Its Time to Move Nick Barnett to the Outside.

[RashanGary]

I was wondering about the Moss thing too. Hawk has looked damn good and Barnett has looked better than I ever remember him too. Poppinga sucks in coverage, you can hardly blame that on Moss when Hawk has looked excellent and so has Barnett.

[Bretsky]

I was wondering about the Moss thing too. Hawk has looked damn good and Barnett has looked better than I ever remember him too. Poppinga sucks in coverage, you can hardly blame that on Moss when Hawk has looked excellent and so has Barnett.

Agree; Moss, who was also considered for the DC, may be the best coach on that side of the ball.

[Tarlam!]

I am all for moving Hodge into the lineup. Barnett has been better than expected and Poppy less than expected.

Maybe Poppy will improve. When he hits somebody, they feel it, which is not something Barnett can claim with any regularity.

Suggesting Barnett move to Will and Hawk somewhere else is criminally negligent IMHO.

[vince]

I think that the coaching staff and GM of the Packers want the Packers to win. I believe that they look at EVERY position on the roster over and over again. If they REALLY believed that moving Barnett outside and putting Hodge in the middle was in the best interest of the team, they would have done it. If that move gave the Packers D the best chance to succeed, then the move would have been made already.

My point here is this. There are MANY, MANY things that go into the coaches / GM's decision as to who is on the team and who plays where. Just because you WATCH every Packer game, like a million other people do, doesn't make you qualified to determine who the starting MLB should be.

There is nothing wrong with Hodge learning from the bench for one season. If he is the best MLB in TC next year, then put him on the field. But is was CLEAR that he was not the best MLB during preseason. He looked slow and out of position on pass plays.

Give MM a chance. You may not agree with him about every move he makes and that's fine. But he has a LOT more information to process when making the decisions on Sunday.

gb, I can definitely respect that perspective. I agree that the coaching staff knows a lot more about the situation than I, or any of us, and MM has my support...

From my standpoint, Hodge's smashmouth run stuffing abilities and suspect pass defense from the middle, combined with Barnett's speed at the strong side is a better combination than Barnett's average run stuffing ability and strong pass defense from the middle, combined with Poppinga's run stuffing ability and highly suspect pass defense.

Given that Hodge undoubtedly has a ton to learn, he may not be ready yet, as you point out...but I love the idea of having a guy that'll put people on their back in the middle... It seems to me that you improve both the middle and the strong side with such a move - eventually. That also assumes that Barnett would accept such a move, which would require resigning him...

This whole situation will be interesting to follow as it continues to develop. I won't be surprised to see Barnett gone after this season, if Poppinga can develop his coverage abilities on the outside.

[wist43]

I have serious doubts about Bob Sanders, Winston Moss, and Kurt Schottenheimer.

Why Winston Moss?

Guilt by association, I guess... The only guy I'd squarely point a finger at is Schottenheimer. And since Sanders hired Schottenheimer...

Going back and looking at the NO game was completely demoralizing. IMO, the mistakes had more to do with poor coaching and preperation... they weren't getting beat physically.

I'll take Moss out my crosshairs for now... but, this whole coaching staff, both offense and defense, is very, very suspect.