All offseason, defensive end Mike Daniels has been talking about the defense being too nice. In fact, he’s talked about it so much, we just assumed it was the only quote he had.
Mike Daniels wants the defense to be nasty!
What exactly does that mean? Apparently, it means more penalties.
“We can still get a little nastier,” said Daniels, who then was asked what exactly that meant.
“Did you watch that playoff game between the Bengals and the Steelers?” he said.
The game he’s referring to basically boiled down to this. Bengals linebacker Vontaze Burfict drew an unnecessary roughness penalty and cornerback Adam Jones got an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty in the final minute. All of that crap put the Steelers in position to kick a game-winning field goal.
Burfict also got suspended three games for hitting a defenseless receiver.
To a certain degree, we long for that kind of stuff. Charles Martin bodyslamming that dirtbag Jim McMahon or Kenny Stills leveling the tool Matt Suhey well after the whistle.
Great moments in Packers history as far as we’re concerned.
We like that those Packers didn’t like those Chicago Bears.
A little chippiness and distaste for the guys on the other team — especially a rival team — is a good thing.
Buuuuuuuuuuuut… losing a game because you’re a total bunch of idiots is not.
And as quickly as Daniels made that comment, he backed away from it a little bit.
“You don’t want the flags, but you can teeter that line a little bit,” Daniels said. “You can flirt with it a little bit. When another team is a little more concerned with things other than just playing football, then you’re in their head mentally and I think that’s something we can continue to improve on.”
Look, a little fire out there would be nice.
There’s no doubt about that. That’s something Mike McCarthy’s teams seem to consistently lack — passion, fire, a killer instinct.
We’re all for Daniels and the defense getting meaner. It would be great if the Packers defense would actually strike fear in opponents for a change.
But let’s keep that with reason, okay?
Football substance Mordecai?…well fuck me Molly McGrath!!
Playing fast, hard hitting, intense football is sometimes cultivated by head coaches like Forrest Gregg, Rex Ryan and the like. But more often than not it comes from defensive coordinators like Buddy Ryan,, Gregg Williams, Vic Fangio, Sean McDermott and so on, and so on.
Which brings me to Dom Capers. I have no doubt that Capers desires that kind of defense. The defense of 2010 was pretty stout. The difference was, that defense then had the right mix of talent, along with veterans and new players. Plus, that defense was new to other teams that in my opinion, didn’t know how to attack it like they learned to in subsequent years as it grew stale. In my layman’s opinion, Big Ted always fields one of the youngest teams in the league, and Capers defense is very complex, and the new guys, have trouble grasping it as do some veterans sometimes. What that causes, is players playing back on their heels which will kill any kind of dominating attacking defense.
As far as Mike Daniels, he doesn’t need to be motivated by a coach, that’s just how he wants to play. He’s self motivated. Daniels wants the team to punch the other team in the mouth, especially when that team is making the Packers defense look like a bunch of little bitches. Perfect example is when Mathews said fuck this shit, and decided to try and knock Kaepernick out, was he out of bounds, yea, but i gave no fuck and was proud of Mathews. Kaepernick gained almost 200 yards rushing that game(181). I remember it like it was yesterday.
Simple up this defense like McCarthy told Capers to do, so these players can “attack” instead of trying to outsmart them. that obviously hasn’t worked out. Which i think is why Mathews is being moved back outside.
I also think that when Daniels was saying this team is too nice, and needs to toughen up, i can’t help but think he may have been talking about Raji.
Different game-that was the opener the year after he ran all over us-he threw for 400 in that game; and he was barely fucking OoB, plus it’s Craporshit, so no one really cared.