Lions Week II

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Stu Courtney @Stucourt 14m14 minutes ago
WR Ty Montgomery out, CB Damarious Randall and both #Packers centers among those questionable for #Lions game: http://pck.rs/1QeTVdw

[Rutnstrut]

Stu Courtney @Stucourt 14m14 minutes ago
WR Ty Montgomery out, CB Damarious Randall and both #Packers centers among those questionable for #Lions game: http://pck.rs/1QeTVdw

I just read about Tretter on another site. Supposedly if he or Linsley can't go at center, Lang will have to fill in there.

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[Teamcheez1]

I just read about Tretter on another site. Supposedly if he or Linsley can't go at center, Lang will have to fill in there.

And Rodgers thought he was running for his life the last few weeks. Wait till tomorrow.

[Rutnstrut]

I think at this point in the Packer's season, if they are questionable and on the OL or a WR they pretty much HAVE to play.

[Harlan Huckleby]

The Nate Palmer watch begins. Light a candle.

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Bob's prescription?

Fire some players. You think you are hurt Cobb? Watch me cut James Jones. That'll heal you right up.

http://www.jsonline.com/sports/packers/packers-seldom-play-fear-card-by-shuffling-roster-b99626762z1-360085831.html

Funny. Bob was singing hosannas about Nowak prior to Week 1.

[Joemailman]

Bob's prescription?

Fire some players. You think you are hurt Cobb? Watch me cut James Jones. That'll heal you right up.

http://www.jsonline.com/sports/packers/packers-seldom-play-fear-card-by-shuffling-roster-b99626762z1-360085831.html

Funny. Bob was singing hosannas about Nowak prior to Week 1.

An evenhanded article would point out that what Thompson is doing now is the same thing he was doing as he built this team into a Super Bowl Champion. Not that the other way can't work. There's just more than one way to maintain a roster.

[Fritz]

Bob's prescription?

Fire some players. You think you are hurt Cobb? Watch me cut James Jones. That'll heal you right up.

http://www.jsonline.com/sports/packers/packers-seldom-play-fear-card-by-shuffling-roster-b99626762z1-360085831.html

Funny. Bob was singing hosannas about Nowak prior to Week 1.

IF the Packers have success this season, there will be a McGinn article about the wisdom of steering a steady ship and not panicking.

Of course, McSpinn would like us to guess who those seven guys are whom he thinks should be cut. But what I'd like to know is which seven players Bob knows are out there, available, and better than what's on the roster.

Or is the point simply to create fear? I'm not sure. He held Wolf up as a model, but Wolf didn't cut people just to cut people - he was constantly turning over the bottom of the roster to try to upgrade. I'm not sure any of those cuts ever scared Mike Wahle into playing harder. Then McSpinn held up the Dom Capers/Barry Foster example of just cutting someone in order to produce an effect.

So, I'm not sure what he's after, exactly - cutting guys to create fear, or cutting guys because there are better guys out there.

[Joemailman]

Bob says 2 are starters. Any guesses? I'll go with Richard Rodgers and Nate Palmer.

[Fritz]

I'd be on board with benching both of them. But not cutting them. Unless there's a guy on the street who is magically better.

[Harlan Huckleby]

Cleaning house in December would be very odd timing. There is a shortage of players.

[mraynrand]

Fear of being fired drives people in every walk of life. It's a motivational technique that no longer applies in Green Bay, and the franchise is worse off for it.

Bostick? Geez Bob, I didn't even have to think for more than a second to find a flaw in your brilliant hypothesis. It's just that the Packers don't do it like they are on the Apprentice because, well, that gets you hated by players and scouts and other managers and just about everyone.

Plus, we find it's always better to fire people on a Friday. Studies have statistically shown that there's less chance of an incident if you do it at the end of the week.

[mraynrand]

That isn't surprising. Thompson himself hung around the Oilers for a decade as a backup. Each summer, we hear Thompson and McCarthy go on and on about their feelings of trauma associated with telling players they no longer have a place on the Packers.

Forgive me for not requesting Kleenex. Welcome to the real world.

McGinn has totally gone off the deep end.