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With several offseason arrivals https://www.thepackersfanshop.com/Antonio-Morrison-Jersey , there was little chance for Siragusa to make the team in 2019." />Skip to main contentclockmenumore-arrownoyesAcme Packing Company homepageHorizontal - WhiteAcme Packing Companya Green Bay Packers communityFollow Acme Packing Company online:Follow Acme Packing Company on TwitterFollow Acme Packing Company on FacebookFollow Acme Packing Company on InstagramLog in or sign upLog InSign UpSite searchSearchSearchAcme Packing Company main menuFanpostsFanshotsSectionsPackersOddsAboutMastheadCommunity GuidelinesStubHubMoreAll 321 blogs on Horizontal - WhiteFanposts Fanshots Sections The APC PodcastPackers Film RoomFantasy Football AdviceCDTThe Green Bay Packers’ front office is hard at work trying to sign undrafted free agents this week after the conclusion of the 2019 NFL Draft. So far the reports put the team at 11 undrafted players who have agreed to terms. Combined with 71 players on the active roster and eight draft picks, that leaves the roster full at 90 men.However, there will be one more spot open when rookie minicamp arrives this weekend. That is because according to ESPN’s Field Yates, the Packers have waived one player on Monday: offensive lineman Nico Siragusa.UPDATE: There will actually be two open spots. ESPN’s Rob Demovsky reports that the team is also waiving safety Jason Thompson as well. Both transactions showed up on Monday’s official NFL transaction wire.A fourth-round draft pick by the Baltimore Ravens in 2017, Siragusa spent one season on the team’s active roster before landing on the practice squad for 2018. Green Bay signed him from the Ravens’ practice squad onto their active roster in December, however, and kept him around through the start of offseason workouts.However, there is suddenly a logjam at the guard position due to some offseason transactions. First, the Packers signed free agent Billy Turner, who is expected to either start at right guard or be a swing lineman. Then Cole Madison, last year’s fifth-round pick, unexpectedly returned for the start of workouts. Finally, the addition of second-round draft pick Elgton Jenkins all but closed the door on Siragusa’s shot at a roster spot in 2019.Thompson spent a brief tenure on the practice squad last season and earned a futures contract after the season concluded. However, the Packers also added a safety early in the draft in first-round pick Darnell Savage, Jr.This now leaves the roster with two expected spot available for a tryout player after rookie camp. However, all of the reported undrafted free agent signees will need to pass their physical exams, which is no guarantee. Stay tuned later this week for more news on rookie camp. I actually think Mike McCarthy has gotten a bit of a raw deal this year. Sure, his style is stale and you probably can’t win a Super Bowl with him any more, but around two-thirds of NFL coaches are still hilariously incompetent. It’s kind of sad because the Green Bay Packers’ offense has actually shown some innovation of late, and it has served to expose some of the problems with Aaron Rodgers — which is disconcerting in its own right.I used to complain of receivers never being schemed open. This season, Mac has schemed guys open. I’ve complained of his run/pass balance and his aggressiveness. He’s actually very aggressive Quinten Rollins Jersey , and he passes more than just about anyone. I complained about Aaron Jones, and he started playing Aaron Jones. No one can say Mac hasn’t put in the effort.BUTMac has a problem that he can’t overcome. Mac can’t help but tell the defense what he’s doing. Yes, he has schemed guys open, with cool crossing routes, tight formations, and even some pre-snap motion. That’s great. But, when we run into a high-stakes situation, it’s the same old Mac. So it was this past weekend on 4th and short when Mac called a power run into the teeth of a power run defense. It didn’t work.Predictability undermines any attempt at deception, and one of the key areas where you need deception is during play-action. Play-action is a funny thing because it’s been a part of football since the forward pass was invented, but no one really understood why it worked until pretty recently.Most coaches and analysts were wrong about play action for like a century, and when you think about that fact, it’s kind of mind-boggling. In the old days of football, deception was the rule, not the exception, and play action is, at its heart, a very old kind of deception. Paul Johnson retired recently. Johnson was the coach of Georgia Tech, one of, if not, the last major conference team to run some kind of option as their primary offense. I don’t watch much college football, but I gravitate towards weird offenses Brett Hundley Color Rush Jersey , and I love watching option football. It’s great, and you should watch it too while you still can. Option football was at one point very common at all levels, and option football is premised on deception. The quarterback is responsible for reading a defense, selecting the proper ball-carrier, and carrying out the play as if he has the ball, whether he does or not. Option football is premised, fundamentally, on the idea the it will be difficult for the defense to diagnose who has the ball, and it’s success is based largely on proper reads, and that deception. More importantly, that deception is not based on anything that has happened on previous plays. On any play, an option quarterback could give the ball to any back, or keep it himself based on his diagnosis of the defense. If a defender believes the quarterback handed the ball off, he’ll chase the ball-carrier. It’s really as simple as that. The defender doesn’t care if that back was the ball-carrier last play, or if they were successful. The only important fact, in the moment, is the belief that a specific player has the ball.This may all sound stupidly obvious except for the fact that the popular opinion on play action is that the ability to run play-action is predicated on the ability to run the ball successfully. The theory holds that defenders will be fooled more easily if the offense has established that running is a threat. That sounds like a good theory until you think about it a little more in the context of how defenses react to deception. A defender, after all, isn’t going to just ignore a back who might have the ball because that back hasn’t succeeded yet. A defender will chase, and hit that back if they believe he has the ball. Play action is just like an option in this way. The only thing you have to do is trick a few defenders into thinking the ball is somewhere else, and plenty of research has shown that “establishing the run” doesn’t matter a lick.The PackersThis brings us back to the Packers and their predictable https://www.thepackersfanshop.com/Kyle-Murphy-Jersey , predictable ways. You see, the Packers are one of the worst play-action teams in football, despite the fact that they are the second-best running team in football, and despite the fact that they feature an all-world quarterback.And there is only one reason that a team is poor on a “deception play:” They are lousy at deceiving people, or, in other words, predictable. What do I mean? Well, when they run play-action, they鈥endTo throwDownfieldOnEarly downs.The Rams run play action on 37% of passing plays, and they’re great when doing so, averaging 9.8 yards per play. For the Rams, that is two yards better than a normal play. The Packers run play action 22% of the time, and actually average .9 yards less per play when doing so. The Rams use this tactic as a staple of their under-center passes, whereas for the Packers, it’s a predictable play they run in certain predictable scenarios, used to set up predictable passes. With a different philosophy, perhaps with a focus on YAC over bombs, play action could (and should) be a real weapon for Green Bay, but while they meet every old-school qualification for a good play-action team, the fact of the matter is they’re lousy at actually deceiving anyone.