SUPER BOWL....SUPER BOWL....ARE YOU KIDDING ME ??????? ADD YOUR RANT

[Bretsky]

Reflecting on this season makes me ponder how well we pissed this season away. I saw expert after expert after expert predicting the Packers to get to the Super Bowl.

At bare minimum they were a strong playoff team where the injuries would catch up to us.

The Common Logic, which I'm not subscribing to until we play the Giants, is that this team is missing the playoffs.

How did this season become the nightmare it seems to be ?

Look at our losses....even short handed I fully expect to win most of these games

Da Bears......our talent is so much stronger and we only manage to score 17 points
WASHINGTON- Is this a bad dream...16-13.......TERRIBLE LOSS.....TERRIBLE- Loss to a team with inferior talent
MIAMI AT HOME- I was at this game....terrible nightmare. Lost to a team with inferior talent
LOSS TO DETROIT- Still sick on this one- 3 dam points. 3 dam points. Sickens me

After Hoody owns us tonight, we'll have two acceptable losses to solid teams in Atlanta and New England, and four completely unacceptable performances to inferior competition.

Our Defense has risen to nearly every occasion. Despite a boatload of injuries the Dominator has excelled
In those four ugly losses....17, 13, 20 (alright), and 3 points.

The offense has disappointed

It goes without saying that the specials teams has once again been a nightmare.
I'm still in the middle on whether Campen sucks or TT has sucked in getting us good enough players therea

But enought already

If this team fails to make the playoffs somebody needs to be held accountable because this cannot be the status quo for Green Bay

[Iron Mike]

I'm holding you responsible for posting in the game day threads.

[MJZiggy]

Yes! Let's fire Rodgers for not being able to get it done after Finley and Grant went down and Driver had a hammy! Fire Jennings for dropping that damn pass! Accountability all around!!!!

Even better!!! Fire Finley and Grant for getting injured!!!

[Bretsky]

Yes! Let's fire Rodgers for not being able to get it done after Finley and Grant went down and Driver had a hammy! Fire Jennings for dropping that damn pass! Accountability all around!!!!

Even better!!! Fire Finley and Grant for getting injured!!!

Well then we're screwed every year

Agree Finley has really hurt us because he was a budding superstar

Losing Grant should not have traumatized us but perhaps it did because his backups are just not good enough.......hmmm

We used a 2nd round pick on Jordy Nelson (I won't even whisper which Pro Bowl WR we passed on) and a 3rd on Jones. Losing Driver really should not hurt us that much.

The facts speak for themselves...............and we should consider them unacceptable

If we fail to make the playoffs it's dam time for MM to Stir the Pot...........as Bretsky is doing right now

[Bretsky]

I'm holding you responsible for posting in the game day threads.

you might be onto something; any time I've shown some confidence this year we seem to fall hard.

[MJZiggy]

you might be onto something; any time I've shown some confidence this year we seem to fall hard.

The birth of the new wist...

[pbmax]

I don't think Driver had much of a role in the problems here. But the O line and the Running Backs are just average enough and thin enough that a loss of one person has been close to catastrophic. I agree that is a major problem. One thing they should look at was carrying the 4 TEs (or 3 FBs) instead of another RB. Have Quarless and Crabtree each been better contributors than Wynn or Lumpkin would have been?

I am not sure Finley was replaceable through depth. Who has that guy as a backup on the roster? But McCarthy seems to have had trouble finding a way to defeat 2 deep coverage without him. Could be Rodgers failing to execute, but it eventually gets back to the QC, OC and HC.

And for the defense. I think there are more leaks here than people generally realize and the offense has been more obviously struggling. But the run D is not the same (could be mix of personnel losses and a lot of nickel coverage). Coverage versus the TE has been bad. And they let the Lions drive the distance to score the go ahead touchdown without much resistance. But overall it is hard to complain given the personnel losses and the superior pts against total.

[Bretsky]

agree there are plenty of leaks on defense; my gut tells me we'll see them tonight

Capers has covered up his leaks more consistently than the offensive coaching staff has

Agree on the 3FB's and 4 TE's. It's just insance to keep an extra fullback for a special teams that sucks wind anyways.

[Pugger]

I think the loss of Grant has been a bigger blow than Finley. His loss has made our offense one dimensional and not being able to run when we needed to has killed us 5 times this season. It has been a miracle how Capers has this D as productive as it has considering the injuries on this side of the ball have been ever more numerous. Losing Zombo and Jenkins for tonight may the straw that breaks the defense's back.

[Bossman641]

The offense probably could have held up losing either Finley or Grant. Losing both, so early in the year at that, was a killer.

[Fritz]

I'm not angry about this season, outside of being angry at the football gods. Sure, injuries are part of the game - but the Packers are far and away leading the league in injured players - both IR (14 now) and week-to-week.

Do the Packers have weaknesses? Of course they do. There is no perfect football team. Hell, read up on NE and you find out their defense isn't so awesome. Every team has holes.

I am confident that had the Pack not suffered so, so many injuries, this team would be at least 9 - 4 and maybe 10 - 3 right now. I can't prove it, of course, but it seems to me that if you could add maybe half those IR guys back onto this team, you'd have enough there to make a difference in one or two games.

So my anger is directed at the football gods. F*ck them, their mothers, and anybody who looks like them.

[sheepshead]

I wouldnt be surprised if we lose out.

[denverYooper]

I wouldnt be surprised if we lose out.

At the least, I think they beat Chicago at Lambeau.

[denverYooper]

I think the loss of Grant has been a bigger blow than Finley. His loss has made our offense one dimensional and not being able to run when we needed to has killed us 5 times this season. It has been a miracle how Capers has this D as productive as it has considering the injuries on this side of the ball have been ever more numerous. Losing Zombo and Jenkins for tonight may the straw that breaks the defense's back.

I'm with you. After Grant went out they couldn't run the running game they'd planned; they tried to do so with BJack but it just didn't quite fit. If Starks had been available all season, he may have been able to fill Grant's role well enough by the latter part of the season but his being on PUP might have made him too little, too late.

Finley was a big loss also for similar reasons but they had Quarless who they have brought along and who allows them to run their passing game. Even though he doesn't demand the attention that Finley did and he's not the gamebreaker than Finley is I think he's progressed well. Green Bay should have some very deadly 2 TE sets (assuming health) in the next couple of years.

[CaptainKickass]

the Packers are far and away leading the league in injured players - both IR (14 now) and week-to-week.

I wonder what the NFL record is for injured players put on IR during a regular season and how we compare to it this season.