The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Titans vs Packers

Aaron gives out the Good, the Bad and the Ugly from the Green Bay Packers Week 11 loss to the Tennessee Titans.

 

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mbpacker's picture

November 18, 2022 at 04:35 pm

The Good- Walker and Deguara.
The Bad- #12, Barry's defensive scheme, little offensive creativity, and ST's.
The Ugly- What an ugly loss! It's one thing to lose playing and competing, but this was a lousy way to most likely end all their playoff hopes unless a miracle occurs. What a disappointing season.

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Since'61's picture

November 18, 2022 at 04:56 pm

The good: Watson, Walker, the Packers 2 point conversion and run defense against Derrick Henry.

The Bad: Packers running game, Rodgers in the 4th quarter. Officiating, should have had a DPI on long pass to Watson and numerous defensive holding calls.

The Ugly: Packers defense gave up easy scores after every Packers scoring drive. No sense of urgency and very poor pass defense with terrible coverage and CBs too far off the LOS.

Once again the Packers were outcoached, out prepared and outplayed. What are the coaches doing? Why are they still here?

Thanks, Since '61

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dblbogey's picture

November 18, 2022 at 08:19 pm

That sums it up perfectly.

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Stickfish's picture

November 18, 2022 at 05:51 pm

IMHO the trifecta good, bad and ugly occurred late second half which is a microcosm of our season.
A long sustained Titan drive is somehow stopped on fourth and goal (and I can imagine why Henry was P/O ‘d - I can’t score on this defense?) we take over. The Good.

After two feeble attempts to run with zero creativity with nothing to lose really, and this after a missed extra point because that’s how we roll we go to third down. No quick slants, no gusto. Just more suck. The Bad.

And then, I still don’t know what to call the 3rd down passing attempt and ugly’ seems too kind. The Real Ugly.

Somewhere around a minute of actual running clock pretty well sums this season up for me. I turned the TV off after that and woke up hoping I’d find a surprise on ESPN to no avail. At least we were economical in sucking.
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Late edit for The Good - the Bucs, Patriots and Cowboys all have to wonder how in the heck they lost to this team?

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EnemyTerritory's picture

November 18, 2022 at 05:52 pm

The good: watching a well coached, physical and disciplined team execute its game plan and exploiting the opponents weakness.
The bad: seeing the home team play uninspired football with uninspired play calling and a complete lack of urgency.
The ugly: upcoming games against Philly and the NFC north who smell and see blood in the water for potentially years to come.

Soft. This team is soft. Soft coaching. Soft defensive plan. Soft tissue injury to the QB thumb and soft management unwilling to sit the QB down when his injury damages his ability to throw a ball.

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Starrbrite's picture

November 18, 2022 at 09:05 pm

Well said—SOFT. Where’s Kevin Greene….

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LeotisHarris's picture

November 18, 2022 at 09:20 pm

Unfortunately, Kevin shuffled off this mortal coil almost two years ago. He has ceased to be.

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Rarescope's picture

November 18, 2022 at 06:39 pm

The Good: Nags coming up with something other than “Run the Rock!” and “Enough with the Hero Ball” as his commentary.
Watson tieing the two game TD record for a Packers’ rookie

The bad: Everything else is ugly

The Ugly: An amateur like Rarescope watching the game and wondering why the CB are playing deeper than the line to gain on third down. Again. And again. And again.

Having to look/listen to Nags to get his commentary while sitting on the throne.

8 points
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gpt999's picture

November 18, 2022 at 07:17 pm

The good - Seeing a small semblance of change. Finally a decent punt returner, Watson developing.
The bad - Soft defensive schemes. Inaccurate AR12.
The ugly - The overall softness of this team.

7 points
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LeotisHarris's picture

November 18, 2022 at 07:57 pm

The Good: The loss drags me into acceptance of what this team is all about right now. Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.

The Bad: Wayne Larrivee. The man has exceeded his expiration date. He's inaccurate, inarticulate, and nearly intolerable to listen to these days. Larry's groans in the background add more color than Wayne's blathering.

The Ugly: Mike Vrabel is all class. The remaining home games against NFC North foes look to be full-on desecration of Lambeau Field. Makes me sick.

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Leatherhead's picture

November 18, 2022 at 08:08 pm

As Aaron Kampmann said, at some point in the season, you are what your record says you are. We're a 4-7 team that can't score points.

Only one Packer team in 30 years has failed to win at least 6 games, and that's the 2005 4-12 team. Will this be the second?

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dblbogey's picture

November 18, 2022 at 08:28 pm

I say we win 6, finish 6-11 and get the 9th pick in the draft. All we need is a QB, 2 stud receivers, a pass catching tight end with speed, a really good OL, two good DL, another ILB, and a safety, plus a new defensive coordinator, and we're good to go.

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LeotisHarris's picture

November 18, 2022 at 08:58 pm

Went to fact check that Kampman quote, LH. Couldn't find it, but stumbled into a whole lotta fun! The site included quotes from professional athletes from all sports. Randall Cobb's page was most interesting. Unless 18 said "Earnie Shavers could punch you in the neck and break your ankle," they might have him confused with "Tex" Cobb.

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stockholder's picture

November 18, 2022 at 09:39 pm

Maximum Salary Cap:
$215,400,000
Active Contracts:
$168,254,743
Injured Reserve:
$10,060,916
Dead Cap:
$27,238,756
Total Cap:
$209,034,448
Est. Cap Space:
$6,365,552
CALCULATED MARKET VALUES
Rashan Gary($20.5M)
Elgton Jenkins($14.0M)
Allen Lazard($11.2M)
Robert Tonyan Jr.($9.3M)
A.J. Dillon($8.0M)

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ricky's picture

November 18, 2022 at 11:18 pm

The Good: We get to see our favorite team play actual, real games. This is the time of year we spend months thinking about and can't wait for it to happen. Six more games to go. Dread them or enjoy them. It's your choice.

The Bad: All our hopes and dreams are being slowly, but surely, put through the meat grinder. Instead of elation, we're starting to circle the wagons as the team circles the drain, faster and faster. The finger pointing, the second guessing, the calls for "cleaning house" and mass firings are getting louder. This is frustration, not a plan. Because, when all is said and done, when next season begins, we'll still be hoping, still believe, and still watch the games. Because we're fans. It's what we do.

The Ugly: This season. This actually goes back to the playoff game against SF. There was no answer, once the Niners found a way to stifle the Packers offense. And the fear that the team will not be honest, that there will not be (as someone else suggested) a new version of Robert Parins. Someone who turns the franchise over to people with vision and experience. Hiring a coach who will motivate the players, create a team that is tough and resilient; a team that other teams don't want to play, because they know it will be sixty minutes of in-your-face football, by a group that plays together, and never backs down.

2 points
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bjkdad44's picture

November 19, 2022 at 01:00 am

“As the team ( used loosely) circles the drain… faster and faster!”… excellent commentary!!!

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Coldworld's picture

November 19, 2022 at 10:06 am

When Mark Murphy decided to essentially give the farm to Rodgers knowing the roster was pretty much set in stone and that Adams had gone, the path to this point was pretty much set in motion.

Even with what could be an exceptional draft: Watson, Doubs, Toure, Walker, Enagbare all show promise at least, the likelihood was that we would be a couple of years out. Moreover, the dead cap commitments would force us to shed cap next year not add FA talent.

The one chance was an aggressive and innovative O designed to get the rookies ready and involved. In fact LaFleur ran camp and preparation like any other year and then rolled out the most conservative offensive design in the league, premised in an I designed for Cobb, Lazard and Watkins, whom virtually no rational person believed could carry a contender.

If a GM made such choices, we’d run him out of town without hesitation and rightly. Particularly as the price is ongoing pain and cap struggles for at least 2 more years. The reality is, that a GM is the person who makes those decisions. In Green Bay that is Mark Murphy, there’s no real dispute about that: Gute lacks the authority to issue the extension that’s Ball, did not choose LaFleur and LaFleur is not answerable to him. The only person to whom they. Ball and LaFleur, do answer to is Mark Murphy.

It’s time to stop pretending that this was not the most likely, even the obvious, outcome. It’s time to accept that there is only one true source of culpability. It’s our real GM, the one who chose perhaps the least capable coach since Ray Rhodes, mortgaged the future for Rodgers plus no proven starting receivers and approved a contract that essentially ceded total control of his future and that of the Packers for the next few years.

Everything flows from Murphy. The cap, the coaching, the Frankenstein of a roster with Rodgers superimposed. To start on the road to recovery with a meaningful chance of success we need to fire Mark Murphy and ensure that no President can ever become GM again. The Board should be ashamed of itself for ever approving that, for both football and fiduciary reasons.

Fire Mark Murphy. Hire a true GM, give them full authority and responsibility and have them hire a true Head Coach who can assemble and manage a coaching staff. Anything less is window dressing.

The bad starts with Murphy and the ugly is the deference shown despite the facts now being pretty undeniable. The good will only return when he’s gone and his structure undone.

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gpt999's picture

November 19, 2022 at 01:41 pm

I've got to agree - Murphy is the author of this disaster. His signing of Rodgers to this contract coincides with his mandatory retirement in July 2025. He wants one more Super Bowl to reinforce his legacy. But the cost and risk of this egotistical "legacy" appears to be more about himself than building a healthy team for the future. Its selfish and shameful. And the players and fans are the ones who suffer.

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lambeau66's picture

November 19, 2022 at 02:57 pm

Aaron where did you get your hat that just says Packers on it in the good bad and ugly segment against the Titans . Would like to find one? Thanks . Peter

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