Here goes, though I think you'll be surprised.
Chris Havel
I just don’t get some of Sherman’s play calls
How ’bout those Milwaukee Bucks? It’s easy to gaze south because the Bucks are pretty good, but also because that’s the direction in which the Green Bay Packers’ season is headed.
The Packers, at 1-7, resemble a carcass with some fans and media picking at what little meat is clinging to the bones. It wasn’t pretty before the Packers’ 20-10 loss to Pittsburgh on Sunday, and it isn’t going to get any prettier.
The Packers aren’t quitters, but they are losers. Repeat offenders at that. You know they’re in trouble when a journeyman beats them with nine completions for 65 yards and a 39.8 passer rating.
Charlie Batch, who hasn’t started in four years, made two plays all day. He handed off to Willie Parker, who handed off to Antwaan Randle El, who took the reverse 43 yards on the game’s first play. When that happens on the first play, someone didn’t do his homework.
Batch’s other big play was a 9-yard completion to fullback Dan Kreider midway through the fourth quarter. It came after a Brett Favre pass deflected off Donald Driver’s hands and into safety Tyrone Carter’s hands for an interception. After Kreider’s catch, Duce Staley needed just three carries from the Packers’ 11 to score the clinching touchdown.
The Steelers’ defense made the game’s other big play when it parlayed a lousy play call by Packers coach Mike Sherman into a sack, a fumble, a fumble recovery and a 77-yard touchdown return by safety Troy Polamalu.
Why Sherman would expose Favre by emptying the backfield against the blitz-happy Steelers is beyond me. He said the Packers have called that play since he has been here, and that they called it before he got here. I wonder whether they’ll call it after he’s gone?
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