Packers' defensive changes coming to light

Mucky Tundra
Honored Member Topic Starter

10 years ago

GREEN BAY, Wis. — Perhaps you've heard this before about the Green Bay Packers' defense: Everything will be fine as long as they're healthy.

The problem is — or has been — that they have not stayed healthy.

Last year, playmakers like Clay Matthews and Casey Hayward missed significant time because of injuries.

The year before, it was Desmond Bishop, Nick Perry and Charles Woodson.

In the Super Bowl season of 2010, it was Nick Barnett and Morgan Burnett, among others.

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uffda udfa
Veteran Member

10 years ago

"I think rather than making players fit into certain schemes, we're making those schemes fit around players now. I think it's great for the personnel that we have and what we’re trying to accomplish moving forward."

---Clay Matthews

That is my favorite quote in the article.

Who hasn't wanted that forever? Packers have been notoriously trying to fit the player to what they do for years to our detriment. The OL has been the perfect example of that.

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."

nerdmann
Premier Member

10 years ago

Originally Posted by: uffda udfa

Which is odd, because 3/4 of their players DON'T fit their scheme.

“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.”

Dulak
Veteran Member

10 years ago

Which is odd, because 3/4 of their players DON'T fit their scheme.

Originally Posted by: nerdmann

reminds me of ... my brain went numb I cant remember his name - but the year we switched to the 3-4 we tried to make our star was it DE go to OLB and he just couldnt cut it. Why cant I remember his name.

steveishere
Veteran Member

10 years ago

Originally Posted by: Dulak

Kampmann? He wasn't as bad as fans made him out to be, he just wasn't anything compared to Clay (or what he was at DE). He was the best OLB we've had at that spot until Perry last year before he broke his foot.

Dexter_Sinister
Registered

10 years ago

Originally Posted by: steveishere

Yes, Kampman didn't look good in coverage, but he was pretty effective and had a low completion % when his guy was targeted.

He also led the team in pressures on the QB up until he got hurt.

The media kept saying how bad he looked in coverage, but they failed to note how effective he was.

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Yerko
Senior Member

10 years ago

Slowly but surely...Packers defense is getting there...

DarkaneRules
Veteran Member

10 years ago

It helps we added another versatile player in free agency and kids that came into the league 1 to 2 years ago are expected to make jumps in effectiveness.

Circular Arguments: They are a heck of an annoyance

nerdmann
Premier Member

10 years ago

Originally Posted by: Dexter_Sinister

Brad Jones stepped in and look great in comparison. lol

“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.”

steveishere
Veteran Member

10 years ago

#10

Brad Jones stepped in and look great in comparison. lol

Originally Posted by: nerdmann

wrong

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