A year ago Thompson was on his way to executive of the year and McCarthy almost won coach of the year. These guys didn't completely change their mindset or anything, they went through a rough year and didn't catch many breaks.
"brnt247" wrote:
Completely agree, well said.
Actually, technically last season wasn't even a year ago, it was 10-11 months ago. Less than a year; the coaches and GMs haven't had huge amounts of time to change philosophies, or have huge recessions on their capability of being good coaches.
Last year we caught a lot of teams at great times, Giants and Chargers for example. Giants were a complete mess, and the Chargers were not on the same page and trying to get adjusted to a new HC.
Then you had meetings against teams like the Panthers, who were hurt by injuries and without key players (like their starting QBs).
Then you had some breaks go your way, like winning the OT toss at Denver and having first possession. This allowed the TD, and ended the game.
Simply put, this team is no where near as bad as it's record indicates. I still think this team is a lot closer to the 13-3 team of last year than 5-10 team this year. Granted 13 wins might be pushing it considering the loss of KGB and Corey Williams, but those guys were not worth 7 wins.
(I've left out Favre on purpose... that's a whole bigger issue to tackle, and quite frankly I don't think the drop off from Favre to Rodgers has been worth 7 wins either).
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