PACKER COACHING

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This blog was set up originally simply as a file deposit for musings which I sent out to friends. Somehow a lot of people managed to find the URL, and that is ok.  Since the blogs were not originally meant for general distribution most have not been carefully edited.  I may go back now and do the proper editing. I have recently published a book titled: The Meaning of Life.  Anyone interested can find it listed in Amazon.com under the author name Reid S. James. There is a description of the content along with the listing. It was published in late October 2013. Any income from the book will be donated to various 501 category charities. Given the nature of the book, to do otherwise would be hypocritical. Given the original intent of this URL I have never provided an opportunity for any response to these musings. I think I will leave it that way as I don't have the time for a lot of responding to comments by others. These musings are written as food for thought, and do not purport to be anything other than what the blog implies: personal musings. Were I to personally know many of you who visit this URL I sense we would have a lot of engaging conversations. There are too many now for that to be practical. 

PACKER COACHING

Well, it is official----the Green Bay Packers must certainly have put together one of the worst coaching staffs in the NFL. While I am certainly not the one to claim any expertise on the X's and O's of football, some general observations are not imaginations. Even when healthy Rodgers has to score over 40 pts to win a football game. It has been that way for several years.  When Rodger goes down the Green Bay football team does not just lose, but loses every game, no matter how weak the opponent. I suppose one could blame it on the quality of the players but that doesn't seem to fit. A good number of Packer players are capable of making outstanding individual catches, runs, sacks, etc. Thus, the general evidence listed here suggests the Packer Coaching staff is incapable of putting together even a modest offensive or defensive game plan.

McCarthy seems, at least on the surface, to be a plodding, uncreative, inflexible, naive coach incapable of using computer programs properly to make adjustments, new looks, or predict opponent plays. He stands on the sidelines with his ever trusty little page of scripted plays and adheres to his carefully planned plays like a grammar school kid reading a carefully scripted speech.

Much as I dislike having a wealthy cabal of owners own each football team, the nonsensical claim that the Packers are a publicly owned team is simply a farce.
There is no part of the Public, whether it be elected officials, or citizens, or stock holders who have the remotest control over who manages or coaches the team.
After all the years of Favre and then Rodgers, what is the Packer record? Two, maybe three Super Bowls. That's it. It is almost like for practice Rodgers and his receivers are the only ones who need practice at all---the rest of the players just show up for the game and use their individual talents as best they can to make tackles, runs, etc. It was the same way with Mike Holgram. Bret Favre made him look like a quality coach.  I would say he and McCarthy are about the same quality. Then Holgram let his phony stature go to his head and wanted more control. He left and no matter where he went was there any football genius at work?

It is noteworthy that every time the Packers hire a coach they never bring in an already proven coach. McCarthy, except for a brief stint as an assistant coach with I think San Francisco, was a high school coach. The Packer executives said they hired him because they were impressed with the play books he brought to the interviews. Huh? these guys are about as qualified to judge play books as I am.
The handful of executives who control the Packers seem to be there for life. They are salaried so the pressure is never there for them to relinquish control over the operation. Packer fan loyalty is like the Chicago Cubs, it will be there no matter what.
Clearly, it seems, these handful of executives do not want to bring in any proven quality coach because they would lose personal control over such a coach. It's a power thing. It's the blind leading the blind except they have been blessed with two top notch quarterbacks.

The problem seems to be that while higher ups recruit excellent talent for the most part (except for the coaches), there is no brilliant game plans by the coaching staff to allow this talent to be used effectively.  Well, Green Bay fans, get out your crying towels, there is no way that you, the public, can force changes on your 'publicly owned' team. Like with so much else in the NFL, what you think you see or get is mostly smoke and mirrors. Who says football can't be a one man team? Up to a point that is obviously not true. What is clearly true is that the best of talent in professional football needs the best of coaches, not coaches plucked out of nowheres to be developed on the job. Green Bay deserves better.