Green Bay Packers-Good problem at receivers
There’s too much A-list talent already signed up.
But the deliberations general manager Ted Thompson will have to make in casting the defending
Super Bowl champions may be as challenging as any in his career because of potential talent hidden among the 86 players he has in training camp.
Green Bay Packers - For fledgling NFL players, trying to crack the Green Bay Packers’ 53-man roster is about as difficult as scoring a part in a Martin Scorsese film.
Take, for instance, the wide receiver position.
You can pencil in Jennings, Jones, Nelson and Cobb to the 53-man roster. And you can pretty much assume Donald Driver will be here too.But what does he do with a guy like West, who spent the entire 2010 season on the practice squad and blasted into the forefront with five catches for 134 yards, including a 97-yard touchdown against the
Arizona Cardinals Friday night?
It would be one thing if West were the only receiver causing Thompson a double-take, but rookies Borel and Gurley have been quite good, too. What in the name of roster limits is Thompson to do?
In plus to Starks and Grant, fourth-round pick Green has shown considerable promise, Kuhn is a lock as the top fullback and Nance and Johnson are in the running for spots too. The fewest running backs Thompson has kept is five in 2008 and six has been the norm.
If he keeps just five, that means there’s no chance to keep undrafted rookie Saine, who has looked surprisingly better, and might mean the release of Grant. If he keeps six at this place, he then has to make up for the extra receiver somewhere else.
quarterback
Aaron Rodgers said."We’ll see,It’s something that we can use. It’s been in the plan for a while. We worked on it last preseason a lot, never really ran it in a game and didn’t use it until the Atlanta game. I think it was Week 12. We are going to see what happens."
From Rodgers’ standpoint, it’s a good tempo-setter, but running it won’t be as easy in the regular season because opponents will prepare for it and be ready to defend it.
"Defenses have really passed up offenses as far as schematically and doing things that will make it difficult for the offense to know who’s coming and what coverage to play behind it," Rodgers said. "When you get in the no-huddle, it can vanilla that down a little.
"But some teams are going to game-plan for us and we’ll figure out what kind of role that no-huddle is going to play for us."
Practice schedule: The Packers do not practice Sunday. They will be off until Monday when they take the field at 11:15 a.m.
They have a short week with practices Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and then preseason game No.?3 Friday at Indianapolis.
Loud and clear: Chalk up one thumbs up for the Packers’ new sound system at Lambeau Field.
"That’s an improvement," Rodgers said. "They’re still playing that ”˜Roll Out the Barrel’ song. I don’t know if we can get that out of there. But it’s nice to be back in Lambeau."
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