Archive for August, 2008
Best Practice Squad Award
Green Bay Packers 2008 Practice Squad WR Jake Allen C Brennen Carvalho TE Joey Haynos LB Danny Lansanah DT Alfred Malone CB Joe Porter WR Brett Swain RB DeShawn Wynn Brett Swain, Joey Haynos, and Deshawn Wynn all cleared waivers. I was wondering why Daniel Muir didn’t make it then Greg Bedard reported that he [...]
Emptying the Notebook
Who is responsible for scheduling the Titans as the final foe of the preseason for the Packers every year, and why do they still have a job? With McCarthy and Fisher having such disparate goals in the final meaningless game, it’s an exercise in futility. How in the world can you possibly evaluate your rookie [...]
Don’t need a Focus Group…
…to Fire Kornholio, otherwise known as Tony Kornheiser. Bob Wolfley of The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel writes about the ESPN Monday Night Football announcing crew this year. You hope when the games are for real, the Monday night crew will see fit to talk mainly about the football down there on the field. You give ESPN credit [...]
53 Men 1 Mission
I will take these 53 plus whoever Ted Thompson would like to bring to the dance. (i.e. Ryan Grant, 2007) Here’s the current Packer roster. Observations: For the first time since 2000, we have 7 linebackers on our team. I wanna see lots of blitzing linebackers. Not keeping my fingers crossed. Willie Anderson just got [...]
I Go Away For One Week…
… and all hell breaks loose. First of all, big thanks to Corey for keeping up the blog in my absence. Great work, as always. Secondly, here it is, August 30th, and Brett Favre is still speaking as if it’s July 30th. (The specter of Favre-as-the-ex-girlfriend-who-just-can’t-let-it-go rears its ugly head…) In two separate accounts, Favre [...]
Preseason 08: Game 4 vs Titans
For those of you who haven’t seen it. Larry McCarren is priceless with this quote “Orrin Thompson was beat colder than the North Pole”. Tweet
Shouldn\’t Geeks be able to count?
So I’m posting a 53 man roster prediction comparison at our Packer Fan Forum, when I decide to use Packergeeks and Mike Vandermause to compare predictions. Well needless to say, Packergeeks are trying to make it a 58-man roster- I knew something was up when they had 12 DB’s and Vandermause had 9. I wasn’t [...]
Titans: 23 Packers: 21
Aaron Rodgers, Greg Jennings, Desmond Bishop Matt Flynn, Offensive Line, Brett Swain Brian Brohm Tweet
Ten Things to Watch Tonight
As is the tradition here at Cheesehead TV, here are two articles entitled “5 Things to Watch for” – you can find them here, and here. Tweet
A $7.27 Million Dollar Question
I am trying desperately to write a positive article about the Packers defense. I guess I could write about the linebackers being deep or the fact that we have two of the best cornerbacks in the NFL. But I keep coming back to Fritz Shurmur, one of the greatest defensive coordinators in Packer History, who [...]
My cousins are all die-hard Packer fans
Ok, I know everyone is sick of talking about Brett Favre. I have been trying not to write this post for the last couple days, but my Wisconsin cousins keep sending me great stuff that I have to share. The pic is from my cousin Dustin, I saw a similar one at Packer Palace today [...]
Help Wanted: DT (start immediately)
Gilbert Brown. Grady Jackson. Ryan Pickett. Run stuffers of the modern era. With coaches worried about Pickett’s health and conditioning, who do we have that can step up and meet the challenge of plugging up running lanes, penetrating O-lines and digging graves for QB’s? Colin Cole and Johnny Jolly are likely candidates, but show me [...]
And then there were 75
The Green Bay Packers dropped their roster down to the mandatory 75 man limit today. The biggest surprise is DeShawn Wynn, who has missed practices and games this off-season. Kregg Lumpkin’s play in last Friday’s Denver game must have been the final push for cutting Wynn. Also cut were fullback Ryan Powdrell, wide receiver Chris [...]
Preseason 08 – Week 3 vs. Denver
Here are some video highlights from Fridays game against Denver. You can also see an official highlight at packers.com. For those of us- like myself that listened to the game via Field Pass. I thought this was pretty good, when you exclude the terrible compression. Only Packer fans can make a highlight reel out of [...]
Rookies and Designer Cheeseheads
What rookies do when they play for Green Bay. Brohm and Flynn doing their time. So, I’m trolling Youtube and other sites for some of the latest Packer content and I find all these (for lack of a better word) designer Cheeseheads. Here’s one from a recent game. I made a playlist for them at [...]
Packers:27 Broncos:24
Aaron Rodgers, Greg Jennings, Aaron Kampman Bob Sanders, Jason Hunter, All Attempts At Run Blocking Nick Barnett Tweet
CheeseheadTV Matchup
Much like Edge NFL Matchup on ESPN, (Corporate Sponsorship Available) CheeseheadTV Matchup will be my attempt to ‘breakdown’ the upcoming Packer game each week. I’ve decided to start with this years third preseason game since the third preseason game is supposed to be the ‘dress rehearsal’ for the season, so it will serve as my [...]
Friday Forum Activity
Is Brett in the Top 5 QB’s All-Time? :helmet Where the heck R the Railbirds? :huh Aaron “The Czar” Rodgers aka Friendly Mutton Chop :paperbag One suspension down (Barnett), one to go (Jolly) :pills Tweet
Scandal
Loyal reader and Wausau resident PackOne informed me in the comment section below that his local CBS affiliate will NOT be showing the Packer/Bronco game tonight. I called the station to confirm, because I simply didn’t believe it. It turns out that it is true. I am dumbfounded. The blackout of last years Packer/Cowboy game [...]
10 Things To Watch Tonight
It’s Game Day! Which can only mean forced viewing points. You know you were just sitting there thinking to yourself “You know, the Packers play tonight, and I love them and all, but I’m just not sure what I should watch for. If only someone would guide me…” Here and here. Tweet
Familiar Faces In Friday\’s Foes
Alliteration. Love it. One thing I forgot to mention during last night’s podcast is the fact that the Packers will be going up against Bob Slowik on Friday night in his new job as Defensive Coordinator for the Denver Broncos. And he’ll most likely have one of Ted Thompson’s biggest free agent mistakes in Marquand [...]
Packer Transplants Episode 28 – now online
Listen to “Offensive Offense” preseason game aginst 49ers & upcoming game against Denver Play Podcast 28 right now. Click here to subscribe to Packer Transplants on iTunes for free. Click link below for other free subscription options: http://feeds.feedburner.com/PackerTransplants Tweet
