Like Bill Murray in Groundhog Day, Green Bay Packers’ head coach Mike McCarthy has been living the same game, over and over again. 1) Get a lead 2) Get conservative, keep opponent in the game. 3) Fail to get first downs to kill the clock in the latter part of the fourth quarter 4) Hand […]
Packers Offense
Despite Slow Start, James Jones Still a Weapon for Packers
Packers WR James Jones didn’t see much action Thursday Night against the Saints. Does this mean the Packers don’t need him or won’t use him?
Will the NFL Lockout Impact the Green Bay Packers Offense?
When the lockout started, many NFL observers thought the Green Bay Packers were built to survive an offseason without OTAs and a shortened preseason. Truth is, nobody knows for sure how a team will react to an entire offseason without contact with coaches and organized workouts.
Packers Offense: Why Tricky Does Not Mean Complex
In a recent article on NBC, Football Outsiders senior writer Mike Tanier wrote a piece on how the lockout might have a detrimental affect NFL offenses. The reasoning is pretty simple, with less time to prepare and train players due to the lockout, playbooks and offensive philosophies that are considered “tricky” are going to be harder to execute than “simple” offenses and therefore put “tricky” offenses at a disadvantage.
According to Hobbes: Packers Offseason Primer on the NFL Combine: Wide Recievers
Wide Recievers: Here’s the third of a series of articles looking specifically at the NFL combine and the Packers’ drafting tendencies. This article will use the combine numbers from previous players drafted by GM Ted Thompson as a guide for what wide recievers are likely to fit into the Packers’ scheme. Again, this is merely an attempt to make a best guess based on statistics at which players the Packers might be interested in, game tape naturally trumps combine numbers, so take all of this with a grain of salt. But I believe it will make for some interesting discussion. Listed below are two wide recievers in this year’s draft who I think fit the Packers scheme the best, based on their combine numbers.