Matt LaFleur Gives The Packers A Halftime Pep Talk
I, for one, am happy to see the Packers go down in flames like the frauds they were.
Like, they weren’t full frauds, but out of every team in the championship round, they were the ones that felt like they belonged the least. Even the Titans felt like they had earned their spot more than the Packers did. Looking at this Packers team it felt bizarre to think they won this many games. The only true notable win they had was against the Chiefs, who at the time were starting Matt Moore. The only actual good team they beat was the Vikings, twice. The Vikings being the 6th seed felt right for that team.
They got lucky and faced the Seahawks in the divisional round, another fraud team dealing with some injuries. If the Packers had gone up against the Saints I think we’d have seen the Saints obliterate them, but the Saints ran into their current playoff kryptonite first.
I think to some extent a lot of Packers fans seemed to know they were frauds. But there were plenty of optimistic believers who thought that no actually the Packers were good and the complete trouncing the 49ers gave them in November didn’t count and wouldn’t happen again. I guess it didn’t, since the 49ers eased up by the second half. San Francisco decided to play with their food a little bit and give them a wee bit of hope. I don’t really have much love for the 49ers and I’m on that Chiefs train but I have greatly enjoyed watching them continuously beat the Packers in important games since the Harbaugh era. Smug Packers fans always need a good spanking. In the punishment way, of course.
LIFE EDIT: Something has gone wrong with the computer and this one is final. Whatever has gone wrong isn’t something I can just upgrade or swap out this time, I think it’s the CPU and motherboard and considering they are 8+ years old, they did remarkably well. It is time for a new computer anyway. I’ve already ordered my new machine but it might cause some delays/voiding of the Wed comic. Shouldn’t be an issue, but in case things get weird during this week that’s why.
That pun is worse than the Packer’s performance (and about on par with the Texan’s)
Well its championship week. There were only 2 games to make comics about. In case of a bad situation with the computer, you could always draw some stick figures on paper, take pictures of the drawings using your phone, and post that as the next comic.
Of the four teams still involved, I would never have put money on the worst performance being turned in by Green Bay. Tennessee, maybe – Henry had to slow down/get found out/prepped for at some point, and while Tannys had his best game of the postseason he hasn’t quite stepped up all the way yet – but they still did alright, at least they made a game of it. They just caught KC on an absolute tear, especially Mahomes; he’s like watching a Marino that can run.
That was legit terrible from the Pack.
Tanny played his best game of the postseason? What game were you watching? That was vintage Tannekill
Bro, Tannehill played like Dpgshit against New England. And he put up a game manager type performance against Baltimore.
And he avoided big mistakes against Baltimore. He had drive-killing sacks and was throwing short when he needed to be aggressive. All that was missing was the boneheaded turnover, and there was a bad pass that could’ve been picked off twice but KC defenders couldn’t hold on. Again, in a big moment when his team needed him tilo step up, he shrank down. That’s the Tannekill I remember and got tired of watching
The puns are too much, much like the packers hopes of winning multiple super bowls with rodgers.
Other than SF, what NFC team was better than GB? You can call them frauds, but I think they were the second best NFC team. They got to where they deserved to be, then got destroyed.
The Saints faced a much tougher season and still almost got the #2 seed, the Saints were better. I think the Hawks could have also been better but they got unlucky with the seeding thanks to the 49ers and had to go to GB instead of the other way around, if GB plays in Seattle I dont see them winning
The NFC as a whole wasn’t very good this season outside the 49ers
Why would they lose in Seattle? Other than home field advantage, the Packers actually matchup quite well against the Hawks: the Packers D is better vs the pass and weak against the run while Seattle’s O has a weak running game that relies on Wilson playing hero ball. I see a coin flip at best in Seattle than an outright win with the exchange of home field advantage
The Packers weren’t frauds in my opinion, they were weak vs good running teams, always have been. The thing that hurt them the most was the colossal mental mistakes in the 1st half. 20 yard punt, fumble on an exchange from center, and than an int that looked like a miscommunication issue between the receiver (GMO, unsurprisingly) and Rodgers that lead to an interception completely made the game unattainable. Clean up the errors, they probably would have lost, but it would have been a better game.
Seattle was also half dead, with way more injuries. Before beating a half dead Seattle, the only playoff team the Pack beat (with starting QB actually playing) was the Vikings. The Vikings beat the Saints, but that was a clear case of, “why are we playing today, this is dumb” vs “no one believes in us”, which never ends well.
Total agreement the Hawks were beaten up injury wise and also acknowledged that the big wins of the season for the Pack was the Vikes twice. I’m just pointing out that the team was built to match up vs a specific style of play: teams reliant on passing that abandon the run, which happened in the Vikings game too since their RB1 was out. They definitely were not a perfect team, but hopefully the offense has become more familiar with the new system implemented this year for next season and they obtain an actual WR outside of Adams ( Lazard current skill set would make me more comfortable as a WR3 cycling in as needed).
Considering how close the game ended up being in Green Bay? I don’t think it’s a stretch to assume that the hawks could have completed that comeback if it was in Seattle
And Rodgers drove the ball deep into Seattle territory right after that. My point is the Pack matches up well on paper against the Hawks, so what is different between the Hawks at home or on the road besides home field advantage? I don’t think they played demonstratively better between their home and away games this year, but let me know if I’m wrong, I don’t follow them that closely
I expected the Packers to lose, but to keep it right around 2 scores, like 10-12 points and never be out of the game. Even the people who thought they were frauds probably didn’t expect them to get completely blown out like that.
I’m not terribly surprised about what happened to the Titans. Their chance to win this game would have been to get just enough offense that their defense could have some margin for error, and at the point where it was 17-7 it looked like that’s what was happening. But the Chiefs seem to have that same quality that the Warriors had a few years ago, where if you let them hang around long enough they’ll eventually find a rhythm and take over the game.
This is going to be an enjoyable Super Bowl. One of the only times we truly get to see the irresistible force go up against the immovable object.
Immovable objects dont give up 50 points.
>One of the only times we truly get to see the irresistible force go up against the immovable object.
What are Super Bowl 42, Super Bowl 48, Super Bowl 50? This is hardly the first time we’ve seen a “great offense meets greet defense” championship.
In fact, this time feels like it doesn’t really count given the chiefs have had a better defense than the niners since about midway through the season.
I said one of the only, not the only time.
One of the only implies it’s fairly rare. I wouldn’t argue four of the last 13 Super Bowls as rare.
Good luck with the pc problems. It’s insane how quickly newer motherboards wear thin. I can still fire up my first college computer built 15 years ago, but every laptop I’ve purchased since 2010 has had motherboard issues and every desktop requires reapplication of heatsink paste every other year.
Sadly, I think that’s exactly how computer companies profit. Hype up new machines and make them all pretty, but design them to wear out quicker and force you to keep buying their product. Profit, rinse repeat
Packer fan here. We are a good team that got beat by a great team. We’ll be back when we get a WR 2. We’re not far off. Rodgers is still great, Jones is awesome, the Smith bros are nasty, LaFluer seems to know what he’s doing. I’m optomistic.
We weren’t frauds, I’m sick of hearing that. That being said I felt like we were playing with house money a lot this year.
The thing that is a little infuriating about Rodgers is that sometimes he does trust his own arm. It’s like he refuses to make hard throws even though hes talented enough to make any throw. The only time he did was with Jordy Nelson. Fun stat: Aaron Rodgers had like a 115+ career QB rating in games Jordy Nelson played in and a 91 QB rating without.
they got lucky all year. the ringer has an article about it: https://www.theringer.com/nfl-playoffs/2020/1/19/21073550/packers-nfc-championship-game-loss-analytics-dvoa-expected-wins
“The team went 6-1 in one-score games (plus had another two wins by eight points, which could be counted as one-score victories), yet another sign of unsustainable overachievement.”
one-score games (excepting the odd garbage-time cathc-up) are essentially coin tosses.
Your offense wasnt frauds (maybe) but looked very mortal going up against the best defense they faced all year….
Your defense? Brah…. you just got run on for TWO HUNDRED FUCKIN EIGHTY FUCKIN FIVE yards in a playoff game in 2020…. and not by some superhuman Hulk of a RB either, by a RB commitee lead by Mostert (whos been cut by enough teams to be considered a bust/backup player by many) Your defense is frauds all the way down and they got exposed in the most embarasing way possible in todays NFL
Honestly, I’m relieved that the refs didn’t hand this one to the Packers. I thought for sure the NFL would nudge it that way so they could hype up “Repeat of SUPERBOWL I to close out the 100th year!!!11!!” This loss gives me some smidgen of hope that the NFL isn’t completely rigged.
Oh, and as a Vikings fan, I’m happy to see a Packer-less Superbowl. All in for the Chiefs, baby!
Niners fan here. I think it was pretty clear that the Saints and Niners were the two best teams in the NFC. Both teams could beat any opponent as long as they show up.
Seahawks, Packers, and Vikings were all teams that had looked pretty good at some points, but not consistent enough against good teams to make a strong case. And the Eagles…. well, someone had to win the NFC East.
I think the NFC playoffs could have shaped out pretty differently had the Saints won the tiebreaker and gotten a bye instead of the Packers. I think a rested NO team would have easily made it to the NFCCG, and a Saints vs 49ers NFCCG would have been a really close game that either team could win.
so much for chaos. 1 seed v 2 seed
i have a slight rooting interest in the chefs, but if i were a gambling man, i’d bet on the better d and more complete overall team of the 9ers. not too confidently, tho. mahomes can go off against anyone, it seems.
No love for the 9ers!? A little birdie told me otherwise lol
Your schadenfreude is showing. Why do you hate the Packers? They’re hardly frauds with a 13-3 record, with 4 wins against playoff teams.
Your bias is showing. Analytics showed they overachieved all year, even against a fairly weak schedule. Their point differential shows they should be about a 10-win team. Their record in one score games is an outlier from expectations, and they never truly dominated like they should throughout the season. They didn’t even win 4 games against playoff teams! It was 3, unless you count the preseason game they had against the chiefs (the 4th game at that, which doesn’t mean anything).
Among the “done nothing morally wrong or legally questionable” group of NFL players, there are few more eminently unlikeable to me than Aaron Rodgers. Sherman, Mayfield, and OBJ (not sure he still qualifies on this list after last week) are the short list of players I love to watch suffer more than Discount Double Choke.
Family issues, getting angry when people mention his height, and he clearly still isn’t over being left at the alter by the 9ers in the ’05 draft.
Watching him flop around in the playoffs year after year like a halibut in jello will never NOT be funny. Tee hee.
Packie fans need to hurt for a while before I will ever feel bad for them. Maybe bankrupting Harley Davidson and switching America to using a bidet would do it…
Well no wonder his halftime speech didn’t work. He told them to pray, and Rodgers doesn’t believe in God!