Jordy out for rest of playoffs

[Freak Out]

lol. I fucking love this place.

[Harlan Huckleby]

Idiocy keeps popping up suggesting players should protect themselves from cheap shots. "Matthews should have his head on a swivel." Defenders can't have a swiveling head when they are chasing a runner. "Jordy should have caught the ball." Receivers drop passes, it is a normal part of the game. Players can do little to protect themselves from cheap shots.

[pbmax]

Idiocy keeps popping up suggesting players should protect themselves from cheap shots. "Matthews should have his head on a swivel." Defenders can't have a swiveling head when they are chasing a runner. "Jordy should have caught the ball." Receivers drop passes, it is a normal part of the game. Players can do little to protect themselves from cheap shots.

There is a practical problem with head swiveling suggestions. Everyone's head is on a swivel, more or less (Jermichael Finley, Sterling Sharpe, Nick Collins).

Limitations with the noggin swivel is that eyesight is still unidirectional.

[Patler]

I don't think many are blaming Nelson, just lamenting the belief that if he had caught the ball, he wouldn't have been exposed for the injury he received. Sort of "Damn the luck!"

[Fritz]

I, personally, blame Nelson. For not making the catch, and thus for getting himself hurt. I also believe that Jordy Nelson's dropping of that pass contributed, later in the game, to Ty Montgomery's injury, and to the team's decision to cut Mike Pennel, whose drug problems can also be traced to last year's Jordy Nelson injury, which in fact was Jordy's own fault.

[mmmdk]

Hey Jordy, can you spare some ribs come sunday?

[Upnorth]

If he can somehow play Sunday I say we start calling him weapon x. That is one hell of a healing ability to go from fractured ribs to NFL football in a week.

[texaspackerbacker]

First of all, is it really fractured ribs or something less? I don't think that has definitively been said (somebody correct me if I'm wrong).

Secondly, much as I hate to see a Packer get hurt, it was just football. It's only relatively recently that sort of hit was even illegal, and it wasn't obvious without replay - which, as was said, isn't supposed to be used to make penalty calls. What would we all be saying if the shoe was on the other foot - our DB hitting somebody else's receiver? Good hit! That's what.

Third, why is it such a big deal for a wideout to wear a flak jacket. That has been going on for decades, and I would assume technology has made them better and less restrictive now. QBs - who more often wear flak jackets - would seem to have more potential problems than receivers.

[woodbuck27]

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2017/01/10/big-fine-should-be-coming-for-leon-hall-but-that-wont-help-packers/

Big fine should be coming for Leon Hall, but that won’t help Packers

Posted by Mike Florio on January 10, 2017, 4:25 PM EST

Packers receiver Jordy Nelson has at least two broken ribs, arising from a helmet to the midsection from Giants defensive back Leon Hall. Hall inexplicably wasn’t flagged. He undoubtedly will be fined.

While that won’t help the Packers on Sunday, when they’ll most likely be forced to proceed without Nelson, a fine would constitute an acknowledgment that referee Ed Hochuli’s mismatched wild-card crew missed a clear foul.

To read the remainder of this ... click on the LINK please.

[woodbuck27]

Can I point out the obvious that the referees are specifically prohibited from calling penalties based on replays at the stadium?

And that it was not reviewable by challenge.

And the Packers were on offense, McCarthy needed to call the next play. And be sure the backup went into the game.

and Mike McCarthy needed to..... fricken well scream his lungs out at Referee Ed Hochuli, to clean up his crews fricken act.

[Maxie the Taxi]

First of all, is it really fractured ribs or something less? I don't think that has definitively been said (somebody correct me if I'm wrong).

Secondly, much as I hate to see a Packer get hurt, it was just football. It's only relatively recently that sort of hit was even illegal, and it wasn't obvious without replay - which, as was said, isn't supposed to be used to make penalty calls. What would we all be saying if the shoe was on the other foot - our DB hitting somebody else's receiver? Good hit! That's what.

Third, why is it such a big deal for a wideout to wear a flak jacket. That has been going on for decades, and I would assume technology has made them better and less restrictive now. QBs - who more often wear flak jackets - would seem to have more potential problems than receivers.

Athletes are funny about wearing anything that they feel will restrict their movements on the field. I remember a bunch of high school athletes I played with that refused to wear kidney pads and thigh pads!

Moreover, I saw on a TV show this week that Aaron Rodgers admitted he doesn't wear a protective cup...ever. To me that's just amazing. I wasn't much of a football player, but I could play baseball. I was a catcher. I would never think of catching a game without a cup. Maybe Harlan could, considering what's there to protect, but I couldn't.

[woodbuck27]

Athletes are funny about wearing anything that they feel will restrict their movements on the field. I remember a bunch of high school athletes I played with that refused to wear kidney pads and thigh pads!

Moreover, I saw on a TV show this week that Aaron Rodgers admitted he doesn't wear a protective cup...ever. To me that's just amazing. I wasn't much of a football player, but I could play baseball. I was a catcher. I would never think of catching a game without a cup. Maybe Harlan could, considering what's there to protect, but I couldn't.

Is this a commentary on who has balls and who doesn't?

[Zool]

Athletes are funny about wearing anything that they feel will restrict their movements on the field. I remember a bunch of high school athletes I played with that refused to wear kidney pads and thigh pads!

Moreover, I saw on a TV show this week that Aaron Rodgers admitted he doesn't wear a protective cup...ever. To me that's just amazing. I wasn't much of a football player, but I could play baseball. I was a catcher. I would never think of catching a game without a cup. Maybe Harlan could, considering what's there to protect, but I couldn't.

Pretty much no one in the NFL wears a cup. WRs dont wear any thigh or knee pads anymore. All shoulder pads are smaller than ever before. Might be time to get rid of the pads and play rugby style NFL.

[Maxie the Taxi]

Pretty much no one in the NFL wears a cup. WRs dont wear any thigh or knee pads anymore. All shoulder pads are smaller than ever before. Might be time to get rid of the pads and play rugby style NFL.

I new shoulder pads were getting smaller, but I didn't know about the other. So these guys voluntarily decide not to wear pads and then wonder why they get hurt? Another reflection on our culture and their intelligence.

Yeah, either get rid of pads altogether or dress them like the Michelin man. lol

[pbmax]

They are mandated to wear knee and thigh pads now, because concussions. Players just wear the smallest they can fine.

Cups are still optional I think.