You want the courageous, "go for it all" mentality to prove they have balls
"Nonstopdrivel" wrote:
I disagree. It's not like were were pinned inside our own 20 and needed a couple of Hail Marys to get into field-goal position. We were on the Bears' 18 and needed to get to the 8 for a first down. All it takes is a couple of the same passes we'd thrown to great effect the entire game -- you know, the 6- to 8-yard kind -- and we'd have the first down. We didn't need to throw a deep bomb or anything heroic.
I've said it before; I'll repeat it here. People like
wpr and I aren't advocating that Rodgers toss it into the end zone on every play. We're advocating that Mike McCarthy call plays to the Packers' strengths: play action passing that would have gotten us closer to the end zone, probably would have gotten us another first down, and could easily have given us a chance for a game-winning touchdown. At worst, we would have gone three-and-out and kicked the field goal. I don't understand these strange lateral runs that aren't designed to gain yardage -- or the runs up the middle, into one of the best defensive lines in football, that have been shown time and time again not to work this season.
"warhawk" wrote:
Nonstop, Nonstop, Nonstop. I just really don't know what to tell you.
McCarthy DID everything you just asked of him above.....to GET the ball to the twenty. He threw it and called the plays to move the chains. What your saying here is "yeah, but if he would have just done it one more time for one more first down." C'mon man.
You know darn well the field tightens up down there and the defenders don't play as deep and the opportunity for something bad happening increases. I recall a pass of the "six to eight yard variety" tipped and intercepted in the first half.
Oh boy. Would the heads be rolling if that had happened.
Why? Why when the ball is sitting on "game over."
"The train is leaving the station."