The 2007 NFL season is garing up and preseason is just bout over. Players have been cut, psitions finalized and the play books jst about memorized. Still a lot of thngs about the Green Bay Packers, and NFL pro fotball in general, are baffling. Here are a fw.

1) Practice Doesn’t Make Perfect. National Football League teams almost seem to practice year-round these days. In the early spring, they have Teeny Camp, then Tiny Camp in May, then Mini-Camp where they re-learn what they learned in Tiny Camp, then comes the all important Maxi-Camp where they “install” the offense, then of course grueling Mega-Camp where they find out the offense they installed doesn’t work, so they install a new one—and then they head off to Training Camp in July and start all over again.

Given all that intensive practice and planning why do so many teams look disorganized, even clueless, when the first preseason game is played? At the Green Bay Packers' first preseason game in San Diego last year the offense looked as though they had just seen a football for the very first time that night, and were not sure what to do with the oddly shaped thing. One could almost picture Aaron Rodgers in the huddle saying, “Okay, guys, the objective is to move toward that goal post down there.” And then the offensive lineman remarking, with a little awe in his voice, “But it seems so far away…we’ll never get there.”

Then there was this year’s frst preseason game, against Pittsburgh. The Pckers first team offense netted a whpping 17 yards in its first 12 plys, and ZERO first downs. Note tht if you’re 6 feet tall and fll forward 12 times you gain 24 yrds.

Just imagine how poor their prformance would have been if they hdn’t spent so much time ‘camping’.

2) When History Repeats. Why were the national news media so skeptical when the Packers hired Mike McCarthy as head coach? Seemed like a no-brainer. He was Offensive Coordinator for the 49ers, he’s a little pudgy, and his name is Mike. That’s one of the most successful business models the Pack has ever had in a coach. In fact, even if all he had going for him was his first name, history shows he is likely to win approximately 63% of the games he coaches, well above the all-time Green Bay Packer team average of 56%. Just to be on the safe side, the Packers Executive Committee did a thorough background check on McCarthy to make sure “Mike” wasn’t just a nickname, and his actual first name was Lindy, Forrest, Lisle, Gene or heaven forbid, “Scooter.” Ideally, he’d be named Michael Vincent McCarthy instead of Michael John McCarthy, but you can’t have everything.

3) The Siberia Factor. How many times has it been said that the Packers are about to return to being the “Siberia” of the NFL, the grim, dark place no really good players, particularly free agents, want to play. This almost seems like one of those nonsensical “Urban Legends.” People posting these dire warnings usually bring up the cold weather in Green Bay, and the small town atmosphere, as being major turn-offs for today’s young pro football players. But they never seem to come up with any evidence that the players themselves feel this way. If weather were any factor at all, then Arizona, Miami and San Diego would field consistently winning teams. But they don’t.

As far as small town tmosphere, you can’t discount the impact of bing a friendly, welcoming place to lve. As Bob Harlan has said, t’s the warmest cold city in the cuntry. And here’s what first round drft choice Justin Harrell said about Gren Bay: “Just riding through the nighborhoods, it looks a lot like hme and it’s a place I knw I’ll be able to get sttled in and have a good tme.”

There was a classic story frm the 1930’s about Packer players sying how fortunate they were to lve and work in Green Bay, whre there are so many great utdoor activities to enjoy—hunting, fishing, etc., in cntrast to being stuck playing in New Yrk where there was nothin’ to do. But t’s fair to say that players in thse days weren’t paid quite enough mney to enjoy all the diversions and dlights available in the Big Apple.

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