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NFC Championship Game: Tampa Bay Yucs at Green Bay Packers


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Not only do we not know what we have in Love, he only started showing promise in QB drills during practice late this season - by no fault of his own as we didn’t have a training camp.  He is still developing and will need more time - how much time is anyone’s guess.

If Rodgers were to leave, it’d most likely be Boyle or some other journeyman brought in until Love was ready.

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20 minutes ago, Leader said:

?  Why's that?  Without going into the specifics of each player, we had another excellent season and got to the NFCCG again.

Where's the unacceptable part? Are you implying input from some other player would have put us in the Super Bowl?   If so, what player would that be?

Winfield sure made an impact for TB. Yes I think some rookies should contribute in some capacity. Jenkins was a stud his rookie season.

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Either way brady was getting the ball back. Helps our defense out knowing he has to run on 1st and 2nd. You stop them he's now in a 3rd and long and with the 2 min warning you save a timeout. Now u get the ball back with 50 secs left to win the game.
Otherwise 
You go for it get it and the 2 pt. Its tied and Brady has 3 timeouts and 2 mins to drive down kick a field goal and we lose. Hard to stop as bucs can call any play with the time left and timeouts only needing 35 yards to win.
He made the right call king got caught holding on 3rd and long and lost us the game.

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1 hour ago, fattlipp said:

We have no idea about Love,  starting a 2nd year QB worked for the Chiefs...

Not fair to Love. Not the same situation either.  NFL MVP is on the roster here and has a huge dead cap hit for 2021 and a good size one in 2022. 

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6 hours ago, FinneasGage said:

i mean it's a ******* classic packer playoff game where you can say what if to like 15 different things that happened 

It's not a heartbreaking Packers loss if there aren't 15 egregious mistakes and we could have gotten away with any combination of 14 of those.

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17 minutes ago, Packer_ESP said:

It's not a heartbreaking Packers loss if there aren't 15 egregious mistakes and we could have gotten away with any combination of 14 of those.

Lol facts. But unfortunately we have had so many of these in the last decade this doesn’t even rank top 3 for me lol. Used to it by now. Mahomes is going to have the career Rodgers should have lol.

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4 hours ago, St Vince said:

Winfield sure made an impact for TB. Yes I think some rookies should contribute in some capacity. Jenkins was a stud his rookie season.

True...and nobody would argue that rookies shouldnt make an impact - the more the merrier - but rosters are different and drafts reflect a rosters needs.

Love was obviously a "futures" pick. Hopefully good things to come.
Dillon did make some impact at a position of depth. He showed he belongs. 
If he'd not gotten injured, I think DeGuaira (sp?) would have done some good things

Still - the roster was in a good place coming in and we had a *very good* season. We cant let the ending jaundice perceptions of the overall. 

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1 hour ago, Packer_ESP said:

It's not a heartbreaking Packers loss if there aren't 15 egregious mistakes and we could have gotten away with any combination of 14 of those.

No kidding... the whole around  half sequence lost the game. Between a not called PI int, a dropped pick, and king roast we went from driving trying to go up to down 11. That was the td they weren’t supposed to get

 

 

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6 hours ago, St Vince said:

I think we should just trade Rodgers to the highest bidder and get the max return. Suck for a few years while loading up on high draft picks. The league is getting harder every year, Rodgers will never get this far again in GB. let the guy go compete for a ring elsewhere. 

Let's take full advantage of Loves rookie deal while building a stellar defense and getting him real weapons like KC. You're not going to get that picking in the late 30's every year. Rodgers is a blessing and a curse. He will take you deep in the playoffs every year but he can't get you to the promise land. His salary prevents you from bringing in or retaining key FA.  And he hurts your draft position every year because he's so good in the regular season. Just blow it up and rebuild around Love, Alexander and Clark. 

I think @Outpost31 has a thread about this very subject

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Still need to get more physical as a football team. Did a decent job against the run overall today, only 3.2 ypc, but that long Fournette TD run was gross tackling. We weren't nearly as soft as that loss last season, so that's progress. But I still think we are a soft team overall. The culture is gradually changing, though. We are becoming more resilient

Our OL couldn't hold up today. David Bahktiari plays, we win this game. Vea was a monster on limited snaps. Linsley played poorly when we needed him to step up. Billy Turner had an awful time. Very good Tampa front 7, felt like Barrett and JPP were getting close on every snap. Devin White and Lavonte David are the best LB duo in football. Their defensive unit was so much more physical. We need a defense like this

Aaron Jones, love you man. Dynamic RB. Not elite, but one of the better backs in football. Really didn't show up today, the #1 run defense murked you. 2 fumbles, 1 giving TB an opportunity in the red area. Injured and out. Reports were that we offered you top 5 money and you declined. Good luck to you, but you are not a top 5 back and we cannot make the horrible decision of paying a RB that much money unless they are truly elite. We drafted AJ Dillon in the 2nd round. As much as I hate that decision, for the sake of consistent team building, you have to roll with him as your starter moving forward. Wouldn't mind bringing Jamaal Williams back if it's team friendly. 

Davante Adams. Okay, this might get me in trouble, but here it is. He's not the best wideout in football. Look at what Tyreek Hill is able to do to a defense. Adams is top 10 imo, but needed to play a special game here and he didn't show up. The drop in the endzone, bruh if you're the best wideout in the league you convert that score. The other he could have toe-tapped. Needed those plays. Needed more from him. I know Carlton Davis is a good corner, but this was TBs weakness. It was clear we couldn't run the ball on them so the pass catchers needed to show up. If we're not going to invest in pass catchers, then Adams needs to be special. I think this game showed he needs another quick shifty fast WR to complement him. The 2021 class is stacked with WRs, I wouldn't mind drafting one early. Or trading our first for Julio Jones 

Pettine....done with you man. First half was shambolic. 9/14 on 3rd down conversions, not good enough. The call at the end of the first half, after TB calls a timeout and you know they're going to try and hit a deep shot, absolutely inexcusable. Firable offense. Feels like a lot of DCs can get more out of this unit. Let MLF pick his own guy, and fire Mennenga while you're at it 

LaFleur...when a team has shut down your running game and you need answers in the passing game, I didn't see enough schematically to be happy with your playcalling. Run more PA, RPOs, get some easier completions. So many articles out there that conclude that play action works even if your team hasn't been running effectively. **** it, run the **** out of it. Needed better coaching from you. Credit to Todd Bowles, no wonder he's getting HC opportunities. The decision to kick a FG on 4th down was asinine and incredibly disappointing when you consider that LaFleur has actually been one of the smartest decision makers this season when it comes to going for it on 4th down when you should go for it, analytically speaking. Then goes and does that. Can't coach like a coward in big games. He will learn from this 

Lastly, Rodgers...I don't know what to say. Part of me feels like he played well enough to win, and you just can't give up 31 pts at home. The other part of me thinks the defense made enough stops in the 2nd half and he had his chances to win the game. Two three and outs after turnovers. 3 goal to go opportunities. Only 6 pts from 3 turnovers overall. That's not winning football. They played winning football, they converted TDs from their TOs last week against the Saints and they did it again this week, and that could have very well been the difference right there. Clear holding penalty missed on his INT. Rodgers played decent, but it felt like he needed to be nuclear hot to win, and that's a problem. He's not a choker in the playoffs. He performs well in most games, it just never seems good enough to win. This is once again a reminder of how hard it is to win a SB, or even get there. Sports media freaking out about his comments post-game. He isn't going anywhere. Retool and run it back. Get this man another weapon in the passing game. Legitimately feel like he can play until he's at least 45 at this high of a level. QBs hardly getting hit in today's game, LaFleur is a smart coach. Keep building. We are a SB caliber team for as long as this man stays hungry for another ring. The club needs to avoid making the disastrous decision to trade him; I don't see it happening. This man was an MVP in his 2nd season in this system. Keep it going, we will be back in this game 

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