NFL 2018-19 2.0

[tower912]

Wow. The Lions are the poster boys for NFL ineptitude.

Have been for 60 years.  One playoff win in my lifetime.

[Lennys Tap]

Bears (7-3) win divisional road game on 3.5 days rest behind back up QB. Huge win.

[JWags85]

Bears (7-3) win divisional road game on 3.5 days rest behind back up QB. Huge win.

Everything stacked up against the Bears in that game. Schedule, Trubisky’s health, early bad breaks, but kudos to them for locking down and getting a MONSTER win. Last 5 days are the most impressive of Nagy’s tenure in my opinion

[GB Warrior]

Good thing Hue had all that inside info on his old squad 

[Jockey]

Have been for 60 years.  One playoff win in my lifetime.

I felt bad after I made the post and noticed you were the poster directly above my comment.

I really wasn't trollin' on ya.

[tower912]

I felt bad after I made the post and noticed you were the poster directly above my comment.

I really wasn't trollin' on ya.

There are no apologies necessary.  Nor any insult of the Lions too great.  One playoff win in the Super Bowl era.

[CreightonWarrior]

McCarthy should be fired solely for his misuse of Aaron Jones

[wadesworld]

McCarthy should be fired solely for his misuse of Aaron Jones

And the fact that a team with Aaron Rodgers playing all 10 games is 4-5-1.

[wadesworld]

Hey look! Big Mac giving his opponent free timeouts!

Maybe the Queens will penalize themselves enough to not take advantage of it.

[wadesworld]

Putting 22 guys right on the line and trying to pick up a yard rarely ever works.

[Jockey]

Great coaching again.

[CreightonWarrior]

Tramon has not aged well.

[mu03eng]

McCarthy shouldn't even be allowed to get on the plane back to GB

[wadesworld]

McCarthy shouldn't even be allowed to get on the plane back to GB

Agreed. This is the worst coached football team I’ve ever seen.

I love that every time the camera pans to him he looks absolutely confused. Just staring blankly at his playsheet.

[Jockey]

McCarthy shouldn't even be allowed to get on the plane back to GB

Team has quit on him. Probably with good reason.

TT’s brutal drafts don’t help either.

[wadesworld]

Give Ron Zook a raise. Special teams have been nothing short of spectacular for as long as I can remember!

[forgetful]

Give Ron Zook a raise. Special teams have been nothing short of spectacular for as long as I can remember!

That was seriously something special.

[DegenerateDish]

That’ll do it for the Packers, and it’s a borderline travesty that an Aaron Rodgers team is 4-6-1, with him starting every game, at this point in his career.

[forgetful]

That’ll do it for the Packers, and it’s a borderline travesty that an Aaron Rodgers team is 4-6-1, with him starting every game, at this point in his career.

To be completely fair, he's been off this year too.  Has missed a lot of open receivers (accuracy), and didn't see several open guys (vision). 

Maybe it is partially the lack of talent and coaching, but they were throws he usually makes.

[Lennys Tap]

That’ll do it for the Packers, and it’s a borderline travesty that an Aaron Rodgers team is 4-6-1, with him starting every game, at this point in his career.

I know I'll get crucified, but isn't some of this on Rodgers? Know he was hurt in game one so maybe that why but he looked extremely immobile tonight and threw some really awful passes. The times I've seen him this year he doesn't look anything like his old self to me.

[DegenerateDish]

To be completely fair, he's been off this year too.  Has missed a lot of open receivers (accuracy), and didn't see several open guys (vision). 

Maybe it is partially the lack of talent and coaching, but they were throws he usually makes.

No argument here, his inability to convert 2nd & 1 and 3rd & 1 to settle for the FG was on him. My main point was it seems awful as a football fan to waste a year of Rodgers prime like this, but some of it is on him, you’re right.

The playoff race and the playoffs are way more exciting with him and the Packers relevant. I didn’t think the Pack should have kicked onside, they still had a timeout and the two minute warning. Kicking it deep there makes a pass for a first down a far riskier decision for Zimmer than doing it at the Pack 40.

If you’d have told me at the start of the year that after 11 weeks, the Packers and Browns would have the same record, I’d have guessed Cleveland was really good this year.

[GGGG]

Yes part of this is on Rodgers.  And that right now he only has one "plus" weapon in Adams.

But the lack of imagination in this offense is stunning to me.  Everything is either a short pass to the flat or a fly pattern.  There is no motion prior to the snap.  No attempt at misdirection.  McCarthy's "new" offense this year is an absolute flop.  I mean this team wasn't going to win the Super Bowl regardless, but 4-6-1??? 

[mu03eng]

Not excuse making for Rodgers but one of the most inexplicable things McCarthy did was not resign Alex Van Pelt who Rodgers absolutely trusted. I think Rodgers is off this season, no doubt, but a lot of that is I don't think he trusts the people in the room and is going with his guts and "his way" which means doubling down on making a big play to the exclusion of the easy check down/manage the game type of play.

The 4th and 1 call last night was McCarthy in a nut shell....

1a. Panic's about the call, delaying getting it in, which "forces" Green Bay to waste a precious 2nd half TO.
1b. Amongst the panic, he forgets that the can ask for a measurement to buy time to call a play/make a decision
2. Decides to go for it(which I completely support), but then chooses about the dumbest play call you can imagine in that scenario. By formation, he choose to run up the middle against a 10 man box. By play design he was guaranteeing that the Vikings would have one more tackler than Green Bay could block

I don't know that McCarthy is dumb, I just don't think he's evolved with the game.

[wadesworld]

I don't know that McCarthy is dumb, I just don't think he's evolved with the game.

Yup.  I texted friends this.  He's been stuck in 2010 NFL since...well, 2010.

[GGGG]

Not excuse making for Rodgers but one of the most inexplicable things McCarthy did was not resign Alex Van Pelt who Rodgers absolutely trusted.

Not to mention Tom Clements the year before.