Blame the Unit Responsible

[pbmax]

I was heartbroken to see Newhouse in there instead of Sherrod.

[bobblehead]

I was heartbroken to see Newhouse in there instead of Sherrod.

I still say that is stubby being stubby. By midseason he would rather stick with a shitty option than a guy like Sherrod who hasn't been able to play. If I'm wrong and its because Marshmallow is better than Sherrod then cut them both right now and get it over with. Newhouse doesn't belong on an NFL roster with his play at this point. If he is ahead of anyone on the depth chart, that player should go as well....and you know I'm right there with you on the sherrod bandwagon.

If Sherrod comes in and wins a job next year, MM should be grilled by reporters as to why he didn't use him in that game. A reporter should step up and tell him that the decision may have been the difference between a FG and a more time consuming TD that could have won the game.

[bobblehead]

PS...he should also get grilled as to leaving Desmond Bishop on the bench as long as he did.

[denverYooper]

I still say that is stubby being stubby. By midseason he would rather stick with a shitty option than a guy like Sherrod who hasn't been able to play. If I'm wrong and its because Marshmallow is better than Sherrod then cut them both right now and get it over with. Newhouse doesn't belong on an NFL roster with his play at this point. If he is ahead of anyone on the depth chart, that player should go as well....and you know I'm right there with you on the sherrod bandwagon.

If Sherrod comes in and wins a job next year, MM should be grilled by reporters as to why he didn't use him in that game. A reporter should step up and tell him that the decision may have been the difference between a FG and a more time consuming TD that could have won the game.

Agree. None of the PUP guys played much, if at all. They weren't about to give Sherrod his first extensive game action in the 4th quarter of a heated playoff contest.

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Agree. None of the PUP guys played much, if at all. They weren't about to give Sherrod his first extensive game action in the 4th quarter of a heated playoff contest.

so instead he keeps playing one of the worst packers in recent history

i'll go ahead and say it. newhouse makes jarrett bush look like a fucking hall of famer

[denverYooper]

so instead he keeps playing one of the worst packers in recent history

i'll go ahead and say it. newhouse makes jarrett bush look like a fucking hall of famer

Yes. M3's biggest flaw at work.

[hoosier]

Holding SF to 23 should = win. Offense blew it.

[pbmax]

I agree Newhouse had the backup job and would have had to do something extraordinary to get benched. Its happened before with KGB and a couple of guys in the secondary, but you really need to violate orders to end up on the bench. Trying hard to do the right thing often seems enough.

I had hoped that by now Sherrod would have surpassed him, but another offseason will help. He needs reps and there aren't many for backups during a game week.

[woodbuck27]

http://www.packers.com/news-and-events/ask-vic/article-1/Time-for-analysis-how-did-the-Packers-lose-that-game/2862640e-094e-4574-b6f2-208d8cf39191

Time for analysis; how did the Packers lose that game?

Defense kept the Packers in the game, but needed to make one more stop

Posted Jan 6, 2014

GO PACK GO !

[Maxie the Taxi]

http://www.packers.com/news-and-even...2-208d8cf39191

Time for analysis; how did the Packers lose that game?

I'll continue to argue the Packers lost the game the last time they had the ball. They kicked a field goal instead of going for the TD on 4th and goal at the five. They should have gone for it for the very reason the article says: they were overmatched due to injuries and therefore needed to be more aggressive.

[Old School]

The defense missed at least 3 game changing plays - 2 intercepts - T Wil and Hyde, and the missed contain by Bush in the 4th quarter.

I guess the drop by Jones could have been a game changer, but that's one play.

[denverYooper]

http://courtenayharris.wordpress.com/2014/01/10/lets-take-a-defensive-look/

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I'll continue to argue the Packers lost the game the last time they had the ball. They kicked a field goal instead of going for the TD on 4th and goal at the five. They should have gone for it for the very reason the article says: they were overmatched due to injuries and therefore needed to be more aggressive.

i don't know about going for it on 4th from the 5, because i still don't see our D stopping them for the rest of the game if we didn't get a TD

but its been a staple of M3 for a long time, to me he seems just fine taking FG's instead of nutting up and going all out for a td

maybe thats part of the redzone problem? a mindset has crept into the team where they don't want to take any big risks because "we can always get 3 points"

i will say that settling for FG's is like a defeat for me, unless its a FG with a couple seconds left in the game to tie or win i just think FG's are worthles

[Maxie the Taxi]

i don't know about going for it on 4th from the 5, because i still don't see our D stopping them for the rest of the game if we didn't get a TD

My argument is that, even if we didn't score, it would be easier stopping SF if they had to start on their own 5. They would be more conservative and predictable. The odds of us getting the ball back one last time would be better.

Obviously, passing on a game-tying field goal would be a gut-wrenching call, but we gave the ball back to SF with decent field position and them only needing a field goal to win...and five minutes to do it.

[pbmax]

http://courtenayharris.wordpress.com...efensive-look/

WOW!

I think he puts some real weight to changing defenses being an advantage in and of itself for 2 years. I suspected this was not simply an artifact of Capers.

The other point here is that LeBeau was going to be Pittsburgh's D coordinator no matter who replaced Cowher. He has REAL juice in Pittsburgh's organization and the Steelers ran for years without a GM, meaning he probably has his fingers in personnel.

This is a problematic situation for a lot of teams, but the Steelers highly involved and experiences ownership makes it work (Dan Rooney's brother, Art Rooney Jr. used to run personnel during the Super Bowl years before Dan kicked him to the curb*).

But this also suggests that Thompson and Capers are not an ideal match.


* Once everyone was using Steroids and scouting small colleges, the Steelers personnel advantage disappeared. They were still competent but no longer light years ahead of everyone except the Cowboys and Jim Finks.