All Entries in the "finesse team" Category
Still A Finesse Team
And it isn’t even debatable. When one goes back and re-watches the Bengals game, the evidence is there, screaming out from the broadcast film. The Packers were manhandled on every level. It didn’t matter what personnel was in the game – the Bengals were quicker to the punch and that punch was harder than anything [...]
Shedding The Finesse Label
Well, it’s about time. Almost two years after I called out McCarthy and the Packers for a glaring lack of toughness, Ted Thompson and Mike McCarthy seem to have gotten the message. It started with the hiring of the new defensive staff, particularly Kevin Greene and Mike Trgovac, to bring some of that old school, [...]
A Note On the Weather Tonight
Reports are that the wind will be gusting between 20-30 miles an hour with a high temperature expected to be nine degrees, with the wind chill making it feel, well, much, much colder. I just wanted to point this out due to the fact that, as is his practice, McCarthy had his team indoors all [...]
Baranczyk Tells It Like It Is
From his breakdown of the Panther game: You want one word to describe the Packers: Finesse. They like to pretend that they’re a power football team with their inverted wishbone and power-I formations. But they aren’t a power football team and I don’t think they have it between their legs to be one.Power football teams [...]
