- Messages
- 606
- Reaction score
- 162
- Hard to say defense is a positive when they give up 29, but my lord is that a talented and superbly coached team they played against. Definitely feel like the D is good enough to win most games
- Adams continues to catch the ball, make plays, and be the only consistent WR to get open.
- Aaron Jones shows every week why he should be the primary ball carrier here.
- McCarthy continues to be stale and predictable on offense. There are very few wrinkles, or changes or innovations. It's almost exclusively lining up in 11, and hoping a WR can beat his man and find an opening. That works a lot of times because they have the best QB on earth. MVS beats his man and AR makes them pay. But they aren't beating their man often enough these days. And even with that, it's not causing nearly the problems for DC's that it was in 2011. Where are the adjustments when the DL is getting huge pressure? Screens, flairs, passes to RB are few and far between. Rolling the pocket? WR Screens? Where are WRs in motion pre snap to help with coverages? Bunch formations? There's literally nothing different that the offense gives you that everyone doesn't have 7 years of tape on. Again, with the best QB in the game, you can still rise above it a lot of the time! I'm not saying they have to run Mike Leach's Air Raid (but they totally should), but it feels like this offense is a relic being propped up by Rodgers. Seemingly many other offenses can plug in backups and function. The fact that they can't function at even a basic level with backups screams it even more.
- McCarthy sticking with Monty over and over and over and over is insanity. He had a few nice solid games as a RB that first year. Since it's been a whole lot of nothing and a few nice passes here and there. I know everyone wants to bash Monty, but it's McCarthy's goddamn job to put the right players in the best position to win. He is failing at that repeatedly with the RB and Return positions and Monty for god only knows what reason.
- ST was bad. Scott had a bad bad kick at the worst moment. The fake punt was a pretty obvious one I thought given how the game was going and place on field. While it didn't cause damage, it was a pretty easy convert.
- Clock Management is atrocious. Everyone makes fun of Andy Ried and his issues around it, but I would sell my kidney for his clock management compared to McCarthy. It's baffling to me that a guy that's been leading a team for 15 years still has trouble getting the plays in with a reasonable amount of time and still uses TOs in insane ways. This happens EVERY week. Every week, they burn through TOs early in a half. And far too often MM calls TOs on defense that end up costing them points. He's so so bad at this. He really needs a dedicated person on the sideline that owns telling him when/how to use TOs because he simply doesn't get it.
