You hear Packer players saying we are what we are and our record is who we are. For the past two year and half years, I've looked at Mike McCarthy and was duly impressed with his coaching staff. I thought he had really coached his team up and that their record was better than the talent because they were so well coached. This year I don't see that same high level of coaching. I see a team making mistake upon mistake and missing assignments all over the place. Certainly that isn't a sign of good coaching.
I've heard the discussion about how injured we are, but even before Barnett went down, he wasn't playing very well. Both Tauscher and Clifton along with the rest of the entire line has struggled mightily. So what has happened to this team? Are we really this bad?
"macbob" wrote:
I don't think we're as bad as our record. Just look at our points for/points against.
Last year, in our first seven games 6 were decided by a touchdown or less, and we were 5-1 in those games. This year, we're 1-5 in games decided by a touchdown or less. That's the main difference.
If we had gone 1-5 last year in close games, we would have been 2-5 instead of 6-1 after seven games. That whole season would have gone differently. If we had the same record this year (5-1) in close games we'd be sitting at 9-4 right now.
What we have is a very young team--led by a young quarterback--that is inconsistent and hasn't figured out how to finish out a game yet.
The defense has been a lot worse than I expected, and (in my opinion) a lot of that falls to the coaches and defensive schemes.
We're essentially one play/stop in each game away. But we didn't/couldn't make the play/stop in any of those games. And that says a lot about the youth and about the coaches preparing the players.
"packedhouse02" wrote: