All Entries Tagged With: "outside linebackers"

This roster is loaded with edge rushers. Will it be enough to shore up the defense to start the season?

Where does outside linebacker Reggie Gilbert fit on the 2019 Packers? He's playing at one of the deepest positions on the roster behind two free agents and a first-round draft pick. 

Nick Perry remains unsigned days before training camp. Would the Packers consider bringing him back on a cheap, increntive-laden contract as a rotational player? 

The Packers did a lot to improve their roster this past offseason. We'll get a glimpse at if they did enough when training camp begins on July 25th.

-- Slowly but surely, Matt LaFleur's vision is coming together in Green Bay.

-- For a team lacking a true force of nature off of the edge this season, the Green Bay Packers have been undeniably placing opposing quarterbacks...

-- The Green Bay Packers better hope they're not calling upon their backups off of the edge this season, otherwise, they could be in a world of...

It's becoming more and more of a possibility that outside linebacker Vince Biegel will begin his rookie season on the Packers' physically unable to...

A domineering season like the one had by Nick Perry a season ago will likely be enough to reel in a new contract, and that's exactly how the cards...

Bruised, battered and mediocre would be a few words to properly sum up the 2016 season for Green Bay Packers outside linebacker Clay Matthews.

How do the Packers replace 1,433 defensive and special teams snaps combined in their upcoming season? The answer is unknown.

Another member of the Watt family is making noise in the sports world once again and believe it or not, it isn't J.J.

There isn't much to write home about when it comes to the depth at outside linebacker in Green Bay. So little, that there's actually something — at...

Big names for big defensive linemen stockpiled the 2013 NFL Draft class. Names such as Ezekiel Ansah, Sheldon Richardson and Sharrif Floyd.

A freight train probably couldn't slow down Matt Ryan and his high-powered Falcons offense this year. On all accounts, many believe this is the...

Nick Perry may lead the team in sacks, but the edge-rusher opposite of him has been kryptonite for opposing offenses this season.

The marquee match-up on Sunday between the Packers and Seahawks was marked on many calendars coming into 2016. It was unforeseen, however, just how...

It's becoming evident that the source of Nick Perry's production off the edge may have been a result of Clay Matthews being on the opposite end....

After a stellar start to the 2016 campaign and leading the team in sacks, Nick Perry is proving that the Packers declining his fifth-year option...

If you were to say back in July that Nick Perry would be out-playing Clay Matthews during the first half of the season, not very many people would...

The Packers outside linebackers are categorized by two veterans, a fifth-year player who is finally beginning to live up to the hype, a rookie, a...

The veteran leaders of the Packers' defensive front seven, Julius Peppers and Clay Matthews, met with their interviewers just this past Wednesday....

With Clay Matthews and Julius Peppers facing possible but unlikely consequences for the Al-Jazeera America report, can the Packers find comfort in depth?

Clay Matthews missed four full game, Nick Perry has missed five, and the Packers defense has struggled without both of them in the lineup at the same time.

In our best-case scenario, Matthews has more than 15 sacks in 2013, in what becomes his best season as a professional.

Clay Matthews is currently the only true outside linebackers on the Packers roster than has any more than one year of NFL experience.

In the best-case scenario, Clay Matthews reverts to the player who got 13.5 sacks in 2010. But in the worst-case scenario, Nick Perry plays no better than Erik Walden did a year ago.

Tyler Dunne of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel joins Railbird Central for a pre-training camp preview.

From Clay Matthews being awarded the NFL's Defensive MVP award to Ricky Elmore not so much as even being asked to be on the practice squad, we take a look at the best and worst possible outcomes for the outside linebackers in 2011.

I don't know if he can coach a lick, but I loved Kevin Greene as a player. I love this move.