Packers Game Ball Of The Week: Clay Matthews
by Brandon on Oct 13, 2010 10:23 AM CDT
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Although his hamstring didn't let him play the entire game, LB Clay Matthews was still awarded the game ball of the week for his awesomeness prior to his injury. Stats from ESPN.com: 1.5 sacks, 2 tackles for loss, and 3 QB hits. Unfortunately it looks like he'll be out of action for a couple weeks, unless the treatment on his injured hamstring goes very well this week.
While I'm mentioning injuries, I was loitering around Cheesehead TV last night, and we discussed QB Aaron Rodgers. The best guess at the moment is that he'll pass the independent evaluation, that he has no lingering effects of the concussion, and he'll be cleared to practice this week.
Another topic was their 3-2 record. The Colts were mentioned because they are 3-2 also, and fans came into this season expecting improvement from their Super Bowl runner-up. It hasn't been pretty for the Green Bay Packers, but if you take a look around the NFC you don't see a group of dominant teams ahead of them. The Falcons are probably the best team in the NFC at the moment, and they struggled to put the Browns away last week. The Redskins are 3-2, but they could "be 0-5 without having played materially different." They've just got to find a way to win, get into the playoffs anyway possible, and I'll still pick them over any NFC opponent in a playoff game.
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Schefter tweeted that the Packers are pessimistic on the thought of CM3 playing this week
by ThroughBeingCool on Oct 13, 2010 10:58 AM CDT up reply actions
"pessimistic"
not optimistic
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I've heard on seperate radio stations that CM3 can play...
It is just a matter of whether they want to risk reinjury at this point.
by Bush League All Star on Oct 13, 2010 10:29 PM CDT up reply actions
nothing is gonna go right for the Packers this season, is it?
I blame Donald Lee.
by ThroughBeingCool on Oct 13, 2010 10:58 AM CDT up reply actions
nor will my fantasy football season.
They want power. We want respect...
by SenorChuckles on Oct 13, 2010 11:13 AM CDT up reply actions
All I can think of...
…is this debate about the 18 game season.
I think the Colts comparison is an accurate one. They’ve definitely got health issues to. It’s really starting to come down to the fact that teams have really been showing up against the ones in the cat-bird seat and I hate to say it, but a bit of intensity has been lacking. The Vikes, the Chargers, the Bengals and even Saints have been struggling a bit of late. Not to mention the expectations on the 49ers this season.
Only the Jets and Ravens have really been living up to it all. And the Steelers look like they could easily be the dark horse.
I hate saying this because I always love to see Rodgers out there, but I’d rather see him sit that Miami game if by Friday we don’t have a conclusive verdict. I wouldn’t write Flynn off at all either. I’ll probably get jeered for this, but I think he’d be at least as productive as Henne in that game.
"Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser." - Vince Lombardi
I wouldn't mind seeing him sit either...
Because I’m sitting Jennings and starting Jackson on my fantasy team. A Matt Flynn start would make me feel a lot better about both decisions.
by junyer_mint on Oct 13, 2010 12:20 PM CDT up reply actions
I'd prefer to see Rodgers sit
One head injury makes the next more likely to happen and also more devastating. It’s not worth risking it. I’m still holding out hope the Packers can make a trade for Logan Mankins to get the line some help.
by I voted for Kodos on Oct 13, 2010 12:24 PM CDT up reply actions
I would prefer Rodgers sit as well
I’d like to see him play at a high level for the next ten years. A good way to ruin that would be to trot out a guy who hasn’t recovered from a brain injury. I’d really like to avoid a Kurt Warner/Trent Green situation.
Towlieppan: "You wanna throw high?"
Packers alway look out for the players long term health!
If Rodgers isn’t fully recovered he won’t play and if it might affect his long term health he won’t play. I’m not worried at all about the Packers risking the long term health of Rodgers for one game!
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Green Bay
could easily be 1-4 without having played materially different.
"Hawk Harrelson: Annoying even the hearing impaired": Teahenny Penny paraphrasing Chisoxfan1473
by NorthSidePaulie on Oct 13, 2010 12:19 PM CDT reply actions
Or 5-0.
Lots of close games, I feel the 3-2 is about right considering.
by Archibaldcrane on Oct 13, 2010 1:37 PM CDT up reply actions
with all these injuries....
MM likely gets a pass for a potential 8-8 season. Brace yourself for another season with a mediocre coach….ughhh
by Rodgers_for_MVP on Oct 13, 2010 1:15 PM CDT reply actions
So let me ask you this then
If the Packers finish with, say, a 10-6 record would you still feel like MM would be getting a pass considering expectations for the season were certainly higher than that?
Towlieppan: "You wanna throw high?"
i blame
thompson for hiring mccarthy and passing on sean peyton, but i can see thompsons view on the coaching decision. everybody wants to be surrounded by “yes” men, which is why peyton isn’t the packers coach……imo.
Lol at the “yes men” comment. So true.
by packallday555 on Oct 13, 2010 10:13 PM CDT up reply actions
I disagree there
TT and MM just have the same views on conservative draft building with character guys
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LOL!!!!
mm has no input what-so-ever in the draft decisions, that’s ted’s baby.
payton probably wanted some say in the players being brought in—-being a meddler in teds eye, so he hires a guy who won’t get in the way or question teds decisions.
Yeah, McCarthy seems like the kinda guy that would just go along with whatever somebody else said.
by packallday555 on Oct 15, 2010 10:45 AM CDT up reply actions
Actually, Childress is more like that kind of guy.
Unlike McCarthy, Chilly just goes along with everything Favre says.
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TT bashers - turning my stomach since 2005!
The glass is way more than half-full!
And, as you implied below,
Sherman pretty much was, too. haha.
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TT bashers - turning my stomach since 2005!
The glass is way more than half-full!
Thats not true...
Thompson won’t give McCarthy a player that he can’t use or doesn’t fit the scheme! ANd Thompson has said, that he wants a partnership w/ his HC, not a dictatorship! McCarthy is heavily involved in personnel decisions, but the final decision is always Thompson’s. Just like its always McCarthy who determines who plays in each game, etc. Its not nearly as cut and dried as Thompson gets the players and McCarthy has to live w/ them! McCarthy is always consulted about player personnel decisions!
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I credit Thompson
for passing on Childress.
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TT bashers - turning my stomach since 2005!
The glass is way more than half-full!
by NorthStarr on Oct 14, 2010 1:20 AM CDT up reply actions 4 recs
McCarthy got a little too cute with his gameplans the last few weeks
And he maybe shows too much confidence in coaches who don’t seem to get it done (Campen, and Slocum) but come on. He’s definitely a quality coach. Not everything he tries works, but by the end of the season, he usually figures out an offense that’s one of the better ones in the league. Sure it might be nice to have Payton, but you can’t fault the GM for choosing one good unproven offensive mind over the other, assuming Payton would’ve prefered Green Bay over New Orleans
he did
and said so in a couple interviews. he said " green bay was a dream job for him"., but alas payton probably wanted some say in the players being brought in, so i’m guessing that was the deal breaker.
i’m not banging on mm, i like him as a coach———just like reading some of the other posts that blame mm for the season so far—-comical.
I look at the intangibles
Again, little things make great coaches. When you have a team like the Green Bay Packers of the last 5 years, it’s easy to overlook the little things. Has he made the playoffs twice in 4 years he’s coached GBP? yes. But he’s had a talented team, full of pro bowlers in offense and defensive player of the years in defense. And the divisional competition has flat out sucked- Chicago has been in disarray, Detroit a zero team, the Vikes not that good.
But I keep thinking about that onside kick that turned the momentum in last year’s SB. McCarthy, my friends, doesn’t have the guts to try that in a preseason game. His resume is full of chickening out, panicking, calling a challenge when he shouldn’t have or not calling one when he should have, taking a timeout at the wrong time, but above all, HE’S NOT A GUTSY COACH. That’s why I want a good coach for this job, not one who just does an OK job.
by Rodgers_for_MVP on Oct 13, 2010 11:42 PM CDT up reply actions
WHat about the onside kick in the playoff game?
That was a gutsy call!!! McCarthy is more than just an OK HC… Great he’s not, but definitely really good. Close to if not in the top 10, IMO.
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by Strohman on Oct 14, 2010 12:03 AM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
that was probably the best call of his career
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couldn't agree more!
It takes a quality coach to reign in Favre after years of #4 running the show in GB under Sherman! That took some stones just to get Favre playing well again! And it takes a quality to HC to even get you to a NFC CHampionship game and almost SB, had #4 not reverted to usual form and thrown that overtime INT!!!
You've been Stroh'd!!!
by Strohman on Oct 14, 2010 12:00 AM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Your opinion...
One I don’t share!
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by Strohman on Oct 14, 2010 12:39 AM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
thats true
I forgot how he kicked favre back into shape
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Cmon now....
I know hating blurs rational thinking but let’s be objective and give Ceasar what’s Ceasar’s. According to you, whatever was good about 2007 was MMs merit and whatever was bad was Favre’s fault. That’s just great! Favre played great because MM made him look great. So when we couldn’t run the ball against the Giants and Favre had to try something, it was his fault. Forget about the 90 yd pass to Driver, that was all MM’s merit. The INT, sorry Brett. You suck. In 2004, when we had the game wrapped up and Sherman opted to punt the ball instead of going for 4th and 1 at PHI 41 using Green who had run for a buck 50 over that tired Eagles D, or when our D could not stop the famous 4 for 28, it was all on Favre. You suck Brett, cause you threw the INT.
I’m not trying to take any sides here but let’s just call it like it is. The team of 2007 could beat the Giants. The team of 2009 could beat the Cardinals. Neither did, and the reason it didn’t is more on the coaching staff, not the players.
by Rodgers_for_MVP on Oct 14, 2010 10:54 AM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
QB's
QB’s have the ball in their hands more than any other player! So ball security falls on their shoulders far more than any other position! QB’s w/ the best ball security are usually the ones who go the farthest in the playoffs! Any INT’s Favre threw are on hiim alone!! ANd its not like Sherman ever bothered to coach Favre on ball security either… Hell he didn’t coach him PERIOD!
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Did he ever bother to coach anything? Lol.
by packallday555 on Oct 15, 2010 10:45 AM CDT up reply actions
the only thing I dont like about mccarthy is that he overthings his offensive schemes and tries to trick the opponent
on every play. He needs to play to our players strengths (slants and screens), not the other teams weaknesses (whatever they may be). It usually takes him a few games every year to realize its better to give the offense an identity and run with that. Its fusturating, but its also a big part of later season success and is impacted by player improvement.
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