LUKE23 wrote:paulpressey25 wrote:We're essentially in 2005 territory, which basically was when you thought Favre was done, Sherman left the talent cupboard sparse and we had no clue who or what Aaron Rodgers was.
The real losers though will be the Packers media/industrial complex. The jillions of sportscasters, sportstalk, bloggers, etc. who've thrived on decades of super bowl contention guaranteeing ratings and ad revenue.
I still believe this defense is super talented and is not being coached correctly. There is a few spots you could maybe upgrade (Savage) but they have a lot of talent there.
The offense has issues across the board including Rodgers.
I think the Defense has talent on it but it feels like it's missing those one or two guys who take over games and consistently make it really rough on offenses regardless of whether the defensive playcall on a particular play is perfect or not. Yeah we have guys like Gary, Alexander, etc. but we don't have Reggie White, Urlacher, Ray Lewis, or even guys like Charles Woodson and Clay Matthews that can skew a whole offensive gameplan and regularly ruin drives with individual plays.
If we want the defense to actually be able to carry the team week to week on the way to a superbowl and not just a .500ish record we need at least one and probably two players on the level of like when the Bears signed Khalil Mack, and I don't think they are currently on the roster.
This D would be more than good enough if the offense was still what it was, but they are nowhere near good enough to carry this verison of the offense the way Rodgers and the offense were carrying bad defenses all those years.
