Is it dark or are we all blind?

_HD_ wrote:Success is an ever-interesting phenomenon.  Those who are fortunate enough to touch it...follow that up by demonstrating for all to see whether it was really anything in attribution beyond the good fortune of randomly-mating circumstance...  Fatty's swoon has followed a mostly consistent trend line down--and it's clearly not yet over...

I can only hope that it is over soon. Signing him to an extension would be a mistake almost as big as making Sherman the GM.


The Pack was once an elite team.  Now they're the Catholic church of NFL teams--clinging to values and morays and play charts of what made them dominant in a distant past.  The current elite grow, evolve, identify and initiate comparative advantage--adjust to the fucking landscape to field the best team possible...all while Dr. McFatty McFucknutz tinkers with the protein limits for game-day breakfast and makes sure his kickers have no coital activity within 18 hours of kick-off so the testicle next to their kicking leg has exactly a 70/30 semen to sperm ratio and enough volume to pressure spunk that 55 yd FG when necessary...  No--we won the SuperBowl 5 years ago.  We don't need to change anything.  

Yep... if he spent half the time trying to breathe fresh air that can't be found within the confines of his own ass instead of this relentless tinkering.

throttleplate wrote:hey hd,you home from vacation? I wouldn't be disappointed if pack went 8-8,will make for better writing from this board and al the packer websites and radio shows.Train wrecks get top news coverage.

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_HD_ wrote:The attempt was made to educate the visionless homers in advance--but closed minds don't produce open ears...  


Success is an ever-interesting phenomenon.  Those who are fortunate enough to touch it...follow that up by demonstrating for all to see whether it was really anything in attribution beyond the good fortune of randomly-mating circumstance...  Fatty's swoon has followed a mostly consistent trend line down--and it's clearly not yet over...


Yes--Mikey's focus since winning the Bowl in '10 has been pretty much in textbook consistency with someone who won it all--but wasn't quite sure how it all happened to be.  The proverbial dog chasing his tail--bogged in myopic ancillary detail and consumed with the *play not to lose* mentality of protecting what you have rather than taking what you want...  In short--the fat man's appetite was satisfied in 2010...and now he operates from a perspective of not wanting to risk tarnishing his legacy as opposed to further building it...but make no mistake...this is a man whose ego wonders itself if it was merely good fortune that produced the success, or something astute he primarily did...  So tinker...tinker-on into that good night...but whatever you do--don't flip the fucking mattress.  God only knows what will happen...  


So--


--let's not get a fresh perspective on the D and replace the guy whose squads clearly aren't responding to his program...  We won a bowl with him, right?  Clearly what he does works, right?  No.  Times change.  Ask Adrian about that.  He didn't adjust his parenting with the times.  Era is what did him in.  Nothing more.  He's the same man he always was.  You look in his eye--there's no evil there.  In his mind was he intending to be abusive?  No.  Has society evolved to where what he did is considered so?  Yes.  Similiarly with Dom...  Has he in the past been a good Coordinator?  Yes.  Have enough of his former players circulated throughout the league to call the pony's trick before he does?  Yes.  Has he proven capable of evolving in his scheme and teaching methods to mitigate the opposition's adjustments to his scheme and maintain some competitive advantage.  Increasingly not.  Does an astute leader recognize shit like this long ago--shake his hand and wish the man his best?  Fucking right.  Time just fucks you over more on this path as time marches on...


--similiarly--let's not hire on O-Coordinator to freshen up the O and bring some unpredictability to that side of the ball.  We'll make up for it by doing things nobody else would ever think of--like calling time out at the half to give the other team another shot at the end zone--and going for it on fourth down when you don't need to take the risk early in the game at mid-field to put your D in the hole with half a field...


--let's not recognize that our training philosophy on reducing injuries is clearly NOT working...and consider whether the wrong approach that didn't follow conventional wisdom to begin with is a possibility...


--let's not accept that the O and D live and die by the play in the trenches and be content to play whomever we drafted--even when we can't seem to draft lineman for shit.  I've never seen a line produce so few open holes in three games for a RB to exploit.  Never.  The simpleton concludes that Eddie has just lost it, right?  What else could be, right?


The Pack was once an elite team.  Now they're the Catholic church of NFL teams--clinging to values and morays and play charts of what made them dominant in a distant past.  The current elite grow, evolve, identify and initiate comparative advantage--adjust to the fucking landscape to field the best team possible...all while Dr. McFatty McFucknutz tinkers with the protein limits for game-day breakfast and makes sure his kickers have no coital activity within 18 hours of kick-off so the testicle next to their kicking leg has exactly a 70/30 semen to sperm ratio and enough volume to pressure spunk that 55 yd FG when necessary...  No--we won the SuperBowl 5 years ago.  We don't need to change anything.  Even if it doesn't work--it still works here because it proved to work at one time...in one circumstance, and, consumed by detail, we've only made it all better since then--making the things that don't work...not to work all the fucking better.  Why?  Because that's how we roll.  We play not to lose, motherfuckers--and by my fat fucking Mcflubbered McFatty ass--you better believe it...eah

RingoCStarrQB wrote:And oh by the EFFEN way.............Greg Jennings is still being productive............as is Boldin.