It's tough to tell if you want the #1 "must do" or multiple "changes."
Good question. Someone iterated that no matter where else we are in need we have to address DL and/or OL. The team cannot continue to allow 300 yard rushing games nor get stuffed when we have 4th and 1 every week.
Im going DL double dip. Then iOL maybe, higher end center. Then drop CB later due to Diggs. Im a believer if good things happen on the DL the CBs look better. Plus gotta see FA play out.. it will change things.
Special teams “coach”
Saw video of Parsons last night working out on exercise bike, he had about 6 inch bandage on his knee and his foot was taped to the bike pedal. He looked stiff in and in some pain but was pedaling away. I think in 10 months he will be close. Lets say mid Oct.
He should borrow a leg from Adrian Peterson who had an ACL and MCL on Xmas Eve and was lighting it up the next season for over 2,000 yards.
I think I saw him rotating backwards too. Which was very tough after a new knee and late rehab start for me. I think he is taking it real seriously. My money is on him.
Diggs may just get a shot. The Packers do not have all the draft picks due to the Parsons trade. And they need players on the DL and OL in addition to corner. So shelving Diggs for a 3rd or 4th round corner or an undrafted free agent does not help that position.
I agree. Fire in the belly from the coach transcends to players. And I do not mean in penalties. I saw a game with the Broncos and Texans this year. It went down to the wire. Sean Payton, during the last timeout, went onto the field and yelled to his kicker " Right Thru! " And the kicker delivered to win the game. Like Lombardi, you need to be emphatic, demonstrative, and your players have to feel what you are feeling.
Gut has drafted 16 O lineman since he was promoted in 2018. He has signed or traded for two first round picks from other teams. The Packers need a total reset in their personnel department. It isn’t that they don’t bring in talent, it’s that they don’t draft first round talent and they have to bring in that talent from other teams. No team should have a strategy to draft players in the first round with the notion that they can “see” the potential in a first round pick and develop that player to be worthy a first round selection. That player should have demonstrated on the field in college they were talented enough to be selected in the first round. They need a Ron Wolf kind of GM who recognizes talent. Gut is a product of the Packers organization. I think the Packers have over estimated their abilities because of the talent of Aaron Rodgers as quarterback. They have overlooked their failure to return to the Super Bowl which can be attributed to the poor decisions in the drafts after 2010 to draft top offensive skill players in the first round. There is a reason players are drafted in the first round. They are perceived to be the most talented, the best. Those players don’t always succeed, but some teams are perennial failures regardless of who they draft. Football is a team sport. QBs and coaches don’t win games, teams do. Coaches don’t have to be bad to lose, they can be not good enough. The Packers should have a hard reset instead of dragging this out. The current GM and coaches are not good enough. The current QB and some other players are not good enough. The Packers need a better GM to come in and start from scratch. The mistakes have already been made. The Packers are not getting better. The hype around the players is just that, hype. Not reality. Jordan Love can’t pass down th sideline accurately. He can’t judge the distance. He panics under pressure and makes bad choices. He physically can’t take the pounding. The Packers would be better off to trade some of their top players and get more draft picks.
Move Hafley up to HC. Get someone in who can either maintain or improve on the defense (early part of the season) get rid of Stenovich, and Butkus, trade McManus and Nixon to Miami...put Gutey on notice that if she O-Line isn't fixed by opening day he's gone.
