To be realistic about it, the 3-4 scheme isnt effective in Green Bay. Green Bay doesnt have the players to run it effectively. To run the 3-4, you need guys who can tackle, hit hard and get to the ball. The teams that use it with success have that formula. Players make plays, and Green Bay doesnt have the players. Fair assessment Coach Greene?

I think Green Bay would be better off modifying its Defense to a 4-3 based Defense. Keep the playbook out for the 3-4 and modify that as well. The 3-4 should be effective against option based teams. College programs that have success against the option run a 2-5 scheme where they have 2 down and 5 guys hovering around the line. That will work there, but may need some tweaking in the pro game because the option guys good enough to play pro ball can throw it too.

Bottom line, get some guys who can move to the ball and attack an offense. Green Bay needs speed and they can get some if they are willing to put up some dough, and/or draft some players that fit the scheme. A couple system players would improve that Defense many times over.

A decent RB would help the Defense as well. Keeping the ball and the clock in your favore Offensively helps the Defense.

So, there is your formula for success. I am betting that Ted Thompson and Mike McCarthy are looking at the situation just as I described it.

Last year’s draft was almost exclusively defensive picks. HIS GUYS. If those aren’t/weren’t the players he needed – why were they selected?

Thompson didn’t select them in a bubble, he and Dom came up with what was needed and who…

He’s HAD his players and honestly – 4 years here and outside of a run late in 2010 – defense has been awful against good teams.

They won 2 games total against playoff teams this year. 2 GAMES. He gets fat on bad teams like TN and lit up against decent to good teams like SF or the Giants.

When McCarthy brought in Capers he said it was because the 3-4 does things to an offense, it’s hard to game plan against. Well all I’m seeing is a team that has a hard time beating 4-3s on offense and a 3-4 that will set the record for other offensive production AGAINST it.

Playoff appearances over the last 45 years.

Packers – 17
Vikings – 27

Nuff said cheese brains.
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I agree. I was just at the Vikings facility and I saw all the blue ribbons imprinted with “Maybe Next Year.” I’m pretty sure you have more than anyone else. Nuff said…..fish breath.

All he needed to do was say, “Look the rest of our D sucks and isn’t going to make a play. IT IS TIME”

Then CM3 makes Kaepernick fumble, the Packers go on to win, and then they play a clip of it on the America’s Game series on the NFL network.

The Packers’ last two playoff victories have come against 2nd and 3rd string QB’s. There’s a reason for that: They are not nearly as good as the NFL Hype Machine tries to sell them to be.

On the field, and as leader and locker room presence — Kevin Greene was awesome during his stint in Pittsburgh — what a steal he was from the Los Angeles Rams. [We also scored Bettis at bargain prices from those same L.A. Rams too.]

KG is loyal as can be, passionate and inspiring. He also used to make some cool moves very few athletes would do. For example, there was a huge line of Steeler fans lining up for tickets in the cold rain – so who shows up, but Kevin Greene hooking everyone in line up with a boatload of pizzas. He’s just a col guy.

Kevin also knows football, and will speak his mind.

The last 3 playoff losses GB has suffered the other team as scored over 40 points.

Not that anyone needs to lose a job, but something definitely needs to change.

2009 Postseason: 51 points allowed
2011 Postseason: 37 Points allowed
2012 Post Season: 45 Points allowed including 181 QB Rushing yards with only 3 of those yards coming after contact. THREE. That’s 178 untouched rushing yards.

With over 1500 yards of total offense allowed. That’s what I understand.

I also understand that in the game of football, you are supposed to tackle ball carriers. That’s why you lift weights and that’s why you wear pads and helmets.

i know that as a fan i have listened to players and coaches talk Xs and Os in their vernacular and it is absolutely baffling.

they have won a SB so that _proves_ they know what they are doing .. so just leave it to the pros.

i know i don’t often question my medical professionals .. so don’t question your football professionals.

Jesus Christ how is Darin even allowed to post articles here?

Even though Casey Hayward did well there was no good drafting of DBs to either wake up the other incumbents or step up when others got hurt.

Plus, the offense could not bail out the defense the way it did last year. The pass TDs were down and the running game was used a little more than 2011, but no one will with realize that due to Rodgers’ cache.

Playoff appearances over the last 45 years.

Packers – 17
Vikings – 27

Nuff said cheese brains.

Exactly whose fault and inability to adjust was that? That defense was not prepared to play.