The D did step up at times in this last game. Doesn't mean Capers is awesome.

I actually kind of view him as a guy who just doesn't want to work hard. He gets a new job and makes a good impression, then tries to coast as long as he can get away with it.

Originally Posted by: nerdmann 

The Packers are struggling at DL, OLB and S because of lack of good healthy talent.


OLB position is very important to the 3-4 defense. Matthews is injury, Neal and Perry are banged up and don't quite seem like true 3-4 OLBers yet at much as 4-3 DE standing up...

With the DL they're struggling at good healthy run stuffers who are good at OL clogging. With out that most defenses 3-4 defenses struggle to stop the run.

And it doesn't matter what defense you're in, if the FS is struggling it's hard to hide it against a good or decent passing attack... and the Packers just plain in simple don't have a true FS other than maybe Jennings and he's been error prone.



It doesn't matter who's coaching those areas are very hard to cover up in a 3-4 defense.


Also I've read that Gilbert Brown and LeRoy Butler were on some radio show, and they basically said the defense seemed to have the right call in place and the players tried to do the right thing, but they failed execute, and the defenses struggles have been more on the players and not the calls.

Originally Posted by: beast 

Seems to me only Texas wants Dom back, and anybody that has argued with him knows how smart he is. [sarcasm]

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Originally Posted by: DakotaT 

Maybe I'm just the only ones with the balls to say it clearly.

And even I wouldn't be too upset with that "start fresh" idea. The point is, whether it's Capers or somebody else, the personnel the D coordinator has to work with ain't up to standard. That became dead obvious when Rodgers went down, and bad D started costing us games rather than just style points.

Whoever the D coordinator is, he damn well better be prepared to do some creative things - similar to Capers, because we just don't have the players to line up and maul the other team.

Assuming we also are not gonna be blessed with a new GM, the GM we have better get his head out of his ass and draft and/or sign us some quality - Safety(s), at least one ILB, and a bookend OLB, assuming Perry isn't the answer. I actually think we already have decent D Line quality. We just need to get rid of Raji and Pickett, and get a leaner more athletic rotation - Daniels, D. Jones, Neal back to DE, Worthy, Jolly, Boyd.

Originally Posted by: texaspackerbacker 

Does this same explanation apply for the past few years, though? To me, the problems are much deeper than just this season and can't be explained in just that context, which it seems like some are trying to do.

Originally Posted by: DoddPower 

I like Kevin Greene as a motivator, but the man isn't ready.

If anybody on the current staff should take the reins from Capers, it should be Winston Moss.

He's been in talks for HC positions for a number of years now, but he's always just coached linebackers. I wanna see what his defensive schemes are not that he's worked with both 4-3 and 3-4 bases.

Originally Posted by: blueleopard 

I like Kevin Greene as a motivator, but the man isn't ready.

Originally Posted by: blueleopard 

The only thing new in Green Bay next year will be our draft. You can continue to slurp on Dom all you want to. It seriously does not make you right in a way on this particular topic. Fucken guy should have been fired after last year's playoff collapse - but that was all on Walden right?

Originally Posted by: DakotaT