Warning: Packers Disaster Area Ahead » Brats & Beer

December 20, 2005
posted under: Packers, Post-game, Ravens

Put some police tape around M&T Bank Stadium, because a crime was committed there last night. Obviously someone kidnapped the Packers defense and replaced them with some no-talent replicants. Either that or a season of playing above their heads finally caught up to them. (I hoping for the former but guessing it’s the latter.)

Great almighty football gods, what did we do to deserve a pestilence like that? No one could tackle, no one could cover, no one laid a glove on Kyle Boller. The Green Bay defense achieved the impossible by making the mediocre Ravens look like a respectable football team. Baltimore had been scoring an average of 13 points a game (lowest in the league) until last night’s blowout. Boller, who has been in danger of losing his job to the utterly incompetent Anthony Wright, played like a Pro-Bowler, completing 19 of 27 for 253 yards and three touchdowns. The Ravens drove 93 yards in 16 plays to score a touchdown in the second quarter, taking almost eight and a half minutes off the clock.

And then there was the woeful, beaten up offense, able to score a field goal and nevermore. No consistent ground game and just 144 yards passing from St. Favre. Worst of all, in a game of worst-of-alls, Sam Gado was lost probably for the rest of the season with a torn MCL.

The Packers won just one of seven road games this year, matching the dubious distinction of the 1979 squad, and are in real danger of finishing 3-13, which would be their worst mark since the league expanded to a 16 game schedule in 1978. For a worse winning percentage, you would have to go all the way back to the lost season of 1958. This is bad, folks.

This Monday night debacle erased any doubt that there are going to be wholesale changes to the player roster and the coaching staff this spring. And I’m not sure now who will survive. Maybe nobody should. Maybe Green Bay should take a season off and play some Division I-AA ball before coming back to the pros. I just don’t know.