Absolutely Disgusting
How familiar ...Penalties, dropped passes, an inability to adjust a defense, and one huge blown coverage.
Just like EIGHT other games in this TEN game season, the Packers hung themselves with mistake after mistake after mistake.
The key mistake(s)?
Early in the third quarter they get a turnover in Vikings territory. They get 15 yards worth of penalites to create a 3rd and long and don't convert. The Vikings get the ball back and drive for a touchdown. Sound familiar?
The entire second half was about Packer receivers dropping passes, many that would have been first downs, causing a glut of 3-and-outs. Sound familiar?
On their last possession, Thurman and Chatman dropped enough passes in key situations to get themselves benched on any other team. The final insult was a dropped pass that would have been a first down around the Vikings 10 yard line. Instead of having a chance to run some clock and score a TD, they were forced to kick a long field goal.
And I have a question for Mr. Bates.
How many times in a row does a team have to run the SAME type of play until you react to it? The Vikings ran approximately 793 straight running plays where the back bounced the play outside. The Packers didn't account for that at all.
In fact, the only time the Packers stopped the Vikings in the second half was when they blitzed on third and long. The ONLY time. You'd think that if you failed over and over again, and then tried something different that succeeded, you would, ...I don't know, ...repeat it?
Not the Packers. Why attempt to repeat success?
After all, it should be easy for them ...they have so much practice repeating their failures.
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