You guys that are drinking the kool-aid that Rossley is a golden god of some sort - need to remember Rossley also called that Arizona debacle - without Sherman getting in the way hardly at all.... THAT WAS NOT Donatell's fault we lost that game against one of "the" worst Teams in the League at that time.... Sure, you could blame some of it on the heat... but not much - we had a pretty deep bench all around at that time... It was only the second game of the season. And, what about that MNF game where they set new records on number of points scored by the opposing team? Every one else BUT Rossley is supposed to take the heat on that? I don't think so!
Rossley's claim to fame IMHO... is he had the Mike Holmgren Offense to work with.
Sure, a few of the guys were gone but they were replaced with Mike Wahle, Marco Rivera..etc. Ross Verba wasn't in the way any longer.... Quite a few of the Offensive Line guys were still around - it was the Defense that was running on half speed and a damn fine DC was holding the damn thing together like nobody's business.
You trade chairs with the quality of lines Donatell and Rossley had to work with...????
You betcha "everybody" would have been caling for Rossley's head after the first four game losing streak... because it woudn't have been just four games... As it was People were screamin' at Donatell - but we knew it wasn't him - it was petulant little college boys like McKenzie who were trying to re-create another Ray Rhodes scenario in the Locker Room - aimed at Mike Sherman. I'm surprised the Packers were able to keep so much of it off the tabloids. Sorry - guys - but with my connections, doing what I do - I hear stuff.... and just take my word for it... At the end of last Season and on into the off-season, when the Tim Couch trip was running it's course - I was told that Sharper was on the block for THAT trade-going to Cleveland! So, that gives you an inkling of what usually can be kept away from the Press.... and the rest of us.
Rossley may have been able to politically gain the OC chair - and that's fine - I always wish people success in their careers... wouldn't matter who it was. But Rossley is no Sherm Lewis.. by any stretch of the imagination. If he was then we'd see a chess playing caliber OC out there.. and not a checkers player....
Swartzcatz is right - he's got no hootspa and no imagination, no courage to take a dare or a gamble - I doubt he could bluff any of us with any poker game at any time. He couldn't fool his own mother... let alone the Chicago Bears.. or if you will... The Arizona Cardinals! HE "proved" that....!
When the man makes a liar out of me - I'll outright admit. That hasn't happened yet - Mike Sherman proved who knows how to make play calls out there - Detroit was NO fluke, Mr. Net - whatsoever!
I'd like to have been a fly on the locker room wall when they found out Rossley wasn't makin' the trip..... You don't think that after the AZ game, and Brett deciding that Rossley needed a little talkin' to... was just for show, do you? I don't! Hardly at all.... It was very very necessary.
I cannot prove it, but ever since Rossley came aboard - his behavior with calling the plays has merited itself like a Man possessed with putting someone "in his place" - and I think it was AIMED at Brett Favre... Why? I have no idea - I certainly don't think the Team was deserving in such a tactic - do you? But, yet, there it was - Brett gettin' his hands tied over and over - when we could all see a TE pass play was called for - or running the old "two Batman plays and... oh, guess we gotta pass now" nonsense was so readable - even Brett looked like he'd rather watch from the Locker Room.... Any of you remember seein' Brett just throw up his hands, near the end, during that Eagles game where ROSSLEY ADMITTED it was his fault on that pass play call? As far as I'm concerned - he cost us the game and that chance to go up against the Patriots! But, since the fix was in... they threw Donatell out the door, instead - when Donatell should have never had to worry about holdin' the line - what was there, two minutes left in the whole game? All we had to do was maintain possession and get one more first down - oh, you shoulda heard the entire fan club scream at the big screen when that pass play was called.... it was damn near a riot - if we'd have been in the same room with Rossley... I don't think he would have survived what some of the Members wanted to do to him.... you HAD to have been there...
Donatell worked miracles with half the manpower that Rossley had...
And got his backside handed to him - Sherman's biggest mistake to date...
Sherman ate crow this last year over it, too - didn't he? DONATELL went on... to the NFC title match...
I'd be very careful about where you point out that some people cannot prove Rossley deserves.... a higher critique level - I think I've just done it quite well. As have others.....
Like I said before - I don't drink the kool-aid....ever! If you want to make a stand about any position on the Packers,....fine! But everyone here is allowed to have an opinion - that's what this Forum is about.... PROVE to us that Rossley is the greatest OC ever... with his deeds.. not just throw ridicule at others who are making valid points.
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