Not much out there on Green Bay Packers’ starting left tackle Bryan Bulaga and his ankle injury. Bulaga doesn’t even seem to know much.
However, he says he plans on playing when the Packers open the season against the Seattle Seahawks in week 1.
“It doesn’t feel great today, probably won’t feel great tomorrow, probably won’t feel great the next day,” Bulaga said on Thursday. “I’m pretty sure I should be able to bounce back from it and get my body ready to go for the opener, that’s the goal at least.”
Bulaga went down on Tuesday and second-year tackle Kyle Murphy filled in for him in practice this week. Murphy will likely start against the Denver Broncos on Saturday.
It’s actually probably good news that Bulaga has an ankle injury. He’s dealt with knee injuries throughout his career.
Bulaga has missed 32 games due to injury throughout his career. However, he played in the full slate last year and turned in his best season.
That isn’t to say Bulaga is David Bakhtiari — he’s a far cry — but he got the job done. And 2016 was arguably the first time Bulaga was truly effective in his career.
That said, if Bulaga isn’t ready for week 1, it seems Murphy is ready to step into the fold. We’ve heard good things about Murphy thus far and he may be the eventual replacement for Bulaga on the right side.
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When they say, “…….that’s the goal at least.” Beware.
McCarthy couldn’t comment on Bulaga’s injury because he said they were still doing testing. The game was last Saturday amirite?
Not sure who you heard good things about Murphy from, but i’ve seen him play. I could harp about getting rid of pro-bowl lineman and how run blocking suffers, atrocious draft picks, depleting depth on the line, what situation were in if someone get’s injured. But you all know i’m usually ahead of the curve and frankly, i’m getting close to my breaking point with this clown show.
Mark Murphy was on 105.7 today talking about his new slide, and how he doesn’t question Ted or get involved. The big unit really scored with that interview.
Oh….i will say this, he had a slip of the tongue when he mentioned Ted’s legacy isn’t quite finished being written yet as he has many years left. Many years, plural. God help us.
Now maybe some of you can understand now why i said i wouldn’t mind a long losing streak last season. I believe i’m on record many times as saying it didn’t matter, we’d end up getting embarrassed in the playoffs anyhow.
But hey, even a clock is right twice a day, maybe i just got lucky.
The problem is I don’t think a long losing streak, or missing the playoffs even would fix anything. By the sounds of it, Murphy gives no fucks as long as tickets and merchandise are being sold. That scares the shit out of me.
For Ted, the heat would have gotten to intense for that introvert, he would of went into hiding, and public opinion, media coverage and the stress would have driven him out imo.
So, when did Bulaga become the starting left tackle again?
I rewatched the last couple of games with the intention of watching Spriggs.
I think its clear the problem with Spriggs is mental. Physically he held up fine, when he planted in the right position no player could get past him. He’s also pretty quick on his feet. But he was out of position and he had bad hand techniques on several occasions. I think this is coachable stuff.
There were other players on that offensive line that looked bad too.