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Re: 2009 Green Bay Packers - NFC North the 3-4 way
The offense didn't really move toward solving many of their issues and the special teams units were shaky as a whole. Thank god the defense went with an aggressive mindset. The blitzes were well designed and took advantage of some mental mistakes by Dallas, but sometimes it wasn't even that. When you just have an attack mentality on defense it fuels you even on plays where you have the protection outnumbered. I was maybe most impressed with the run defense. After a few successful carries early in the game, Dallas did nothing on the ground and really got away from it. Green Bay didn't have a stellar average and had no explosive plays in the run game, but I did like seeing them commit to it enough to get almost 30 carries and gain over 100 yards on the ground.
Does Jeff Triplette's crew make that game unwatchable or what? It wasn't a particular beef against one team. They were just not very good. I know these are two of the most penalized teams in football and they didn't play anything close to a clean game, but I thought this crew took the approach I hate in just looking for any little reason they can find to call a penalty. One thing I'll freely admit is I'd have to look up is whether it's a penalty for a coach to challenge when he has none left. If it isn't a penalty, the rules need to be changed in the offseason to make it one. It's too easy for a coach to give his defense a break by throwing a challenge flag just to break some momentum. At the very least make the coach choose between taking a delay of game penalty or using a timeout if they have one. That's where Triplett's crew really looked like they didn't know what they were doing...to take so long to decide the Packers didn't have a challenge as well as taking 5 minutes to determine a fumble recovery wasn't reviewable. That one I did know the second Bum Jr. threw that red flag. They did get both of those right eventually, but taking so long made them look like they were completely lucky in doing so.
One last thing, Woodson has to be your defensive player of the week. That guy can just ball. If he's willing to move to safety in a year or two he could probably be an every down player for another 4 years.
The offense didn't really move toward solving many of their issues and the special teams units were shaky as a whole. Thank god the defense went with an aggressive mindset. The blitzes were well designed and took advantage of some mental mistakes by Dallas, but sometimes it wasn't even that. When you just have an attack mentality on defense it fuels you even on plays where you have the protection outnumbered. I was maybe most impressed with the run defense. After a few successful carries early in the game, Dallas did nothing on the ground and really got away from it. Green Bay didn't have a stellar average and had no explosive plays in the run game, but I did like seeing them commit to it enough to get almost 30 carries and gain over 100 yards on the ground.
Does Jeff Triplette's crew make that game unwatchable or what? It wasn't a particular beef against one team. They were just not very good. I know these are two of the most penalized teams in football and they didn't play anything close to a clean game, but I thought this crew took the approach I hate in just looking for any little reason they can find to call a penalty. One thing I'll freely admit is I'd have to look up is whether it's a penalty for a coach to challenge when he has none left. If it isn't a penalty, the rules need to be changed in the offseason to make it one. It's too easy for a coach to give his defense a break by throwing a challenge flag just to break some momentum. At the very least make the coach choose between taking a delay of game penalty or using a timeout if they have one. That's where Triplett's crew really looked like they didn't know what they were doing...to take so long to decide the Packers didn't have a challenge as well as taking 5 minutes to determine a fumble recovery wasn't reviewable. That one I did know the second Bum Jr. threw that red flag. They did get both of those right eventually, but taking so long made them look like they were completely lucky in doing so.
One last thing, Woodson has to be your defensive player of the week. That guy can just ball. If he's willing to move to safety in a year or two he could probably be an every down player for another 4 years.
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