rilamann wrote:I'm just telling it like it is and calling it how I see it and the homers don't like it because they think this team is above criticism,it's pretty simple.
I don't buy that at all as to why people often disagree with your analysis. It's instead the cliche filled arguments you use to try and make your point vs using more fact/data based reasoning. For example
"This team almost has the classic bully mentality,they talk big and try to intimidate and it works most of the time"Who exactly are all of these Packer players you claim talk big and try to intimidate opponents before any given game, as if talking would even intimidate any team ? I read the paper everyday and often listen to player interviews and rarely ever does any player talk smack before a game. They mostly say the same bland crap players on all teams say. Sounds to me something you are either simply making up or imagining.
"This team seems full of themselves and they seem to have a sense that are entitled to win."Again, what exactly do you base this on that the team is "so full of themselves and entitled to win"? Yea, most of the players and coaches are confident guys, but name me any quality team out there who doesn't have a roster full of confident players, confident coaches, and having an overall feeling that they are good enough to win each Sunday? Come on rilamann, what do you want instead, a bunch of meek players and coaches who think they aren't good enough to beat any team?
"and when things don't work the way they expect and a team doesn't lay down for them they don't know how to react"Holy sports cliche fest there rilamann, this has to be you just spoofing here. You can't honestly believe this stuff like Packer players expect teams they play to "just lay down for them." Every player in that locker room understands that not only do players on every team want to win badly each week, especially when two really good teams face each other or in the playoffs, they also clearly understand that the NFL is the ultimate cutthroat league. That contracts aren't guaranteed and there are lots of players on their own team, in free agency, and in each draft who are gunning for either a roster berth or to take a starting job away from someone else. This isn't just for fun Pop Warner football. So "just laying down" as you state in typical cliche speak is what would get NFL players either cut or removed from starting jobs. It gets coaches fired. Would leads to upset losses. Packer players/coaches like all other players/coaches know this well and don't expect opposing players/teams to to "just lay down for them." That's simply nonsense.
"But we could go 15-1 and all it would take is to run into 1 physical team in the playoffs for the Packers to fold like a card house"You say that the 15-1 Packers got "punched in the mouth" because the Giants were so much more physical. Did you actually watch that game? You act like NY won because they were doing stuff like running the ball down the Packers throat. We ran for 50 more yards and averaged 6.4ypc compared to 3.5 for the Giants. Instead it was giving up a Hail Mary before halftime and three killer fumbles which were the biggest keys in losing the game. That and Eli throwing the ball all over the place to the tune of 330 yards. Nothing like SF overpowering us last year.
So there are legit reasons to have been bothered by aspects of previous Packer teams and this year's team. People here might respect your reasons why though if your arguments contained analysis beyond mostly just typical football/sports cliches like the team "seems to have a sense that are entitled to win." Or "a team doesn't lay down for them". "This team almost has the classic bully mentality,they talk big and try to intimidate", among the many other cliches you regularly use with nothing at all the back it up beyond just saying so.
