I get the point of the article and I see that it is easier for a play caller to call plays when he is comfortable with them being executed properly. I am hesitant on saying that execution is more important. They work together and the objective is to have both right. But even when a good play is called and execution to near perfection the defense might have the right play called and execute it near perfection. There are too many variables to make this assumption to me.

If you perfectly execute a completely crappy called play, what would the result be? I don't know, but it sounds like the results would be less than a good play call executed properly. To lay the blame on the players not executing, making the coaches exempt from calling a bad game with 10 days to prep while being unprepared is a lazy, short sided exercise. The entire offense AND coaches are responsible for this mess of a game. It was the coaches who put the wrong players at the wrong positions on the O line. There are no sides to take here. Both parties sucked. Making apologies for one or the other falls very flat to me while feeling insanely subjective. But I'm sorry, for an entire collective on one side of the ball to look like that, and you give the coaching a pass and blame the players for not executing, then I would really hate to see what bad coaching looks like.

Had MLF as he claims not called the interception throw , Packers win

"Amateurs focus on play calling, professionals focus on execution." Mike Holmgren. Thanks, Since '61

I think complaining about playcalling is extremely low hanging fruit. When a play doesn’t work, it is SO EASY to say “What a lousy call.” So, okay, why was it lousy? “Because it didn’t work.” The stuffed run shoulda been a pass. The sack, pick, or incomplete shoulda been a run. Is that really expert analysis? I think not.
Every game has plays that don’t work. WHY they didn’t work is a more productive endeavor, and probably not within the grasp of the fan watching on TV. Did a lineman miss a block? Was the wrong protection called? Did a lineman slip on his way to climbing to the second level? Did a defender gamble and it paid off?
Many fans want GB to be “committed to the running game.” So, when a run is stuffed on first down, and another one stuffed on second, are they happy to see GB following through on that commitment? Or frustrated with the playcalling?
Much like “Just win, baby” it’s “Just move the ball, baby!”

How about executing a play call in a huddle with enough time left over to get the play off without having to burn a timeout to avoid a DOG penalty! What was it, three times in the last game? Sheesh.

Look at it this way ..they didn’t play that good and two o line out ….but put a drive together at the end to win when it counted and should have.

Came down to special teams.

First road game of the year……….Move on and get 813 this Sunday…

Those who wear padded bra …make mountains. out of mole hills .

As Howard Cosell once said GregM You Overstated the Obvious...
My point when you obviously are going to run at the end of a close game, why not go 4 wide or go 5 wide receivers spread them out get those safety's and maybe a linebacker out off the box.
Nothing aggravates me more when a team brings in two tight ends maybe an extra tackle and a blocking receiver playing slot aka blocking when trying to play it safe at the end of a game. You see the defense with literally 11 players stacked around the line. In a lot of these cases (Packers) running back barely gets back to the line. Yes its possible to get creative and play it safe at the same time MLF needs to use his playbook better.

Rodgers wanted MLF to simplify things.
Maybe that is Love's problem too.
We're not exactly in the top 10
in any offensive category.

Should use Melton with Golden till Watson is back…both fast and get open

This is a fact that a lot of people, both casual fans and football "experts", overlook. I knew a guy who played MLB for Miami back in the late 70s, early 80s. He said the lineman for Alabama would tell him the play before they snapped the ball. He also said it didn't matter, because they executed so well, knowing the play didn't help. They told him they were running an inside trap and coming right at him...they ran an inside trap, went right at him, picked up 8 yards.

There was an old adage from my martial arts days. "Do not fear the opponent who has practiced 10,000 moves once. Fear the opponent who as practiced one move 10,000 times." Football ultimately comes down to blocking and tackling. And boy did the Pack do a lousy job of the former on Sunday.

Blaming LaFleur for the loss is just not fair. Hafley let the Browns get into field goal range. Love threw one of the worst picks of his carreer. Bisaccia coaches the field goal try unit that got an attempt blocked. The Packers never should have been in the position to lose this game. I will always believe that this Packers team should be undefeated with Hafley, Bisaccia and Love being culpable. The Browns should have been held to 7 points due to the Love interception. I can't give any blame to Hafley with only four yards to the end zone. Hafley's defense let the Browns move 60 yards for the Browns first score. The blocked field goal gave the Browns a short field to get into field goal range. Hafley's defense only gave up 16 yds so I'm not putting the blame on him, only Bisaccia. Getting 10 points, plus a very realistic chance to get more at the end of the game, should have been good for the win. LaFleur wasn't perfect, but he's not the one to blame for the loss. He's culpable, in a sense, because he retains Bisaccia.

Players, not plays. Of course execution is the most important factor. That is why the best players get paid so much. If play calling was all that mattered than teams wouldn't pay top dollar for players like Parsons or Mahomes. Fans complain about play calling and they have about 10% of the information that went into that play call. They have no idea what the health of team at that moment, who is exhausted and who isn't, how said play was executed all week in practice yet they seem to know what the coach should have done.

Fans react to results. If you win they play calling is good, if you lose they will say its bad.

As Vic Ketchman from the old “ Ask Vic” column used to say, “It’s players, not plays.”