What this team is missing

[Patler]

So why keep Shields? Would there be a cap hit? Why not just reach an injury settlement?

They could release him if they wanted, but there is no injury settlement available. As a vested veteran who started the season on the roster, Shields is entitled to his salary whether cut or on IR. Injury settlements are available only for players without guaranteed salaries. They are entitled to their salary for the duration of their injury.

[Cheesehead Craig]

He's only a 3.125M cap hit next year if he's done and next year is the last year of his deal. They are going to need that 8M if they want to keep Dix, who I think will bolt if the Pack don't show him the money before his contract runs out.

[Patler]

Shields played one full game and a bit more between two concussions that were about 10 months apart. I don't see the Packers taking a risk on him next year.

[George Cumby]

They could release him if they wanted, but there is no injury settlement available. As a vested veteran who started the season on the roster, Shields is entitled to his salary whether cut or on IR. Injury settlements are available only for players without guaranteed salaries. They are entitled to their salary for the duration of their injury.

Gotcha. Thanks.

[George Cumby]

Polar Bear's soft and he drafts soft players. No wonder the team is full of injury-prone milksops.

I dunno a lot about Vince Lombardi, other than that he condoned interracial relationships and winning at all costs ("wining ain't everything, it's the only thing"), but if he was cloned and coaching the Pack today, he'd tell the Claymaker to cut his girly hair and grow a fuckin' pair.

Hamstring injury? Stretch the thing up, tape it up and fuckin' play! It ain't like the Claymaker injured his calf. Believe me, calf injures should not be taken lightly - I once pulled a calf while running a mile on the treadmill and couldn't play disc golf for 3 weeks.

Hammies are a bad injury. Long muscle belly, used in explosive movements, prone to tearing, especially so if previously injured. Just taping it up and playing would be imbecilic. Like you.

[Anti-Polar Bear]

Hammies are a bad injury. Long muscle belly, used in explosive movements, prone to tearing, especially so if previously injured. Just taping it up and playing would be imbecilic. Like you.

In my bygone shutdown corner days, I had not one but two pulled hammies for a period of time. Simply stretched it up, taped it up and told the coaches to leave me on an island against Darren Charles. The rest is history.

Anyway, by now it's apparent that the Claymaker ain't the toughest SOB ever to set foot on a football field. If his hair ain't pretty, he ain't gonna play. Suffice it to say, Claymaker ain't Brett Favre tough.

The Packers as a whole ain't very tough. It's a reflection of the Polar Bear. Polar Bear's soft.

[George Cumby]

The last thing one does with a torn/strained hammy is stretch it. The muscle is already in spasm, in order to protect itself. Stretching it only weakens it further and makes it more prone to a worse tear.

Fail.

[Patler]

Anyway, by now it's apparent that the Claymaker ain't the toughest SOB ever to set foot on a football field. If his hair ain't pretty, he ain't gonna play. Suffice it to say, Claymaker ain't Brett Favre tough.

I don't know about his toughness, but he doesn't strike me as a guy whose helmet they will have to hide to keep him off the field.

[Patler]

The last thing one does with a torn/strained hammy is stretch it. The muscle is already in spasm, in order to protect itself. Stretching it only weakens it further and makes it more prone to a worse tear.

Fail.

So, what our shutdown HS CB (APB) had was an old fashioned cramp, probably???

[George Cumby]

Lol.

No, I think he had a hangnail or an ingrown hair, or a malignant brain tumor or hemorrhoids, but he certainly didn't stretch and tape a previously torn hamstring and then play a career game.

[vince]

In my bygone shutdown corner days, I had not one but two pulled hammies for a period of time. Simply stretched it up, taped it up and told the coaches to leave me on an island against Darren Charles. The rest is history.

lol. What an inspiration... The immortal legend of Tank Duke. Screw Nitschke and his knees. They just don't make em that tough anymore.

[Pugger]

Tank is full of shit.

[gbgary]

I agree with all that (and with Patler's OP) except the talent decline and your suggestion that TT isn't doing his part.

not saying he's not doing his part just that a change in philosophy is in order. a more aggressive philosophy. you can't keep drafting where we're drafting and NOT have a talent decline. you can't keep hoping a player of impact will just fall to you. we're not the cowboys, drafting in the top 10 every year, where you don't even have to make an effort to get an impact player.

[George Cumby]

Tank is shit.

FTFY

[Bossman641]

Darren Charles has probably gotten more ink on Packer Rats from Tank's legendary tales than the rest of the internet combined