You can all breathe a huge sigh of relief. Green Bay Packers right tackle Bryan Bulaga looks like he won’t miss an extended amount of time.
Bulaga suffered what has been termed a sprained MCL on Thursday night. That injury can take up to eight weeks to heal, but Bulaga is already pushing to return when the Packers practice next, which is Wednesday.
“Right now we’ve got a little bit of a gap between how Bryan feels and how the medical department feels about it, which is normal,” coach Mike McCarthy said. “I think really Wednesday’s practice will probably give us a better indication. I know Bryan would like to try to go on Wednesday, but we’ve got to see how his knee reacts between now and then.
“Once again, it’s not a major injury. We’re relieved by that. I really don’t have a timeline.”
The good news is Bulaga won’t require surgery. Realistically, he could miss a couple weeks though.
All of that is encouraging at this point, considering A. Bulaga’s long injury history, and B. the disgustingly awful performance of his replacement, Derek Sherrod.
The bad news is the Packers next two opponents are — like the Seahawks — pretty stout on the defensive front. They are the New York Jets and Detroit Lions.
Without Bulaga, the Packers may have a hard time beating two teams we all expect them to handle.
Amazing the difference one guy can make when you don’t have an adequate replacement.
AM I actually looking at some good news on the injury front for once? Is this what it feels like?
So the good news is that the bad news isn’t as bad as you thought? 2 weeks still is bad news, man. Sherrod Sucks!!
These two next teams may be stout up front but they suck on the back end. Our receivers will get open and Aaron will find them before the pressure from Sherrod’s side gets to #12, that equals good news.
I just knew that someone was gonna stick their nose at me and make dark of the situation because they just have to. Who’da thunk it?
Usually for the Pack when an injury occurs the medical staff thinks of it as just a little concern, but then a week later that player is out for the year. This time it was the other way around, and that doesn’t often happen.
Not as bad as anyone thought, YES! Precisely! An MCL Tear could have kept Bulaga out for 4-6 weeks, Aaron Rodgers gets injured again and we might have kissed our season goodbye!
But now it seems, according to conventional wisdom, Bulaga will miss two weeks at the most! Therefore Rodgers will only have to manage the offense for a couple of games without the full luxury of his offensive line or TE’s.
How in the world is that not good news to you??? It’s a known fact that optimist’s live virtually stress free lives, you should try it some time.
“Once again, it’s not a major injury. We’re relieved by that. I really don’t have a timeline.” Says Coach.
“I REALLY DON’T HAVE A TIMELINE” That sounds like what he says every time. You go ahead and get your hopes way up there. I’m sticking with what happens every single time our crappy training staff assess an injury. CAN THEY NOT CORRECTLY ASSESS OR CAN THEY NOT CORRECTLY TREAT?
It would be good news to me if they didn’t jack us around by telling us a few weeks are needed only to follow it up by saying it is going to be 3x that after the few weeks has transpired.
Most recently, how’d that “less than 4 weeks” thing regarding Tretter turn out for you? 100% of team injuries reported last at least twice as long as McCarthy tells the public it will be.
I want to be optimistic, Chad, but I am a realist and base my reaction on the observations of this less than stellar staff over the course of his leadership.
Maybe they need to hire Mike Sherman as their O-line coach. The guy was a dud as a head coach but he did create a pretty good running game. Something that apparently is a complete mystery to McCarthy. I was encouraged with Lacy last year, but now that the golden boy is back, it’s back to the same old shit. Running backs as an after thought. We wouldn’t want a power running game. That might fuck up our image as a bunch of finesse pussies.
our 6 against there 4 and we can’t get a running game. damn, I am about to puke.
weren’t you complaining about the language on another post? c’mon man….you can’t have it both ways.
Perhaps the league has MM’s number. How about hiring D. Bevel?
Who’s examining his knee? The same group that missed Charles Johnson’s blown knee last season and paid him to join the practice squad? I’ll believe it when he’s actually playing again
Right on! It wasn’t until the Browns signed him off our squad to their active roster that THEY discovered the injury, like we were trying to dupe them or something. How fricking embarrassing!!
Again, I ask, Can our staff not correctly assess, or can they not correctly treat?
Now…I’m no doctor. But I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night…
I think Sherrod will rebound and play better. If not then we will see a lot of two tight end sets chipping the DE’s to help out Sherrod. Maybe more of Kuhn as a pass protector, especially if Lacy misses next Sunday’s game. Getting the ball out quickly will be very important. Luckily both team’s secondaries suck.