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By: Latest Indianapolis Colts News | Colts Fever Fan Club

Latest Indianapolis Colts News | Colts Fever Fan Club — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 22:55:11 +0000

[...] TiVo Time: Indianapolis Colts In a dress rehearsal of my own for the regular season, here's a full review, TiVo Time-style, of the Green Bay Packers' third preseason game: a 31-28 win over the Indianapolis Colts. 12:47, 1st quarter — On third-and-4, Clay Matthews hydroplanes … Read more on Total Packers [...]

By: Kristofer from Oshkosh

Kristofer from Oshkosh — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 20:20:08 +0000

I don’t have as much concern, it seems, as everyone else about the offensive line. Imagine yourself as a player stepping up to the line and putting your hand on the ground waiting for the snap. What is your mindset? What is the difference between the mindset from the preseason compared to the mindset of the regular season? During preseason games you are not thinking about how its a must win game like in the regular season. No, your mindset is that ‘I need to get through the game without injury’. Players are not truly giving a preseason game 100% of their all out play. To add to that, I have heard that sometimes players and coaches don’t want to put tape out for other teams to study (A possible example of that: I kind of get the sense that this is happening to TE D.J. Williams this preseason. He is a “camp sensation”, but we have not seen him at all during the preseason). They don’t want to show their hand so to speak. The players don’t spend the week studying film of the guy that they will be up against like they do in the regular season. Also, we have to remember this offseason is different from any other offseason in that it is short: the months lost to the cbd and the shortening of practice almost 50% during training camp. So how can we compare them to any other year? Maybe my point is becoming more clear. If this is how the line looks against the Saints next week, that is when I will start getting concerned. In the mean time, give them a break – its only preseason.

By: iltarion

iltarion — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 18:11:24 +0000

Hombre, your introduction of this issue at this particular time and place is curious.

A-Rodge wants 5 WRs out there. Just ask him.

I read the article and find former Packer players, coaches and executives playing the blame game to be rather unfortunate.

Ron Wolf blames Holmgren saying there were adjustments that could have been made that weren’t. He says nothing about ego, or wanting to be flashy.

Those actual words are attributed to Leroy Butler, who, great Packer that he was and as much as I love the guy, isn’t exactly known for his public tidbits of wisdom.

I am more than confident that Mike Holmgren would have been perfectly content with running the ball for 3.3 yards a down if it would have won him another Super Bowl.

Chmura is also not known for his post-career wisdom, and I find his attempts to relieve Brett Favre of all blame, that line seems endlessly long, while heaping blame on the coaches frankly doesn’t make a lot of sense. He seems to suggest that if a defense shows a blitz for which the offense is unprepared, that there is no way for the offense to adjust, that basically they just need to throw up their hands or call a time out.

Brett could have called a hot audible at any time against any blitz.

The INT was a poorly thrown pass by the QB. If under too much pressure, said QB could have simply thrown the ball away. I know, gasp, gasp.

Brett was also completely unaware that the 7 man blitz was coming. We know this because not only did he not audible, but he also turned his back on the blitzer, which opened the door for the sack/fumble.

Not to blame all of this on Brett, who threw 3 TDs in the game. The offense scored 24 points and approached 400 yards even with 3 turnovers.

No. The fact of the matter is the Packers couldn’t stop the run. Shurmur did nothing to adjust for it. Individual players failed to make plays during crucial times.

There you go.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:54:45 +0000

Finally booted up the laptop, great read. thanks for the article ay hombre, neat read as well

By: ay hombre

ay hombre — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 15:16:16 +0000

I read an article about how Ron Wolf (to this day) blames Mike Holmgren (solely) for our Super Bowl loss to the Broncos. The reason? Holmgren’s ego. He wanted to be flashy and knew we had all this fire power and he wanted to show off. In the meantime Brett got blindsided and turned the ball over on multiple occasions. Mike Holmgren failed to put his ego aside and failed to protect the quarterback in the biggest game of the year.

Let’s hope we don’t fall into this trap. I’m not worried about Sitton either, but I’m worried about our line as a whole.

ARodge doesn’t need 5 receivers out there in order to find an open one…he just needs time.

Let’s not have an ego about our high-powered offense. Protect the franchise.

Here’s a link to the Wolf story about Holmgren for anyone who gives a shit. It’s old but I just found it recently:

http://www.jsonline.com/sports/packers/29487844.html

By: ay hombre

ay hombre — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 14:00:50 +0000

Sucks for you guys because it’s a good read. I’m sure Monty will remedy.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 13:19:54 +0000

Same here on my iphone

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 13:16:38 +0000

The text of this article doesn’t populate in my android mobile browsers or RSS reader. Just letting you know.