Postulated: The Packers 8-6 Record Is A Good Achivement This Season

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Significant Injuries Week 1 or Before

Ryan Grant – played less than ½ of 1 game before serious ankle injury ended his season

Justin Harrell – played 2 plays of 1 game before ACL tear ended his season

Ryan Pickett – injured his hamstring in week 1, which has bothered him all year.

Chad Clifton - suffered from knee aggravation and swelling since before week 1

Josh Bell – played 0 games before ACL tear ended his season

Cullen Jenkins – has played with a calf strain all season and broke his hand in the first week of the season.

Clay Matthews – played with a hamstring injury since before the first game

Mike Neal – had a side strain before week 1 and has barely played this year before his season ended with a shoulder injury

Brady Poppinga has had a strained knee since before week 1, which eventually gave out and ended his season

Charles Woodson has been playing with a toe injury since before week 1

Atari Bigby – high ankle sprain kept him out until week 10

Al Harris – never recovered from multiple ligament injuries to the knee

James Starks – hamstring injury kept him out until week 10

Brad Jones – suffered from shoulder injury before week 1 and played with a harness but never did really get on track before his season ended

Significant Injuries Beginning after 3rd game

Nick Barnett – played 3 games before hurting his wrist ending his season

Morgan Burnett – played 3 games before knee injury ended his season

Brandon Chillar – suffered his shoulder injury in week 3 and was out or ineffective until he ended his season on IR

Mark Tauscher – suffered shoulder injury from which he never recovered before his season was ended.

Significant Injuries Beginning After 4th Game

Jermichael Finley’s injury came in week 5

Donald Driver – strained his quad

Derrick Martin – suffered season ending knee injury in week 5

Aaron Rodgers – suffered a concussion

Clay Matthews - reaggravated his hammie

Significant Injuries After Week 6

Rodgers – 2nd concussion
Matthews - shin problem

I probably missed a few in there and not just the bumps and bruises... Donald Lee was hurt, Quarless has been hurt, Corey Hall missed some games, Colledge with a knee injury, Collins with a knee and ribs, Peprah, Shields missed at least a game to injury, Bigby again, Zombo, ... In any event, the injuries definitely started early and continued to build-up early and often.

Despite that, the Packers started 3-1 this season before the injuries in Week 5 to Finley, Matthews and Rodgers against the Redskins. This was when fans everwhere predicted a coming apocolypse, which after the Dolphins loss, never came.

Credit the non-falloff to what you will (before Rodgers' 2nd concussion), but it certainly wasn't due to McCarthy's ineptitude.

Just to be fair how do these match up with some of the other teams making the playoffs, like the Saints or Colts?

[Bossman641]

Just to be fair how do these match up with some of the other teams making the playoffs, like the Saints or Colts?

Saints have 9 players on IR. Casillas was expected to be a starter, not sure about Gay (either starter or nickel I believe), and a long snapper.

Colts have 17. Bullitt is a starter. Collie and Gonzalez are 2 of their top four WR. Clark is starting TE. CB Powers was a starter I believe. Sanders is a starter.

[Bossman641]

And just to follow up on my post, anyone thinkin the Packer injuries is anywhere near the norm is dead wrong.

http://espn.go.com/blog/nfcnorth

"The Bears' Week 1 starters have missed a total of 10 games this season; not one of those starters has missed more than four. The Packers have lost 69 games by my count, including 13 for tailback Ryan Grant and nine for tight end Jermichael Finley. Three of their four starting linebackers are lost for the season, quarterback Aaron Rodgers has suffered two concussions and overall the Packers have placed 15 players on their injured reserve list."

If anything, this underscores the Packer injuries. It's not like this team is just on the second stringers. We have 4th and 5th string LB's and DL's playing significant injuries.

[mmmdk]

I present to you:

The Bitching McCarthy injury choir boys! Their sugary voices whines through the air of the night.

[HarveyWallbangers]

Last time we had injuries like we do now, we went 4-12. Thankfully, Mike McCarthy is a better coach than Mike Sherman, Aaron Rodgers is a better QB than Brett Favre was in 2005, and Ted Thompson has loaded the team with depth. National experts think McCarthy should get consideration for coach of the year. Yet, the Bitching About McCarthy choir boys keep coming back.

[mmmdk]

Last time we had injuries like we do now, we went 4-12. Thankfully, Mike McCarthy is a better coach than Mike Sherman, Aaron Rodgers is a better QB than Brett Favre was in 2005, and Ted Thompson has loaded the team with depth. National experts think McCarthy should get consideration for coach of the year. Yet, the Bitching About McCarthy choir boys keep coming back.

Oh my gosh; I think I agree 'cept for coach of the year...unless we beat the Bears TWICE !

[vince]

I present to you:

The Bitching McCarthy injury choir boys! Their sugary voices whines through the air of the night.

The only whines are coming from the sheer brilliance and reactionary blindness of the Fuck it Up by Starting Over with a New Coach and Staff when the Team is on a Trajectory Toward World Championship Calibre Play and Possibly the Brink of a Dynasty Choir Boys....

[Freak Out]

TT and M3/staff deserve massive amounts of praise for what they have done this year considering all the roster shuffling that has taken place. Can they improve some areas of the team with a ST or OL coaching change...? Perhaps....but calling for the guys head after what has gone down this season is....quoting Tex here "the height of idiocy".

[Cheesehead Craig]

The only whines are coming from the sheer brilliance and reactionary blindness of the Fuck it Up by Starting Over with a New Coach and Staff when the Team is on a Trajectory Toward World Championship Calibre Play and Possibly the Brink of a Dynasty Choir Boys....

So that would be the FIUBSOWANCASWTTIOATTWCCPAPTBOAD Choir Boys for short.

[Smidgeon]

So that would be the FIUBSOWANCASWTTIOATTWCCPAPTBOAD Choir Boys for short.

How long did that take to type out?