Fall of the House of Green Bay Redux.
Greetings loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader must take issue with his esteemed Minister of Agriculture. He had wanted to blog out his feelings about the recent Green Bay loss, but to paraphrase Dr. Evil "A villainous Maximum Leader doesn't speak aloud about his feelings/His hurt and his pain don't make him to appealing."
I cannot disagree more about the 4th and 26 conversion of the Eagles. It was a real problem. It was a real problem because Coach Sherman (or Coach Donatell) called for a BLITZ ON 4TH AND 26!!!!! A FRICKKIN' BLITZ!!!! Why? Why? Why? It makes no sense. The whole game had shown that while blitzing was moderately effective; if a blitz call started to collapse the pocket witout getting the sack, there was a chance that McNabb would run. So, you want to PREVENT him from running forward. You also want to PREVENT the big play. The Packers could have given up 24 yards and still gotten the ball back. (I say 24 yards in case the Eagles got an overgenerous spot. Which they in fact, did.) How about a PREVENT defence? I know you would have given up some yards, but you had yards to give. What the Packers did was stack the line and go into man coverage. That was the idot call. If they don't convert, well then game over Pack on their way to Carolina. But, by setting up a situation where a long yardage play could work, the Pack helped do themselves in.
Additionally, on the 4th and goal in the 2nd Quarter that the Pack went for but didn't get. Another stupid move. Always take points early and go for it late. (As TMQ always says.) If the Pack had taken the points, the outcome of the game may have been different.
As the Minister of Agriculture says, the run was working well. But, the Packers didn't go for the run down the gut enough. Particularly in the 3rd Quarter. They were a little too pass-happy.
And, of course, the big untold item from the M of A's post... Favre should have taken the sack and not lofted it up without looking.
There. Your Maximum Leader is done now.
Carry on.
I cannot disagree more about the 4th and 26 conversion of the Eagles. It was a real problem. It was a real problem because Coach Sherman (or Coach Donatell) called for a BLITZ ON 4TH AND 26!!!!! A FRICKKIN' BLITZ!!!! Why? Why? Why? It makes no sense. The whole game had shown that while blitzing was moderately effective; if a blitz call started to collapse the pocket witout getting the sack, there was a chance that McNabb would run. So, you want to PREVENT him from running forward. You also want to PREVENT the big play. The Packers could have given up 24 yards and still gotten the ball back. (I say 24 yards in case the Eagles got an overgenerous spot. Which they in fact, did.) How about a PREVENT defence? I know you would have given up some yards, but you had yards to give. What the Packers did was stack the line and go into man coverage. That was the idot call. If they don't convert, well then game over Pack on their way to Carolina. But, by setting up a situation where a long yardage play could work, the Pack helped do themselves in.
Additionally, on the 4th and goal in the 2nd Quarter that the Pack went for but didn't get. Another stupid move. Always take points early and go for it late. (As TMQ always says.) If the Pack had taken the points, the outcome of the game may have been different.
As the Minister of Agriculture says, the run was working well. But, the Packers didn't go for the run down the gut enough. Particularly in the 3rd Quarter. They were a little too pass-happy.
And, of course, the big untold item from the M of A's post... Favre should have taken the sack and not lofted it up without looking.
There. Your Maximum Leader is done now.
Carry on.
posted by The Maximum Leader at 1/15/2004 08:30:00 PM
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