Playoff Bye Week Paying Dividends In Health Of Team
The Packers were at full strength today during the portion of practice open to the media.
By PackerAaron
Every player on the Packers' active roster was present and accounted for today during the portion of practice open to the media.
According to Tom Silverstein:
Packers practice: All players present, all practicing in full. Joe Philbin is not present. McCarthy appeared to be running offense.
Not one player standing off to the side. Not one player working on separate individual drills with a trainer. Every single player participating.
James Starks, Byran Bulaga, D.J. Smith - anyone and everyone who might have had some kind of nagging injury that could have possibly led to them being limited in practice was full go today.
It would seem the bye week has done exactly what it was designed to do - reward a team with the best record with an extra week to get healthy.
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Comments (30)
January 11, 2012 at 12:29 pm
Yes!
January 11, 2012 at 12:31 pm
Copy the text from this post and put it into your post about momentum.
PackerAaron
January 11, 2012 at 12:32 pm
Pretty sure healthy players can be quantified in a way momentum from week to week can not - but cool.
January 11, 2012 at 05:04 pm
Exactly. I'm agreeing with you. This post backs up your momentum post because it highlights how a team benefits from a bye week and why it's silly to arbitrarily penalize a team for having the week off.
January 11, 2012 at 12:35 pm
Everything sounds good I just hope the death of Philbin's son (may he rest in peace), does not affect how the team does on Sunday.
January 11, 2012 at 03:08 pm
My view is that we are going to get something like Favre's performance in Oakland after his dad died. Or they are going to be very flat just do to everything (Lang's father passing, death fo Micheal Philbin, etc). I'm hoping for the former but I can't rule out the latter.
January 11, 2012 at 04:38 pm
Or something in between, perhaps?
January 12, 2012 at 09:32 am
Obviously, anything is possible. But I think given the magnitude of what has happened I think behavior tends to go to extremes. So I think you are going to get a really motivated team or a team that is in a (very understandable) funk.
January 11, 2012 at 05:42 pm
losing a parent and losing a child are two incredibly different things. It has to be much much more difficult to play inspired after something like this. You're always going to lose your parents. You can move on from that. I couldn't probably even get out of bed in the morning for weeks after something like this
January 11, 2012 at 12:39 pm
I'm really looking for Matthews and Woodson to have an extra step this week after 3 weeks off. The break had to have helped their nagging leg injuries.
January 11, 2012 at 12:46 pm
One thing that is bugging me is all of the attention our coaches are getting in regards to future Oakland jobs. I hope this does not affect their focus on the one goal, Bringing championships to Green Bay.
January 11, 2012 at 05:14 pm
I understand where your coming from but i think that if we win another ring that would only add to there resume and bring more good focus on the possibillity of them in higher positions. That is probally their focus.
January 11, 2012 at 12:47 pm
I know that NY has a great front four but so did Detroit. I would say that NY front is better but in week 17 we did great against Detroit with 0 sacks given up and that was with backups. I really feel like we will handle their front and Rodgers will get the ball out and not hold it like overrated Matt Ryan did on Sunday. IM so ready for this game and i feel that we will be more than ready for this game. Its time to make a dynasty run and Sunday will be the first test. LETS GO PACKERS! KILL THE GIANTS!
January 11, 2012 at 01:10 pm
+1 .. poor taste, but +1.
January 11, 2012 at 01:17 pm
I will say though, the Lion front four is a totally different kind of front than the Giants. Detriots front four plays into out interior line strengths, while the giant front four goes right at our o-line weaknesses. Quick edge rushers have always given the packers problems. Although jPeppers has not been too big of a deal for clifton in the past. awww hell! who the F knows?!!?
January 11, 2012 at 02:06 pm
True, and don't forget the Bears defensive front unit includes Urlacher and Briggs on pass rushes from time to time.
January 13, 2012 at 09:59 am
"Aww hell. Who the eff knows?!" Is exactly my opinion on every sports prediction ever. I appreciate seeing it in print somewhere else.
January 11, 2012 at 01:49 pm
We did the same the week before against the terrific Bears' DL.
January 11, 2012 at 05:44 pm
0 sacks?
I don't know how many were surrendered in the second half, but I definitely watched Flynn get sacked and fumble on the very first drive.......
PackerAaron
January 11, 2012 at 07:33 pm
Officially recorded as a fumble. Not a sack.
January 12, 2012 at 09:55 am
On par with the theme:
http://www.profootballfocus.com/blog/2012/01/12/eight-teams-32-observati...
"The five players projected to start on the offensive line have played 2557 combined passing downs in 2011, and have allowed just nine sacks in that time."
January 11, 2012 at 01:06 pm
I see your momentum and I raise you Chad Clifton, James Starks, Bryan Bulaga, Greg Jennings, Ryan Pickett, Jermichael Finley, Charles Woodson and Clay Matthews III.
January 11, 2012 at 01:14 pm
This post gave me a confident feeling about the game that I had not truly had before. The talent on display at one pack practice is very good. Just makes you realize that no matter the direction of the momentum (The green and gold have played some pretty hot teams along the way to 21 of 22) if the pack play their game and dont shoot themselves in the foot, they should not loose.
January 11, 2012 at 02:23 pm
+1
Now if the Pack can take advantage of the inevitable Eli Manning mistakes, I could see this being a blowout.
OTOH, Eli is pretty good despite his mistakes.
The range of outcomes that I anticipate go anywhere from a Packers blowout (14 or more points) to a close Giants win (3 or fewer points), with the median being a comfortable Packers win (8-13 points).
January 11, 2012 at 02:32 pm
The flu along with respiratory syncytial virus, parainfluenza, and adenovirus are all over eastern Wisconsin right now, so Packer fans, we haven't cleared all the hurdles just yet. The important thing is to keep on worrying.
January 11, 2012 at 02:34 pm
LOL +1
January 11, 2012 at 09:58 pm
Even Cow42 can't compete with that.
January 12, 2012 at 07:48 am
But I can sure as hell try.
Hey - I just heard LeRoy Butler call the Packers' defense "really bad" on the radio this morning.
That dude needs to come here to Cheeseheadtv to get his knowledge straightened out.
This defense is A-Okay.
PackerAaron
January 12, 2012 at 09:33 am
Where have I said they weren't a bad defense? I've pointed out things they do well despite how poorly they've played. That's TRUE objectivity, unlike your version where you just talk about how awful they are and then claim you're just being "objective"
I (and I think most here) wouldn't mind so much if there was even a hint of nuance to your takes. You cite Butler saying they are "bad" as some sort of validation - but Butler has also talked about what they do well. You? You just constantly rip the defense without giving them any credit for anything they've done well. It's lazy and ill-considered.
January 11, 2012 at 10:05 pm
I'm just hoping that we get a decent Cliffy back. He's been out a loooooong time.