Mike McCarthy is very optimistic

http://www.foxsports.com/wisconsin/...ome-best-offense-pro-football-has-seen-021915

"If we could play at this level of offense from here on in, it will be the best offense pro football has seen," McCarthy said.

That's not a statement any coach would make lightly.

"If every year looks like this year, we're going to be carrying trophies around," McCarthy said later when asked about getting over the final hump and returning to the Super Bowl.

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Also a lot of how they were the better team, but lost to Seattle anyway. Not exactly the way BB does it.

But perhaps McCarthy is learning -- he's giving up play-calling so as to have more attention to bestow on defense and STs.

I can't help but think of Cowher in 2001. I don't mean the personality, but rather that Pittsburgh was clearly better than New England at offense + defense, yet lost because of one of the great ST murders in football history. (To a first approximation, STs swung 17 points in a 7-point game.)

If every year looks like this year

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It won't. He manages the team like he manages the game. "Everybody stop. If every minute of the game is like this minute we're going to win."

What does that even mean. 'If every year could look like this year'? Yah I hope every year looks like this year because the Patriots won it all.

Fencer said:

http://www.foxsports.com/wisconsin/...ome-best-offense-pro-football-has-seen-021915


Also a lot of how they were the better team, but lost to Seattle anyway. Not exactly the way BB does it.

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Typical Packers arrogance. It's why I lost respect for Aaron Rodgers. The better team always wins. Just ask Tedy Bruschi, he admits the Giants were the better team that day in Arizona.

The Seahawks were the better team that day. The Packers can suck it.

"If every year looks like this year, we're going to be carrying NFC North Champs hats and T-shirts around"

There fixed that for him...

Wheelman said:

Typical Packers arrogance. It's why I lost respect for Aaron Rodgers. The better team always wins. Just ask Tedy Bruschi, he admits the Giants were the better team that day in Arizona.

The Seahawks were the better team that day. The Packers can suck it.

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The most visible reason the Packers lost is that a backup TE freelanced on a crucial ST play.

I doubt that kind of freelancing would occur on the Patriots. There have been some judgment-call boners (e.g. Chung's fake), but the player made them within the structure of scheme.

GB was nearly unbeatable at home piling up very serious offensive stats. And without a number of very unlikely plays (events not likely to happen again to GB in an AFCCG) GB qualifies for the SB/GB leaving them one single win from owning the trophy. Given those facts McCarthy stated he would like to replicate 2014's production because it gives them a great chance at winning a SB(s).

Yea, that's some real cutting edge, X's and O's, football strategy brainstorming...

He is one of the biggest benefactor of deflategate, his play calling should have been shredded in the aftermath of the NFC championship game. But all attention was quickly shifted to the Pats and he went under the radar.