Captain_Ben wrote: ↑21 Jul 2022 11:36
Yoop wrote: ↑21 Jul 2022 08:49
last years SF loss should make this obvious to all, we had a great defense and lost because we ran out of skill position players, go ahead and blame it on one missed pass to Lazard, Lewis fumble or any other issue ( sucky ST's) that tend to happen in every game, ya overcome short comings like that when ya have more then just a couple good receivers, specially when one of em is your RB.
I tend to agree with this. I understand the desire to have an offense that is built to run the ball in cold weather. But it couldn't have hurt to have a WR besides Adams that could get some separation. My impression of Lazard has always been that he has good hands but isn't very good at getting open. Too many of his highlights are Rodgers threading a tiny needle, which is extra hard to do in subzero temps.
I'm starting to believe that the teams most likely to win Super Bowls are those which are void of any obvious weaknesses to be exploited. It's not as much about having one or two position groups that are dominant forces (sure it helps), but just don't have any group that sucks. Our WR corps sucked and we paid the price.
yep, unless you have about 3 skill position players that a DC has to game plan to stop, the good ones you do have will be blanketed with double coverage, it actually does become a numbers thing, most teams play nickel or dime against us, thats 5 DB's to our Adams, Jones and the jags, sure we can blame Rodgers for being selective, but theres a reason for that, he doesn't fully trust the others to do there part.
several years back when the stooges where rookies it seemed obvious that Rodgers wouldn't throw to them even when they where open, probably because they didn't run the route right, it's been my impression ever since that Rodgers would rather sacrifice the season to get rid of mCcarthy and send a message to Gute that he didn't like his method of fixing the WR position, Guty's next move was to draft Love's replacement versus taking one of the top receivers in the class, he sure showed Rodgers who's boss, the results are two lost PO games, Adams leaving and Guty now scrambling finally trying to fix the WR position, now I may be wrong about this, and most here will say I am, but thats how it appeared to me.
I agree, ya can't have glaring weakness and expect to win PO games, one of the easiest things to control is the passing game imo, if ya have a great QB it seems imperative that you provide him with a stable of capable receivers, and keep and refresh them every couple years, for anyone to think you can keep a great defense together year after year hasn't been paying attention, it just doesn't work out that way in most situations, players leave for the molla after first contract, it's now the way the NFL is.
it does NO good to have a silver plated shinny pistola if ya have no bullets to shoot