All Entries in the "Offense" Category
The Case For A Change of Pace
Jason Wilde is currently running through a different position group every day over at ESPNMilwaukee.com and today he’s focused on the running back position. He has a great take overall, but I wanted to point out something toward the end of his breakdown: …adding a young, dynamic back wouldn’t be the worst thing for Thompson [...]
2009 Season Offensive Player Grades
The defense, specialist and coaching grades to follow tomorrow. Look forward to your reactions. Quarterback: Aaron Rodgers: A- Rodgers became one of the leagues best quarterbacks throughout the course of the season and did a great job attacking his major flaw – holding on to the ball too long. Next season should cement Rodgers as [...]
Opening Struggles Perfectly Illustrated
This just dumbfounds me: Quarterback Aaron Rodgers offered up an interesting detail in explaining his interception on the Packers’ first play of the game. According to Rodgers, tight ends Donald Lee and Jermichael Finley ran the same pattern. “We had a little bit of miscommunication,” Rodgers said. Emphasis mine. And here’s Rodgers’ full quote regarding the play: It [...]
Mixing It Up In The Postseason
ESPN is running a feature called ‘Player X’ where an anonymous NFL ‘star’ player talks about sports. This week the topic is, surprise, the NFL playoffs. Player X gives 10 lessons on how teams can get through the postseason. It’s good stuff, all of it, but I particularly liked #3 Mix It Up: As far [...]
Shake Up The PreSnap Read/Count
There’s a very good reason the Packers struggled in the passing game yesterday and it had little to do with the offensive line for a change. As good as Rodgers was in the pre-snap phase of the game last Monday night against the Ravens, he was equally bad yesterday against the Bears. Time and again, [...]
The Red Zone Issue
Tom Pelissero, as usual, does a great job of breaking down the tape and hits upon one of the biggest things McCarthy needs to work on over the next month – his red zone offense. Pelissero: The black mark on the Packers’ improving offense remains in the red zone, where coach Mike McCarthy keeps spreading [...]
Cheesehead TV Matchup: Week 7 Offense
Keep It Simple, Stupid (Especially In Pass Protection) Look, no one is under any illusions about this weekends game against the Browns. Or at least they shouldn’t be. If The Packers lose, everyone should be fired. OK, maybe not, but you can bet the doom merchants that populate the comment sections of the Journal Sentinel [...]
Dougherty Nails It
Excellent piece from Pete Dougherty today in the Green Bay Press Gazette about the Packers return to the short passing game in lieu of a serviceable running game. As I’ve been telling anyone who will listen, a lot of the hand wringing over the running game is just wasted energy. Mike Holmgren’s teams never ran the ball [...]
For The Record…
…provided his knee checks out with the medical staff, I would sign Ryan Torain and cut DeShawn Wynn. Like, yesterday. Tweet
Memo To McCarthy
Not that he needs my help, but I offer it unsolicited for Coach McCarthy to do with it as he sees fit: McCarthy needs to rethink his offense and get back to the basics of the West Coast Offense. What both McCarthy and Rodgers needed yesterday was for 2009 Rodgers to get hurt, forcing 2007 [...]
What The Offense Will Be Working On
I’ll try to do this toward the beginning of every week, but it will greatly depend on the time I can finagle at the day job, so give me a break if I miss a week. I will still be doing Cheesehead TV Matchup every Friday. Heading into the game with the Bears on Sunday [...]
Pass To Get The Lead, Run To Keep It
Offensive coordinator Joe Philbin is old school – in a bad way. Old school football guys, many of which work in television as commentators, like to talk about needing to ‘establish the run’ and the importance of doing so when it comes to winning football games. Nothing could be further from the truth in today’s [...]
Speaking Of Depleted Positions…
…what exactly is the plan at tight end? Tyler Bohms has a good post up over at the Lounge in regards to the play of Lee, Humphrey and Finley last year in comparison to the play at the position in 2007. I tend to agree with most of what Tyler has to say. I would only [...]
Rodgers and Jennings Need A Sit Down
The miscommunication between Jennings and Rodgers during Sunday’s game were readily apparent to anyone who watched the game. It continues a trend that has developed over the season – for whatever reason, Jennings and Rodgers have had some serious problem getting on the same page. The worst case this past Sunday, of course, was the [...]
Rodgers Watch
Tough game for the new $20 million man. He made some good throws and had some good reads, but once again – when the game was on the line, when the game was there for the TAKING – Rodgers could not get it done. Sure the turnovers hurt – these fumbles are becoming alarmingly routine [...]
Cowboys Are Ready This Time. No. Really.
Continuing the theme started by Patrick Crayton in August, the Cowboys defense is talking up how they were not “ready” for Aaron Rodgers when they faced him last November. Now they’re ready. Right. Look, I know there’s some truth to the old football axiom that the backup-off-the-bench can provide a spark for an offense and [...]
