shopping now that the game is lost. Hopefully we'll be able to rebound against the 49ers, but I doubt it.

[ThunderDan]

that's a bit of a stretch.

Not really, if either makes the tackle the drive is over. Plan and simple. Yes other stuff happened after but both had a great chance to end it with a sure tackle.

[Guiness]

Back to the turnover...I don't think I ever knew what the rule was on that.

Peterson was tackled in the end zone - it's a touchback. If a QB gets sacked, it's a safety. What's the difference? Because he's a defensive player?

[pbmax]

Interesting - didn't know that. Wonder why photos only?

Because the home team would have a HUGE advantage. Then the league would need to equalize access to video. Expensive and hard to govern. Also, coverage, like replay, would be affected by the TV coverage (and number of cameras) at the game.

[packer4life]

the blame birds are out. We are going to score after regrouping. Aaron is playing in a huge game and will settle down on his play switches in the second half. Our D for the most part is going to bend and hopefully not break again. We need to play lights out, we knew that coming in. I think we have a good chance here despite the poor first half result.

[mr_blonde]

< is confident we'll never win the "big one" as long as M3 is in charge. deer in the headlights every single time

McCarthy can't think "on his feet". He gets caught up in the moment. The Packers will lose this game simply because McCarthy will be out-coached in the second half. Smith will make the necessary adjustments; McCarthy will be caught with his thumb up his ass ..... again ...

The only coach McCarthy could consistently out-coach was Childress.

I really hate McCarthy .....

[pbmax]

That TD was really compliments of CWood and Peprah who both had chance to tackle the RB on the 3 and 19 and allowed the 4&3 if either makes the tackle ATL punts.

I agree. The Packers invited the fourth down attempt.

[Fosco33]

This one feels a lot like the Redskin game. Let's see how they respond - good measuring stick for our playoff chances.

Jimmy Johnson's halftime analysis of the non-challenge was spot on.

[red]

who is the fucking asshole who's suppose to be watching replays and telling fat mike when to challenge?

[Fritz]

I've sometimes wondered why coaches don't assign an assistant coach to watch the television feed. Those networks that show the games have so many cameras from so many angles that you'd think that'd be very useful when thinking of challenging.

Or do they already do this?

Since that 4th down play was so near the end of the half and the Pack had two timeouts left, I wondered why MM didn't call a timeout for two reasons: one, to give his assistants a chance to decide whether the 4th down catch was worth challenging, and two, to give his defense a quick breather.

[Jimx29]

thank gawd there's a posts-per-page setting that changes the default 10 posts. kinda hard to follow stuff when there's 17+ pages with only 165 or so posts

[Jimx29]

This one feels a lot like the Redskin game. Let's see how they respond - good measuring stick for our playoff chances.

Jimmy Johnson's halftime analysis of the non-challenge was spot on.

what did he say? I can't watch him after the extenxe BS


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[Fritz]

Man, you negative nellies are out full bore. Holy smokes.

Up to this game all was well in Packerland; now, after a fumble on the goal line and a score the other way, half the people here want MM fired IMMEDIATELY.

Whoa. Settle down, people.

Or maybe people are just blowing off some steam, which is underestandable.

[pbmax]

Back to the turnover...I don't think I ever knew what the rule was on that.

Peterson was tackled in the end zone - it's a touchback. If a QB gets sacked, it's a safety. What's the difference? Because he's a defensive player?

Its who had possession first. Packers had possession. Then fumble. If Pack recover in endzone, its a hodgepaodge of rules about advancing the ball after a fumble. I think the Holy Roller rules come into play. But if the Falcons recover the ball, like an INT in the endzone, its a touchback.