Look, I know we're all mad, but look at the facts.

We almost beat the Patriots, the PATRIOTS with a back-up QB. Now some may think this is just the unknown skill of our back-up QB, but it's not just that. This took a lot of planning, a lot of finding which players fit where, and balancing Flynn with the Pat's D. The Packer's staff did an AMAZING job with this. The only thing which is too bad was the 20 seconds given up where a play could have been called, but you can't control when a back-up has no idea what he is doing and knows no other play to call.

Maybe I'm being naive, but that's what I noticed. All things considered, they did a hell of a job. Bravo, Packer's Coaching staff.

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+1. Agreed.

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What makes people mad is that we outplayed NE and should have one, but lost because of a few bone headed mistakes.

But this is the key - the GBP have always one and lost as a team, and that should never be changed because then you become the Minnesota Vikings who always have a finger at a coach, player, or referee.

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We call 2 timeouts in the last minute and a half, and Flynn doesn't know what play to call? #coachingfail

Of course you do, although I do too for the most part. I think people are just upset with the Pack dominating another team and, in the end, coming away with a loss due to mm's HC miscues.

Time-management, 4th down decisions, and challenges are all the head coaching decisions, and Mike McCarthy has proven himself to be inept with all three.

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Why does everyone think we're mad, just because we're sick of MM's teams pissing games away? That's our job as fans, to call out those responsible. The Patriots are not gods. Our QB was better than Tom Brady today. But we spotted the Patriots too many points.

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Speak for yourself. I'm mad, because I watch 58 minutes of football wondering all the while how Mike McCarthy is going to come up short during the last two minutes.

I simply want the Packers to lose or win, rather than dominating in a loss or playing terribly in a win. MM's imposed mediocrity on the Packers, has made even a home win against the Lions dissatisfying and a road loss to the Patriots, with a backup QB, unbelievable.

MM's utter mediocrity allows the team to always be competitive, but, being a card carrying pessimist, I am always left with disappointment.

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+ 1 Billion

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What the flying fuck is going on here? You try to have one thread not bashing the man, and we still get more people posting on here who obviously grew up under power lines.

I didn't like the 1st TO of the 2nd half w/ 4 min. however, with 1:10 or whatever it was, I'm not opposed to using it, you still have one in your backpocket, and the one with 50 some seconds to go makes sense...you're coming off a key sack and need to regroup.

As M M explained in the press conference, part of the delay on the last play was they didn't know the down and distance (thus didn't know if it was 1st and could spike it). I would have liked to see things executed better too...but at the same time, you have virtually a rookie at qb, and at best, the play starts at 15-18 sec, and if you do complete a pass, you'd be lucky to get in 1 more play. The confussion cost us maybe 1 more attempt.

I'm completely stunned by the anti-mccarthy sentiments, we damn near beat a team that was embarassing some of the best teams in the league w/out Zombo, Jenkins, Rodgers and the myriad other players we've lost throughout the year. The guy has the balls to start off with an onside and who on here is saying anything about that? We control the ball for nearly 20 more min - and outgain them by 200 some yards, but our play calling sucked? I just don't know what else to say...we lost a close game, it happens - look at the Pats in the SB vs. the Giants, good teams do occassionaly lose.

I'm as tolerant and understanding as they usually come from a coaches decisions standpoint and I love to side with them and stand by them. But eventually these little "trends" start to show up every single game and you can only estimate that the coaches are failing in some aspect. I'm all for supporting the coaches but at some point start taking a WTF tally each game and tell me that the players were responsible. I know McCarthy cant catch every pass or actually break down and make some tackles but he can sure as hell figure out football and make some different decision without being bullheaded

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