Quote: @Skodin said:
@ greediron said:
@ Ralphie said:
The offense knew what they were facing. No excuses from Stef and Kubiak. Not having Cook hurt but you scheme for that.
The defense played their guts out. The O screwed them.
Yup. Love the negative Nancy's come out trying to pin this on Zimmer
how many more big games do we need to see Zimmer fail for you to not pin it on him?
He will not get it done, he had his chance.
Walsh missed the chance to build momentum
2016 OL decimated with injuries
17 he was begrudginly rooting for his QB
that was his shot, he is found out now
Defense kicked ass this game. The only fault was they didn't score on their turnovers.
How is that on Zim?
They millionaire players on offense needed a pep talk?
Even before the OL dam broke, Cousins looked tense... anxious... and then, finally, scared. The TV didn't show many replays of the full field, but the one that I did see showed a receiver running free down the seam. But KC dumped it off. And, yes: Cousins had time to throw. But he never even looked there. He was going to check it down, no matter what coverage he saw.
Tonight's performance was enough for me to take back every positive thing I said to defend Cousins against his detractors. Like his head coach, Cousins is playing to not lose (and hoping that someone else will carry the load so that he doesn't have to). He's a good QB... and, if everything else is going well, he can help win some games. But he can't carry a team.
That being said, Thielen dropped a long one that might've made a difference.
PS: Can't blame this one on the refs. They let 'em play... and the Packers won: fair and square.
Quote: @greediron said:
Let them know there is a game
On a positive or negative note depending on your flavor of punishment Staphanski (sp?) probably F’ed his chances at a head coaching gig next year.
Quote: @AGRforever said:
@ greediron said:
Let them know there is a game
On a positive or negative note depending on your flavor of punishment Staphanski (sp?) probably F’ed his chances at a head coaching gig next year.
I was thinking the same
Quote: @pumpf said:
Even before the OL dam broke, Cousins looked tense... anxious... and then, finally, scared. The TV didn't show many replays of the full field, but the one that I did see showed a receiver running free down the seam. But KC dumped it off. And, yes: Cousins had time to throw. But he never even looked there. He was going to check it down, no matter what coverage he saw.
Tonight's performance was enough for me to take back every positive thing I said to defend Cousins against his detractors. Like his head coach, Cousins is playing to not lose (and hoping that someone else will carry the load so that he doesn't have to). He's a good QB... and, if everything else is going well, he can help win some games. But he can't carry a team.
That being said, Thielen dropped a long one that might've made a difference.
PS: Can't blame this one on the refs. They let 'em play... and the Packers won: fair and square.
Not sure how Zimmer gets drug into the blame here
It was another game where cousins/Stef wouldn't open up.
They had chances in the first half but cousins was off and never gave the offense a chance.
The D was great, Rhodes was all over Adams.
This game was all on the horrible playcalling, godawful offensive line play, and Cousins completely becoming a turtle again at the worst possible time, just like last year late in the season at home against Chicago with the playoffs on the line.
The defense easily played well enough to win, and only gave up that long TD run in the 4th quarter after being all the field all damn game. Sad stats: the Packers had the ball for FIFTEEN more minutes than the Vikings, and the Vikings had their fewest number of first downs at home (only 7!) since 1971.
Quote: @SFVikingFan said:
This game was all on the horrible playcalling, godawful offensive line play, and Cousins completely becoming a turtle again at the worst possible time, just like last year late in the season at home against Chicago with the playoffs on the line.
The defense easily played well enough to win, and only gave up that long TD run in the 4th quarter after being all the field all damn game. Sad stats: the Packers had the ball for FIFTEEN more minutes than the Vikings, and the Vikings had their fewest number of first downs at home (only 7!) since 1971.
Yup. The big run came with Barr and EK on the sidelines as well. The line couldn't handle the stunts, but in all fairness, the packers turned Smith loose once they saw Cousins wasn't gonna throw the ball. Playcalling and Cousins. It has been an issue several times this year. No idea why they didn't go to the hurry up and break out of their funk.
I can't buy the idea that Zimmer bears no responsibility for that craptastic performance. He bears all of it. His teams never show up when something meaningful is at stake. He is the coach of the whole team not just half of it. And the d has failed to show up in big games before. It's his job to have everyone ready to compete on both sides of the ball.
Quote: @greediron said
Not sure how Zimmer gets drug into the blame here
It was another game where cousins/Stef wouldn't open up.
They had chances in the first half but cousins was off and never gave the offense a chance.
The D was great, Rhodes was all over Adams.
Zimmers the head coach and is ultimately responsible for the whole team.
Like I said, did the Kirk and the offense need a pep talk? As one player said, we are highly paid to play the game, if you need a coach to motivate you, there is a serious problem.
The game plan, Kirk's inability to throw the ball, that isn't on Zimmer. Everyone has been all over him about the D, well the D showed up. The offense didn't. Everything bad about the D this season was rectified in that game. Tight coverage, blitzes, ball hawking, punching the ball out. Rodgers was confused, the D was stopping everything.
KC and the offense looked like shit and had 1, ONE!, first down for the majority of the game.
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