It might be difficult to say that a team that won 15 regular season games went through many “struggles,” but the truth is that the 2011-12 Green Bay Packers had their fair share of significant flaws that were successfully covered up for most of the season. In the end, all four of them came back […]
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2011 Packers Become “A Fart in the Wind” After Disheartening Loss to Giants
It was never supposed to end like this for the 2011 Green Bay Packers. No, Sunday’s 37-20 result wasn’t supposed to happen after the greatest regular season performance in franchise history, a 15-1 mark that can now only be topped with 16-game perfection. It couldn’t have happened after seeing the Packers come out on the […]
Analyzing Dom Capers. A Track Record of Success and Regression
One of the issues discussed on Twitter immediately after the Packers took a dump against the Giants was the track record of defenses coached by Dom Capers. The Twitter chatter focused on the fact that Capers’ defenses generally decline in years two and/or three. Actually this topic came up before Sunday but now that us […]
2011 Packers Defense: Where Does The Buck Stop?
I have been watching a lot of football these past two weekends, and I think the only NFL game I didn’t watch at least part of was Denver vs. New England. (Really, was there a point to seeing that one?) And while I’ve cached away a lot of observations, there are a couple big things that have stuck with me. The most impressionable of these, I believe, was the way the San Francisco 49ers defense handled the New Orleans Saints.
Packers vs. Giants: 5 Observations from Green Bay’s 37-20 Loss to New York
The Green Bay Packers (15-2) picked an awful time to play their worst game of the 2011 season, and the New York Giants more than capitalized on it Sunday in knocking the defending champions out of the playoffs with a 37-20 win at Lambeau Field in the NFC Divisional Round. Here are five observations from […]