The Super Bowl aspirations of the Green Bay Packers pretty much vanished when Aaron Rodgers broke his right collarbone. The problem the Packers face is that there are only two realistic paths for NFL teams to win the Super Bowl. The first path involves a historically good defense and the second path involves an elite […]
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Mike McCarthy Is Officially Off The Hot Seat
Less than one month ago the Green Bay Packers were toast. They had just lost their 4th consecutive game and dropped to 4-6 on the season. Not only did they seem destined to miss the playoffs, but it seemed like the end of the Mike McCarthy Era was near. Oh, how quickly things can change. After winning their […]
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Packers Continue Descent into Mediocrity
The worst part about predictions is that they’re usually wrong. At the beginning of the Green Bay Packers season I wrote: “get excited about…another season of high-octane offense.” So much for that. The issues plaguing Aaron Rodgers and the Packers will be dissected and re-dissected until they string together a few inspiring victories.* I have my own […]
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Packers Face Crucial Test on Sunday
From 1992 to 2014 the Green Bay Packers defeated the Detroit Lions in every game played in Wisconsin. That streak of dominance came to an end last year when the Lions squeaked out an 18-16 victory at Lambeau Field. Despite that recent blip, the Lions are a team the Packers should defeat at home. Unfortunately, things in […]
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PED Allegations Problematic for Packers
Last December Al Jazeera released a documentary called The Dark Side: The Secrets of Sports Dopers that linked several NFL players to performance enhancing drugs. The most popular player in the report, Peyton Manning, was recently cleared of any wrongdoing by the NFL. This should be somewhat comforting to Green Bay Packers fans because Clay Matthews and Julius Peppers were […]
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Lessons from Packers Playoff Defeat
The Green Bay Packers keep finding novel ways to lose in the playoffs. Their latest Rube Goldberg machine of sadness culminated with a 4th and 20 conversion, a Hail Mary as time expired, and a three-play overtime period that ended without Aaron Rodgers taking the field. It was just another game for the ages against […]
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Reports On Packers Demise Exaggerated
There were no shortage of ideas presented to explain the recent struggles of the Green Bay Packers. Was Aaron Rodgers hurt? Was it the play calling? Was it Dom Capers? Was it that McDonald’s commercial where Mike Ditka wears a Packers sweater? Occam’s razor states: “among competing hypotheses, the one with the fewest assumptions should […]
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Green Bay Packers Offense Has No Quick Fix
The first column I wrote for the Racine County Eye praised Mike McCarthy’s decision to surrender play calling duties for the Green Bay Packers. After the Packers struggled on Sunday to score points against the 1-7 Detroit Lions (a.k.a worst scoring defense in the NFL) I began to wonder if McCarthy should resume calling the plays. But McCarthy […]
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Green Bay Packers: Too Soon to Sound the Alarm
John Feinstein’s ‘A Season on the Brink’ is a terrific chronicle of the 1985-86 Indiana Hoosiers men’s basketball team. The book  gives a fascinating portrayal of head coach Bobby Knight, who occasionally displays the same anxiety as sports fans. Knight – when his team was mired in a slump – would frequently ask “will we ever win another game?” After […]
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Welcome Back, Favre
Brett Favre’s made the unlikely transformation from Wisconsin sports hero to persona non grata after he succeeded in his efforts to join the Minnesota Vikings in 2009. Looking back, this was a truly bizarre saga that’s hard to believe ever happened. Fortunately the saga is officially over and Favre is back to being a revered legend, but until recently it […]
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Blog: Mike McCarthy Makes the Right Call
Mike McCarthy made the right decision on Wednesday when he surrendered play-calling duties to Tom Clements, the newly minted associate head coach.  This is a somewhat odd opinion when you consider that the Packers were the highest scoring team last year with McCarthy calling plays, yet it was a necessary step towards solving a problem that has […]