Defense lost this game in the first half.

are you serious?  

Diggs over throw for a deep TD (-7 points)
Rudolph over throw in the end zone (-4 points)
Pick in the end zone (-3 to -7) points lost
Pick in triple coverage
Two fumbles

D gets out matched then adjusts. Holds rodgers to nothing for 3 quarters in GB. GB only scores 21. 

This was a game to win. With Case or Teddy, we win it

@"Skodin" said: are you serious?  

Diggs over throw for a deep TD (-7 points)
Rudolph over throw in the end zone (-4 points)
Pick in the end zone (-3 to -7) points lost
Pick in triple coverage
Two fumbles

D gets out matched then adjusts. Holds rodgers to nothing for 3 quarters in GB. GB only scores 21. 

This was a game to win. With Case or Teddy, we win it

That sucked but they came back and made plays. I know Cousins can't handle being behind and the team isn't built to come from behind a lot of points so they have to get it together. Having a touchdown taken away sucked too. The first half was shit. Dalvin was having success and he threw that unnecessary pass. Ugh.

@"1VikesFan" said: Sure Cousins sucked but the defense gave this one away.  They didn't stop fucking thing til they were in 21-0 hole.

Defense was asleep in the first half. Diggs had an absolutely bad day and cost Cousins an INT and a stupid unsportsmanlike penalty. And the two phantom PI calls cost at least one TD.  Cousins 4th quarter INT is on him.  Throw in the non-existent field goal unit and you have a game like we had.

Final: Puke 21
           Vikings 16
           Zebras 7

I think the defensive game plan blew going into the game. After the first quarter the D flat out balled. We had every chance to win this game, heck GB did nothing for 3 quarters. Stupid plays, Cousins stunk it up and the refs were just atrocious period...

The defensive failures early set the tone of the game,  even with the D stepping up eventually the day was lost for Cousins.  Maybe he has kicker blood in him and cant handle the pressure of zimmer.

Zimmer has got to go. 

He is a good DC but he is not a head coach and cannot get what he needs out of a team. 

What the tell tale should be is his approach to kickers. He doesn’t respect them and if that is the case he shouldn’t be the HC. His approach to the game is old school and new school is going to beat you in the long run because that is how the game is played. Other teams throw downfield consistently and get PI calls. We demand to run the ball too much (thank god we have a good rb).

If we had a coach that ran an updated offense maybe we would have gotten a better qb than we did. Maybe not. But I jist don’t see us winning with this guy. Other coaches would dream of having the talent we have and this guy can’t get them ready to play against our biggest rival on week 2.

Its just..... sad.

punctuation helps

21-0 is a hole big enough to make some people give up, but this team certainly didn't. That's the shittiest part about the offensive mistakes.  About mid way though the game, we somehow managed to pass Green Bay in total offense. We have to score.

We could have tucked our tail between our legs and got blown the fuck out of Green Bay... lucky, i guess, we fought back hard enough to set a single game situational CHOKE record. There were SO many friggen chances to get ahead of those 21 points it's annoying.

That team we were 5-1-1 against over the past 7 doesn't exist anymore... I'm holding onto a ray of hope that those 21 points were nothing more than a FLUKE. New system, no tape on their new system expect 1 shitty Bears game; and Aaron Rodgers. We seemed to figure out their offense as the game went on and by the end their offense looked a lot like one that is stuck in week 2 with a bunch of new components. When we meet again at USB this "excuse" won't fly. 

Cousins was terrible.  i give him props for his beautiful throw to diggs for the long td.  but he missed several critical throws uncluding multiple on 3rd down, threw 2 crucial interceptions and continues to drop the ball.  

plenty of blame to go around but he was brought in to win us games like this and he failed miserably

The entire team stunk it up. But they squandered their opportunities to win. You run, run, and run, to obtain first and goal. The Packers defense was gassed. You are on the threshold of scoring to take the lead. And you dial up a pass play for a QB who has been out of synch all day, and doesn't have the brains to throw it away, rather than risk an interception on first and goal! How do these players trust Stephanski going forward when they know full well they would have scored by continuing to run the ball? I'm pretty sure the players know Cousins won't get them to the promise land. 
I think this thing is only going to get worse. And yes, the defense couldn't stop the run or pass in the first half. And they rarely stuffed the run in the second half.
But they will never get very far with Cousins.
Who was the mastermind that signed him to the 3 yr., fully guaranteed contract?

At best, he puts the team on his back and wins because of his play...

At worst, he's a neutral impact...

For the chunk of the cap he takes up, we should never lose because of him...and we did...

We aren't paying a Joe Kapp stat line.

@"BarrNone55" said: At best, he puts the team on his back and wins because of his play...

At worst, he's a neutral impact...

For the chunk of the cap he takes up, we should never lose because of him...and we did...

We aren't paying a Joe Kapp stat line.

I think it's time to dig into the QB pool...let a rook sit behind him for the last year of his deal and then Cousins walk away to his next big payday...28 million of cap space spent elsewhere and a QB whose balls don't shrink like he just spent twenty minutes in Lake Superior would go a long way...

Paul Allen will put a “duckies and bunnies” bow on this game at 9 am. Wobby will tell us how great everyone played.

@"Ilovebigtd's" said: cousins has to STEP UP OR GO blaming anyone else for this loss is absurd youre either blind or just stupid if you think otherwise 

@"Ilovebigtd's" said:

@"1VikesFan" said:

@"Ilovebigtd's" said: cousins has to STEP UP OR GO blaming anyone else for this loss is absurd youre either blind or just stupid if you think otherwise 

Really glad you think someone having an opinion that differs from yours make those people stupid.  Wow...

i’m glad that i can make you glad 

@"purpleloki" said: I think the defensive game plan blew going into the game. After the first quarter the D flat out balled. We had every chance to win this game, heck GB did nothing for 3 quarters. Stupid plays, Cousins stunk it up and the refs were just atrocious period...

But I kinda feared our D may struggle without knowing what the Lafleur offense was going to do.  They had all the advantage, at home, years of film on Zimmer's D and Rodgers.  So I wouldn't say the initial struggle was shocking.
What was shocking is that we had a chance to come back in this game.  Didn't panic, we ran the ball well, the D adjusted after 1 quarter.  That alone is so unbelievable to me.  After years of defensive coaches that couldn't adjust their scheme, couldn't adjust to slow down the obvious, having a D adjust after 15 minutes of play is amazing.
Cousins tried to be the hero.  The one thing he couldn't do on 1st and goal with 3 minutes left was force a pass and give up an INT.  I liked the call, we had been running effectively, but maybe it was too obvious (I even thought we should throw, so probably to obvious) but just live to play another down.

Which side of the ball has the most Draft Capital? Which side has most of its Starters signed to long-term deals? What is the HC an alleged guru of?

The answer is Defense.

Zimmer doesn't even want an Offense that's built to overcome large deficits and every single one of you knows that.

For his Defense to look so poor in the 1st Quarter is a real head-scratcher.  Kudos to them for getting it together after that, but Mike wants a ground-oriented, clock-chewing Offense and he'd be the first to tell you it was his Defense that got rolled early that doomed this game.