Down the field = 15-20-plus yards through the air. I think there are a ton of examples of that the first half of the season when the team came out in the first half.

McCarthy is a great offensive mind, but that doesn't mean he didn't make mistakes. He misjudged his team IMO, but the best quality of a coach is to accept responsibility and fix it. He did that with his play calling. If anything, I feel better about McCarthy as a coach now than I did because he showed the willingness to change.

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I remember a great deal of the sacks occurring on normal three and five step drop plays. Maybe there needs to be some delineation here -- are you saying the Packers attempted too many throws downfield or incorrectly called to many long-developing passing plays that resulted in sacks? Because quite frankly the only problem the offense had last year was negative plays (sacks). It wasn't as though Green Bay was throwing it downfield a ton and failing (incompletions).

Just trying to clarify your point.

And I'm with you on the renewed confidence in McCarthy.

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