Were the injuries too much to overcome this year?

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(11-29-2018, 04:01 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: 1. McCarthy has a ring and was able to keep the team afloat in the playoff race even when Rodgers was out a few years ago. To have a team completely built around Rodgers still winning a few games with Matt Flynn at QB was pretty impressive, IMO. Compare that to the Colts when Peyton injured his neck.

2. You talk about not having a RB to spell the other guy like it's a huge loss, when the Packers were down to their 3rd string guy. Mixon and/or Gio >>> Brandon Jackson (who?).

I've already shown in vivid detail how the Packers lost more players, better players, for longer periods of time. They went on to win the SB. We're sitting at 5-6 and fading fast. Why? Because this team simply wasn't good enough. If a few injuries breaks you, you're not worthy of being a playoff team...and we won't be. 

This defense was abysmal from the word go. Before injuries. That should be the narrative for 2018. We didn't fire the DC "cuz injuries".


They lost their starting RT and Jermichael Finley was literally their leading receiver when he got hurt (after 5 games).

QB is irrelevant because we were losing WITH Dalton. You can't blame losing on an injury when we were losing with the injured player.

1. The Packers run a very generic offense that forces Aaron Rodgers to be spectacular every snap. They do not help him with play design. 

If the Packers offense gave Rodgers more easy throws like the Patriots do Brady, the Saints do Brees or even the Rams do Goff Rodgers would be competing for a championship every year.

And honestly that's straight from Kurt Warner. Lol.

2. Because they were using only a single running back and giving Walton very few snaps the Bengals had to limit the touches to the RBs especially Gio which limited the playbook along with a new TE every game. Specifically the Atlanta game was yard on Gio because even though he had an obvious injury they kept having to bring him back in...from that week on Mixon has taken almost every snap. That is never good.

3. You keep mentioning the Packers winning a superbowl with injuries as "The Norm" it's not. It's more likely for a team with as many injuries as the Bengals have suffered to have a bad season then it is for a team with a bunch of injuries to pull through and win a superbowl.