It's also amazing how frequently the Packers were among those best teams in recent years.
Every other team in the league (other than the Patriots) has had a bad year and missed the playoffs at least once in the last 7 years.
Maybe it isn't that MM and TT are doing a bad job right now. Maybe it's just the normal ups and downs of the NFL.
Or years of drafting at the end of the round has finally caught up to us like it does to every team. (Yes, I know the Patriots are the exception).
The forum seems to have created this standard that the Packers need to be a contender every single year and anything else is unacceptable. What the Packers have done over MMs and TTs run has been incredible compared to the rest of the league.
I know I'll strongly be disagreed with by some and others will say "We are wasting Rodgers' career by not winning more Super bowls." Remember though, Rodgers has played his part in many playoff losses too (2011 Giants, 2013 49ers, 2014 Seahawks).
Even during the Super Bowl run, he struggled in 2 of the 4 games. The best thing he did I'm the NFC Championship might have been tackling Urlacher to prevent a pick 6 after throwing it right to him.
Basically, I just think people should keep in mind what MM and TT have accomplished and not winning another title isn't just on them. One down season in 8 years is expected. It doesnt automatically mean they're doing a bad job and should be let go.
Rodgers has better overall playoff statistics than a guy who has played in 6 Super Bowls and won 4 over the past 17 seasons. That guy that everyone says is the greatest playoff quarterback, and perhaps even arguably the greatest/most accomplished quarterback in the history of football. That Tom Brady guy. Rodgers has the better passer rating, TD/INT ratio, yards per attempt, etc. Better numbers across the board in the playoffs.
Moral of the story, one QB has 22 playoff victories, the other has 7. So what does this lead me to do? Look at the rest of the team. Sorry defensive play, sorry special teams play, sorry coaching. Rodgers has had some bad moments, no doubt. Everyone does. But when you look at the issues as a whole, Rodgers gets no where near the blame of the other aspects of the team. The past 2 playoff losses, Rodgers leads the team down the field to tie the game and then doesn't get the football back as the games go to overtime.
Getting that out of the way, we are absolutely wasting Rodgers. Belichick coaches to the strengths of his team, and the realization that he doesn't have a 28-30 year old prime Brady anymore. You see a lot of motion, pick plays, quick slants, screen plays, etc that get receivers open. He's constantly moving guys around and getting the ball out of Brady's hands in less than 3 seconds. The offense that we run requires Rodgers to play to the ridiculous standard that he set for himself over the past several seasons. And as he gets older, that's just not feasible. And it's not smart.
Teams are starting to rough up our receivers at the line of scrimmage. They are playing nothing but man on us. When you have the Atlanta freakin' Falcons playing man on us, you know that we have been figured out. Yet McCarthy is too stubborn to realize this and make the necessary changes and adjustments. We shouldn't have to constantly beg for receivers to get separation. The offense needs some serious help schematically, and McCarthy has shown an inability to adjust to what teams are doing to us.
It's ridiculous. He did some good things in the 2nd half against Dallas, the 2nd half against the Bears, and the entire game for the Falcons. And they yielded some good results, and why on Earth he has resorted to the same old stale offense the past two weeks against the Colts and now the Titans is just completely beyond me.
He is a year and a half behind on making adjustments to what has been a pretty bad offense in that time frame. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Well damnit do something different like every other elite coach in the NFL is more than capable of doing.
I hate to keep bringing up Belichick because he's one of the greatest ever, but they
rarely ever utilize the same game plan every single week. Opposing teams KNOW what we are going to do. Predictability catches up to you, and McCarthy has failed to adjust to it.
