Cleveland Browns @ Lambeau Week 7 Discussion

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Wednesday Practice:

Mike Neal and Ryan Taylor were newly not practicing along with known goldbricks James Starks, linebackers Clay Matthews, Nick Perry and dengue fever, and receiver James Jones.

Neal has a shoulder and is scheduled to practice tomorrow with another evaluation Friday.

Taylor as you may know cleverly hid his knee injury from the crack Packer medical staff for a couple of days and had an arthroscopic procedure done today. McCarthy expects Taylor back on the early end of a 2-4 week absence because TEs all have the ability to quick heal. In other medical news

Derek Sherrod popped off PUP and practiced today to begin a slow ascent to reclaim the left tackle position that is clearly his birthright. Which means, of course, that Barclay will be injured versus the Browns and Sherrod will take over the Newhouse at RT in Week 12.

Tretter, Richardson and Worthy have not been cleared from PUP because the trainers are worried they all actually have ACL tears and not hamstring injuries. Perhaps the Packer medical forms need to be updated from 1953, when the only injuries listed were: hamstring, shingles, polio and dengue fever. McKenzie has just been checking the old item CLOSEST to the physical location of the actual injury.

That would explain the shingles outbreak of 1988, when 20 players were diagnosed with the virus normally associated with older adults. McKenzie was actually just indicating they each had a sunburn from the sunny and drought plagued Wisconsin summer.

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Roster-wise, the Browns are stuck with Charles Johnson for 3 weeks.

Stoneburner and Myles White were promoted to the 53. Tyrone Walker was added to the PS along with WR Reggie Dunn and ILB Victor Aiyewa.

[mraynrand]

Cleveland is in an uproar over Joss Wheeden. This firefly (oops pop culture reference, I guess that belongs in RR, ban me) apparently cannot manage the game and exploit the tight end like Steny Hoyer (oops, political reference, gosh I'm sorry, ban me). Fans fail to recell that the defense failed to force a punt in the second half when Detroit scored 24 points (the D did get a pick and force a FG try). Is Wheeden terrible? Well, he ain't great. He can toss a nice deep ball to Gordon, but lacks vision and accuracy in the short game. Hangs onto primary read so long that he gets sacked and/or misses opportunity for open second targets. He can play well though, and Gordon and STs are a threat. Defense can keep Browns in game. They are solid agains the run, generate pretty good pass rush, and can plaster a #1 receiver, while the LBs are fast and lively tacklers. Defensively, they are a great matchup for the beat up Packers: CB Haden can shut down Nelson, the LBs can keep up with Finley, and along with D-line (DT Phil Taylor) can stuff the run game. Rodgers will have to exploit Boykin and (other TE?) for Packers O to have a chance. I see a low-scoring, FG heavy game. Packer actually have the better FG kicker, since forever a Brown Phil Dawson defected to SF.

[Patler]

... CB Haden can shut down Nelson, ...

BLASPHEMY ! !

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I don't think Tretter will be back this season (from Wilde at ESPN Wisconsin):

“I’m getting close to being able to run full-speed. (The next step would be) cutting and planting and all that stuff,” Tretter said. “You can haunt yourself with what-ifs, but I try to avoid what-if situations and what could have been. That’s not going to help you. You’re never going to feel better thinking about the what-ifs. So I haven’t thought about it. All I’ve focused on is getting the ankle back to 100 percent, and it’s getting there.”

http://www.espnwisconsin.com/page.php?page_id=278

[run pMc]

Putting Van Rot(t)en on IR makes me wonder if they expect Tretter to come back and play? Then again, if he broke his ankle, tore a bunch of ligaments, and is barely off crutches they might want to IR him and hope the OL stays healthy.

[run pMc]

With Weeden vs. Rodgers at QB, GB should win this game. The injuries will make it a much tougher game though. CLE's defense will keep them in the game but if Weeden is pressured/uncomfortable in the pocket the offense doesn't have a lot of weapons. This team is easily a step or two down from the Ravens, and GB get them at Lambeau.
Haden is a good CB and will limit Nelson's chances, and Finley is good for a drop or two, so Boykin et al. will have to come up big in the passing game, and Lacy will be the focus in the run game. McCarthy is going to have to be clever in his schemes to move the ball consistently.

[hoosier]

Do Weeden's limitations still show up when he has time to throw? If not, I am a little worried about the Packers ability to get consistent pressure minus Matthews, Perry and with a possibly banged up Neal. Mike Daniels and Raji need to collapse, and at least one of the LBs needs to play out of his head this week for the Packers to avoid a dog fight.

[Maxie the Taxi]

Do Weeden's limitations still show up when he has time to throw? If not, I am a little worried about the Packers ability to get consistent pressure minus Matthews, Perry and with a possibly banged up Neal. Mike Daniels and Raji need to collapse, and at least one of the LBs needs to play out of his head this week for the Packers to avoid a dog fight.

No worries. We have Hawk. Also, I predict Mulumba is going to have a breakout game. Three sacks, minimum. With Hawk's three, that makes six.

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Do Weeden's limitations still show up when he has time to throw? If not, I am a little worried about the Packers ability to get consistent pressure minus Matthews, Perry and with a possibly banged up Neal. Mike Daniels and Raji need to collapse, and at least one of the LBs needs to play out of his head this week for the Packers to avoid a dog fight.

The book on Weeden, posted by someone else in another thread (KY I think) is that his arm is fine but if he needs to come off his number 1 read, it happens slowly and not accurately.

[KYPack]

The book on Weeden, posted by someone else in another thread (KY I think) is that his arm is fine but if he needs to come off his number 1 read, it happens slowly and not accurately.

Twern't me.

I am too busy focusing on my own team's deficient MRI equipment.

Brown's fans are pretty hilarious.

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[Upnorth]

With our banged up offence against an average Cleveland defence (average since they have played a relativley easy schedual) it is a push to maybe even our advantage.
With their O vrs our D there is no competition. Even with the d injuries we have the edge and I think our dbacks will look quite good this weekend.

Just wanted to add one thing, was looking at this and two things struck me, we are a big favorite to beat the browns, but also the giants are huge favorites to beat minny and that makes me laugh!

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/17/sports/football/week-7-nfl-probabilities-jets-over-patriots.html?_r=0&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1382023472-j28dR9eZ12SlaoYgJQaSOA

[Joemailman]

All these injuries, especially at the LB positions could play havoc with the Packers coverage units. Browns haven't done much with KO returns, but they're 4th in punt returns, and have returned 1 for a TD. Kick 'em high Tim!

[packer4life]

With our banged up offence against an average Cleveland defence

Shudders.

It's DEFENSE and OFFENSE.

That is all.

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we have only one reliable guy that can catch the ball. if they can take away jordy then they take away out passing attack. i have no faith in finley or boykins right now

we need lacy to pound the ball down their throats, and we need the defense to play as hard as they did last week. we're gonna need plenty of corner and safety blitzes to make up for the lack of OLB's we have

i think its gonna be a tough win, but a win we can get