The Green Bay Packers announced Wednesday that they released veteran linebacker A.J. Hawk after nine seasons with the team. I thought today would be a fantastic time to look back on the years A.J. has spent with us and reminisce. Even though he has grown older and slower over the course of his time in…
We’ve officially reached the equivalent of the dark side of the moon when it comes to Green Bay Packers news. The Scouting Combine has come and gone. The owners meetings aren’t for a few weeks. Sure, head coach Mike McCarthy and general manager Ted Thompson had the typical boilerplate cliche bingo. Not much new, and…
Last week I wrote about how quarterback was the most important position in all of sports. Running back was, for a very long time, held in similar esteem. Old school football fans used to obsess about the running back position, and some still do. Reality now tells a very different story. The value of a…
In the inaugural year of Mike McCarthy’s tenure, the Green Bay Packers doubled their previous win total, improving from 4-12 to 8-8. With a couple of positions that needed addressing, including defensive line and running back, Ted Thompson and the Packers went into the draft looking for upside as well as some depth for special…
The big story from a Packers perspective from the 2015 NFL Combine has been the overall disappointment of the inside linebackers. Mike Mayock mentioned it on the broadcast and Paul Dawson and Denzel Perryman disappointed in particular. Dawson was a big disappointment to me, as he was my top inside linebacker in this draft after…
As I’ve mentioned before, more than anything I blame the 2011 and 2012 drafts for the shortcomings of what truly looked like a budding Packers dynasty after the 2011 NFL regular season (the team had just gone 15-1 while defending the 2010 Super Bowl title). Why did these drafts fall short of the standard of…
Quarterback is the most important position in all of sports. A quarterback doesn’t have the same impact that one basketball player, like Kevin Durant or LeBron James can have, but that’s more of a function of only having 10 athletes on the field of play, not the positional importance of “small forward”. Sure, it can be argued…