It's Doubs, not Dobbs.

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Kalani, you are now done with Bisaccia? I believe LaFleur needs to keep him around for "continuity's sake" per his infatuation with Barry's performance after the 2022 season.

Packers D players were slipping and sliding all over the Dallas field when attempting to tackle...especially Cooper. Cleats a 1/4 " too short vs the Cowboys...who weren't slipping?

Good analysis.
Bisaccia should be fired today. Someone, anyone should have a replacement in mind as this is a long-term, festering problem.

I still think the coaches and players played down and were caught off guard with no answers.

I did not realize how important Wyatt is for this defense before this game. Overall, the line play on both sides was not great. Love did well given the pressure. But special teams, yet again, uffda.

I'm not ready to place all the blame for poor special teams play on Bisaccia. Perhaps MLF isn't giving him the right personnel to field effective units. On the blocked extra point they had Luke Musgrave next to Banks, the backup to the backup OL trying to guard the right side. As a result, they whiffed and we have a blocked field goal. Lafleur needs to be willing to put more starters on teams to increase the level of play. Your kicker shouldn't be the one making tackles on returns either!

I'll add one more complaint to the special teams' diatribe. How many kickoff returns did the Cowboys have that went over their 40 yard line last night? I lost count....... You can't give up that much field position in a game. Packer special teams have become a nightmare.

"Losing is like kissing your sister." Duffy Daughtery, Michigan State FB coach, 1966, when MSU tied ND 10-10.

"There's a real argument to be made that this is the first shootout game of Love's career, and it ends in a win"

I think. you went to bed at about 8:00.

"Love...Doubs"

Doubs has always been Love's security blanket. I thought he could have a big game against Dallas' secondary, and 3 TDs IS a big game, but there wasn't a lot of punch otherwise. For the "trade Doubs" crowd, he's the man with Reed injured. This offense may evolve away from him--Golden is finally starting to get his chances, and Reed and Watson will be back at some point. But where is this team without Doubs right now?

I've been reading other postings (and other places) where fans are beating on Love, but he played really well. Outside the fumble--a little ball security AND pass pro, please--I thought his pocket presence was good, he threw the ball away rather than forcing passes, and he responded down the stretch with big throws and clutch drives on possession after possession. 31 completions to 10 different pass catchers, no one with more than 6.

"and throw the entire play-calling sheet for that four-minute offense in the dumpster. "

They managed that last drive about how they needed to. They couldn't give that ball back to Dallas with any meaningful snaps left on the clock. My issue was that on those last couple plays in close, they threw a designed short pass to Golden which went nowhere and then he had to dump one off in the flat to the RB that did nothing. Part of that was pressure from Dallas, but the Packers needed to get a shot or two in the end zone at the end (and not with 6 seconds to go), and there were no moving pockets or rollouts that get Love a chance to get out of bounds if necessary if nothing was open.

As for that last play, Love's gotta have a better feel for the clock in his head. He needed to clock that last ball instead of tempting fate. Even LaF seemed incredulous when Love went to the sideline-- in a 'WTF were you doing?' kind of place. If it's a TD, then we all go home happy, but they almost effed up the whole thing.

"the run game"

Struggled early, but the OL started opening holes through the B gaps and on the edges in the second half. This was what kept the Packers in this ballgame--the ability to tear off chunks of yardage later in the game on the ground and to keep Dallas honest. They should be able to run the ball on Cinci and AZ after the bye, especially if the OL is getting healthy.

"Pass rush"

In a league designed to favor offenses, it's hard to win week-after-week on the strength of your defense--and if you put up 40, you HAVE to win. The sad part is that the last two weeks, beat up OLs have been able to hold the Packers' pass rush at bay. I said last week, "we'll know how good these DBs are when they find a team with a competent QB and an OL that can block them up." Sometimes you don't need a good OL, but just enough chips from RBs and TEs and just an extra beat to get the ball out. Turns out the DBs didn't have a good night last night.

"Turnovers"

Um, hello? Where are they? Supposedly a focus of this team in the off-season, it's hard to win in the NFL if you're not taking the ball away. That's gotta change.

"Penalties"

Down to 7 after 14 last week and 10 against Washington with still too many of the 5 yard, mental mistake variety and they came at the most inopportune times.

"Special Teams"

So, if popping the ball up and dropping it just outside the goal line on KOs is so confusing, why not catch the damn thing and run to hedge your bets? You're likely to get at least to the 20 or 25 (that's what we learned last year). Do something.

The missteps in the kicking game are well documented, but unmentioned is the Packers giving up significant returns and favorable field position on KO returns to Dallas late when Aubrey only needs to be within about 60 to be good. Yes, they have a good returner, but he was getting free runs and the Packers couldn't get off their blocks.

Update to my previous post. The quote was wrong, ( "A tie is like kissing your sister") but the attributes were correct.

Rich Bisaccia has not improved our ST units since he was hired. Period. He was hired to improve STs, and they’ve shown themselves to be a disaster ever since.

How many years did we waste with his personal project, Anders Carlson? What round did we DRAFT him in??? (Sorry Corey). Bisaccia had to have him. How many games & opportunities did we lose because of that fiasco?

Enough already. Find a better alternative, Matt LaFleur.

The inexcusable PAT block, after allowing a blocked FG the week before, changed the momentum of the game we were winning entirely. If not for Parson’s TIE saving sack…

ratfarts.

Plenty of talk about our team being better when various players return.

However, injuries don't just stop happening, there will be other injuries to deal with even as Reed, Watson, Tom and Banks get healthy again. You just hope that injuries don't happen to the key players like OT, key receivers (or QB, Lord preserve us) or our main pass rush man, Parsons.

Fingers crossed for Wyatt too, as he is pretty important for our run defense.

If we never start a series on the 20 again it will be too soon. That is incredibly stupid football and we did it twice last night. The opposing team is lined up on the 40 and has to run through a bunch of our guys. We have a supposedly fast guy catching the kick off. Running at each other we are guaranteed to get at least to the 20. If you are a bit scared of contact, run to the 22 and slide down. I have no idea what they are thinking.

One thing is clear: the Packers are a classic example of 'good enough never is."

I noticed the Lions dismantled the Browns.

This is starting to look very much like much of the Mike McCarthy era: lots of penalties, bad clock management, sorry special teams. lots of injuries and all the parts never fitting together.

Don't forget one fact: the Cowboys didn't have Lamb for the game. How would the Packers have been able to stop the passing attack with Lamb and Pickens there?

I said going into the season this team will either be 11-6 or 6-11. I see the side I'm leaning towards after the nightmare in JerryWorld.

I am getting close to pulling a 180. I am getting close to calling for MLF’s head.

The end of last week and the last minute of the first half onwards this week was unacceptable. It’s not player ability. It’s organization, intuition. Special Teams. Coaching. The same mistakes. Over and over again. This is year three of the rebuild and year 7 overall. Ever since the last time we were in Dallas, this team has found ways to lose games it should win against good competition.

UNACCEPTABLE.

There is still time for MLF to right this ship. But if this team doesn’t at least win the division and a playoff game, I will be calling for his job. Oh, and Bisaccia needs to be fired yesterday.

Romeo Doubs
6 58 9.667 18 and 3 (THREE) TDs

Even better, that last clutch CLUTCH 3rd down receptions basically won the whole game. Without it, a drop or an INT or an incompletion and that game is OVER on the spot.

After being a Packer fan since 1959, I've seen it all...from superior to inferior. Now days, it's starting to look a tad bit inferior. I don't see team consistency...what I do see is a cork floating on a rough sea. Too much junky stuff that just does not connect well. How many times will LaFloor keep calling running plays that aren't paying off. Today's football is all about the pass and the Cowgals followed suit perfectly by killing the GB defense with a sharp looking passing game...look at the stats. Mistakes? The Packers have learned how to make mistakes so how did that happen? It's due to poor coaching techniques. My memories of 1959 was a coach who practiced the power sweep until the players were totally sick of it...but they got more of the same practice after practice. I don't think coaching does that anymore...now it's milk toast...and it shows!

Why did the backup OL men for the Cowboys play so well, while the backups for the Packers were less than average? If the Packers dumped Bisaccia, would it be a good idea to go to the college ranks to replace him? This is a young team, and someone more used to younger players might be able to teach them the skills they need.
Also, Pickens for the Cowboys had an unreal night. He had at least four catches that were simply jaw dropping. Time to regroup, refresh and reset. Also, expect some pundits to jump off the Packers bandwagon, and start claiming they are overrated. Not really. Both offense and defense both played at high levels the first two games. Then the defense was excellent in Cleveland, while the offense choked. This game, it was the defense that laid an egg. If the Packers can get back to what they did the first two games, no problem. If those were flukes, then we'll find out the next time the Packers play the Lions.
What does it take to win it all? Get hot at the right time. And that time is still a lot of games ahead.

Matt La Fleur is stretched too thin as a HC and in order to cope he hands off too much responsibility to sub-par positional coaches, refuses to make hard personnel decisions such as firing, and insists on doing all of the play-calling, in-game management without the assist of an real Offensive mind. No one stops him from his weekly failed forays. We have to witness repeated lack of growth over a 7 year period. Who is this guy reporting to? Ed Policy needs to have a serious discussion with him over the bye. Why can't a billion dollar team not have ST coaching replacements in the pipeline? Don't they know any top notch Offensive minds who could stand next to MLF and collaborate, weigh-in, over-ride?

God, I wish some of these coaches would resign--how about starting with Bisaccia-where is his self-awareness , integrity and team-focus.?

Kalani, good article, I agree with most of what you said. You definitely have a good pulse on this team. Keep up the good writing.

Agree- I really enjoy Kalani's analysis

Game Ball: Kissing your sister references aside, I'll take the tie. Team managed to get the train back on the rails after the monumental 2nd Qtr. implosion. Otherwise we get blown out.
Lame call that's worked out fine: NFL sticking us with an early bye in a long season. Now we
desperately need a week off for recovering physically and mentally. The first I think we can do. The latter, not so easy.
In 2 weeks, we'll see which team shows up.
Go Pack Go.
The Szotman

Game ball: Doubs
Lame Call: Refs not calling Dak’s throw away as intentional grounding. Good chance Dallas doesn’t score if it’s called correctly and the Packers go on with a win in regulation. There wasn’t a receiver within 10 yards. Disturbing non call.

The Packers have had five special teams coaches since 2010. Replacing them hasn't worked, even replacing them with supposedly one of the better ones in the business. Using more starters on the units instead of exclusively bottom of the roster players hasn't worked either. So the only reason you can conclude for this enduring travesty is that the two head coaches employed during this time (not counting Philbin) have not prioritized, or at least devoted enough quality time or effort to special teams practice--otherwise you'd have better results. And you have to continually develop guys that can thrive in these specific roles.

The offensive and defensive units deservedly get the lion's share of the attention, but you have to have the fundamentals of special teams play down game in and game out; if not, poor execution comes back to bite you in the ass and opens the door for bad things.

I said it before the season Nixon is not corner number 1, only he thinks that .

Great article, thanks. Captured my thoughts exactly.

Picked up a carton of milk at Festival Foods this morning and Van Ness was on the back. GB Police Department notified to make a welfare check.

Where have you gone Edward Policy, Packer Nation turns it's lonely eyes to you, woo woo woo. Fire the Flower.

These last two games looked like their standard issue, week one effort. Never prepared, mistakes, clueless, same old excuses by MLF.

"The pass rush was ineffective, despite facing an offensive line down two starters." It was non-existent, same as it was last season. Parsons is busting his ass out there, you can see it, but he can't do everything. He makes them better, but the D was overrated by the "We're going to the Super Bowl choir." So how good are they? Still overrated. The secondary is a big ? still. If all it takes to be a #1 corner is stating you want to be one, then they should have shut-downs even on the bench. If Lamb would've played it would've been worse.

"Late in overtime, seemingly playing more to set up the game tying field goal than a game-winning touchdown." There was no doubt in my mind they were playing for the field goal. Even the announcers were talking that way, like the tie would be an acceptable result. Cue Herm Edwards.

Special teams...why even bother bringing it up? Obviously continuity is much more important than results.

Jordan Love did well, although he still doesn't know when to take off and move the chains. Maybe if someone could explain it to him that he gets a new set of downs and more chances to throw the ball, the light would go on.

A lot of people wanted to get rid of Doubs after what he did last year.

I agree about the bye week.

After the first two games I thought we'll see what the Packers really are come Thanksgiving. I'll bet Detroit can't wait for Thanksgiving, and not for the stuffed bird.

Ed Policy is beginning to feel the weight of his job watching ineptness. With questionable playcalling in the last 5 minutes, incompetent, DB coverage, disturbing specail teams, DL weakness, nearly clock diaster. Today PackerNation is taking a deep breath and claiming we didn't lose the game. But we didn't win either and that sucks. McFleuzy has got a barge full of mistakes, misjudgments, and missed tackles to clean up. The players may get a week off, but the coaching needs to stay in GB and figure this Packer fairytale fantasy out before the Bengal game!

Where are the holding calls? Watch some of the cowboys big plays that kept them in the game and explain how its not holding to grab their arm and pull them down. That being said, why the soft zone coverage when prescott is throwing under 10 yards?

Yes, a lot of people want to complain that the coaching staff is "too conservative." Seems like a lot of them are also complaining that at the end of the first half, the coaching staff was "too aggressive." Damned if you do, damned if you don't, I guess...

The defense should be embarrassed. To let the Cowboys run the ball on you like that should eat at everyone on that side of the ball into they play again. Dallas has a below average OL and to allow them to run on is a problem. The pass rush was also embarrassing. Where was Gary and LVN all night?

I wasn't concerned after the Browns game but this one does. Lots of season to get things right and you want to be playing your best in December but last night was sorry showing.

2 inexpensive signings that IMO would help the defense.
Sign Cam Horsely off the Titans practice squad .
See if Stephon Gilmore will play for near the vet min.

This game call goes out to my wife, Heidi, who 'tolerates' watching football with me weekly and will often have me pause the game to explain something or ask 'what did you see that I didn't see there?'.

So...she made me pause the game, rewind and freeze on Dak P standing on the sideline. She then asked (confessions -- I do NOT pay attention to uniform details, players' hair and such...just the game...but HEIDI zooms in on that stuff and obviously noticed something).

She asked: what's that little Darth Vader-like character on the shoulder of his uniform?
'Whu?' I say pulling my mind out from the midst of the game...'wachu talkin' 'bout, Willis?'
'There's a little figure by his arm'
'No there isn't...there can't be'...'wait a second...'

Turns out it was to honor Dak for having won the Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year award

In 2017, the league started a new tradition to honor the work that its players do. If you've won the Walter Peyton Man of the Year Award, you're entitled to wear a patch of the trophy on your uniform. The Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year award is the league's most prestigious honor given annually to the player who best represents the greatness and compassion of Walter Payton on and off the field.

Award winners get to wear the special patch depicting the trophy on their uniforms for the remainder of their NFL careers. There are (I believe) only 5 current NFL players with this designation:

Calais Campbell (2019 winner)
Russell Wilson (2020 winner)
Dak Prescott (2022 winner)
Cameron Heyward (2023 winner)
Arik Armstead (2024 winner)

So, my 'Game Call' goes out to my wife Heidi. I did not catch this on his uniform...but she did...and thought enough to ask about it. And I learned about this detail by looking it up.

(The Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year Award statue, originally called the "Gladiator Award" trophy, depicts an undistinguished caped lineman standing alone on the sidelines, outside of game action.) The statue is supposed to represent the ideal football player, a composite of every man who ever played, or will ever play, professional football.

Here, we go again watching our team being carved up by so so passers. Watching our slow of foot sp teamers tackle the meet the back at the 40.

Yeah, the special teams stinks. When hasn’t it in the MLF era? The bigger problem is falling apart at 13-2 . You could feel it through the TV.
MLF will be a story going forward. There will be pressure on him. Win now! Micah Parsons! $280 million! Two first rounders!
Ed policy didn’t ok that trade to lose a wildcard game…. Again.
As an aside, stats can be misleading. I know Rashan Gary has around four this year, but last night you couldn’t find him on a milk carton. Even with Parsons being doubled. These guys have no shame when it comes to the dumb” look at me “ celebrations. He’s totally not worth what we pay him.

Gary is short on character and a show-boat. Parsons will have a word.