The Monday Night Football game before a national audience
and the faithful at Lambeau Field against the sad-sack Detroit Lions losers of
3 straight games let everyone know, except Packers President Mark Murphy,
Packers General Manager Ted Thompson, Packers Head Coach Mike McCarthy and the
“In Ted We Trust” crowd that the 2017 Packers are not very good and that fact
has nothing to do with Aaron Rodgers being on the sidelines and Brett Hundley
in the huddle.
For the past 6 years and 5 games Aaron Rodgers made Mike
McCarthy look like a play calling genius and papered over the incompetence of
Ted Thompson of putting a team around him worthy of his talent or even a roster
better than the Detroit Lions, who by the way have ex-Packers T.J. Lang, Jared
Abbrederis and Khyri Thornton playing for them.
I am writing this before I have seen all the excuses the
“Tedders” are posting about this and that and before the post-game interview
where McCarthy will tell the press that he knows where the problems are and all
they have to do before they play the Bears is fix them.
Why listen to those fools? They don’t know what they are
talking about. They literally can’t see a bad team for the bad players. The
Packers offense led by former UCLA quarterback Brett Hundley started off well
with the plays that took 2 weeks to script and late in the game when most
ordinary players play well when the defense lets them make plays. In between
the offensive game plan and Hundley sucked.
Speaking of the 2-week skull session to put together a game
plan that fit Brett Hundley. Well, it seems Hundley’s best passes are to the
backs behind the line of scrimmage. It wasn’t until late in the game did
McCarthy throw caution to the winds and let him throw downfield.
Speaking of that I thought McCarthy made a big deal out of
bringing the entire game plan back and not treating Hundley like a baby
learning to walk. I guess all of that was just another example of “Thompson
FAKE NEWS”.
But even with Hundley not being Rodgers or even Randy Wright
the offense isn’t the most serious problem the Packers have and a problem the
Packers would have had even with Rodgers at quarterback. The defense can’t stop
shit.
You just had to listen to Jon Gruden talk about how Matthew
Stafford knew when and where the “Grand Old Dom” was going to blitz and took
advantage of open field where the blitzers came from. Even Hundley or Joe
Callahan could have scored against a particular blitz when Dom Capers bunched
his entire defense in the middle of the field leaving the entire right side so
open you could hear the Packer fans groaning with embarrassment.
If there is 1 thing or 6 you can be sure if a team is on a
bad streak – the Lions had lost 3 straight games or had only beat the Packers
at Lambeau Field once ever – or someone was playing bad and was about to
benched or traded like Lions tight end Eric Ebron or never scoring a TD on
their opening drive or wanted to do something that hadn’t been done since 1971
like finishing a game without a punt all you have to do is play the Packers
defense.
The Packers generated minimal pass rush with Perry and Kyler Fackrell combining for a sack. When Dom Capers blitzed only
once did anyone get near Stafford and that was
Clay Matthews early in the game with a quarterback hit. Speaking of Matthews
once Vince Biegel entered the game in the second half to spell Matthews the
Claymaker stayed on the bench. Fackrell also replaced Nick Perry, who
also stayed on the bench. The rest of the defensive starters played the whole
game. I wonder if that means something?
The play of Devon House and Damarious Randall was
particularly lacking. Randall had passes completed on him because he never
bothered to turn around to see the ball and House has been a bust, but he
continues to play because Thompson has no one better to play outside corner.
Incompetence indeed.
The return of Morgan Burnett was a non-event of mythic
proportions. He and Ha Ha Clinton-Dix were invisible. I think Burnett was also
benched late in the game because Marwin Evans were playing. The play of top draft
pick Kevin King continues to be spotty. Even second top pick Josh Jones who
everyone praises was invisible.
Just remember this defense was hand picked and hand drafted
by Ted Thompson, the greatest evaluator of talent in the history of the NFL,
with no less than 5 No. 1 draft picks (Clay Matthews, Nick Perry, Ha Ha
Clinton-Dix, Kenny Clark, Damarious Randall) starting.
Once the first 15 scripted plays ended when Mason Crosby’s
1st field goal attempt was blocked because of a low snap by newly signed Derek
Hart the Packers offense was grounded. What does that tell you about the play
calling ability of Mike McCarthy? I think that speaks volumes.
Besides being a 3 game loser the Lions also hadn’t had a
sack in 3 games, so the Packers cured that problem even though the starting
offensive line almost played the entire game until, surprise, surprise, one of
them got hurt. In this case it was Bryan Bulaga. I don’t know what his injury
was, but it didn’t look good. Like I said I am writing this without seeing the
post-game analysis or as I refer to it, “the bullshit report” and even without Larry
“Baghdad Bob” McCarren’s syrupy rose colored glasses blow smoke up your skirt
report.
Even the two-time Offensive Rookie of the Week Aaron Jones
sucked and he eventually was benched.
Besides having a field goal blocked the rest of the special
teams also had an off night. Trevor Davis sucked at returning kickoffs. It
seems Jeff Janis is so bad he didn’t get a chance late in the game when other
players were getting playing time. Justin Vogel got off a sucky punt.
I can’t say there was a positive, but I’m sure the “Tedders”
will glow about Hundley’s passing at the end of the game against the prevent
and the loss was only by 13 points. BULLSHIT. There were no silver linings.
Well, the Mike Florio countdown (“If the Packers lose
Rodgers they won’t win a game.”) continues, 0-3 and counting.
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