Williams was asked for his thoughts on Capers' scheme and he offered the following response, which began with a two-second pause.

"Um," Williams said, before again pausing for three seconds. "I mean, it's been good. Obviously we won the Super Bowl with it. It's been around for a while. When you're struggling you don't know what to think about it, and that's anybody. That's just part of the frustration going on with things. We're still buying into what's going on.

"It's going to be a struggle from both points, coaches and players. It's not going to be one of those things where we're going to point fingers at the scheme or it's this. We're not going to do that. We're going to finish it out the way we started. That's together as a team whichever way it goes. We're going to be in it together."

So, what began with some negativity did turn more positive as Williams continued. But the early moments from Williams' answer were the only sign so far that perhaps some doubt has crept into the minds of Capers' players.

"Tackling, staying in the right gap and playing what's called and not trying to do more than what the defense calls for -- things like that," defensive lineman Ryan Pickett said. "We've kind of lost touch of that these last four weeks. Then it snowballs and we're where we're at right now."

After a poor Week 1 performance on the road against the San Francisco 49ers, the Packers' defense began to perform quite well -- with the exception of a lack of interceptions. Before the midway point of the season, Green Bay had played so well that its run defense was on a franchise-best pace and was ranked third in the NFL. Then, Chicago's Matt Forte, Philadelphia's LeSean McCoy, Minnesota's Adrian Peterson and Detroit's Reggie Bush all gashed the Packers for huge gains, sending Green Bay's run defense all the way down to where it currently stands at No. 26 in the league.

when I read the title of this thread I immediately thought of this

Originally Posted by: sschind 

You can find people willing to criticize Green Bay Packers defensive coordinator Dom Capers in a variety of places.

On talk radio.

In internet chats.

The Packers are backing defensive coordinator Dom Capers despite their recent losing streak.

And perhaps most vocally on Twitter.

But you'd have a hard time finding many in the Packers' locker room.

From young players to veterans alike, Capers' players defended him this week as the Packers' non-winning streak -- and their defensive struggles -- have continued.

When asked whether the players still believe in their defensive coordinator and his 3-4 scheme, 34-year-old Ryan Pickett -- the most-veteran player on team -- used the word "absolutely" twice without hesitation.

When Pickett is stating that they have gotten away from the scheme it's hard to blame the scheme is it not? When a defense misses 20+ tackles on top of getting away from doing their assignments it's going to mean disaster. If your not where your supposed to be or making the tackle when you are I don't care what scheme you run.

Earlier in the year when they were all doing what they were supposed to be doing nobody could run on them. The real question here is why have the players chosen to get away from what they are supposed to be doing when it was working very well. It would be different if the defense had not been stopping the run at any point but that is not the case here.

I am quite certain in the film evaluation it is obvious players are consistently getting away from their assignment. One player doing this will create an open lane for the rb.

Are they pressing because it's on the D to make up for Rodgers? I don't know. I don't think, however, you could get a single player to say "we're following the scheme and executing it just like we were when we were 5th in run D but it just doesn't work now".

Until they become more disciplined, follow their assignments, and actually finish by making a tackle I don't see how a player can question Capers. When they were doing these things it was working fine.

Originally Posted by: warhawk