2025 Green Bay Packers Thread

[Dish]

Santa Tua.

[wadesworld]

Was late to turn the game on. Just decided not worth it based on this thread. Was the loss by 35 or 42?

[PointWarrior]

I guess they have to play Rodgers next week.

[Herman Cain]

Tremendous win keeps playoff hopes alive.

On to the Vikings at home.

[MUBurrow]

As a Dolphins fan, reading back through this thread after the game is really something.

[Jockey]

As a Dolphins fan, reading back through this thread after the game is really something.

I was shocked at how inept Tua was.

[MU82]

I was shocked at how inept Tua was.

This. I hadn't seen the Dolphins much this season before this game. He looked about as bad as any starting QB I've seen.

Obviously, the numbers say he'd been having a very good season. Heck, there was MVP talk until just a few weeks ago IIRC. So, a one-game aberration?

[PGsHeroes32]

This. I hadn't seen the Dolphins much this season before this game. He looked about as bad as any starting QB I've seen.

Obviously, the numbers say he'd been having a very good season. Heck, there was MVP talk until just a few weeks ago IIRC. So, a one-game aberration?

No hes bad when forced to throw something other than slants to two of the most gifted receivers in the league.

Its not ever gonna change.

[pbiflyer]

No hes bad when forced to throw something other than slants to two of the most gifted receivers in the league.

Its not ever gonna change.

This. He'd been bailed out so many times by Hill and Waddle.

[MUBurrow]

No hes bad when forced to throw something other than slants to two of the most gifted receivers in the league.
Its not ever gonna change.

I don't wanna bail on the guy, but my pessimism is starting to creep in.  Teams are just loading up the middle of the field to clog the slants and crossers, which is coincidentally also some of the easiest coverage to disguise a blitz.  Tua has been 100% unable to open up the field horizontally, and his only recourse has been to throw ugly fades to try to stretch the field north-south.

I love to make fun of the early aughts where all that mattered was QB arm strength.  That era gave us the Sex Cannon, Kyle Boller getting picked 19th solely because he threw the ball threw the uprights from the 50 yard line on his knees, and a host of other ghosts of Jeff George.  It was a beautiful and hilarious time.  But I'm getting afraid that Tua is what you get when you can't make all the throws.  It sounds ridiculous for a guy leading the league in yds/att by almost a yard, but the eye test says a ton of his deep balls are underthrown, and Hill and Waddle are #3 and #4 in the league among WRs in YAC.

[Uncle Rico]

I don't wanna bail on the guy, but my pessimism is starting to creep in.  Teams are just loading up the middle of the field to clog the slants and crossers, which is coincidentally also some of the easiest coverage to disguise a blitz.  Tua has been 100% unable to open up the field horizontally, and his only recourse has been to throw ugly fades to try to stretch the field north-south.

I love to make fun of the early aughts where all that mattered was QB arm strength.  That era gave us the Sex Cannon, Kyle Boller getting picked 19th solely because he threw the ball threw the uprights from the 50 yard line on his knees, and a host of other ghosts of Jeff George.  It was a beautiful and hilarious time.  But I'm getting afraid that Tua is what you get when you can't make all the throws.  It sounds ridiculous for a guy leading the league in yds/att by almost a yard, but the eye test says a ton of his deep balls are underthrown, and Hill and Waddle are #3 and #4 in the league among WRs in YAC.

Joe Barry is a helluva coordinator

[Jockey]

I love to make fun of the early aughts where all that mattered was QB arm strength.  That era gave us the Sex Cannon, Kyle Boller getting picked 19th solely because he threw the ball threw the uprights from the 50 yard line on his knees, and a host of other ghosts of Jeff George.  It was a beautiful and hilarious time.

Burrow, I remember Joe Gilliam back in the 70's, I think, who beat out Terry Bradshaw solely because oh his cannon. And remember,  Terry may not have been able to spell cat when spotted the 'c' and 't', but he wasn't some weak armed wimp.

[pbiflyer]

This.

[tower912]

Packers make the playoffs.

[Jockey]

Packers make the playoffs.

If they beat Minny.

[dgies9156]

Burrow, I remember Joe Gilliam back in the 70's, I think, who beat out Terry Bradshaw solely because oh his cannon. And remember,  Terry may not have been able to spell cat when spotted the 'c' and 't', but he wasn't some weak armed wimp.

Jefferson Street Joe was TSU's finest. Sad story of what happens when football players and drugs connect.

Gilliam probably was a better quarterback than Bradshaw. But Bradshaw didn't snort his potential away through his nose. Incredible waste of talent.-

[Herman Cain]

https://packerswire.usatoday.com/lists/good-bad-and-ugly-from-packers-week-16-win-over-dolphins/

[HutchwasClutch]

If they beat Minny.

They need more than just doing that.

But talk about fools gold them making the playoffs.  Rodgers playing like a horse's ass in another postseason.  Worse, organization figuring things are just fine with a run to get in the playoffs and no need to fire Barry.   They're not going to make any run if they get in.  They only keep costing themselves draft position and for what. 

[MU82]

They need more than just doing that.

But talk about fools gold them making the playoffs.  Rodgers playing like a horse's ass in another postseason.  Worse, organization figuring things are just fine with a run to get in the playoffs and no need to fire Barry.   They're not going to make any run if they get in.  They only keep costing themselves draft position and for what.

Well, IMHO you always want to make the playoffs. There have been several teams that have barely qualified that have won playoff games, and a few that even have gotten to the Super Bowl.

[HutchwasClutch]

Well, IMHO you always want to make the playoffs. There have been several teams that have barely qualified that have won playoff games, and a few that even have gotten to the Super Bowl.

True anything can and has happened  once you're in. No argument.  Packers have had that happen exactly once in the Rodgers/ Favre years when they won it all in 2010-11 as the 6th seed.  Other two SB years in the 90's they were seeded #1 and #2 in the NFC.  They'd be looking at best case 7 seed this year.  Unlikely they pass the Giants.

[MU82]

True anything can and has happened  once you're in. No argument.  Packers have had that happen exactly once in the Rodgers/ Favre years when they won it all in 2010-11 as the 6th seed.  Other two SB years in the 90's they were seeded #1 and #2 in the NFC.  They'd be looking at best case 7 seed this year.  Unlikely they pass the Giants.

Tampa won it all as the 6 seed just a few years ago, too.

Obviously, it's a long shot ... but if you can make the playoffs, you make the playoffs.

As Herm Edwards said: "You play to win the game!"

[PointWarrior]

Packers beat Minny in Week 16 and in round 1 of playoffs....

If they beat Minny.

[PointWarrior]

Whats better:

1)  Jaire's post game interview:  https://twitter.com/NFLonFOX/status/1607130803607146503?s=20&t=poPqFkrMOfPhl2I-8HFnuA

2) Jaire's exit mock of Waddle:  https://twitter.com/UndefeatedRatio/status/1607125350051450882?s=20&t=poPqFkrMOfPhl2I-8HFnuA

[dgies9156]

Wonder whether Tua's concussion had anything to do with those three late game interceptions?

Just asking.

[Uncle Rico]

Wonder whether Tua's concussion had anything to do with those three late game interceptions?

Just asking.

They were some stupid bad throws.