At the risk of sounding like a bears fan, I think we have a lot to look forward to next year. Last week I did the negative overlook of what we need to accomplish this offseason, so why don’t we go through some bullet points of how good the team already is this year. Try…
As always happens after a loss, no matter how meaningless, you’d think the season was over based on the reaction from entitlement town following the Packers’ game against the Bears. So let’s go through a checklist to follow for the Packers offseason then we’ll check back in on it once the season is actually over,…
There’s an “advanced” stat going around Twitter showing that the Packers are 11-0 against teams with a worse record than theirs and 0-5 against teams with a better record. The stat is problematic to start with because the Packers won’t play many teams with a better record by virtue of having a good record, and…
Over and over this past season we heard that the Badgers’ problem was simply that they had no identity. No one really explains what that means – though you can infer that it used to be run the ball and have a good defense (until they play the top spread teams at least). The Packers’…
The peak Popovich Spurs started the NBA’s player rest trend. The team knew it was full of vets who could turn it on in the playoffs, so they rested veterans often during the latter half of the season and played rookies and other young players who otherwise wouldn’t have gotten playtime. The Packers coaches could…
Toyoathon has started and winter has come and the Packers offense is inevitable. Think about what you need for a successful modern offense. You start with a quarterback who can make every throw and a wide receiver who can stretch the defense—force the defense to stick with two high safeties, which they want to anyway.…
Christian Watson has been an enigma in his Packers career. Outside of a few huge games his rookie year he’s been more potential than production. That changed this week. The Buildup Watson was shot out of a canon literally and figuratively in his rookie year. He had three hundred-yard games and seven touchdowns in the…