Mike McCarthy takes aim at reporters when asked about Packers’ struggling offense

It is incredible to see how strong he and Eddie Lacy can be in scrum mode.

The Green Bay Packers apparently avoided a major injury to one of their top offensive players on Sunday evening.

Not all is hunky dory at 1265 Lombardi Avenue, though.

– Rodgers hasn’t completed 70 percent of his passes since – a streak of 20 consecutive games, including playoffs.

“The amount of rushing yards they’ve given up in four games is incredible”, said Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers, praising the defense as a whole and, in particular, the defensive line. The problems, however, run far deeper than the quarterback. In my opinion, it’s all of the above.

– Along with the Chicago and Seattle games, Rodgers was accurate vs. Kansas City (68.6 percent) and San Francisco (68.8 percent) in the third and fourth games.

One issue is that the Packers seem like two different offenses from one half to the next. He doesn’t think they need the outside world to point out where they could be better. That makes these questions more than relevant.

First things first regarding Rogers. “We will just spend more time in the classroom and change the meeting structure”. Let’s take a look at the strengths and weaknesses of one of the better offenses in the league. The Packers’ fans are used to seeing a high scoring bunch where Rodgers puts up a ton of yards and leads his teams to wins. Those are career lows for him as a starter and put him near the bottom of the National Football League rankings this year.

It was Cobb’s best game of the season with nine catches for 108 yards. However, the team’s vaunted offense has crossed the 30-point threshold just once in those four games, and they have been over 400 total yards once as well. It’s been a struggle for the passing game ever since. As ESPN reported on the day of the massacre on October 9, 2016, the late game comeback staged at the end of the game failed due in part to a lacking of the run game and implosion of the offense.

With established veteran Jared Cook set to miss the next month or so with a high ankle sprain the Packers will start 2014 third-round pick Richard Rodgers at tight end, who somewhat broke out previous year with 510 yards and eight touchdowns. It threw the Giants completely out of sync, and he was affected greatly by the pressure. “Maybe I should start taking some more sacks”, said Rodgers, trying to downplay the ugly and unimaginable stat. It happened against Jacksonville and Detroit and then again against NY.

“I play football; I play for contact”, Cobb said Monday “If I get hit, I get hit”. There may be instances where we have real good protection and we’ve got route execution that’s where we want it to be and maybe we don’t quite make the throw.

Early in the NY game, McCarthy gave the passing game a boost by using different personnel groups on every play.

It’s not that Cruz didn’t get open at all.

When asked if Manning was hurt, McAdoo said that he knew of no injury. We’ve got to execute in the passing game as well as we’re doing up front and in the run game.

He brushes much of that off, accepting the nature of the position anywhere, but especially in the metropolitan area, where he has provided elation as much as he has caused frustration at times with a lack of regular-season consistency.

If it helps, the Packers will be on their way.