Green Bay Packers Offensive tackle: The Packers are trying to wring everything they can out of Chad Clifton(notes) and Mark Tauscher(notes), but the message is clear: If Green Bay's potentially dominant offense is to get the team to a Super Bowl, quarterback protection must be a more consistent element. The good news is that Aaron Rodgers has learned that he can't hold onto the ball forever, which certainly helps. The bad news: As efficient as Ryan Grant(notes) may be, he's no great shakes as a blocking back. If the Pack could score one of the second-level tackles with the 23rd pick USC's Charles Brown and Maryland's Bruce Campbell come to mind it would certainly help.

All that matters is getting the right guys in the right spots and having them execute at the right times. We don't NEED to fill S, OLB, OT, RB, etc... to get to the superbowl, those spots may help but this is still a good team.

"Stevetarded" wrote:

I do think if you're not improving, you're going backwards in this league. Every team does have weaknesses. The Saints allowed a lot of points last year and still managed to win, simply because in the 4th Q, they somehow pulled off games one way or another. How many times last year did they go into half time losing and came back with a victory? Even the SB, I knew they'd win when they entered the half losing.

They also had fire and aggression to make up for a mediocre D. Yes, they had a mediocre D. They were #20 in the NFL out of 32 teams in Points Allowed. Yet they found ways to win games.

So yes, you don't need a complete team. You will have weaknesses. You just have to be able to compensate for the weaknesses with your strengths.

We allow too many points in big games. Our run D is superb, but against elite QBs, we get smoked. 51 points against the Cardinals. Warner threw 5 TDs and we only sacked him once.

I think we need OL for depth, but to increase our odds of winning the big one, we need to pressure the opposing QBs. 1 sack against Warner. 51 points allowed. 0 sacks against Brett Favre. 68 points allowed in 2 games. What was really weird is looking back against the Steelers, we got Big Ben 5 times, but he still threw 3 TDs and 500+ yards. Yes, 500+. That's not a misprint.

So 2 things on D - our secondary needs to be improved and our pass rush needs to be improved. And yes, it's partly due to the coaching (or maybe just inexperience in the scheme as it's a new scheme) as we'd see people out of place and experienced QBs knew how to exploit that.

On O - We're solid in QB, WR, TE, and RB. Well, maybe bring in another RB for depth. We may seen Green back. Hopefully Jackson is 100% this year. We gotta have more depth on our OL though.

And yes, good point Beast. We could use a returner if Blackmon's not healthy. Returners are always that wild card that sometimes are the backbreaker in games.

"zombieslayer" wrote: