Jermichael Finley: What might the Green Bay Packers do?

[woodbuck27]

http://lombardiave.com/2014/01/31/jermichael-finley-might-green-bay-packers/

Jermichael Finley: What might the Green Bay Packers do?
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By: Ray Rivard - Jan 31st, 2014 at 4:17 pm

Jermichael Finley, the Green Bay Packers tight end whose career was brought into question this past season after suffering a severe neck injury, told profootballtalk.com today that he expects his doctor to clear him for contact within the next month and indicated that he was confident he would be playing football once again in 2014. Fr. LINK

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GO PACK GO !

[PaCkFan_n_MD]

I would sign Finley if he's cleared and accepts something close to a 4 year/25 type contract. He's still young and has a lot of talent. Still Draft Ebron is round one ......Our own Gronk/Hernandez combo.

[woodbuck27]

I would sign Finley if he's cleared and accepts something close to a 4 year/25 type contract. He's still young and has a lot of talent. Still Draft Ebron is round one ......Our own Gronk/Hernandez combo.

Hi PaCkFan_n_MD;

It's great to see your back here a lot more.

GO PACKERS . . . GO PACK GO !

[red]

well if finley is cleared and green bay resigns him, then the packers need to get on the phone ASAP with nick collins and try and get him back

cause its the same damn injury, right? same disks involved and all, right?

[call_me_ishmael]

Finley won't be back. He isn't reliable. Some guys just get hurt constantly. He's one of them. Plus, he stirs things up more than the Packers like.

[3irty1]

Its the same injury but not at all the same. Nick Collins wasn't medically cleared because of stenosis (genetically narrow spinal cord recess). Sean Richardson just came back from it as well. John Jolly may also have to. The reason Finley won't be back is because he gets a tax free 10 million dollar insurance policy to never take another snap. A lot of things would have to go his way for him to earn that much money by resuming his career instead.

[smuggler]

Collins' neck injury required vertebral fusion because of damaged cartilage disks in his spine. The problem was caused, as 3irty says, by the combination of a nasty blow to the crown of his head combined with the stenosis in his neck.

Collins never suffered spinal cord bruising that put him into an ICU.

Finley did not have damage to any cartilage disks, but had elective spinal fusion anyway to try and prevent a similar future trauma from bruising his spinal cord a second time.

The way I see it, Finley's injury was pretty much just a case of wrong place at the wrong time. While I suspect Green Bay will not take a gamble on him, he doesn't have the stenosis that led teams to basically blackball Collins for his own sake.

As long as he can secure a contract bonus that surpasses his insurance payout, he'll be playing next year. Just, as I speculate, not with us. :/

On the plus side.... COMP PICK!

[Teamcheez1]

Finley is already foaming at the mouth to the press. On One hand he says he wants to be a Packer for life, and then he immediately talks about all the free agency opportunities that may be out there.

I guess we can bring him in for a physical and go from there, but I'm not optimistic that we will, or we should, consider paying him any more than around $4M a year as previously mentioned.

[red]

Finley is already foaming at the mouth to the press. On One hand he says he wants to be a Packer for life, and then he immediately talks about all the free agency opportunities that may be out there.

I guess we can bring him in for a physical and go from there, but I'm not optimistic that we will, or we should, consider paying him any more than around $4M a year as previously mentioned.

even if he was completely healthy, i wouldn't want to pay him much more then that

i just don't thinks he's anywhere near as good as he's made out to be

[Carolina_Packer]

even if he was completely healthy, i wouldn't want to pay him much more then that

i just don't thinks he's anywhere near as good as he's made out to be

Totally agree with this. He is like a cookie that looks like it has chocolate chips and when you bite into it, it's really dates (thanks, Grandma!) It's still sweet, just not as satisfying.

[bobblehead]

If you can land him for $3 million I would take him back (APRH). Otherwise its time to move forward with a TE that can actually block.

[mraynrand]

Totally agree with this. He is like a cookie that looks like it has chocolate chips and when you bite into it, it's really dates (thanks, Grandma!) It's still sweet, just not as satisfying.

Pumpkin pie that turns out to be pecan!

[pbmax]

The injuries are not even located in the space. We have this documented somewhere where our crack Search Function is currently unable to locate it, but here is Chmura's version of the different injuries:

Mark "Hot Tub" Chmura reported today on the radio that he talked to Finley Sunday before the game.

Finley told him he is having surgery this week (Hot Tub was confused about the exact date but thought it was Thursday) for a cervical fusion for a herniated disk I believe.

Finley's bad disk is a C3-C4. Not as bad as Collins 2-3, but worse than Chewy's 4-5.

Chmura doesn't think Finley will play for the Packers again.

[pbmax]

Cannot find independently reported confirm of which discs Collins fused. Here is the most detailed info at the time, but reading it makes it seem that we would learn the discs later.

http://packerrats.com/showthread.php?22778-Nick-Collins-out-for-the-Year/page8&highlight=collins

[Bretsky]

This sparks a debate. We have one that woudl pay Fin 3MIL and another 6M per year. I think he's looking for a payday, I fear. I think I'd fall around the 4MIL per year range...let him move on....and draft a TE in round 1-3. I'll go with Ebron.....or Amaro or CJ in round two and roll with that. If Finley goes......ya might try a little harder to sign JJ...but I think we're ok losing both as well