Defense Wins Championships

Much love. Now I don’t have to put a TL;DR. Will read :)

I hope they let 88 walk… So tired of his mouth and him not living up to his potential… Please let’s Draft someone who can actually catch the ball!! I’m guessing since he dropped 5 passes in the most important game of his career… & we won a SB without him, that TT will let someone else pay him 5 million a year to drop the ball when it counts!!!

What if we don’t have to pay him 5 million though? Considering Finley had such a down year, we may be able to get him at a fair price. Perhaps Finley will target a 2-3 year contract with a middle of the road salary in hopes of getting big money after that contract expires. I’m down on Finley too, but he still brings a lot to this offense and we have seen him play at a high level various times. I’m open to giving Finley another chance at the right price. Remember, he has performed great in the playoffs in the past…

Isn’t next year the SuperBowl in Giants Stadium?

Super Bowl is in New Orleans, which I think would suit Rodgers just fine.

Who knows? Could be two straight games in the Superdome if the Saints get the #1 seed.

Defensively, I think the talent is there for GB (maybe a few adjustments), but schematically, I didn’t think Capers would rush three so often.

Capers rushed only 3 often times last year as well. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn’t. The difference was we had Cullen Jenkins as one of the 3 rushers. This year, we had a bunch of nobodies. I’m not sure whey Capers kept doing it, but perhaps after evaluating this season, he will learn from this mistake. Yes, the scheme was certainly different and bad. We played a lot of zone this year, which is not the strength of our players. We didn’t play a lot of press coverage either, like we did in past years. I’m confident that our D will be fixed though, because it was stout last year. We lost a couple key players, but we have another draft coming up with one of the best draft gurus in TT. I believe things will turn around for our D.

Great team you guys have, just picked a bad day to have an off game.

Yep, it really was.

Even the Niners D would struggle with that.

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Both sides were terrible. There is no point in trying to put the blame on either. You are right, the D played awesome in the 3rd and in most games that would have been enough for our O to win the game…unfortunately they sucked too. It was just a terrible performance by out team all around.

You make it sound like we were top 5 in points…sure we were bend but don’t break but those are the kind of D’s that fall apart the quickest. Good, solid, discaplined defenses can more easily survive from season to season. I worry what happens if the breaks don’t go our way next year with the turnovers (like the Saints last year after their super bowl run).

i think they’re bringing him along slowly. kindas like they did with Finley his first year. I gurantee you if Filey leaves (and I don’t want him to) it’ll be between Williams and Quarless to take over the job. I’m not that impressed with Taylor

he was inactive for the playoff game. I’m not sure why, I would rather have him in there than Crabtree.. blocking may not be as good, but I’d rather have the hands and playmaking ability of Williams.

You can probably cover Williams w/ a LB or Safety easily. He is only 6’2, so he has no size advantage and isn’t much quicker or faster than LB’s. He is a good reciever, but he won’t ever command a double team. Finley is going NOWHERE IMO! Williams won’t be someone teams look at and say how are we gonna matchup w/ him! Finley forces DC’s to do that every week and that allows alot more Freedom for Jennings and Nelson. Finley is worth 3M per year just for the attention that DC’s have to give to him and another 3M for his production! And if you assume he isn’t always going to have the drops like this year, and he never had a problem catching the ball before, so its a safe assumption, then the only reason you don’t pay his is cuz YOU think he’s too outspoken! And that is the epitome of stupid!

No he’s plenty clutch. His issue is clearly with concentration and thinking ahead to the “amazing” things he’s goign to do after the catch. If you watch his catches, the more difficult they are, the better he does because he’s forced to concentrate on just the catch. When he’s in the open field and has an easy catch to make that is when he drops them because he’s clearly thinking ahead. Finley has made plenty of clutch catches for us though, I think that is an unfair statement to make.

Williams has the potential to be a nice #2 to Finley, maybe our version of Aaron Hernandez to Finley’s Gronkowski (if he can ever put it all together). He’s not the same kind of guy that Finley is though.