Aaron Rodgers clearly wasn’t happy with the Green Bay Packers’ offensive performance after the team’s 30-20 win over the Oakland Raiders.
Unlike us, Rodgers stopped short of directly fingering Mike McCarthy’s buffoonish game plan, but he pointed in that general direction.
“We just don’t really have a clear-cut direction,” Rodgers said. “We got into some stuff with John in there and four receivers, but we were too inconsistent.”
Rodgers is referring to the package that featured fullback John Kuhn alone in the backfield and four receivers. And yes, maybe the Packers did get something going with that, but it’s still an idiotic package to run.
Why?
NO ONE is afraid of John Kuhn alone in the backfield.
Now, if Eddie Lacy were alone in the backfield, then yes. That’s a pretty solid package.
The Packers used Lacy little on Sunday, though.
They fucking featured John Kuhn, but we’ll get to that in a moment.
This all goes to the overall criticism (which Big Mike is having none of). Rodgers is spot on. The Packers had zero direction in this game.
They didn’t establish Lacy or even try to, even though that worked so well in the win over Dallas the week prior. They clearly wanted to feature Randall Cobb, but didn’t get around to doing that until the second half. The personnel groupings were all over the place, including that what-the-fuck-is-this package that featured Kuhn as the lone runner.
Just take a look at this right here.
The Packers’ running back snaps broke down as follows:
- Kuhn: 47
- Lacy: 28
- Starks: 21
What’s wrong with that picture?
Is it that Lacy and Starks combined have just two more snaps than Kuhn did on the day?
Boy, it could be!
It was if McCarthy was throwing a bunch of shit against the wall to see what stuck. You shouldn’t be doing that in week 15, though.
So perhaps it was just a genius move to confuse everyone, even his own offense.
“We’ll run so many stupid plays, formations and packages, they’ll never be able to guess what we’re going to do next! Mwahahahahahahahahaha!”
We’d love to have an answer for you, but it just defies all logic.
What we do know is the results speak for themselves — 293 net yards, 31 percent on third down conversions and 1-for-5 in the red zone.
That’s pathetic.