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Thanks for comeback, CD. Much appreciated. As fo...

2009-10-20T17:06:51.973-05:00

Thanks for comeback, CD. Much appreciated.

As for "Anonymous" - IF you have posted over several seasons, why is you can't afford anyone know you at least by a moniker?

No.2 - THIS team is LOADED with talent. It's all over the place. What the REAL issue is.... is how the ASSISTANT coaching staff cannot make hay out of what they've been given. THIS IS THE REAL CRUX... not that we don't have any players worth a tinker's damn.

Personally I have no use for Daryn Colledge. To me, he's just another Ross Verba, and that experiment went NO where real fast. You would think that a guy who gets such high praise from so many sports writers would at least get better at the trade, IN HIS 3RD SEASON. But, that ain't happening.

I also thought Scottie Wells was given a contract waay too early - he should have been made to wait until AFTER that season was done.

It's nice to see Josh Sitton stepping up - he really does look like a permanent replacement at RG. He's not Marco Rivera yet... but, we'll see.

TJ LANG, I think, has potential... but with Campen as the OLC.. it could be yet another failed process.

I see 85% of our issues as coaches not knowing how to TEACH.

It's really THAT simple.

Totally agree about MM. It has always concerned m...

2009-10-15T12:34:28.523-05:00

Totally agree about MM. It has always concerned me that he didn't come from a winning program. As was noted with respect to the previous post, he belongs to the Schottenheimer coaching tree, which is not of championship caliber. MM has proven he is a pretty good quarterback coach, but he doesn't seem to know how to win football games, and the endless recurrence of the same problems -- penalties, bad special-teams play, weak running game, feeble line play on both sides of the ball, a general lack of toughness and cold-weather indomitability -- tell me that he has taken the Packers as far as he can. They are a bunch of underachievers. Sometimes you see a flash, but it never takes hold. I am tired of hearing about how this will get "cleaned up" and that will get "fixed," but nothing ever is. If this season doesn't rapidly turn around and the team play to something like its potential, I think he has to go. And I would like to see TT hire Gruden. He has a history in Green Bay and he seems to like Rodgers -- almost drafted him in '05 but took Cadillac Williams instead. Most of all, Gruden has fire and intensity. He is the type who could push a potentially pretty good team into gear. --ilscrittore@hotmail.com

I am always curious how a great article can be fol...

2009-10-15T07:47:36.869-05:00

I am always curious how a great article can be followed by one like this.

First ... of this TALENT
nearly half are not Ted guys at all
and after 5 years only 3 are ted draft choices

the problem is not enough talent

2nd, it starts in the trenches and we have dog squat

period.

Many people, including yours truly posted last year, the year before and this preseason about the disaster waiting and gave the reasons why, to many refused to see, just like to many refuse to see the NFCC game for what it was

that does not change reality and nobody is winning in the NFL with the people we had on this OL starting in MINN, NOBODY

and the fact is ted just gives jobs (MM role is not clear to me) to his draft choices, job they did not earn and did not deserve

instead of asking why MM does not sit people

you should be asking how those people got to be starters

because that is the initial problem and when CERTAIN people get what they did not earn and then keep after it should have been taken away

teams splinter

"Thompson has given the Packers a pretty good pile of talented players to work with. Al Harris, Charles Woodson, Aaron Rodgers, Greg Jennings, Donald Driver, Ryan Grant, Cullen Jenkins, Aaron Kampman, Nick Barnett, Nick Collins, Ryan Pickett…

Thanks for your thoughts, IPB. I'm a strong b...

2009-10-14T21:17:58.083-05:00

Thanks for your thoughts, IPB.

I'm a strong believer in being assertive. Sometimes what we see in both Thompson and McCarthy is that passive-aggressiveness. Oftentimes, both play it safe and conservative. There are some coaches or GMs that take it the other way and are overly aggressive (Dan Snyder comes to mind). Being assertive means taking the chances that you need to, that have a moderate-risk/high-reward potential, but not every risk that comes along.

I agree that the "play it safe" approach may help you avoid making glaring errors, but it doesn't get you to the top of the mountain, either.

Oops - meant to say CRITIC....

2009-10-14T19:59:34.453-05:00

Oops - meant to say CRITIC....

NOW.... we're hitting it where it needs to be....

2009-10-14T19:59:00.497-05:00

NOW.... we're hitting it where it needs to be.

This is one of the first straight-on write-ups I've seen in a long long time. Thank you for that.

I have been a critique of the "play-it-safe" protocol that MAC favors, even during the 2007 season...where, I might add, the Packer could have, should have, been 15-1, not a simple 13-3. Tell me that should not have been possible. In your last Article I posted some direct language to certain facts - which I now see displayed in this one.

At the beginning, 2006, I heard the word [Pittsburgh] and I thought for sure, the Packers had turned a corner, back in the right direction. Both Teams have such great history, how can they not prosper taking advantage of the tactics the other might be using. (??)

To disagree - I've been a regular fan of Brady PopPinga since he came onto the Team. My attitude is the coaching staff has never been able, or refuses, to use him properly, or in the right situations.

To be more clear - all real fans of the game know that good coaches are GREAT teachers. Without that resource, the 1st round draft picks wallow and die on the vine. I've seen it happen all the time.

While some of our Coaching staff does seem to have what it takes - a larger percentage are lucky they can simply hold down jobs. AND, that's how they treat the situation - like a job. You do not get the sense that there is a passion for the game in the lot of them.

In many of my comments over the last two seasons, I've directed a pointed attitude at the OLC and the OC, as well. I never was a fan of the OC staying up in the box, and away from the players on the field. ANY asst coach can go sit up in the box and report back thru the headset. Sherm Lewis usually preferred to stay down on the field, and that's as it should be. The OC can better delegate to his assistants what needs to be focused on. Simplistic? Maybe.

A fair to middlin' GM would look outstanding as long as the Coaching Staff has the talent level to MOLD and TEACH the players.

What worries the most, is this political correctness that's invaded the Sporting Press throughout. It's almost comical how they (like Hollywood) focus on only the few, when it's the many that make the game great. The same PC process also causes some issues to not be dealt with WHEN THEY SHOULD BE.

Example - I wonder how Holmgren would deal with a QB who couldn't, or wouldn't, make up his mind. I think, much like what TT did, MH would have gone out and brought in a future replacement - end of discussion. And, you can bet the Gunslinger wouldn't be sassin' anyone, nor running home to mama to complain either. Holmgren would have simply benched the guy. Especially after that 2nd attempt of not knowing if he felt like he would come back or not.

Enough is enough, already.

Personally, CD, I think you should delve down another layer and sharpen the lens. Remember when Sherman took the ball out of Favre's hand when we played Carolina a few years back, right when Favre was slingin' us into the WIN column? Tell me MAC didn't do that at least in 4 different games, last season.

I see no problem with shootin from the hip .... the real packerfans can handle it - the pretenders, the Dan Marino type followers who now say they USED TO BE packerfans would not handle it well. And, for the life of me, why would REAL packerfans care about that.