When there has been so little news related to the Green Bay Packers in the weeks leading up to the draft, the news that came out Saturday night seems like sensory overload. With one article, published late on a Saturday evening when most of the sports world was more concerned with the Kentucky Derby, NBA…
Packers Talk Radio Network continues its player profile series for our sponsor Mayfield Sports Marketing with a look at WR Randall Cobb. Randall Ladonald Cobb II was born August 22, 1990 in Maryville, Tennessee. From a young age, it seemed that football was Cobb’s destiny. One of his cousins, Shannon Mitchell, played tight end at Georgia and for the…
In an effort to continue to give you something different than you find everywhere else on the Packersphere (I’m not sure this is a term, if it is don’t steal it) (Actually, go ahead and steal it, in fact, let’s get this bitch trending #Packersphere) I’m going to take a unique look at the 1st…
Join Cheesehead Radio as we re-group to talk about the off-season happenings, and look ahead to the draft. Tonight we’re joined by Packers beat writer Wes Hodkiewicz of the Green Bay Press Gazette. Cheesehead Radio is the flagship for the Packers Talk Radio Network, serving up enough weekly podcasts to satisfy the most fervent of Packer fans.…
One week from tonight the Packers will make their first selection in the 2014 draft. The majority of Packer fans seem to want the selection to be a linebacker, namely Alabama’s CJ Mosley or Ohio State’s Ryan Shazier. But despite the fact that Packer fans and the media almost universally recognize inside linebacker as a…
Is everyone else just as tired of waiting for the NFL Draft to get here? The decision of Roger Goodell to delay the draft until early May was one made out of convenience for him and the NFL, so that they could stay at Radio City Music Hall. Unfortunately, for anyone who writes about the NFL, this…
The draft is all about opportunity cost. The reason that the entire world laughed at the Minnesota Vikings when they selected Christian Ponder #12 overall is not because Ponder wasn’t ever going to be a serviceable NFL quarterback. We didn’t know that for sure (I think everyone kind of assumed) but even if Ponder ended…
