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Is most likely going to look very different from last year's by the end of the year for many reasons:
The bad
1.) Jennings has been hurt. The number of commercials he is in these days makes me think that he is starting to focus on life after football. He's cashing in while he can.
2.) Finley has been hurt and can't seem to get out of his own head. I think his receiving has actually regressed even more. He's often double clutching, which is really disconcerting.
3.) Jordy goes missing for large portions of games. I don't really know why. Are teams focusing on taking him away because of his deep plays last year?
4.) Benson is hurt. They were gravitating toward a Benson-led balanced attack that seemed to show promise for all of 8 quarters (2nd half SEA, NO, 1st half IND) but then went back into passwackiland when he went down.
5.) The staff has been reshuffled
6.) Saturday "is what he is". He's new and his game these days is his smarts and knowledge of the offense. He just may not have the line calls down pat yet. When it comes down to it, I don't think he's losing them games but given everything else, a new C is one more weakness.
7.) Bulaga is injured or something. He's regressed but I suspect it is due to something that we do not know about. Anyway, he's just not the same.
8.) Rodgers is in a bit of a shell at the moment. Too many changes for him to be comfortable? Maybe he needs a lot of structure in place to be comfortable.
The good:
1.) Randall Cobb looks like he could be an elite player. Why are they not trying to get him the ball more? I've mentioned before that he is the one guy who is making plays for them when they get stuck but most of the time he's being forgotten. PFF had Rodgers rating when throwing at Cobb a 158.3.
2.) James Jones is playing like a pretty good power forward. He's mixing it up, boxing guys out. and catching most of the more impressive TDs that Rodgers has thrown. If he could only learn to make a play on an INT intended for him, he'd be a fairly complete physical receiver.
3.) DJ Williams has shown some reliability and the best hands of the TE group.
4.) Lang and Sitton at times look like the best guard tandem in the entire league. Lang gets beat occasionally on tricks but they usually don't work on him more than once and the man will straight up beat the snot out of dudes across from him with an impressive fire. Sitton is quietly having a very good year again. Their work downfield last game was shocking. In a way it's too bad that Saturday is not a more physical guy because that GCG unit could just be destroying teams on their own if so.
The unknown:
1.) What will come of the running game now? Maybe the Stark Plug will come back and relight the fire a la 2010.
2.) What of Quarless and/or Sherrod? They are largely unknown right now but Quarless could be another player to come around and spark the offense. Maybe because he has so much time in the offense (an important consideration with this staff), they'll trust him to come in and play as soon as they feel his conditioning is up.
The bad
1.) Jennings has been hurt. The number of commercials he is in these days makes me think that he is starting to focus on life after football. He's cashing in while he can.
2.) Finley has been hurt and can't seem to get out of his own head. I think his receiving has actually regressed even more. He's often double clutching, which is really disconcerting.
3.) Jordy goes missing for large portions of games. I don't really know why. Are teams focusing on taking him away because of his deep plays last year?
4.) Benson is hurt. They were gravitating toward a Benson-led balanced attack that seemed to show promise for all of 8 quarters (2nd half SEA, NO, 1st half IND) but then went back into passwackiland when he went down.
5.) The staff has been reshuffled
6.) Saturday "is what he is". He's new and his game these days is his smarts and knowledge of the offense. He just may not have the line calls down pat yet. When it comes down to it, I don't think he's losing them games but given everything else, a new C is one more weakness.
7.) Bulaga is injured or something. He's regressed but I suspect it is due to something that we do not know about. Anyway, he's just not the same.
8.) Rodgers is in a bit of a shell at the moment. Too many changes for him to be comfortable? Maybe he needs a lot of structure in place to be comfortable.
The good:
1.) Randall Cobb looks like he could be an elite player. Why are they not trying to get him the ball more? I've mentioned before that he is the one guy who is making plays for them when they get stuck but most of the time he's being forgotten. PFF had Rodgers rating when throwing at Cobb a 158.3.
2.) James Jones is playing like a pretty good power forward. He's mixing it up, boxing guys out. and catching most of the more impressive TDs that Rodgers has thrown. If he could only learn to make a play on an INT intended for him, he'd be a fairly complete physical receiver.
3.) DJ Williams has shown some reliability and the best hands of the TE group.
4.) Lang and Sitton at times look like the best guard tandem in the entire league. Lang gets beat occasionally on tricks but they usually don't work on him more than once and the man will straight up beat the snot out of dudes across from him with an impressive fire. Sitton is quietly having a very good year again. Their work downfield last game was shocking. In a way it's too bad that Saturday is not a more physical guy because that GCG unit could just be destroying teams on their own if so.
The unknown:
1.) What will come of the running game now? Maybe the Stark Plug will come back and relight the fire a la 2010.
2.) What of Quarless and/or Sherrod? They are largely unknown right now but Quarless could be another player to come around and spark the offense. Maybe because he has so much time in the offense (an important consideration with this staff), they'll trust him to come in and play as soon as they feel his conditioning is up.
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