Joemailman's Fearless Stab At The 53 Man Roster - Post Family Night Version

[pbmax]

An idea whose time has come. Web based roster construction.

http://www.wisinfo.biz/packersroster/build-roster/

[Harlan Huckleby]

The parts of Rips game the mgmt doubt can only be alleviated with more and more time in the film room and with the coaching staff. Kuhn will train his own successor over the course of the season. Then he'll either depart in free agency or retire. See?

Thanks for that explanation. Now I understand why rookies don't replace veterans on the roster. I just thought that perhaps there might be exceptions, but I'll let that go.

I have changed my mind on this, I think Kuhn has about a 75% chance of sticking on the roster. I'd say it is because he is better than the last three guys on the roster, especially the TEs.

[Harlan Huckleby]

Nobody has an All Pro reserve at tackle but it sure does seem shaky behind the starting five.

Barclay deserves a couple more weeks to find his sea legs. I doubt the injury made him permanently rotten.

[vince]

Barclay deserves a couple more weeks to find his sea legs. I doubt the injury made him permanently rotten.

Actually, according to this article and the pre-eminent surgeon Dr. James Andrews, it made the area like a baby's again. The article is a couple years old so if things have changed significantly since then please feel free to correct this. I'm no doctor but I did get stay at a Holiday Inn Express.

The strength, muscle memory, fiber connectivity, and instinctive trust needs to be built back up from nothing. Recovery is now common but not certain, and it can take a year, two years or for some it may never fully recover back to original strength and flexibility.

"They're all different,'' Andrews said. "There's still a big spectrum in how they heal and how they come back . . . It's hard to predict recovery from an ACL surgery, and to say that we're getting them back quicker than we used to would be false information from my standpoint.''

Many don't come back at all. A 2010 study published in the American Journal of Sports Medicine found that only 63 percent of NFL athletes who had an ACL reconstruction returned to play another game. Roughly two out of three. And two years after ACL surgery, Andrews said, about 55 percent of NFL players are no longer playing in the league. For the majority, an ACL still is pretty synonymous with the end of a career.

"That's the real fact,'' Andrews said. "It's not a good injury to have regardless of how good a job we do.''

Proprioception may be the most important word in returning from an ACL injury. It's the difference between Adrian Peterson and Bulls star point guard Derrick Rose, who has yet to play in a game since tearing his ACL more than a year ago. It is the sense of the relative position of neighboring parts of the body and the effort needed to create movement. In other words, it is what allows an athlete to feel like himself again.

The body must redevelop those fibers into the new ACL through repetitive activity.

"When you tear your ACL and you come back, the game is too fast for you,'' Levitz said. "You're used to seeing a guy [on the field] and your whole body goes that way before you think about it. When you tear your ACL, you have to tell your leg to go that way . . . The muscle loses all its memory when you tear an ACL. You've made a baby again. So you have to teach it.''

For Barclay, it could be a few more weeks or it could be a lot longer. Based on what he showed last game, it looks to me like it could take longer than the next couple weeks for him to FULLY recover, and he's probably not good enough pass protecting on the edge to be less than 100%.

[Harlan Huckleby]

[Bretsky]

How about we wait to see what Richard Rodgers shows us this year before we cut him before his second season?

Rodgers will probably turn out to be an ok plodder. His hands are good. It would be nice to have a threat there

[pbmax]

Rodgers will probably turn out to be an ok plodder. His hands are good. It would be nice to have a threat there

I'd be happy with red zone threat.

[vince]

Just fixing the lights on the tree Cindy Lou.

[Joemailman]

Well, today sure screwed up my roster prediction. Thanks Jordy.

[Fritz]

My bold prediction: Jordy Nelson will not be on the final 53 this year.

And Bretsky, I believe Richard Rodgers will be a very good tight end this year.