Grading the Packers: Special teams

nerdmann
Premier Member Topic Starter

10 years ago

GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Earlier this week, we brought you the Green Bay Packers' season report card.

As we put a wrap on the Packers' season that ended with last Sunday's shocking collapse in the NFC Championship Game at the Seattle Seahawks, let's take a more in-depth at each position group and how it fared during the season.

We started with the offensive and defensive position groups. We'll wrap up the players' portion with special teams (grades for coaching and personnel moves will follow):

Special teams
First, the good news: Mason Crosby made all but six of his 40 field goals (including playoffs), and Micah Hyde returned two punts for touchdowns.

Rob Demovsky wrote:

Totally sucked shit. The end.

“Winning is not a sometime thing, it is an all the time thing. You don't do things right once in a while…you do them right all the time.”

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gotarace
Senior Member

10 years ago

Totally agree with this grade...the problem is it has been a consistent F for the last few seasons with no change in sight. Unending loyalty to every member of this coaching staff.🙄

Smart As a Horse
Hung Like Einstein

Smokey
Veteran Member

10 years ago

Let us be socially correct . They are not "Special", they are Challenged !

[cheers] [cheers] [cheers]

DakotaT
Select Member

10 years ago

Coverage team F-, Return game we can give a C. Slocum needs to go.

buckeyepackfan
Veteran Member

10 years ago

Tine to Cleqn House!

Fire Everybody!

I was addicted to The Hokey Pokey, but I turned myself around!

nerdmann
Premier Member Topic Starter

10 years ago

Tine to Cleqn House!

Fire Everybody!

Originally Posted by: buckeyepackfan

You really content with the way things are?

“Winning is not a sometime thing, it is an all the time thing. You don't do things right once in a while…you do them right all the time.”

buckeyepackfan
Veteran Member

10 years ago

You really content with the way things are?

Originally Posted by: nerdmann

You act like The Packers are running the same D with the same players for the past 6 years.

Dom finally had options this year because of new guys coming in and veterans staying healthy.

The defense was a work in progress the whole season, by the end they were playing pretty well.

Now you want to takr all that progress and throw it away and start from scratch.

That's fine with me, just remeber, be careful what you ask for.

2 options

Stay the course and keep building in what you have!

Clesn House and start from scratch!

Either is fine with me.

Not gonna here me complain.

I was addicted to The Hokey Pokey, but I turned myself around!

PackFanWithTwins
Veteran Member

10 years ago

What I don't see with the ST blunders this year is any consistency. We had mishandled snap, pressure up the middle, pressure from outside, low long kicks, bad punts, simple missed kicks. So the question is, are they just not teaching the what they are suppose to do, or are the players just making mistakes. If it is just the players making mistakes is a coaching change really going to make a difference, it would that just be a change for appearance sake.

Other option would be, was the level of talent available on ST part of the problem. They changed at the end and put Sitton and Lang on the FG team. On occasion both Peppers and Matthews were on FG coverage team but I don't recall seeing them doing that at the end. If that is the case, than does the blame fall on McCarthy and Capers for not letting Slocum have access to the better talent on the team.

The world needs ditch diggers too Danny!!!

nerdmann
Premier Member Topic Starter

10 years ago

Originally Posted by: PackFanWithTwins

It's quite clear from the Brad Jones thread that fundamentals are neither being taught nor adhered to. And FWIW, the Packers play more starters on ST than probably any team in the league, yet led the league in blocked kicks and general shit suckage.

Fuck you, Slocum. Fuck you also to the extra ST coach they hired to do Slocum's job for him.

“Winning is not a sometime thing, it is an all the time thing. You don't do things right once in a while…you do them right all the time.”

Cheesey
Preferred Member

10 years ago

#10

Blocked kicks and constant mental screw ups that cost them big.
The only bright spots I saw were Crosby and Micah Hyde on special teams.

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