Packers assess the Dallas loss

[Ayt]

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=693314

"We had 21 mental errors in the football game," McCarthy said afterward. "We hadn't had over nine mental errors in quite some time as a football team, so that's something that needed to be identified, as a group and individually. So we did that.

Of Dallas quarterback Tony Romo's 309 passing yards, 201 came on six completions, all of which totaled 20 yards or more in length and at least half of which were the result of inexcusable coverage mistakes. Of the Packers' nine penalties, six occurred on defense, including four that accounted for 112 yards.

Yikes.

Anyway, I think its great that McCarthy basically sat the coaches and the players down and asked WTF went wrong in the preparation for the game and what went wrong during the game. A lot of coaches seem to want to move on from losses and mistakes whereas McCarthy wants to analyze it fully to figure out the problems and get them fixed.

[JHSFIVE]

This is good....

This is a good indication that MM and the rest of the team are very confident that they'll see the Cowboys again this season.

[xTitan]

I see a major problem with meeting Dallas again.....good ole Bob Saunders is not a smart enough D-coordinator to be able to make game time changes to deal with a creative offensive mind like Jason Garrett...its a terrible mis-match. GB has been pretty lucky that they have not faced any real good QB's until Dallas, Saunders has kept everything extremely vanilla all year....let Aaron and KGB rush the passer, your 2 cover CBs cover, and your bigs clog up the middle on the run.....but with Dallas vanilla doesn't work, need a more creative mind who can utilize the skills of the LB's to create more plays, Saunders is not that.

[El Duderino]

I see a major problem with meeting Dallas again.....good ole Bob Saunders is not a smart enough D-coordinator to be able to make game time changes to deal with a creative offensive mind like Jason Garrett...its a terrible mis-match. GB has been pretty lucky that they have not faced any real good QB's until Dallas, Saunders has kept everything extremely vanilla all year....let Aaron and KGB rush the passer, your 2 cover CBs cover, and your bigs clog up the middle on the run.....but with Dallas vanilla doesn't work, need a more creative mind who can utilize the skills of the LB's to create more plays, Saunders is not that.

Man, we often don't agree, but not on this one. Most fans seemed to be really mad at how we changed our offensive game plan by throwing deep, i was much more bothered by the way Sanders called the defense.

It was obvious to me that by mid-second quarter that Sanders was going to have to change tactics if we were going to have any chance to stop the Dallas offense. I could see with KGB/Jolly out and Dallas having a good offensive line, our front four wasn't going to get any pressure on Romo.

Jenkins couldn't beat Adams one on one, so on passing plays they just doubled Williams inside with two huge lineman, often doubled/chipped on Kampman, and Pickett has zero pass rush ability. Because of this Romo sat back there like we were rushing nobody on most downs, he had all day to throw and picked us apart.

I was screaming for Sanders to blitz or even zone blitz, just do something/anything to change things up and not give Romo the same looks. Sanders was so used to the front four getting there that's it's almost as if he forget you're allowed to blitz if the front four aren't cutting it. After the game even Romo commented on how vanilla our defense was. Plus, it's not like dropping seven was preventing big plays.

If we play them again, odds are KGB and Woodson are back which should help. I do hope though if Dallas were to start shredding us again because we aren't getting a pass rush, Sanders won't sit there again asleep like a robot and keep sending in the exact same call. Send a corner blitz, safety blitz, a zone blitz or two etc, just please don't let an accurate passer with many weapons sit in the pocket all day until a receiver gets open. I can accept losing if we play aggressive, but it's hard to watch any defense play passive all game and changing up nothing as a passing game is eating you alive. Dallas has to skilled a pass game to stop if nothing happens to disrupt it.