How close were we last year? In your opinion Players

[NEODOG]

After the last 2 weeks of well thought out hyperbole.... Just EXACTLY how close were we player wise from seriously winning a SB? Besides the non-catch on Dez...... What would you expect player wise this off season?

I know who I wanted & both are still out there..... Cost isn't a factor. Romo/Witten is a major factor.

 

[JBell]

We were a bad call away from likely playing in the SB.

We were a Greg Hardy type pass rusher away from making it to the SB regardless of that bad call.

 

[CF74]

Catch aside we were/are a formidable defensive front away...

 

[jrumann59]

I think last year we could have, or we could have had our doors blown off. I am not trying to be funny or fence sit but that is how this team was especially on defense, very jekyll/Hyde.

 

[Dave_in-NC]

We were a pass rush away IMOP. Rodgers would have been in trouble if Hardy were on our team.

 

[wileedog]

We were a bad call away from likely playing in the SB.

We were a Greg Hardy type pass rusher away from making it to the SB regardless of that bad call.

In fairness, beating Seattle twice in one year in their stadium would have been a pretty big longshot.

Unless Caroll forgot to run the ball...

 

[crashintonickdm]

on one hand, what a year 2014 was. but by january you expected a run. how it ended will hurt for a long long time.

 

[Nightman]

A healthy Lee, a CB, a DE, a DT1, a KR

 

[Wolfpack]

A pass rusher on the edge would have been key (ware)

 

[Dave_in-NC]

In fairness, beating Seattle twice in one year in their stadium would have been a pretty big longshot.

Unless Caroll forgot to run the ball...[/quote]

 

[Dave_in-NC]

A pass rusher on the edge would have been key (ware)

Ware would have been run down by then. He was in Denver at the end of the season.

 

[Wolfpack]

Ware would have been run down by then. He was in Denver at the end of the season.

I don't disagree. But what did we trout out? How about a ware in a jeffcoat 3rd role ? A 3rd down only ware looks better than what we rolled out.

 

[CF74]

Ware would have been run down by then. He was in Denver at the end of the season.

Ware as part of Marinellis rotation as opposed to playing a majority of the reps would have been the difference...

 

[dwreck27]

Hardy on last years team is big...

Rodgers jersey actually needs to get washed after the game this time instead of still looking freshly starched the way we left it

 

[windward]

We were thisclose to an NFCCG Berth. With an improved pass rush I'd wager we'd be even close to winning a title.

 

[BAZ]

I went into the Green Bay game thinking they were better, I saw in the conference game that neither of those teams were in fact better than Dallas, they just played down to their ranking. Dallas could have beaten New England last year, just not every time. So close it hurts.

 

[dupree89]

After the last 2 weeks of well thought out hyperbole.... Just EXACTLY how close were we player wise from seriously winning a SB? Besides the non-catch on Dez...... What would you expect player wise this off season?

I know who I wanted & both are still out there..... Cost isn't a factor. Romo/Witten is a major factor.

I think the defense was multiple players away from making this team a real threat to win the Super Bowl. A dominant ground game helped hide this.

 

[coult44]

A pass rusher to put pressure on Rodgers, and a CB to step in front of a pass in the endzone.

 

[lqmac1]

A twist of the head from Scandrick!

 

[nalam]

We were a bad call away from likely playing in the SB.

We were a Greg Hardy type pass rusher away from making it to the SB regardless of that bad call.

More like rematch against the Hawks , isn't it .

Having said that we could have beaten the Seahawks , but they would have been ready for the 1st games plan. Who can say , a break here or there we could have gone to SB , but the D wouldnt have held against Pats and Brady.