It wasn’t so long ago, at least not for this septuagenarian, that the term “edge rusher” didn’t even exist in football parlance. We had nose tackles, defensive tackles, and defensive ends. All had “sacking the ...
Last year around this time, I ventured this assessment: The Packers are not positioning themselves for a deep run in the playoffs. They’ve instead launched an effort to rebuild the team for a ...
While the Packers don’t have a lot of recent signings of free agents from other teams to assess, they do have a fair number of free agent “re-signings” of players who contracts with the team ...
Throughout sports, maintaining certain traditions is one of the biggest incentives players have in their heads when they take the field. This is a mental aspect of sports that should never be discounted. Most NFL ...
The Green Bay Packers front office has announced the intended retirement of FB John Kuhn. He will end his career with an average of 3.1 yds per carry. An impressive stat and something for him ...
It’s easy to go back after a year or two and find someone available at the time a team drafts someone else – and that someone has since turned into an NFL star. ...
In a post of 2/4, I theorized about the ineffectiveness of the Rams’ superstar running back Todd Gurley in the team’s run at the Super Bowl. Though Gurley insisted his knee was okay, I concluded ...
I don’t think it’s even arguable: over the past few years the Packers have not prioritized drafting players who might fill its most urgent needs. It’s a particularly grave mistake if the hole to be ...
When Mike McCarthy twice resorted to extensive changes in his coaching staff, it was mostly to deflect criticism of himself, not as a means of bettering the team. In almost every case, McCarthy elected to ...
Every follower of the Packers knows that Aaron Jones was under-utilized by Coach McCarthy for his first two years as a pro. Rather than just talk in generalities about correcting this in 2019, ...
Year after year it appears to most fans that the Packers suffer more injuries than do most other teams in the league. Was this true in 2018, and if so, might this account for the ...
Why has Aaron Rodgers been on such a notable decline in his passing efficiency, while the Saints’ Drew Brees – five years older – keeps getting better? I think the answer lies in ...
While doing some recent research on my favorite subject, I noticed that Aaron Rodgers turned 35 on December 2. Though my memory is starting to go, I thought, “Wait a minute – that date rings ...
The date was October 30. Less than two hours before the trade deadline, Packers GM Brian Gutekunst traded away Ha Ha Clinton-Dix. Just two days earlier, the Packers had traveled to California and ...
With just over a month until free agency, it’s once again the time to take a quick look at some of the best free agents for the upcoming NFL season. On the surface, it appears that ...
With a very interesting decision by the United States Supreme Court in May of 2018, the legal path to online betting was opened in the United States. This essentially means America got the go-ahead on ...
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