I Hate That Dirty Water

December 20, 2006
posted under: coaching carousel, Jeff Jagodzinski, Packers

The Standells, who sang about Boston and Dirty Water As if I needed another reason to dislike Boston. Actually, that’s not very fair; Beantown is a perfectly nice city if you like impossible to navigate streets, obnoxious Red Sox fans, and mullets. (They do have Legal Sea Food and that is some damn good eating.) But there is another reason to hate Boston, Boston University to be specific: Offensive coordinator Jeff Jagodzinski has been hired as head coach at BU starting next year.

Even though it’s hard not to see this as Jags jumping ship, you can’t really criticize the guy for taking the position. It is a head coaching gig at a top Big East program and it’s his dream job for heaven’s sake. (Heck, if AOL wanted to hire me as jizz mopper at The FanHouse I’d be out of here in a flash.)

But this leaves Mike McCarthy and with some big questions to answer this offseason. MM says he’ll stick with the zone blocking scheme, but then who will he find to continue coaching it? And considering how ineffective it has been in most games this season, it appears there needs to be a lot more coaching.

What’s interesting here is that last Sunday against the Lions, McCarthy threw in a couple running plays that featured — gasp! — pulling guards. Was he just trying something out of desperation there, or was he thinking about the future of the offense and the possibility that zone blocking might not be the dominant philosophy in seasons to come? There is a part of that’s hoping it’s the latter.

mfpack Says:
December 22nd, 2006 at 11:53 am

I think Mike III commented that he always intended to mix in some guard pulls and whatnot but he couldn’t earlier in the year because the rookies couldn’t handle all the info. It looked like they were pulling on a few plays last night too. Not well, mind you, but pulling nonetheless.