It looks like no one is very worried that in the one exhibition that counts the most after the Packers laid an egg. Not just a warm and fuzzy chicken egg, but a large cold imposing ostrich egg before the faithful at Lambeau Field.
I didn’t get home until the second quarter because I was covering a volleyball tournament, but when I turned on the game the score was 25-0. Later some time in the second or third quarter the faithful started booing the defense. HEAR THAT McCarthy and Dom Capers you were being booed. Take that to heart and make some changes.
I was spared the first quarter when the No. 1 defense, which had all it parts together on the same field for the first time, when Clay Matthews played for the first time and its first string secondary on display made All-Pros out of Sam Bradford and Mark Sanchez.
The rosy glasses crowd that cover the Packers and run the organization really need to watch this game over and over again and then sit down with a large dose of reality and take assessment of where the 10th year of the Mike McCarthy regime and seventh year of the Dom Capers era has us sitting entering the season.
McCarthy’s post -game press conference was amazing. After being torched by two second-tier quarterbacks to the tune of 23-of-29 for 271 yards and 5 touchdowns with no sacks or interceptions followed by two busts (7-of-11 for 43 yards) McCarthy said basically I’m not worried, we’ll fix what needs to be fixed (on defense). Anybody heard that song before I have? Like maybe every post-game presser.
