"CAPERNICK EXPOSES PACKERS WEAKNESSES AGAIN "

[red]

did TT kill you before you had a chance to finish revealing his plan?

[channtheman]

It does tell us something, but 10 of those other games included no Crabtree or the other non-Boldin wideout.

Its health and pass rush.

Somewhat, they didn't have Crabtree against us in the first game this season.

[pbmax]

Somewhat, they didn't have Crabtree against us in the first game this season.

Fair point. Davis and Boldin were enough once.

[pbmax]

Good post. And it makes you wonder about the 'best player available' strategy. The 49ers needed a safety badly, so they traded up for Reid and got a stud. That's called drafting for need, and according to many, it's supposed to be the worst thing you can do. Sherman did it and people hated him for it. But what they really hated was drafting players who sucked. The bottom line is you have to draft players who can play. If you have a system, you have to draft system players. If you draft best player available, you have to have coaches that can plug those guys in and adapt. It seems at least some of what's going on is a disconnect between 'best player' drafting and coaches that can't entirely adapt.

But the approach begs the question, if you limit your search for the right players to those who you are convinced can play in the NFL and your system its expensive in terms of picks.

And if there is not a proportional rise in the success rate, you will be harming your team. It worked for the 49ers with Reid, it has failed many other times.

I think there is a fundamental disconnect between Thompson and Capers that needs to be resolved. Or the next Nick Collins needs to be graduating from a Division II school this spring.

[Tony Oday]

Hyde makes the pick we win.

[wist43]

I've made this argument forever - BPA is fine, but you also have to build a team and fill holes.

If you run a 3-4, and the BPA is a 4-3 DE... you can make that pick and find a way to fit him in - BUT - and it's a big BUT, you can't do that habitually. You can accommodate 1 guy, and then 2 guys, but what happens when you make exceptions for a 3rd guy and a 4th guy and so on?? Eventually you have a roster of misfit toys, that can't possibly succeed without you changing the system you run.

And that, at least in large part, is what has happened to the Packers defense.

Raji is best suited to DT in a 4-3; same thing with Worthy; Perry is best suited as a 4-3 DE; Neal is a tweener, but best suited to a 4-3. Daniels is a subpackage 4-3 guy; and Hawk and B. Jones are both very pedestrian LB's.

They may have all been the BPA when TT took them, but add them all up and you have a dysfunctional front seven.

Add to that the fact that Capers misuses almost all of them, and is so married to the 2-4 that he is perfectly willing to watch his defense get continually gashed rather than adjust, and you have a tailor made mess on your hands.

I don't see the Packers changing their approach at all... this is going to continue.

[red]

i always said "best player available at a position of need"

[woodbuck27]

i always said "best player available at a position of need"

Your too logical red.

[bobblehead]

did TT kill you before you had a chance to finish revealing his plan?

That sucks..I liked zool.

[Bretsky]

That draft made no sense to me except to scream we need a pass rush. Which was nice to see the Packers agreed with everyone. But it was a poorly conceived effort. Who was the other DT available Devon Still?

Anyone heard from him?

He's done very little; been an underperformer who'd been banged up.

[Kiwon]

I just finished watching the replay.

Capernick's play might have exposed some weaknesses but he's got nothing to do with guys dropping passes or interceptions, failing to tackle, or failing to execute the defensive play called.

The 4th and 6 conversion in the first quarter on a blown coverage and his last run when Bush didn't keep containment were killers.

GB got away with plenty in the PI and holding departments that weren't flagged. If the game had been called very strictly, the score in the 1st half might have been very different.