At 3-3 what have we learned about our Packers?

and some team philosophy changes can fix it

I couldn’t agree anymore with what you just said.

The first paragraph is so perfect haha. That literally seems like the only thing we do on offense. Send the tight end up the seam, Jennings deep, and run a deep square in or curl with Driver. And ironically enough, when Jennings was running those some short curls and outs he was getting open. Driver and Nelson too. Remember that 2007 season when all we’d do is throw a quick timing route to a guy, who would then make a couple people miss and turn it into a 10+ yard gain? Where is that offense? I have a hard time believing that Rodgers isn’t capable of hitting guys on those quick routes, so it can’t be because of him.

All the slants, curls, outs, and in’s need to come back quick or this offense is going to continue to look mediocre. It’d be great to see us lining up in the I-Formation too. Call a run play, and if the corner’s are playing off coverage let Rodgers throw it out to Jennings or Driver quick. All that short stuff was the staple of this team, and it’s like all of the sudden it just disappeared.

Second paragraph is perfect too. For some reason we did a couple toss plays to Kuhn, and used Jackson primarily in between the tackles. Anyone want to fill me in on the logic behind that? My favorite was when we ran a screen play to Kuhn. Why on earth wouldn’t we run it to Jackson? The guy has proven to be plenty capable catching passes out of the back field. Oh, and Kuhn dropped it too. Sheesh.

Where are the slants? I miss those type of plays. We still have outstanding athletic receivers that are capable of making defenders miss tackles. Especially when our run game isn’t where it needs to be with Jackson and Kuhn running the show, a return to a passing game like that would make a big difference in my opinion. Instead, we get Rodgers sitting back in the pocket just waiting for the protection to break down, then scrambling and trying to turn it into anything positive. I understand that he is capable of throwing some pretty passes at times and scrambling away from defenders to give a guy time to get open, but our whole offense can’t be centered on that. There is a time and place for it. A few quick slants makes the defense play you a little differently and then could open some guys up deep when Jennings can break away and get separation.

Our offense is just too… predictable. Very one dimensional. Throw some slants and let the receivers make some plays with the ball. Rodgers is great, but he’s not the only option to make a play when we need it.

In the first half I was thinking McCarthy read this blog and saw this post from me but in the esecond half, he reverted back to his old ways. Man the first quarter and first half were GREAT though until we started throwing deep every play again.

And McCarthy won’t man up and take responsibility for it!

Nope, he won’t. Instead he just avoids the question. It kind of reminds me of the whole “stream of consciousness” with Chilly.

because it is a product of number two

I’ve even written a letter to Goodell saying if the refs don’t start giving the Packers some breaks I’m going to end it all with a note around me saying the NFL did it.

Let’s see how he responds.

Bad luck and lack of experience. It’s not like he has never given his team a chance. Against Washington, he drove his team down the field for a game winning field goal in the final seconds of regulation. DOINK! In OT, he threw a pick. Granted there was a no helmet to helmet flag when Rodgers was hit on that play like in the AZ playoff game last year, but he did turn it over. Everyone has a job to do, so I can’t blame it all on Rodgers.

I think McCarthy’s play calling also affects Rodgers’ ability to make any comebacks as well. When you have 2 aging OT’s that just aren’t the same anymore, call plays for him to get rid of the ball quickly. I thought McCarthy learned this after the beginning of last season, but I guess I was wrong.

we’d really rather not have Favre back on our team.