What does the loss of Christian Watson do to the Green Bay Packers offense in the playoffs?

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1. I just hope he comes back and doesn't lose anything. He looked like he was making strides to be our best receiver. If his speed is robbed from him that just sucks. All week I ddnt want players like Watson who were hurt all week to play because I knew this was a possibility. And the fact we did play him and now he's out with a acl tear just has me looking at the team different I can't lie. All season win or lose I was high on our team. But the watson decision was a terrible decision. The fact he had a knee brace on should've told you everything smh. I haven't felt this negative about the team in while.

2. Did you see that heavy knee brace Watson had on when he tore his ACL (opposite knee)???

   Such a poor decision to play Watson w/that brace on. As someone with arthritic knees, whenever one knee is painful, its normal to over compensate putting the healthier knee at risk, esp. with a knee brace on. Another example: JLove strained his groin after his MCL knee injury–He was wearing a (L) brace on his knee & trying to protect the injury thereby straining his groin.

   The fact MLF allowed Watson to play makes me question MLF's ability to make good decisions under pressure; as evidenced by the (situational) poor clock management at the end of that game. Hope MLF learned a few tough lessons from this game so it doesn't hurt us in the playoffs. We need all the help we can get!

3. Packers lose by double digits without Watson

4. Green Bay coach needs to quit taking the ball 1st in the beginning of the game that shit is not working nomore it only worked when they played Dallas in the playoffs last year.

5. I wanna know why Love forgot he has legs. He might as well just sit in a chair out there. I get it he wants to be a pocket passer first and that's noble but that's not the league anymore. When you never have to worry about the QB running that takes a element out of the game. But if you have to worry about the RB getting it, the QB running or passing it that adds more stuff you can do. It's either a run or pass that's it. No RPOs no, QB designed runs nothing. It's a stale offense now, the same offense at the end of the Rodgers era. Yea there are some good pocket passers but they have been in the league for years and have started for years this is Loves second year as a starter he needs to use his legs while he still can and he's wasting the prime of his speed sitting in the pocket trying to be a gunslinger making the offense 2 demential instead of 3.

6. This injury to Watson is awful. I don’t they he will ever be the same. He is young, so I hope he can 100% recover from it. He shouldn’t have been playing injured, especially in that game. His weapon is speed. It only works if he is 100%, so why play him with his other knee “braced”. The other team can see not 100%.

7. Use Bo Melton and Luke Musgrave to stretch the field. Get the ball to Tucker Kraft early and be aggressive on offense like never before versus Philly. Fake them out by using the pass to set up the running game by Jacobs, as the Eagles will be gearing up to stop the run.
   In preparation this week, put Love on a 2 second timer in practice to get passes off and stop with the deep drops and holding the ball so long.
   Lastly, bury the Reed jet sweeps as teams have seen it way too often already.

8. Packers beat eagles 28-24 book it

9. I want to see Cornelius Johnson. Injuries seem to be the only way LeFluer can find talent.

10. Put Bo Melton on the outside for the deep threat.. he's faster than Christian Watson

11. So many clueless people here that think the Packers cannot win without Watson. Watson and Alexander cannot stay healthy. If you cannot win with the rest of your receiver corp you are pretenders. Draft someone who can stay on the field.

12. Week 1??…Eagles had a both a new offense and defense schemes installed, and the starters didn’t play in the preseason. Youz ain’t ready for what the Eagles are doing

13. Go Birds 🦅

14. Let's be real watson is bad in pressure moments and has shit hands. We need to pound the ball with Jacobs and play action off that. Dont need Watson, Melton is fast enough to clear out the underneath routes if they don't bother covering him touchdown. We are just fine

15. Let's be honest. The coach & team have regressed, let's just hope guty will get them some help in the off-season

16. So what you’re saying is Watson is a great decoy! He has 29 catches and 2 TD this season. Sounds like a #1 receiver to me 😡

17. Amazing how many people conflate Christian Watson with Justin Jefferson. Jefferson 10 TDs. Watson 2.

18. Yards per separation? Dvoa? Baseball stats have no business in football. You either suck or you don’t. Wicks got open? Why didn’t he get the ball.. saber metrics have no place

19. Get Tyreek Hill

20. Watson is a one trick pony in my eyes. Same play: deep right side run pass. He and Ja are the “Glassmen of the North”

21. Doesn' matter if he was totally healthy or not. Eagles are going to curb stomp Green Bay anyhow. Defense will get shredded and the Packers would have to score a minimum of 40 points to even have a chance of victory!