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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SINROSSCO" data-source="post: 1086680" data-attributes="member: 18686"><p>Well, I will be 82 tomorrow having grown up in the prior years of Lombardi.  It took a long time to get another winner (Holmgren) to change the atmosphere in Green Bay.  I have seen a lot of football and was a youth sports coach for over 25 years.  We can all be critical as to how the game should be played, from the top, to the coaches and the basics.  I saw a post the other day and this person must have been reading my mind from the past; basics.  As a youth coach, it is where most of these professional players got their first exposure to football.  Learning the basics.  Trust me, none whom I coached made it to the NFL.  I was critical of the McCarthy era, poor blocking, tackling and bonehead penalties and play calling.  With the change of the Packers defensive coordinator last year most of us certainly agreed there needed to be a change there.  I can't get all the Packer games because of where I live.  Of those I have seen, I am seeing once again that McCarthy area football especially on the defense; the failure in basics.  Three of those basics, when tackling hit low and wrap your arms around the runners' legs; as a defensive safety or corner, don't let your man get behind you.  Pursue the runner.   It has been a common practice of the defensive backs not tackling, but trying to bring a runner down with a block which in the majority of times fail.  The penalties.  I won't even go there.  I believe that the Packers have been a second half team through the years.  The Baltimore game.   If Jackson is not playing, what could possibly be their biggest weapon?  I have talked with friends and family as to why the Ravens haven't run Henry much of the year.  Having said that, who would want to tackle this beast as he ran in this game?  Well for example, you are a defensive back, you know the basics of bringing a runner down, you got a lot of money to play to do that, so, why do you shy away from tackling Henry?  That is exactly what it looked like and what did the defensive coordinator do about it? Nothing.   There were only two players actually playing and that was Willis and Watson.  It appears that the will to win is off and on.  I was totally impressed by the play of Willis.  He's raised a lot of heads with his play against the Bears and then to come back and have the game that he did against the Raven, that is leadership and a will to win attitude for sure which is lacking with a lot of players and in particular on the defensive side.  I believe this game was already lost in the first half.  The run couldn't be established early and then to go for it in the Packs own territory on 4th down and I would ask why, so early in the game.  Made no sense whatsoever.  Ok! both teams exchanged TD's so what?   I believe that took the sails right out of the team and then to come back later with a miss snap by the center.  The head is not in the game.  So there is blame to go around.  I saw a game two weeks ago and I think it was the Texans defense that their players actually apply basics in tackling, i.e. wrapping the legs.  In closing I will just say, yah! I don't like some of the play calling by Matt, but he certainly had Willis prepared and what a great job in that respect as well as the Ravens game.  Good coaches are really hard to come by, yah! he hasn't gotten to the big one yet and I think most understand how hard it is to get there.  Oh Yah! How can we not love Andy Reid for his success.  Thinking back to those prior Lombardi years and then a 36 year stretch until Holmgren, I would stay with Matt.  I honestly believe that if Love wouldn't have gotten hurt, the Pack would have blown out the Bears in Chicago.  How many Super Bowls have come the away of the Pack since Lombardi?   So, is Matt worse then they? Really?  According to Vince it was all about winning and in those days it was a simple game plan.  He would not tolerate the play of this defense much less a lot of the offense as well.  For me I see no  leadership on the field like Nitchkie, Butler or Mathews.  You had to be there in the Lombardi days.  As good as his teams were, fans looked at those teams as an automatic win each and every game they played,  they were that well disciplined.  In closing, I will call them stupid rules has changed this game so dramatically it really isn't much fun watching anymore.  Can't determine a catch, forward progress, possession or spotting the ball and taking  one of thee most exciting parts of the game out of play i.e. the kickoff return.  It's a joke.  Pretty soon they will be playing touch.  Oh! and how about the first round pick?  How did he work out?  Was he worth it?  Time will tell or will it?</p></blockquote><p></p>

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