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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mklangelo" data-source="post: 578965" data-attributes="member: 10228">I'm not giving total blame to Capers but he does share some responsibility.  If I had to choose, I'd put more of the blame on the personnel.But this has been an ongoing theme of Packer Defense the last several years.  A defense that is prone near total breakdown.I would talk about how this Packer team is pretty crappy without its star QB but this is a thread about the defense.Look at Matthews.  Of all his years in GB, he has played exactly one full season.His numbers have fallen off severely this year.  Granted, he has had varying degrees of supporting cast throughout his tenure.  But this year he has Peppers on the other side and Peppers has done a good job (4 sacks so far this year to Matthews 3) taking attention away from Matthews but the numbers don't reflect that.Together their 7 sacks are roughly on a pace to total about half of Matthews season total in his top year of 13.5 in 2010.  So in other words, Peppers AND Matthews are producing what Matthews ALONE was capable of in 2010.The VAST majority of players have their best football behind them at the age of 29.  Matthews will be 29 in about 7 months.In my opinion, he's running on reputation in spite of his Magnificent Mane.  <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/tongue.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":p" title="Stick Out Tongue    :p" data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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