Just finished reading the always incisive and thorough coverage in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and came away with these observations:
-Mike McCarthy is getting roasted for trying a 51-yard field goal on a windy night, knowing that the miss would give the Vikings great field position.
-Aaron Rodgers is getting roasted for holding the ball so long in what is supposed to be a quick-passing offense.
-John Jolly is getting roasted for his head-butt, one of the biggest plays in the game.
-DE Cullen Jenkins is the latest Packer to complain about the defensive scheme of Dom Capers. Jenkins and Kampman are not the same players in Caper"s scheme, which has moved Jenkins and Kampman to different roles than the ones they used to succeed in.
-The talk shows are roasting McCarthy and Ted Thompson, predictably.
My thoughts? I don't disagree with any of the criticisms, and yet I still think the Pack will rally and make the playoffs, and I still like Rodgers as a young quarterback who does indeed need to become more decisive. As one analyst here put it, he waits for receivers to get open instead of ``throwing them" open, meaning leading them to open areas, or throwing, as Brett Favre does so often, to the side of the body that will keep the ball away from the defender.
Isn't it amazing that when he had Favre, McCarthy was considered a young coaching genius and Brad Childress was considered a dunce, and now that Favre plays for the Vikings they both look like completely different coaches?
