Let's play the Blame Game Packers Edition

[wildturkey]

Ladies and Gentleman, come on down! It's time to play The Blame Game. Tonight we have 4 lovely contestants that enjoy walks on the beach, snuggling by the fire, and choking away shots at the Super Bowl.

Contestant #1: Brandon Bostick, whose specialty is having no hands while being on the Hands Team.

Contestant #2: Ha-Ha Clinton Dix, whose first name is almost as comical as his safety skills with a ball fluttering in the middle of the field.

Contestant #3: Morgan Burnett, who doesn't mind turning down 30 yards of open field on a "game ending" INT.

Contestant #4: Mike McCarthy, goalline TDs? Who cares. Gimme dat 3. Team falling apart? Let's turtleshell and hope we win!

 

[GNG]

Ladies and Gentleman, come on down! It's time to play The Blame Game. Tonight we have 4 lovely contestants that enjoy walks on the beach, snuggling by the fire, and choking away shots at the Super Bowl.

Contestant #1: Brandon Bostick, whose specialty is having no hands while being on the Hands Team.

Contestant #2: Ha-Ha Clinton Dix, whose first name is almost as comical as his safety skills with a ball fluttering in the middle of the field.

Contestant #3: Morgan Burnett, who doesn't mind turning down 30 yards of open field on a "game ending" INT.

Contestant #4: Mike McCarthy, goalline TDs? Who cares. Gimme dat 3. Team falling apart? Let's turtleshell and hope we win!

Too many mistakes to mention.

 

[DownSetHutch]

Prevent defense. The end.

 

[BHF]

Thinks you pretty much hit it in order of blame.

 

[pumpkinhead33793]

McCarthy is the most to blame for his ridiculously conservative offense when Seattle went 3 and out or turned the ball over literally every possession of the first half. 16-0 would have been a disappointing score at halftime if that was Jacksonville getting that good of field position.

 

[geezer]

Packers played a really great game and deserved to win it. Seattle just pulled a frikken rabbit out of a hat somewhere and overcame all the bad plays, dumb penalties and uncharacteristic turnovers. About as ugly as team could look in the first half but give Green Bay a lot of credit for that. No reason to pile on Green Bay. They are still a great team and franchise and they got the man with the golden arm.

Stuff happens, that is why they gotta play the games.

 

[Fountain City Blues]

I am rolling with McCarthy here. Too much Martyball, and it burned him, hard. FG after FG will seldom beat Seattle. Unlucky to lose the way they did, but if you don't trust the #1 O in football to score on 4th and short for a TD, that's on the coach to me- period.

 

[WizardHawk]

4th and goal at the half yard while your team has the momentum and you puss out with a FG? Not sure how you can dismiss that. I would say entire coaching staff though and lump in the prevent defense that ended up preventing them from winning.

 

[Robotech]

I am rolling with McCarthy here. Too much Martyball, and it burned him, hard. FG after FG will seldom beat Seattle. Unlucky to lose the way they did, but if you don't trust the #1 O in football to score on 4th and short for a TD, that's on the coach to me- period.

Martyball strikes again. For McCarthy to kick FGs on those two goal line situations means that he didn't trust his offense to convert 50% of the time in those situations. If it were me, I'm telling Aaron Rodgers to go for the TD both times. If I only succeed once, I've got 7 points instead of 6. If I fail both times, how can anyone blame me for trusting my Aaron Rodgers-led offense?

 

[Fountain City Blues]

Martyball strikes again. For McCarthy to kick FGs on those two goal line situations means that he didn't trust his offense to convert 50% of the time in those situations. If it were me, I'm telling Aaron Rodgers to go for the TD both times. If I only succeed once, I've got 7 points instead of 6. If I fail both times, how can anyone blame me for trusting my Aaron Rodgers-led offense?

I'll go to my grave convinced Marty would have multiple rings in his time in the NFL if he were more aggressive. That, and the Grbac over Gannon decision was ridiculous.

 

[FaCe-LeE-uS]

Why is Dom Capers not in this poll? IMO that game was lost when they failed to hold the hawks on a 3rd & 29... Absolutely pitiful. Capers rushed 3 guys and Wilson had all day to throw. Had to laugh when they converted that one.

But equally as pitiful was the Clinton-Dix stand-still, and the onside failure.

 

[Fountain City Blues]

Why is Dom Capers not in this poll? IMO that game was lost when they failed to hold the hawks on a 3rd & 29... Absolutely pitiful. Capers rushed 3 guys and Wilson had all day to throw. Had to laugh when they converted that one.

But equally as pitiful was the Clinton-Dix stand-still, and the onside failure.

I hold the HC more accountable when he could have gone for the killshot really early, but didn't. I definitely hear you about Capers though; good honorable mention.

 

[Robotech]

I'll go to my grave convinced Marty would have multiple rings in his time in the NFL if he were more aggressive. That, and the Grbac over Gannon decision was ridiculous.

I've always been a Niner fan, but I often found myself rooting for Marty's teams in several playoff games when he was the coach of the Browns, Chiefs, and Chargers. It was very frustrating to watch him try to win games with a pre-modern approach to the game. LOL.

 

[ROMOTOOWENS]

Why isn't the golden boy himself not in this poll? Threw 2 picks inside red zone. Missed open WRs for TDs and first downs. Hey it's ok for wonder boy to get a little criticism sometime

 

[Robotech]

One thing I didn't understand is why couldn't the personal foul on Sweezy be tacked on to the end of the play (the one where Sweezy hit Clay Matthews after Matthews had already sacked Wilson)? Instead, GB declined the penalty, and I assume it was because the down wouldn't have counted if they had accepted it. If that could've been tacked on, it would've been 2nd and 46, IIRC.

 

[PatsFan2003]

It's a 60 minute game and the Packers didn't finish it. That botched on-side was the killer.

 

[Fountain City Blues]

Why isn't the golden boy himself not in this poll? Threw 2 picks inside red zone. Missed open WRs for TDs and first downs. Hey it's ok for wonder boy to get a little criticism sometime

Hard to blame the guy with a gimpy calf against the best defense. He's not top 5 in the blame category.

 

[geezer]

One thing I didn't understand is why couldn't the personal foul on Sweezy be tacked on to the end of the play (the one where Sweezy hit Clay Matthews after Matthews had already sacked Wilson)? Instead, GB declined the penalty, and I assume it was because the down wouldn't have counted if they had accepted it. If that could've been tacked on, it would've been 2nd and 46, IIRC.

I think they declined it to make it second down and forever instead of first and forever and then some. Gambling on the odds?

 

[ROMOTOOWENS]

Gimpy calf gives him an excuse. I disagree. He played like crap.

 

[packerzrule]

Getting only 6 points with back to back 1st and goals hurt a lot. But the Packers have been stuffed at the goal line a few time this season and I 'm sure it would have been more devastating to not get any points at all with that field position.

Really have to wonder why Burnett went to the ground right away. It looked like he had plenty of daylight in front of him