Green and Gold Forever

While we Packers fans have made arguments like this for years, it's interesting that the "McCarthy is ruining Rodgers" narrative is more mainstream than ever. This really might be the beginning of his end.

The Packers Can’t Let Mike McCarthy Keep Wasting Aaron Rodgers R-E-L-A-X? Fat chance. Green Bay has long allowed its transcendent QB to mask its deficiencies elsewhere. But this year even Rodgers may not be enough to save his head coach’s job.

The Brett Hundley Era is officially over. The Packers have traded their most successful overtime quarterback in franchise history to the Seattle Seahawks.

Packers trade QB Brett Hundley to Seahawks The Packers are trading Brett Hundley to the Seahawks for a draft pick.

Interesting stuff about the success rates of Rodgers and Hundley in 2017 on various routes. I can see why they still believe in Hundley. He has showed promise throwing down the field.

Analyzing the Packers Quarterbacks’ 2017 play by receiver route type The Packers struggled throwing short a year ago, and if they can air it out more this year they’ll rebound in a big way.

Thanks to Deadspin you can see every hit that's been flagged due to the new helmet rule for yourself. I looked at all 49 and marked down 13 that I would have flagged.

Three other observations:

1. Watch out for the Titans!! They've been flagged 5 times - the most in the league.
2. It might be due to the talent level in preseason, but there is some horrendous tackling technique in these clips
3. Without a new excessive rule like the one currently in place, the NFL would become much safer if they just focused on doing away with the Danny Trevathan-style "finishing off" spears that defensive players do to ballcarriers that are already engaged with another defender. Most of the hits here I "flagged" were those instances.

Here's Every Hit That's Been Penalized Under The NFL's Helmet Rule The NFL’s helmet rule has thus far proven to be every bit as inscrutable as it seemed when the language was approved during the offseason. Players, coaches, officials, and broadcasters can’t seem to agree on how the rule is expected to be enforced. That look up there on the face of Titans head c...