I'm of the opinion that when an offending player knocks an opposing player out of the game, said-offender should be out just as many plays, just as many games as the opposing player has to endure.

SEASON LONG GAME BALLS: (in no particular order)

1. Blake Martinez - Solid improvement

2. Damarious Randall - Solid improvement. Now grow up off the field.

3. Jahri Evans - Great signing for the money. I wouldn't mind seeing him on another 1 year next year.

4. Davante Adams - Must sign. Deserves every penny he gets.

5. Kenny Clark and Dean Lowry - Excellent year 2 improvements. Looking forward to a solid DL for years.

6. Justin Vogel - Nice to have a good and young punter.

7. David Bakhtiari - When you got healthy, you balled out.

8. Lane Taylor/Corey Linsley - Solid. Unspectacular. But got the job done.

9. Morgan Burnett - You'll be gone after this year, but you did a great job in green and gold.

SEASON LONG LAME CALLS: (in no particular order)

1. Ted Thompson - When your high defensive draft picks suck or are injured year after year, that's on personnel too. Oh, and Marty B is a loser. THE DOOR, SIR.

2. Mike McCarthy - When you have Zeus at QB and you manage to lose what will probably be 9 games because your defense STILL sucks, for going on 8 years straight, you get a lame call.

3. DOM EFFING CAPERS - THE DOOR, SIR.

4. Nick Perry - You really sucked down the stretch because you got hurt again. I'm willing to give you one more year to stay healthy. After that, it's time to cut bait.

5. Clay Matthews the Third - The door, sir.

6. HaHa Clinton Dix - Either you had an undisclosed injury all year, or you just really regressed. I'm guessing the latter. You get 1 more year to figure it out too.

7. INJURIES - I HATE INJURIES

8. Randall Cobb - Love ya Randall, but you cant outrace LBs anymore. You were never fast, and your explosiveness is now gone. You're good on rub routes and scramble drills and that's it.

9. Jordy Nelson - No wheels left. Great Packer. One of my faves. Thanks for the memories. But it's time to cut that salary or move on.

10. Bryan Bulaga - Love ya Bryan, but you have no knees left. See #8 and 9. Ditto.

Game Balls...Randall...I've been super critical of this kid and called him a bust earlier in the year. Randall's play the last 3 or 4 games have given be some hope the Packers have at least one guy who can play CB next season.

Rodgers...I REFUSE to place blame on a man who normally carries at least 50 of the 53 man roster to victory. He was OUT 8 weeks yet people are ready to hang this loss completely on him. He was the only reason they weren't blown out! He's also the reason they were even 4-1 when he was injured.

Jordy Nelson...I know he didn't do anything yesterday to justify a game ball. But this one is for the years of outstanding play. I have a horrible feeling Nelson is much closer to the end than I thought he perhaps was. Lets hope that's not the case.

Lame Calls.....Mike McCarthy.... Ran Aaron Jones twice in the 2nd quarter I believe it was for 43 yards and Jones got one more carry the rest of the way. I'm now convinced McCarthy could have Walter Payton in the backfield and he still run 10 times. He CAN'T help himself. Doe he even KNOW how to use TO effectively??

HHCD...On the Butt Cheek TD HHCD was in a position to at least TRY to knock the ball away. The replays all show him standing over the WR looking at him and doing nothing. Maybe a dive at the receiver to try a jar the ball lose, something. This has become the standard for HHCD it seems this season. I guess the bogus Pro Bowl nod after last season went to his head. Hey Dix, EVERYBODY makes the Pro Bowl nowadays, it's not a big deal anymore.

Capers...Just the mention of his name upsets me because we should have stopped mentioning him in 2012 or the very least after 2014.

Thompson....For another season without a SB and a team that hasn't seemed this far away since 2005. This team is severely lacking talent. Other than a handful of players a complete reboot is necessary.

Fire Capers please!

Adding my thoughts to your list.

Game Balls:

Adams - Have to feel for this guy. This is the 2nd time in the same season he was knocked out on a dirty cheap shot. And the guy that hit him, stayed in the game. Complete BS.
He is our true number 1 WR and I really wonder how the game plays out had he not gotten knocked out. Just think on that final drive Allison is the one that fumbled. On a play that Adams likely catches that.

Vogel - They finally have a real punter with Vogel. Great pick up!

Clark - He has been great all year. But now he is making impact plays with sacks. Honestly this is probably Thompsons best draft pick since Mathews.

Cobb - He showed what a good QB could do for him. while he wasn't perfect he showed that he can make plays. That TD catch was crazy good. Had Rodgers not been off target on a few others he would have had an even bigger day.

Rodgers - He had 3 Interceptions. The one to Nelson was on 3rd down and essentially was a punt. I think the first one was more of a bad decision. But he did have guys open, but probably didn't have enough strength to get it to them. Even after the 3 Interceptions, he had the ball and a chance to tie it up. Unfortunately Allison couldn't hang onto the ball to see some magic.

Lame Calls:

Capers - He is a great defensive mind. He knows the game inside and out. But he simply is out of tune in what is going on with the team. He has become extremely predictable, and offenses know exactly what to look for and his tendency's. He can't make adjustments during the game to save anything. The Panthers WR's had no impact on the game, yet he couldn't figure out how to stop McCaffrey and Olson in the passing game.
Its time for a new D coordinator.

One name that would be interesting. Marvin Lewis. Would he take a DC job? McCarthy has always been very respectful talked very highly of Lewis.

Allison - Perhaps the fact he barely has played all season? I don't know. Regardless he fumbled away the season.

Davis - He should be suspended. The NFL needs to adapt the college Targeting Rule. There is no excuse for that crap, and he should have been ejected from the game. I don't care if he felt remorseful or not. That shits not right. I would have loved to have seen one of the Packers go back and do the same thing to him.

2017 season - In all honesty this season was lost on the Anthony Barr hit. If Rodgers doesn't get hurt we are fighting for the #1 seed and looking for home field advantage.
Hopefully they can take the higher draft picks and get 2-4 playmakers.
Hopefully the rookies this year take a Kenny Clark/Blake Martinez 2nd year jump. I hope King, Jones, Adams and Biegel all take huge leaps next year. Williams and Jones become dynamite RB's for them too. Hopefully Clark can get some playing time and prove his value.
While the 2017 season was lost, I hope we take this time to get rejuvenated and come out with fire for 2018.

Tough game to watch particularly since much of the damage was self induced. While most of you are ripping on Capers, I can't say that the defense gave this game away. They played tough in the end and gave us several chances to win it. Unfortunately, boneheaded plays by Josh Jones, no pass rush and HHCD doing his best wooden Indian impression didn't help.

Let's be honest Aaron Rodgers didn't play well. Applaud his bravery but he under threw most routes and missed a ton. Call it rust or whatever but three killer picks is not good football.

Mike McCarthy needs to be kicked in the ass for not leaning on a run game that could have made Rodgers so much more effective. And, we could run the ball on these guys. just ask Aaron Jones. We lost this game because we played a stupid game against a team that made us play.

Game Balls:
Richard Rodgers
O-line
Blake Martinez
D Randall

Lame Calls:
Mike McCarthy
Aaron Rodgers
Josh Jones
HHCD

BTW - does Jordy Nelson still play on the team?

It's hard to have a blitzing pressure defense when you don't have the bodies to do it. DC is sitting in a boat barely able to pressure the passer and trying to cover with 3rd string CBs.
In reality all of the NFL teams have key guys gone, just not as many as Green Bay. Who takes over for Capers? That would seem to be the number one issue with MM and TT. If they aren't better than Capers, why bother. The players are not changing so his replacement had better be good.
As hard and frustrating as it is....finding those guys aren't easy and obviously finding the right players aren't easy either.

I agree with all the lame calls but would add Nick Perry, another one of TTS expensive bench riders.

I read a comment in another fan site that said that Dom Capers would be DC for life and after he died, Zombie Dom would take over. I tend to agree.

Capers D has always been predicated on pressure and turnovers. He hasn’t been able to do either the past couple years and for the past 7 he’s at least been bad at one or the other. Think it’s time for a new younger voice for the players to listen to. Doesn’t have to be a huge name just a smart guy with fresh ideas. Capers has had a great coaching career at this time he just doesn’t have any answers left. Thank you for your service Capers but it’s time to go.

I’m Luke warm on TT, he’s had some good to great draft picks and he’s had some head scratchers. I’m not sure I’d call for his firing but I wouldn’t lose sleep if he was.

I would keep MM, the offense is fine he just need to pay more attention to the Defense. Think he can still be an effective leader.

Hire a new training staff, broken bones and concussions are unavoidable. Soft tissue injuries at the rate we get them seem preventable.

First - a Game Ball to Bearmeat for providing the link to the Silverstein article. The article just reinforced what many of us have been posting the past 7 seasons here.
No defense, and TT leaving gaps on the roster not only during the season but in some cases for many seasons and allowing opponents to expose those weaknesses in the playoffs.

Yesterday's Game Balls go to Adams, Cobb and Kenny Clark.

Lame Calls: Allison, Clinton - Dix who appears like he is playing with an undiagnosed concussion all season, Spriggs,
Capers for creating the "We make it easy defense".
TT for his recreation of the 70s-80s Packers.

As for Rodgers he made some nice throws and of course he had 3 bad under throws resulting in picks. Rust or a not fully healed shoulder? Although he looked fine on his throws to R. Rodgers late in the game. Which, BTW why weren't we doing that earlier in the game?

As for the use of Aaron Jones, I think that may be on Rodgers more than MM. Rodgers commented after the game the defense dictated how much the Packers ran the ball yesterday. Remember Rodgers calls the play at the LOS and even then he often has an RPO post-snap. This tells me that Rodgers was reading adjustments made by the Panthers to stop the run plays Jones had been successful on.

Strategically I think the Packers made 3 mistakes yesterday. 1. They should have played more no huddle. 2. They should have had more of a quick passing game and included screens and passes to their RBs. 3. They allowed their defense to get on the field. Always the killer. Pitchers and catchers 2/15/18.
Thanks, Since '61

Well I see here one unanimous call to replace Dom Capers.

I heard during the game that Marvin Lewis agreed to go from Bengals HC position...

What do you think about him as new DC? I know he has reputationof very good defensive mind...

Thank you on your thoughts...

I'm disgusted with gloving over Tom Silverstein article.

Well, no matter if he is right or not (I do not read Tom Silverstein enough to know if he is plausible in his observation - I will take he is!), but can you honestly answer me few questions? Let's go:

1. Who was calling Mike McCarthy's name because he is not using Gernimo Allison more?

2. Who was glowing when TT sign Bennett (I know I was)?

3. Who was always supporting Jordy even when he was not playing well?

4. When Randall Cobb was signed to the existing contract who was glad? Who was approving what TT did with that signing?

5. Who was calling TT to cut Davante Adams?

6. Who was calling TT for picking Damarious Randall as well as who demanding cut for him and Quinten Rollins?

7. Now, UDFA guys are not good at all, but who was the one who was rooting for Donatello Brown and Lenzy Pipkins to play over Damarious Randall?

8. Who was all in to sign Davon House, CB who can play only one type of D, for other types he is not useful?

9. I know some people here was rooting for signing Darrelle Revis, what KC did. How that turns for them (team was 5-0, today, 8-6 - so after fast start they were 3-6 - Darrelle Revis helped them much, I'm sure)...

10. Aaron Rodgers said by himself that he was playing way under his standards - he played awful... I agree that Panthers are very good team. Why anyone thinks that any team would survive 4 TO against them? Hell, Vikings lost from same team (only 1 TO) at the same place, almost on the same manner and with the same result. How good is Vikings D?

Now, I know that many will put dislake on this post. But be man and answer those questions honestly. Not to me, to yourself. And after that if you have guts to spit on other people, please, feel free...

Maybe it will be Karmalike this week playing the Vikings. I got to think that this sieve defense finally stands up and starts giving out some retribution for all the hits like on Devante, and Rodgers of course Enough Mamby-Pamby. Time the Packers wake up and realize they are the GREEN BAY PACKERS, for Christ's sake.

BWAAAH HA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAA BWAAAAHHHH AHAHAH

AROD SUCKS...3 PICKS...FIRE TT...

4 > 12

You aholes were less kind to FAVRE when he was here and he had to do it with MUCH LESS TALENT.....

THE CHICKENS ARE COMIN' HOME TO ROOST...

Karma's a BITCH, ain't it...??

BWAAAH HAHA HAHAHAHAHAHA

Alright everyone. You want Capers gone, so who do you have in mind to replace him with? (Not that I don't agree he needs to retire). Who'd you think can turn this mess around?