Post by vikecycle on Mar 13, 2018 20:54:29 GMT -6
One man does not make the team. The Packers will at best be 10-6 this year with Rodgers starting all 16 games. I'll call it right now. The Vikings beat them in both games. What Rodgers did before Zimmer was coach doesn't mean crap as far as I'm concerned. The Packer have had the same coaches for the last 7 years. They finally replaced their DC, and it will be at least a year or two before he can get the proper personnel to fit his defense. And as long as McCarthy is calling the offense...........he's predictable as Chiliball.
I do find it funny that you declare the 2009 regime irrelevant, yet include the regime before Zimmer in your numbers. IF what we did in 2009 doesn't matter, than what we did before Zimmer shouldn't matter.
Zimmer is 2-4 against Aaron Rodgers, all 3 of those 4 loses being complete blowouts. Your standard of success is sensationally low.
One man doesn't make a team, but neither can you just magically handwave away that one player and his impact (especially when he is the cornerstone of the roster) because you feel like it.
The fact of the matter is that with Aaron Rodgers, the Packers usually, and CONSISTANTLY beat us, usually blowing us out. Sorry, but it's just how it is.
GB was 7-9 with Hundley for most the year, so I really doubt Rodgers isn't at least worth 5 more wins.
Mike Pettine runs a 3-4 D, it's not quite the same as Capers, but it's still a 3-4. Considering it didn't take them long to transition from a league low 4-3 D to Capers D in 2009, and achieve relatively fast success, immediately becoming a top 5 unit (albeit, didn't long), nor did it take Zimmer long to turn our D into the unit it is today, I find it somewhat wishfully presumpteous to assume they're transition will take a full season.
McCarthy runs one if the most varied WCO offenses in the league, empty assertions that he runs a 'predictable' O get us nowhere.
What happened the last 3 times GB went 10-6? Lombardi trophy, Divisional round appearance, NFCCG appearance. Yea.. not much of a consolation even if they did go 10-6. Though I anticipate they will do much better then that, what were they before Rodgers got hurt? 4-1?