Tough way to go out but this team exceeded expectations in so many ways. Love and his young WR will learn from this. Our defense will learn and ML and Gute will hopefully learn a lot about the holes they have. Great season!
The kicker will improve.Tough way to go out but this team exceeded expectations in so many ways. Love and his young WR will learn from this. Our defense will learn and ML and Gute will hopefully learn a lot about the holes they have. Great season!
There’s no such thing as being careful financially with QBs. You either commit or move on. Your guy is either a $50m per year guy or you’re replacing him. Just the way it is.The Pack played hard.
However,
Once again, but not completely like they used to, they were out manned by the 9ers. The gap closed, but they were the more physical, more mentally tough, and faster football team.
DEFENSE:
I would love a defense that was a 'stopper.' We don't have it but they actually did enough.
I hate the scheme. How many 3d and 5s are our guys 6 yards back - and they're not 6 yards back flying forward.
Unfortunately, I think Barry saved his job. I do believe our personnel could be used better.
OFFENSE:
When it was needed, the offense didn't get it done.
4th and 1. We're just not a team that pushes people out of the way. We never should have done that. Obviously, I'm assuming our quarter flip kicker makes it. But still, we are not a team that pushes people out of the way and plows over them. I hated the call.
Love proved he's very good. Above average. But he has not proved he's the next coming. He hasn't. I'm not saying he's a bust or that we should aggressively go get somebody, I'm saying this because we need to be very careful financially with him. I just don't think he merits the huge salary he'll probably demand. In the clutch, in a harsh environment, he didn't get it done. That's horribly harsh. It's a hard world. We need to be careful.
Lots of good news on offense with everyone. My major gripe is going for it on 4th down - especially the way we tried. We just aren't a tough get the hell out of our way team. We are a strategic and tactical tough team and need to play that way.
It was a far better year than I expected before Thanksgiving. They turned it around. Made it exciting and had me believing.
YOU'LL JUST HAVE TO LIVE WITH IT:
I'll never be the guy that finds glory in losing. We lost. I'm not happy to have gotten this far. It's hard to win a championship. You have to grab every opportunity. It looks like we set for the future, but that is now 17 games away.
Every year is different and it's darn tough to make it back but we can have hope!They had opportunities that they couldn’t take advantage of and it was too much to overcome on the road against a good team. Really wanted the legend of Love to continue to grow and it’s a gut wrenching way to go out, truth is for all the optimism - you just never know when you’ll be back! It was a total team loss but everyone will remember that INT. Just the way it goes