It was aggravating to watch Jeff Janis sit around and do nothing while the Green Bay Packers receivers struggled mightily in 2015.
We understood the reasoning why the Packers didn’t play Janis — because his route running needed work and he didn’t have the trust of quarterback Aaron Rodgers. At the same — it feels like we’ve said it 100 times — you put talented players in a position to make plays.
That’s your fucking job as a coach.
Nah, not Mike McCarthy though. Not his job, even though he paid some lip service to adapting your system to good players not so long ago. That’s just typical McCarthy. Say one thing, do another.
But listen, guys!
This is the year the Packers get Janis involved!
“Great kid, hard-working, very powerful,” McCarthy said. “But there were just a lot of things, when he does them, they’re for the first time. Hopefully we’re out of that phase of his development. I look for Jeff to take that next step. He made the step in your second year that you look for. He did it first on special teams.”
And so this year, McCarthy obviously expects him to do it on offense.
What that means is not what McCarthy suggested. That the Packers value good players and will adapt their system to fit those players’ skills.
It means that Janis will have to do everything precisely how McCarthy and Rodgers want him to or he’s going to be sitting on his ass on the bench for another season.
At least the Packers actually have a receivers coach to work with the guy now.
That’s a plus.
Not sure if Janis will take that next step for MM. I do know that Janis took one giant leap for the Packers when given an opportunity in a big game. Put play makers on the field and let them make big plays. Screw the small steps. Careers in the NFL are to short to screw around with baby steps.
The best training is “on the job training.” He’s earned the right to be out there on the field.
I have ranted on this very issue before. It really fricking annoys me.
Football is a simple game. It isn’t god damn rocket science. Janis is doing shit for the first time? Like what? Dude was probably out catching fly patterns from his dad when he was 7 years old. Give me a fricking break.
If your man lines up in a zone look you run the out. If he lines up in a man to man look you run the corner. How is that fucking complicated?
Running as fast as you can in a straight line is really complicated. It takes years of practice.
Geezus. Did these guys have seriously NO coach last year or what?
Yea, ive said this for a long time as well. But coaches, not just in football anymore either, I see this in college baseball and softball, volleyball even. But coaches have complicated their sports so much now. It use to be just man vs man, my best vs your best, now its all about timing, Xs and Os, charts. I remember Favre talking about how theres really only like 4 or 5 plays you can run in an NFL offense, the rest is just for fluff. Somehow I totally believed that.
Quite to the contrary, it takes more than trying to “outathlete” someone to be successful on an nfl level. Especially at the reciever position. Been plenty of special athletes that played the position that failed. Even higher touted ones, look no further than Charles Rogers. I think a lot of people on this board overlook the complexity of playing WR in nfl.
That being said, McCarthys comments are promising. I know I have said it before, but Janis reminds me a lot of miles austin, and it took him a while to get going as well
No, this’ll be how it plays out. Ted’ll draft a 6th round wide out with some speed. You know, in case someone gets hurt in the 5th preseason game this year. They’ll have to cut the 6th man out which is Janis as he was only a 7th rounder and it stands to reason he isn’t the same caliber.
So anyway, the pack will be forced to cut him. Another team, that is actually able to develop and use talent, will pick him up and he will go on to post 750yrds on 32 receptions in 2016.
He will then go on to have an illustrious career. And Ted and Mike will have left themselves the legacy of another wasted talent and forever be seen as the duo who values the process over the folks carrying out that process.
It’s classic middle management. Cogs and wheels to be plugged into the system. If you don’t fit the cog, try harder.
Shawn has it though. Super frustrating.
McCarthy would have made a good Politician. A lot of words come out of his mouth, but in the end you realize, he hasn’t really said anything.
I still believe that being a higher draft pick gives you more opportunity. We`ll soon see how this shakes out, but i`ll bet Adams is higher on the depth chart and will stay there until he falls flat on his face. Perception is hard to overcome.
I would feign surprise here, but what’s the point? He couldn’t figure out how to use Janis last year, there aren’t enough balls to go around with Nelson coming back. Other than special teams where he is damn good, I don’t think Janis has much to look forward to on offense.
OR, does having Nelson back increase the odds for single coverage on Janis and thus giving Janis more opportunity to be a play maker?
Especially with so few NFL reps on video for Coordinators to break down….
Whose gonna sit? Nelson, Montgomery, Abbrederis, Cobb, Adams? I like Janis and agree that he should have been better utilized.
The problem is McCarthy. He didn’t see it last year. I am certain there will be some arbitrary measure that will make Janis not be able to see the field on offense just like this past season.
Janis and Abbrederis are going to have to kill it in preseason to even be considered for many reps on offense. Even if the Packers don’t draft any WRs those 2 have an uphill climb because McCarthy doesn’t get it.
I think most Packer fans hope you’re wrong. Janis simply oozes big play potential.
I agree, but McCarthy is too stupid to realize it.