HKPackFan wrote:This Defense got their asses handed to them for 3 quarters, BY THE WINLESS BROWNS. A 1-28 TEAM for cripe sakes!!!
Capers should not have a job with the Packers in 2018.
I'm rooting for the Packers to sneak in and who knows what happens with Aaron Rodgers. But I know we will get run over like we did against Falcons or in the old days the Rams where Favre threw 5 picks (not saying Rodgers will throw 5 picks but do you remember the futility of that game?).
It's going to be an ugly playoffs at some point, don't know when, wild card, divisional, or NFCC. But this defense is garbage. There is some individual talent, but overall the defense is garbage and they will get wiped out.
Someone told me this may have been the costliest W in 2 decades. A loss to the Browns would have brought out the pitchforks, even people who somewhat support the FO, were ready to jump sides in a Browns loss. The season is lost, Rodgers gets shut down, the pitchforks come out. People DEMAND changes, Murphy can't look like a clown with his hands in his pockets, the media goes ape ****. We finish the season with Hundley going 0-3 next three games and getting horribly embarrassed against the Panthers, and a bad loss to the Queens which will make fans blood boil and frothing at the mouth by the end of the season. It would have been the match that lit the fire. And a MONTH long of irate fans and media demanding change and MM/TT taking on heat like never on their entire careers.
All that got averted after browns qb goes full on TJ Rubley mode and we somehow walked away in OT with a W. Now there is excitement, momentum, Hundley "Kept us alive", MM did a good job of getting the guys to play hard through adversity while Rodgers was out, everything is forgiven. Rodgers can run the table and we are a Super Bowl caliber team again. Why change, when we got so close to the playoffs? We are almost there, just need a couple pieces on D, rinse and repeat for next 5 years.
I see both sides on this one, and I struggle back and forth on each side. At the end of the day I love watching Rodgers lead this team to victory and he gives you a chance every game. I naturally root for Ws. But I'm haunted by the thought of a flawed team never giving Rodgers enough support to win another Superbowl.
The most confusing thing for me has been this new narrative I've been hearing around, praising Hundley's stint as the QB - that he actually did a "great job" keeping the Packers in the playoff hunt. I've heard this from fans and professional analysts alike - that his QB play somehow saved the Packers season. Huh? Am I taking crazy pills? I'm not quite sure what games these people were watching (if they were even watching, because....why would they be?), but Hundley was bad. Like, REAL bad. A few last-second, squeaked-out victories against the Bears, Bucs, and Browns does not hide this fact.
I really think the win over the Browns was "costly" only in some fans' eyes - the fans that wanted some sort of validation from losing to the worst team in the league. Because THAT would "lead to changes." But the sad truth is: it wouldn't have mattered. It's not like this defense has only been bad for a few games, or a whole season, or even two seasons......it's been bad for MANY YEARS! You think the Packers decision makers aren't aware of this? Of course they are, yet nothing has changed. The defense has been embarrassed many times over the past 7 years, what makes anyone think that losing to the Browns would magically be the straw that breaks the camel's back?