Team Effort
As hard as I tried to find a scapegoat that I could focus on, I have to admit that this week's game was a true team effort. Had any aspect of the team, Offense, Defense, Special Teams, or Coaching simply done a more competant job, we would have won (please notice that I am lowering my expectations to "more competant" from "competant").Each week the defense decides not to cover one particular opposition receiver. Some weeks, they make it easy on us and just decide not to cover anybody, ...but most weeks they are more discriminating. This week's lucky player was Jimmy Smith. This, of course, was a problem, ...but they made up for it by scarcely laying a finger on Fred Taylor.
Being out of position is an epidemic on this team, ...much like being offsides and grabbing receivers down the field.
But let's not spare the offense. Five turnovers, four of them UNFORCED. Two of them in the ENDZONE.
Ryan Longwell misses a field goal in the first half, ...and we end up losing by 3.
If I had to pick a single play that probably changed the game, it was Favre's inexplicable int in the endzone in the 3rd quarter.
The Jags went on to score 14 unanswered and the Packers looked out of sorts for the remainder of the game.
This game was easily winable. The game was won and lost in-between the ears of the players and coaches.
When mistakes go uncorrected for weeks at a time, ...something is wrong with the coaching. The Packers looked EXACTLY like the Packers from week 2 this year. That's when they lost to the Bears at Lambeau. That was September 19th. Exactly 3 months ago.
No improvement in 3 months. Same problems, same mistakes, same result.
Same coaches.
You do the math.
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