Suffering through your favorite team’s bye week can be an ominous period for any NFL fan. While fans want to see more action on the field, it serves as a chance for not only players, but coaches to recharge. The players play and coaches coach. Yet coaches also have the responsibility of evaluating talent and…
The Green Bay Packers have fielded one of the best offensive line units in the NFL the last two seasons. However, they will be heading into 2017 looking to replace a Pro Bowl Guard for the second consecutive season. Tackle David Bakhtiari has developed into one of the best LTs in the entire league,…
The symmetry is perfect. In a way it’s fitting that the match-up from the opening game of the 2014 NFL season would be revisited in the NFC Championship. Aaron Rodgers vs. the Legion of Boom. It makes for high ratings and 21st Century rivalry set for years to come. The Seattle Seahawks are the monkey…
Randall Cobb. Davon House. Nick Perry. Casey Hayward. Mike Daniels. That’s it, folks. That’s the full list of players left on the Green Bay Packers roster from the 2011 and 2012 drafts. Of the 18 players that Ted Thompson selected (players you would hope are just sliding in to the prime of their careers) five…
There was much consternation at the beginning of the season. The Packers spent time and resources developing a plan to keep this team healthier. If you ask Mike McCarthy that’s a huge part of this team’s success, especially in the regular season. He claims to have only coached two teams of above average health in…
As I sat in the Lambeau Field bleachers and watched the Panthers game, I couldn’t help but to think of how well the 2014 draft class is panning out. Now there are certainly disappointments. It’s possible (maybe even likely) that Khyri Thornton Carl Bradford and Demetri Goodson can’t play. Jared Abbrederis was lost for the…
It’s finally here! After what seems like an eternity NFL football is back, and the Packers have the honor of facing the defending Super Bowl Champions on their home turf to start the season. While there has been a lot of focus on the “Fail Mary” game of 2012 leading up to this game, this…