NFL Week 8 : Priorities

[Deejay]

Aaron Rodgers is excellent....Green Bay needs a better coach for starters.

Aaron Rodgers is good, but meh. He's a CEO's phillip rivers. He'll make nice throws and score touchdowns all fucking day and still find a way to not win a game for you.

[Weltall]

Aaron Rodgers is good, but meh. He's a CEO's phillip rivers. He'll make nice throws and score touchdowns all fucking day and still find a way to not win a game for you.

Wrong. The QB is doing his job in Green Bay. Any time your QB throws for 225+/3TD+/0INT you should win the game. If you are losing, then:

(In order)
1. Coaching needs to improve
2. Defense needs to improve
3. Special teams need to improve

A better Oline will surely help things (tremendously, for any team), but Rodgers shouldn't have to throw 5 TD a game to win shootouts. The bandage should be placed on another part of the team. A strong blocking TE could help them as well.

[Gadritan]

Wow. Looking at the break down, they're playing really well in all 3 aspects of the game. Offense, defense, special teams.

They're falling short at clutch moments though. The coaching does stand to improve some as well. A little more ground and pound to get better clock management would do them some good instead of having nearly 50/50 on possession.

[Weltall]

Better coaching would lead to the offense not having to drive at the end of the game with 1:15 left EVERY single week for a win when they already have 24+ points....

Mike is a joke imo and I don't know how it doesn't get more pub on how awful he is...

Take every coach in the league minus Chilly/Zorn and Mike is at or damn near the bottom of the list. I would rather have Norv Turner...if that clears up my feelings on MM. His "my way or the highway" attitude has really retarded some talent on that team.

[Gadritan]

Yeah. I really feel kinda' sad for them now looking at the stats, lol. On paper they should be contenders this year.

[Conrad]

Did my real Pro Bowl ballot today, thinking of making another joke one to send in. QBs will be Clutch/Josh Johnson/Romo/Russell/Anderson/write-in J.P. Losman.

[Gadritan]

write-in J.P. Losman.

WINNAR!

[Weltall]

Pro-bowl write-in for the AFC: Danny Weurfel

Pro-bowl write-in for the NFC: Jeff George

Edit - 99% chance I goof'd Danny's name

[Kyo]

lol... on ESPN they just did a comparison of the NY teams and the title was Empire State of Decline.

[Gadritan]

rofl.

I really can't stop going "wtf," at the Giants. The Eagles are just being the Eagles, but I really didn't expect the Giants to flop around like this...crazy shit.

[Conrad]

At least you guys have baseball this year. All I have to look forward to if the Phils lose tonight is the Eagles' annual NFC Championship loss.

[Gadritan]

*cringe*

I fucking hate the Yankees. Braves4lifeyo.

[Conrad]

rofl.

I really can't stop going "wtf," at the Giants. The Eagles are just being the Eagles, but I really didn't expect the Giants to flop around like this...crazy shit.

The only team more Jekyll & Hyde than the Eagles right now are the Jags. I still expect the Giants to make the playoffs, but it's more likely as a WC team than running the East. I actually need to reevaluate my playoff picks from Week 1 now that it's the halfway point.

[Flarega]

They have better up-and-coming WRs than Chambers at this point; a good move in my opinion.

Yeah apparently its possible to over-underachieve on the chargers.

[Flarega]

And holy lol I just read on NFL.com that clutch got the game ball.

http://www.nfl.com/news/story?id=090...s&confirm=true

[Gadritan]

FUCK! No chance of him getting benched this season anymore apparently.

The Panthers ran it right at the Cardinals' then-No. 1 ranked rushing defense. They ran it at eight-man fronts. They ran it on normal passing downs. They ran it so much (44 rushes to 15 passes) that Delhomme and Moore did not complete a single pass in the second half.

When you can do this, why in the fuck do we have 2 games with over 40 passing attempts and 1 @30+?

The entire Panthers offense last year consisted of "8 in the box? Good luck chumps." *runs it down your throat* When we keep passes to less than 20 attempts, we usually win.

It's a shame our coaching staff apparently has dick for a memory this year. $5 says they toss it up 35 fucking times next week.

[Gadritan]

It's a good thing I naturally have insanely low blood pressure or I might have popped something reading that.

[Rem]

Fuck yeah for the embattled quarterback!

Really though, I'm glad you guys beat Arizona. Now its back to cheering for more pass plays for that warrior in the pocket.

[archibaldcrane]

They've got a great QB, but they have a hell of a RB that should be their real focus for the offense.

No.

Grant is not "a hell of a RB". He's mediocre. He's NOT a feature back. He had a good half of ONE season (while the offense was basically 4-5 WR sets every play and teams had to play pass constantly.)

Here is an excellent post describing Grant - he gets worse as the game goes on, he gets worse the more carries he gets. He should be part of a RB tandem or committee, GB is completely mis-using him.

Why Ryan Grant Isn't TheAnswer - Acme Packing Company

This is why a lot of packer fans were hoping and praying they'd pull off a trade for Steven Jackson before the deadline...goddamnit that guy is good.

[tyven]

grant looked awesome in the preseason!