Official 2018 Training Camp Thread

[pbmax]

Your backup tackle battle: https://packerswire.usatoday.com/201...-ot-situation/

Some great clips of the backups, mostly focusing on Spriggs and Murphy though there is some Bell in there too.

Initially, I thought both were terrible. The Packers must have been (or became) panicked about Spriggs because until late, he had a TE next to him a lot. More than Murphy it seemed. And while Murphy looked like he was trusted more on both sides, he really struggled at times.

The one piece the clips miss would seem to be overload blitz problems when Spriggs was on the right side. Twice it seemed they had different ideas about protections and let a free rusher through that the back was unprepared to handle through. In one case it looked like the back expected the line to allow a rusher in the middle but he came from the outside. Might have been just an effective overload blitz with a feint. 3 lineman only block 2 defenders in the end.

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Good news:

Wes Hodkiewicz @WesHod
LB Nick Perry (ankle) has been activated off PUP. “Its an exquisite day. I’m excited to be back to the team” #Packers

[Rutnstrut]

Good news:

Wes Hodkiewicz @WesHod
LB Nick Perry (ankle) has been activated off PUP. “Its an exquisite day. I’m excited to be back to the team” #Packers

Now he can get a start on the next hang nail.

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Good news:

Wes Hodkiewicz @WesHod
LB Nick Perry (ankle) has been activated off PUP. “Its an exquisite day. I’m excited to be back to the team” #Packers

but for how long?

[mraynrand]

Y In one case it looked like the back expected the line to allow a rusher in the middle but he came from the outside. Might have been just an effective overload blitz with a feint. 3 lineman only block 2 defenders in the end.

This was with Monty inside, right? Blown assignment, I think. Overall, some of the blocking problems did seem more assignment problems than crappy individual talent/skill. Hopefully that's the case, because that can be fixed. Suckitude from both Murphy and Spriggs at this point might be unsolvable.

[mraynrand]

It's also possible that Lane Taylor might be your backup LT. Although, if that were the case, you might have seen Murph and Spriggs get some snaps at LG. Alternatively, the Packers will put another guard in there for Taylor if he has to go outside... thinking out loud here ...

[bobblehead]

LOL

I think TT signed more FA last season than Gute did this year.

[mraynrand]

but for how long?

2-3 snaps, tops.

[pbmax]

This was with Monty inside, right? Blown assignment, I think. Overall, some of the blocking problems did seem more assignment problems than crappy individual talent/skill. Hopefully that's the case, because that can be fixed. Suckitude from both Murphy and Spriggs at this point might be unsolvable.

Might have been, don't remember the back.

I rewatched it like 5 times and could not decide if they choose the wrong way to slide, were fooled by the four men in the gaps, or the back was just in the wrong place. I finally decided it was a clever blitz but you could be right about the assignments being wrong.

Did you think the back did not adjust by sliding to the right of the QB or that the line should have slide right and let the back have the LB?

The Center (55 by this time) first looked to the linebacker who did not come. Then he helped the Guard. The DT was handled by the Guard/Center. Spriggs took a very tight aligned DE and let the wide rusher go free. So 3 blocking 2 but the only other way to handle it would be to slide protection to the right and leave the middle guy unblocked.

[mraynrand]

^^^^ PB, do you know when that play was in the game? The one I'm thinking of was first half, but other than that I don't know where it is at all...

[Joemailman]

Steelers 2nd drive of the game they had runs up the middle for 26 and 24 yards. Any word on what happened there? I had the sense someone was not in the right lane, but couldn't be sure.

[Joemailman]

I am getting a bad feeling about Aaron Jones return.

Green Bay Packers @packers
#Packers sign RB Bronson Hill

I think this more more about the injuries to the other running backs. They're probably more worried about the first 2 weeks when they know Jones can't play.

[pbmax]

^^^^ PB, do you know when that play was in the game? The one I'm thinking of was first half, but other than that I don't know where it is at all...

I did not watch the 2nd half except in spots. So likely first half, second quarter. But that's the best I can do. I do think the TV broadcast had a replay of it showing the pressure on the QB.

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SPRIGGS™ WATCH WILL RETURN THIS WEEK. Someone should do Murphy watch as well.

Tom Silverstein @TomSilverstein
Rodgers and No. 1 line playing all scout team. Should give you an idea who’s playing Friday.

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SPRIGGS™ WATCH WILL RETURN THIS WEEK. Someone should do Murphy watch as well.

Tom Silverstein @TomSilverstein
Rodgers and No. 1 line playing all scout team. Should give you an idea who’s playing Friday.

so, right back to what we do every year, and don't we usually get off to slow starts?

i say this every year, but preseason is just as much about getting the rest of the guys use to playing with a-rod, as it does getting a-rod ready to go

one series each preseason has not been enough in the past