Baranczyk Nails It
By Aaron Nagler on Dec 21, 2009 with 16 Comments
Pitch perfect here from Baranczyk:
I hate to throw a knife at Dom Capers, but that game came down to the final series and I don’t think they used Woodson properly. They had him at safety instead of on the edge on the outside receivers. I think you need to cover their receivers with your best guys. Guys like Josh Bell and Jarrett Bush are the ones you put at safety and try to hide. How do you let Bell out on Mike Wallace one-on-one on that last play?
…the game comes down to the final two plays and they had Matthews in coverage. Last play of the game, three seconds left and the Packers had Jarius Wynn, Brady Poppinga and Johnny Jolly rushing the passer.
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I’ll take Dom Capers and the Packers defense in that situation every single time. The Packers win that game 9 out of 10 times.
How do you have Poppinga and Wynn in on the last play? I just don’t see a situation where that is a good move. If I recall correctly, the Packers still had timeouts remaining. I don’t care if you have to draw it up in the sand, you get your best players on the field, preferably doing what they do best.
Normally I don’t like to call out coaches – they are the ones who have put in thousands of hours and are getting paid millions of dollars to see and understand things that are well beyond my comprehension level – but this astounded me.
Jayme, they didn’t have any timeouts. MM burned the last one after the wrong guys went into the huddle on offense with 3 minutes left. I said at the time it would burn us, and it apparently did.
I understand why we had those defensive lineman in at that time, everyone else needed oxygen.
Again the defender was in good position on that last play, that was one hell of a throw and a better catch with his feet placement. Not sure if Woodson would have done any better.
Beautifully said. I would leave a longer comment but there’s nothing else to say.
Dilligaff – “I understand why we had those defensive lineman in at that time, everyone else needed oxygen.”
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Matthews wasn’t gassed – he was in coverage…which is a sin.
why is no one reporting that the Steeler wide receiver stepped of bounds inside the 5 yard line, came back in to make the catch, that’s a penalty.
I was screamin at the tv WHY DO WE HAVE SO MANY LBS IN COVERAGE. From a man who loves to mix personel in the game why the fuck would you run a 3-2-6 when you can run a 4-1-6 or possibly a 4-7. Barnett did well but he could zoned the middle while the secondary played zone behind for Christs sake. Although, that pass and catch was almost, ALMOST, uncoverable.
Also blame Jones for not just fallin down when he coulda, yea Crosbys ugly but he coulda hit a 20 yard field goal.
Easy fix for Mason Crosby.Most of his kicks are wide right .He need to kick staight on old school style,like Mark Mosely the last straight on kicker.
Phillip, the complication there is that the Steelers had a timeout, and the Pack didn’t. They ultimately might have had 30 seconds and only needed a FG to win if Jones had gone down.
It should have never come down to that play. I have said it before time of possession wins games, the Steelers had the ball almost 10 minutes longer than we did, thats almost a whole extra quarter on offense. when we get pass happy, we leave enough time and opportunities for our opponents to match our scores and we lose games. MM sucks as a head coach and does not understand why he has been winning. He gets a big head with a winning streak and goes back to the same game plan that put the team at 4-4. God help the Pack.
I’m sure MM has a dozen reasons that he uses to convince himself that he did the right thing every time it backfires. I’m also sure Capers does also. Hell, if they didn’t, they’d never get any sleep.
Cullen Jenkins missed the sack, that should have been the last play of the game. I am putting it on the Jimmys and Joes over Xs and Os.
found this interesting on KFFL.com, sounds like all is not well in wonderland and the meltdown has begun
Vikings | Childress ripped Favre following Week 15 game
Tue, 22 Dec 2009 06:47:10 -0800
Sean Jensen, of the Pioneer Press, reports Minnesota Vikings head coach Brad Childress ripped his offense during halftime of the team’s Week 15 game and that he privately unleashed an expletive-laden outburst toward QB Brett Favre long after the game in the locker room, according to six members of the organization. All is not well between Childress and Favre, and the primary difference centers on Favre’s penchant to check out of runs and into passes. According to one team member, Favre has expressed frustration for much of the season about Childress’ unwillingness to let him audible more.
This is essentially the same point I made in my comment the other day. You need to put your best players in position to make plays. We did not do that on the final drive. That was a mistake. Hopefully Capers learns from this and does not repeat the mistake.
@PaulPackers…..
Nobody’s talking about it because it didn’t happen…Go watch the highlight video on NFL Films…He never steps out…they have a great view of it around 2:24 into the clip.
http://www.nfl.com/videos/gree.....f-the-Week
On the other hand they could have called Holding on that play because Jolly got held.