Dodd... you haven't said it but you love to "combat" my posting style with your lengthy diatribes directed toward me. I'm sure like you see the Packers weaknesses you also see this.
You will fight to protect your right to enjoy your team without having to listen to people who don't derive pleasure in the same way. I enjoy the fact that there will be Packers football this Sunday. I will NOT enjoy it if/when Detroit does to Green Bay what they did last year in Detroit. I will lament the state of our franchise should that happen Sunday. You are free to be happy watching that kind of performance. You are also free to be as optimistic and hopeful as you want as to how the season will turn out. It was insinuated that I think I know exactly how the season will play out. Nah... However, I would say it's a safe bet that it will turn out equal to or worse than it has the last 3 years. I'm hardly going out on a limb in saying that. Is that disappointing to me to believe that? Absolutely. Totally disappointing. I know that I don't know so I will watch on the off chance I'm wrong.
Yes, I'm extremely down on Ted Thompson and Mike McCarthy as well. That is not likely to change just as it is not likely to change that you think the exact opposite of me. I do smile a little at your statement that "everyone sees this team's weaknesses...not just you"... Couldn't disagree with that statement more. You see Ted Thompson as a strength of this organization. I don't. How are you and I seeing the same weaknesses given you think Ted Thompson has us headed in the right direction? He has us on autopilot to the same destination we've been to the last 3 years... but we might not even get there. Very different view of things wouldn't you agree?
This whole Ted Thompson is great and Mike McCarthy is great thinking is really no different than some fan out there somewhere arguing with someone that Trent Dilfer was a great QB because a team he happened to QB won a SB. Can anyone deny that Trent Dilfer won a SB? No! In fact, if we were to debate with such a fan, I'm sure he'd love posting a pic of a victorious Dilfer on the field celebrating his SB win. That would be the justification used by that Dilfer fanatic eerily similar to someone posting a pic of a 2010 SB ring as validation that TT's approach is correct. As Trent Dilfer benefitted from the Ravens D and is NOT the reason the Ravens won the SB, Ted Thompson is NOT the reason the Packers won the SB in 2010. AARON RODGERS is the reason. Oh, you say Ted Thompson drafted him? Yes...you're right...he did. Ted Thompson did the no brainer thing ANYONE as Packers GM would've done. Oh, how Ted Thompson must thank Rodgers every night before bed for keeping him in the high regards many do because of Aaron.
Don't like the above example? Barry Switzer won a SB... was he the reason? No. Jeff Fisher is a much better coach but he doesn't have a ring but you could argue Switzer has the ring. Validation...validation. It is looking beyond some silly thing you can throw out to the reality of the situation that I believe many lack. Just like with the Jets game... it is a game that is really like a loss but it was celebrated as some type of impressive win.
I was oddly reminded of this board today at work...a guy I work with accomplished something today. I spoke to him about it and he ripped his own accomplishment saying he really didn't do anything and everything just kind of fell into his lap and he got lucky. He was right. That is exactly what happened. Now, if the same had happened to someone with no objectivity they would be patting themselves on the back and taking credit as if they'd really done something. I couldn't respect this guy more for his honesty regarding that situation. It is in short supply around here.
Toxic? LOL. Just LOL on that. What is toxic is the self congratulating elbow rubbing that takes place in the manner of the above example where the guy did beat his chest and take credit where he shouldn't have. That is what plays out here just in a different realm and manner.
Hopefully, the Packers will win and win convincingly on Sunday and we ALL can be happy.
Ted Thompson sits on his hands per former GM: "because they’ve had 25 fricking years of great quarterbacks. Of course it works. Try it without a special quarterback."