Rodgers in the House
Cheesehead
No way in hell McCarthy rests anyone. We started the season, we finish it. The good people of Green Bay, Wisconsin will burn him at the stake if he does. Tickets to any Packer game are insane as it is. Get my drift?
I want to win a Super Bowl, I don't care about going undefeated.
New England tried it and they LOST the Super Bowl, nice way to be remembered.
If you're 13-0 and have everything wrapped up, start resting the starters instead of risking losing a key one. Last thing we need is to go into the playoffs missing keys to the team. The playoffs is what matters after you catch the #1 seed. That is ALL that matters. If they lose in the regular season, the world is not going to end, if they lose in the playoffs, it's over. You can think of going into the playoffs undefeated and riding the W's to the Super Bowl, but you never know with the playoffs. Those teams are there for a reason.
What is goal for this team?
Right, and we did that last year. Why not reach for more in pursuit of that goal this year?
Right, because going into the Super Bowl 18-0 really had a lot to do with them losing the Super Bowl. I hate this argument. One has nothing to do with the other.
Every team has a 1 in 32 shot at winning the Super Bowl. Not every team has a chance to complete the perfect season. So long as we have the opportunity, I would like to see it through.
They were bound to lose a game, and it came at no other better time at them blowing the Super Bowl.
I'd much rather lose in the regular season than lose in the Super Bowl, do you want to remembered as a team that went 16-0 and lost in the playoffs or Super Bowl? Not me.
If we're 14-0 and we lose some starters by trying to go undefeated, it's not going to look good in the playoffs. THAT is what matters, not the regular season after you clinch home field. We were 10-6 last year, those 6 loses were by a few points but it didn't matter come play off time.
You're a fairly smart person, so I don't your flawed logic. Losing in the regular season doesn't equate to winning a Super Bowl and going undefeated into the post season doesn't equate to losing the Super Bowl.
We won the Super Bowl last year, and while I would love to see a repeat, I would also like for this team to do something only one other team in NFL history has ever done. Any team can win the Super Bowl. Not any team can complete the perfect season. This team should strive for perfection.
Maybe put in Flynn near the end of year... He is really good anyways and I honestly cannot risk Rodgers out there... and he seems to do better with rest. Who knows though.
No way. Need to keep everyone in a steady rhythm. Flynn goes in during MNF vs. Vikings types of situations.
“We can talk about it,” Woodson told Mike Silver of Yahoo! Sports. “I don’t care. We’re 8-0. We’d love to be 16-0 – love to. It’s a realistic conversation now. We’re halfway there. So yeah, let’s talk about it.”
So has he talked about the goal with Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers? “Yeah, at times,” Woodson said. “We know what we want.”
Woodson said that there’s “[n]o question” the Packers will keep the pedal to the metal late in the year, if they’re still in position to achieve perfection. In past seasons, teams like the Colts have opted to rest starters for the playoffs in lieu of pursuing an unblemished record.
“I’d love to go undefeated,” Woodson said. “I’d absolutely love to. Not just the regular season – the whole thing.”
It's conditional. If it's the last few games of the season and we've already clinched the division and a first round bye, I say maybe rest and rotate a few in the 2nd half as long as the game is secure. Maybe bring Flynn in to close or some backups to give them a few reps for experience as some of them may be starting next year or for the sake of trade value. I would not go into any game planning on resting starters. Resting them too much going into the playoffs may create "bye" like symptoms. It might get them off their game and make them rusty. They are used to and conditioned to play every week as starters and as long as the team is performing extremely well, why risk disturbing that formula. If they get a first round bye, the whole team will get to rest. I think this late in the season, with their minds on the playoffs and SB, the starters are going to want to play, not sit on the bench. As other posters have suggested, injuries can occur any time, even in practice, why game plan for them? I say let them play. They are in a good rhythm. Right now I would not do anything to disturb that. Let the Pack keep rolling.
If we lose next week will this change your mind?
Absolutely not. The starters remain in for all 16 games no matter what, IMO. Like I said, the 16-0 is only part of the reason to keep them in, not the entire reason. If I were coach, I would rotate in the second-string in the 4th quarter of the final 2 games IF we had a comfortable lead. That is the closest to resting the starters I would go. Not to mention I am sure the starters want to play all 16 games anyways.