Where do we go from here?

[call_me_ishmael]

LOL @ clean house. You guys realize this team was injured as all get out, a massive underdog playing the super bowl favorite, and they still balled out and played them very close? Recall the D gave up 17 points prior to failing the 4th down on the Packers 20. They played a great game. The offense needs some work. They is a pretty darn good team, and more importantly history bears out that they are a first rate organization.

If I'm the Packers, I consider the following things:

I tell Eddie Lacy he comes to camp at 230 or he will be playing elsewhere. He looks NOTHING like the kid at Alabama, and he is incredibly slow now. He needs to get better.

I try to find a tight end by any means necessary. Richard Rodgers is a great team guy and a nice person by all accounts but he is just too slow. He is a bad blocker for his size, too. I try to get him to cut from 280 to 250 and see if he gets any faster.

I resign Nick Perry for an affordable contract. He isn't going to make big bucks. I try to get Mike Neal back on a 2 year deal.

I resign Raji.

I focus my energy on the draft on WR, TE, RB, MLB, DE depth and OT depth. Plausible? Maybe.

[mraynrand]

^^^^ Yep, all good. But it's time to say goodbye to Peppers. The slide is apparent.

[Joemailman]

I try to find a tight end by any means necessary. Richard Rodgers is a great team guy and a nice person by all accounts but he is just too slow. He is a bad blocker for his size, too. I try to get him to cut from 280 to 250 and see if he gets any faster.

I agree. He played at 245 as a senior in college and seemed to have decent, but not great speed. Then he bulked up for the Combine and ran poorly. I think he's even bigger now, although the Packers list his weight at pretty close to his Combine weight. He's not a physical player, so I do think he'd be better if he were lighter and quicker.

[call_me_ishmael]

I agree. He played at 245 as a senior in college and seemed to have decent, but not great speed. Then he bulked up for the Combine and ran poorly. I think he's even bigger now, although the Packers list his weight at pretty close to his Combine weight. He's not a physical player, so I do think he'd be better if he were lighter and quicker.

I agree with you. Worst case - the experiment fails and he is still a tight end that is slow, can't block, but catches balls consistently

[Pugger]

BS

janis and abby looked better then any of our wr's (minus jordy) have looked all year

Ty looked pretty darn good before he got injured.

[Patler]

janis and abby looked better then any of our wr's (minus jordy) have looked all year

It is interesting that a short passing game worked for two drives with them, and hadn't really worked with Cobb and Adams much at all.

[red]

LOL @ clean house. You guys realize this team was injured as all get out, a massive underdog playing the super bowl favorite, and they still balled out and played them very close? Recall the D gave up 17 points prior to failing the 4th down on the Packers 20. They played a great game. The offense needs some work. They is a pretty darn good team, and more importantly history bears out that they are a first rate organization.

If I'm the Packers, I consider the following things:

I tell Eddie Lacy he comes to camp at 230 or he will be playing elsewhere. He looks NOTHING like the kid at Alabama, and he is incredibly slow now. He needs to get better.

I try to find a tight end by any means necessary. Richard Rodgers is a great team guy and a nice person by all accounts but he is just too slow. He is a bad blocker for his size, too. I try to get him to cut from 280 to 250 and see if he gets any faster.

I resign Nick Perry for an affordable contract. He isn't going to make big bucks. I try to get Mike Neal back on a 2 year deal.

I resign Raji.

I focus my energy on the draft on WR, TE, RB, MLB, DE depth and OT depth. Plausible? Maybe.

get the fuck out of here with the god damn injury excuse

every fucking year half you clowns come out blaming injuries on why we didn't win another super bowl

every fucking year its the same excuse

[red]

It is interesting that a short passing game worked for two drives with them, and hadn't really worked with Cobb and Adams much at all.

well, we sent janis deep a few times earlier, even if they didn't work, maybe it made the d at least thing about the deep routes. maybe that opened up the shorter stuff

so pretty much what some of us have been screaming at M# to do with janis since jordy went down

[call_me_ishmael]

Where's the excuse? They balled out against the super bowl favorites. They aren't going to win the SB every year.

[Pugger]

get the fuck out of here with the god damn injury excuse

every fucking year half you clowns come out blaming injuries on why we didn't win another super bowl

every fucking year its the same excuse

This year you can't sit there and say injuries didn't derail the offense. Our O lne was a mess and our WRs were slow and couldn't get separation in several games. It is no coincidence the healthiest teams are the ones winning in the post season. It sucks for us but c'est la vie.

[red]

Ty looked pretty darn good before he got injured.

ty did look decent in the few games he played. he did look better then adams and cobb

but in the 5 games or so he played only one time did he have the same type of impact as abby had last night, and he wasn't even close to having a game like janis

BUT, monty is the least of our problems at WR, the problems are cobb whos getting paid like a #1 wr and showed this year he can't do anything outside of the slot and can't function without a real number one taking the pressure off him. and adams, who was rated as the worst full time WR in the nfl this year

[red]

This year you can't sit there and say injuries didn't derail the offense. Our O lne was a mess and our WRs were slow and couldn't get separation in several games. It is no coincidence the healthiest teams are the ones winning in the post season. It sucks for us but c'est la vie.

you can say that every year pugger, and you people do say that every year

injuries are a way of life in the nfl, good teams adapt

[Pugger]

you can say that every year pugger, and you people do say that every year

injuries are a way of life in the nfl, good teams adapt

When you consider the mess that our receiving corps was last night it was remarkable what Aaron and company did against that team. Our D chose the worst possible moment to break down in OT.

[Striker]

you can say that every year pugger, and you people do say that every year

injuries are a way of life in the nfl, good teams adapt

Last year it wasn't an excuse. This year they had a chance, but sometimes they're insurmountable. The Patriots looked like they were falling apart with half their team gone, they get a week to rest, and suddenly they're back to doing what they do.

The Ravens and Chargers were crippled by injuries this year. Sometimes you can't get past them when you lose the wrong players.

But for the Packers it went deeper than injuries. The three leaders (TT/MM/AR) of the team failed in their own ways which led to this result.

[Rutnstrut]

The biggest problem is the coaching staff and office people think like a lot of the people on this board. That this was a good season, They will use injuries for an excuse as they always do.