What We Found Out Tonight

The one thing the loss to the Steelers should tell Mike McCarthy, Ted Thompson and Mark Murphy is the Packers defense under the leadership of Dom Capers cannot be depended upon to make a stop when they absolutely, positively, must make a stop.

Ex-Packers Dropping Like Flies

With 6:57 remaining in the 1st quarter of the Minnesota Vikings game on October 15, 2017 the Green Bay Packers season ended. With the exception of the inept Da’ Bears the Packers lost to the Vikings, the Saints, the Lions, (thank god for Da’ Bears) and the Ravens to drop 3 games behind the Vikings, 1 game behind the Lions for the North title and 1 game behind the Lions, Seahawks and Falcons for the last wildcard spot with 6 games remaining. UPDATE: The Vikings beat the Lions on Thanksgiving.

So technically the Packers could right the ship by “running the table” to finish 11-5, but no one thinks that’s going to happen, so for the 1st time since 2008 the Packers will not be playing in the playoffs snapping a string of 8 straight seasons, which tied an NFL record, but that was because Rodgers was quarterback for all of 9 games out of 128 games. He missed 1 game with a concussion in 2010. He missed 1 game in 2011 because Mike McCarthy was afraid Ndomukong Suh was going to hurt him. He then missed 7 games in 2013 with a broken collarbone. He had started 55 straight games when the Vikings cut him down.

His highly qualified replacement Brett Hundley has gotten worse instead of better. Last week was probably the worse quarterback performance by a Packer since T.J. Rubley on November 5, 1995 against the Vikings. The shutout orchestrated by Hundley was also the 1st since Mike McCarthy’s first game ever as the Packers coach against Da’ Bears on September 10, 2006. The Packers had gone 184 games without being shutout until the man Ted Thompson and Mike McCarthy stubbornly believe in and won’t bench because the only other quarterback on the roster they evidently don’t believe in at all did the honors. On any other team Hundley would have been benched 2 weeks ago, but not in Green Bay. Hundley must have naked pictures of Thompson or McCarthy or both or both together to keep his job because it can’t be his play on the field, but I digress.

However, since the unmasking of the Packers former Packers have lost their luster. Since October 15 eight former Packers have been cut in the 7 weeks since and one former No. 1 draft pick has been cut twice and 3 times since the beginning of the season

The Packers Have More Problems Than Dom Capers

I’ve been the Grand Poobah of the “Fire Dom Capers” movement since 2011 and there are a lot of us, despite the “I Trust In Ted” crowd FAKE NEWS campaign that all’s right with the Packers, but after what happened five weeks ago it’s obvious my second ‘day’ job of being Head Honcho of the “Fire Ted Thompson” campaign is the more pressing and important job of them all.

The “Tedders” have allowed Mr. Ego and his cautious approach to running the most prestigious franchise in the history of sports, the Montreal Canadians and Boston Celtics aside, to put the Packers on a course for a third era of “Wilderness Years” joining the 1948-58 era and the 1968-1991 era.

The Packers Have Packed It In

The play of designated quarterback tradee Brett Hundley has demonstrated three things. 1st, Ted Thompson doesn’t know a quarterback from his ass and for that matter a hole in the ground. 2nd. Mike McCarthy can’t teach a bad quarterback new tricks, but he can ride a great quarterback to the Super Bowl and developing a reputation as one of the great quarterback whisiperers and play callers the game has ever known. SAD.

3rd, when Rodgers went down Ted Thompson didn’t go out and get a veteran quarterback (Brian Hoyer), but compounded the misjudgments of himself and the incompetence of McCarthy and the result has been a 4 losses in 5 games (thank god for da Bears) that has virtually ended the one thing President and CEO Mark Murphy and Executive Vice President, General Manager and Director of Football Operations Ted Thompson cares about in the whole world the consecutive playoff appearance streak that had reached eight, which tied it for the longest current streak in the NFL along with the Patriots, who are going to make it nine and, just to rub it in, signed Hoyer.