will we improve

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Better for 2 reasons..

HEALTHIER and Doms teams have a history of jumping way up in rankings the 1st year

oms defenses do great the following years


As Head D coach

Pitts 91, 22nd in points and yards

Pitts 92 2nd in points and 13th in yards



98 Jax 17th in points, 25th in yards

99 Jax, 1st in points, 4th in yards



Miami in 05, 15th in points, 18th in yards

Miami in 06, 5th in points, 4th in yards

I don't think we have anywhere to go but up. If we don't improve this season or do even worse, then I will jump on the band wagon for something to change, whatever that may be.

However, I REALLY can't see that happening. There's just too much talent from bottom to top to not at LEAST COMPETE for this division.

I'm not exactly sure what that means, but yes, I fully intend on competing for the NFC North this season.

I voted right away and was the 1st vote..DH did you vote?

I think we have better depth this year with guys being in positions more suited to them like Bishop, Chillar, Thompson, Jenkins, Harrell. We will see once they actually play but I think the 2nd string and subs have a chance to make a make a much larger impact this year in place of injurys or getting subbed in to give the starters a rest.

Not to mention we have a lot of young guys who have an extra year of experience due to the low roster turnover we had in this offseason.

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Health and Better Coaching.

Those things will make any defense better, not just the Packers. They'll be better and hopefully they're at least average because Green Bay's offense is good enough to win the division with an average defense.

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This poll should be a gimmie ...

Nope. 5-11

1. Rodgers not can produce when the game is on the line.

2. Ted did nothing in the F.A. market.

3. The Packers wasted a draft pick on Justin.

4. Coach M can not get the team ready to come out with fire in the 1st Q

5. Rodgers will be injured he is made of glass.

6. There are no back up Q.B.'s that can step in.

7. Randy Moss is not on the roster, but should have been long ago.

8. Ted Thompson is CRONIC LOSER, so it will continue.

9. Rodgers has only 6 wins, and 10 loses.

Happy Now?

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God damit dhazer what did I tell you about hacking RP's account and posting non sense? This is your last warning.

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Can't get any worse for one thing.

As Steve pointed out, I think the 3-4 suits most of the roster (up front) better, the only exception IMO is Kampman, but I'm crossing my fingers that experiment works!

Also a little worried about age of Harris and Woody, but tramon supposedly took an even bigger jump this offseason than last year.

+1!

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I voted the same, but because all the reason in RP's post(or waaaas it Dhazer?), are completely wrong The Packers will win the close games this year and probably finish with 9,10 or 11 wins.

I am talking numbers, there will be some growing pains moving from a base 4-3 to a base 3-4, mistakes will be made, improvement will come with experience, the offense will need to carry the defense early.

I believe they can.

JMHO

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This defense will improve in overall numbers because we will bring added pressure, this should help late in the game in passing situations where we got picked clean last season.

My biggest concern with the switch is communication in the secondary and run defense, if the backers don't show a better ability to fit off block and play downhill.. I fear our rush defense will not improve or might possibly at times be worse. That is unless those front 3 downs chew up blockers at a higher rate and spit out the seeds.

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We will be better... And our schedule strength? We are the third easiest in the league behind Chicago and Minnesota. Says a lot about our division last year. Still we will have at least 9 wins maybe 10

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Playing a 0-16 team twice sure impacts those schedule strength numbers doesn't it.. :lol:

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Will be much better then last year. I predict 11-5 record for the Packs.

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But we also get the AFC North and the NFC West. There's no reason not to go 6-2/5-3 over that stretch. We should be able to beat the entire NFC West, but a point can be made for the Cardinals, I guess.

I'd say 11-5, with losses coming to the Cowboys, Vikings, Bears, Steelers and Ravens. Like I said, a point can be made for the Cardinals and we could always have some bad luck against a team like the Browns, which would put us at 9-7. Very respectable if you look at our record last year.

There's no doubt in my mind that we should go higher than 6-10. We should have 5 sure wins and another 4 we should be ashamed about if we lost them.

well, its overwhelming, packer nation, or at least this forum feel the defense will be better, and the packers will make the playoffs.

i will agree. but i think barnett, and cullen jenkins are critical to the Packers improving on defense. both these guys need to stay healthy all season. i am hoping to see our 1st round draft pick get into camp and onto the practice field soon as well. i'd like to see harrell, raji and jenkins as the starting three defensive linemen on opening day.

it seemed once jenkins went down, teams were really able to take kampman out of games.

at first i was skeptical of moving kampman to OLB, but the articles i have read state he is doing great and maybe one of the best at this position going into 2009.

packers have some decent talent on defense, i hope to see them stop ppl and establish lambeau as a tough place to play again.

i predict a 10-6 record and a division championship

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Wow, dhpackr, I thought you were one of the people who thought we would be bad until Ted Thompson left. I will give you a +1, just because I've never seen a positive post like the one you just put up.

I think the defense will be better. Two reasons. 1) Dom Capers. 2) Kevin Greene.

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I too had to do a double take on who posted that