Winning Is A Habit

[CaptainKickass]

If someone's going to take the 9ers down a peg, I predict it will be the Seahawks. Much as I dislike the Peter Carroll, he has put together a fine team, offense and defense.

Pete Carroll (never trust a man with 2 first names) didn't put jack shit together. The person who did that was none other than the man,

the myth,

the legend,





oh,

woops,

I mean,

former member of the Packers staff - John Schneider:



and besides,

Pete's a talentless, classless, cheating, assclown who coaches his players to play dirty and at a minimum - his environment encourages players to use PED's.

He gets zero credit in my book.

[CaptainKickass]

Pete's a talentless, classless, cheating, assclown who coaches his players to play dirty and at a minimum - his environment encourages players to use PED's.

^^ This also gives a whole new meaning to:

Winning is a "habit"

[Maxie the Taxi]

I am still of the opinion that certain if not all of the Packers regulars should have played more in the preseason. I know many here disagree and have made solid arguments against my position. On the other hand, the San Francisco game proved to me that less experimenting and more first team tuning up might have made the difference, especially on defense.

The offense played respectably Monday, especially Rodgers, Nelson, Cobb and company. The OL played decent and better than I expected. But the defense could have benefited from less personnel experimentation and more playing together by the regulars.

McCarthy said it himself when he regretted allowing Burnett to practice with the ones for two days when he could have had McMillian and company take the reps. Also, in a post game interview, a Saints player made the comment that the first game(s) of the season always "sloppy" because "of a lack of reps by the ones."

I have to agree with him. Given the marquee nature of the first game against the 9ers, I would have had the first string secondary playing as a unit a good part of that last preseason game, in fact I would have had them playing as a unit a good part of the time since Burnett went down.

Don't know if it would have made a difference last Sunday. Just my opinion.

[HarveyWallbangers]

I think it's a bad take in today's NFL. Sorry but McCarthy doesn't always take this approach in the preseason. Last year they dominated their final two preseason games and then got manhandled at home by San Fran. McCarthy felt the need to do more evaluation. Based on the results he may do this more. This was about the best opener under McCarthy-other than the opener against New Orleans. The guys that played very little were mostly awesome (Rodgers, Cobb, Nelson). In today's game preseason is mostly for evaluation.

[Maxie the Taxi]

We'll have to agree to disagree.

I think you're right about certain veteran players not needing a lot of work in preseason...if any at all. On the other hand, when the situation is extraordinary...like the questions about our secondary...I think you need to play people in game situations to get them to play together as a unit. At times Sunday our secondary guys looked lost. They could have used more work together.

[pbmax]

Burnett's availability wasn't in question until Friday. This team is cautious enough with injuries, I am not sure I want Burnett sitting because he might re-injure a hamstring that he has been cleared to practice with.

Outside of questions about Burnett, McMillan and Jennings got a lot of reps in the preseason.

Its a long season and as almost every Super Bowl champion has shown since the playoff expansion, its the team playing well at the end that tends to win trophies.

[swede]

I think it's a bad take in today's NFL. Sorry but McCarthy doesn't always take this approach in the preseason. Last year they dominated their final two preseason games and then got manhandled at home by San Fran. McCarthy felt the need to do more evaluation. Based on the results he may do this more. This was about the best opener under McCarthy-other than the opener against New Orleans. The guys that played very little were mostly awesome (Rodgers, Cobb, Nelson). In today's game preseason is mostly for evaluation.

I guess there is no need to worry about the "winning breeds winning" thing either. If the coach's message is "win your snap, I don't give a f**k about the game!" and everyone knows that personnel and scheme are for evaluation and not winning meaningless games, then starting line players aren't going to worry about preseason records with game one regular season looming.

[Maxie the Taxi]

With the injuries to Brad Jones and Clay (and Stubby's refusal to remove the training table from the locker room) I'm rethinking my strategy about playing regulars more in the preseason. Now we need Mulumba, Palmer and Lattimore to play at a high level so it's a good thing they had the reps in preseason.

Mea culpa.

[ThunderDan]

With the injuries to Brad Jones and Clay (and Stubby's refusal to remove the training table from the locker room) I'm rethinking my strategy about playing regulars more in the preseason. Now we need Mulumba, Palmer and Lattimore to play at a high level so it's a good thing they had the reps in preseason.

Mea culpa.

Hey, we don't allow apologizing on this board. Suck it up and double down on your theory.

[Maxie the Taxi]

Hey, we don't allow apologizing on this board. Suck it up and double down on your theory.

Pay no attention to my previous post. We should play regulars only in preseason so their hamstrings will become stronger.

[ThunderDan]

Pay no attention to my previous post. We should play regulars only in preseason so their hamstrings will become stronger.

Repped!

[Cheesehead Craig]

Winning is a habit, losing is a disease.

[Maxie the Taxi]

LOL. One of the greatest sports movies ever. Was that Wally Cox?