I Guarantee It Before leaving the Vikings until the Monday night re-match in Week 16, I happened upon an interesting factoid. Of the 60 spendiest current NFL player contracts, only one is 100% guaranteed. Guesses? ...
As commenter PF4L alluded to, TV viewers didn’t get the full story on the touchdown that gave the Packers the margin of victory over the Bears. I too was mystified at the time by the ...
Thursday evening’s win over the Bears was uplifting. It was both a team effort and an encouraging sign that there’s ability and potential in this assemblage of personnel. The snap counts are in, and in ...
The hard work for Coach LaFleur has just begun, while the general manager’s work is mostly done. It’s an appropriate time to take a calm and unbiased look at how Brian Gutekunst has done in ...
Jimmy Graham Past history suggests Matt LaFleur doesn’t utilize tight ends as volume receivers – and we know Graham isn’t valued for his blocking. Why, then, did the Packers pay $10 million to keep Jimmy ...
After Green Bay’s first preseason game, I wondered aloud how the new head coach would address playing time during the remaining preseason games: would he give the projected starters much playing time or would he ...
I’ll address the current status in a bit, but first let’s review recent history: the Packers’ receiver problem has been three years in the making. In 2017, signs of trouble were clear: Jordy was in ...
June is seldom a bountiful month in terms of Packers news. Fans are pretty much reduced to beer chugging events and the like. But when someone gets a microphone in front of Aaron Rodgers, we ...
Packers will play as the away team in a matchup with the Oakland Raiders scheduled for Week 3 of the Preseason. Winnipeg is not nearly as much of a trek for the Packers as it ...
Five-time Pro Bowl tight end Jimmy Graham wasn’t immune to criticism last season and knows he and the team can do better moving forward. Graham, who found the end zone ten times in ...
When he’s not (hopefully) working on his blocking, tight end Jimmy Graham has a charity he works with aptly named The Jimmy Graham Foundation. We have mentioned it before in a previous post. It provides ...
OTAs, or Organized Team Activities for the acronym-impaired, began this week with the Packers allowing fans to come and watch. For the curious, Cole Madison was in attendance and participating. For those living under a ...
The obvious question is: what must Aaron Rodgers be thinking following the Pack’s 2019 draft actions? I’m pondering a less obvious one: what must Davante Adams be thinking? Davante had a heckuva fifth year: 169 ...
The NFL kicks of its centennial year in September and it’s been revealed that the tradition of Super Bowl winners getting the season off and running has been deviated from this year; instead, the opening ...
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 ...
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