Packers practice field yesterday

jzcowboy

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I had the task of visiting Green Bay yesterday for work and drove past their training field. Although there is a cover on the fence guarding against curious onlookers, there is a scoreboard visible from the street. The scoreboard had a running clock at the 1:25 mark in the fourth quarter. It also showed a score of Packers 21 and Guest 25. I'm assuming they were practicing their 2 minute offense.

Interesting to see they may be preparing for a close game. Unknown if that scenario is for this week or a normal Wednesday event.
 

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Situational football, they're not necessarily expecting a close game, they are practicing different situations including the possibility of a close game. They also practice the "V" victory formation, but that doesn't mean they expect to be on that situation.
 

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Situational football, they're not necessarily expecting a close game, they are practicing different situations including the possibility of a close game. They also practice the "V" victory formation, but that doesn't mean they expect to be on that situation.

Wow. Practicing situational football. What a novel concept. I wonder if Jason does it.
 

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I would be wiling to bet they do this for every team they play against.

Two things:

1. I would hope that all teams this by now.... I mean it's the year 2015
2. Disregard #1 for Tony Romo.... He knows this drill like the back of his hand.
 

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I drove by the Giants practice field and noticed they were running Quarters starting at 13:00 min mark and not 15:00. Not sure what that is all about.
 

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I would assumed they were doing it for us had the scoreboard read 9-6. Since we don't score TD's anymore!
 

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First you would have to by him a new clock so he can start learning time.
Fans bought him a necklace clock ! but it will be a process .

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Situational football, they're not necessarily expecting a close game, they are practicing different situations including the possibility of a close game. They also practice the "V" victory formation, but that doesn't mean they expect to be on that situation.

I'm sure they expect to be in that position ;)
 

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I'm sure they do it. I bet he's too busy clapping and spitting during the practice, he hasn't learned what to do in those situations himself.

Garrett actually strikes me as the type of guy that goes over every eventuality he and his staff can think of and then drills his players on the specific circumstances in what they call the "2-minute session" in practice. It's cliche and obvious after a season or so of hard knocks that they all do it.

Now don't think I'm defending Garrett. His players obviously don't know what they're doing in this instance and that ultimately speaks as to his ability to coach but quibbling how you want to run two minutes is besides as to what went wrong on the field last week and what issues Garrett actually has.

For example, in these threads, no one has really questioned Cassel's role in this. You want the head coach to execute this as opposed to the quarterback. Would you think it inappropriate to say Cassel looks weak on the field in general? Command of the huddle and formation. His rapport with line, back and receivers. How he moves and throws. It's all poor. I know if Romo called a perimeter play late he would have executed better. We've seen the team do it right with him a lot. If you want to give credit to Romo for that and not Garrett then fine but that is the where the real dysfunction on this offense is.

We haven't seen a quarterback this bad since Brad Johnson. I'm not sure he's better. Might have to go back to the corpse of Drew Bledsoe. When teams make the same mistakes regarding a position over and again it's troubling. It's an organizational problem undoubtedly.
 
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