Archive for October, 2009

Favreageddon2: Return to Lambeau

Guest Senior Writer jclombardi @ http://lombardiave.com Previews: ESPN.   NFL.   FOX.  CBS.  NBC.   Sporting News. Return to Lambeau: Favre. Cheered or Booed?  Interview. Former Leader of Pack QB Favre: Favre’s Top 10 Plays. Retiring No. 4: Packers will retire Favre’s number. ”He deserves it,” Murphy said. Favre’s view: “I totally understood the direction they wanted to go in.  But it’s probably best [...]

Favreageddon 2: Big Game News

From: Guest Senior Writer jclombardi @ http://lombardiave.com 1. Previews: Preview.  Pass protection paramount. Beating Vikings. 2. The Big Game: Beyond a “Pack” house of fans, celebrities, sports stars and Fortune 500 executives will in attendance for the Sunday game. FOX’s pregame show will be about it.  The Pack are now a legitimate playoff contender. Right or wrong, Sunday’s game [...]

Packers Pound Cleveland 31-3 in Warmup for Rematch with Vikings

The Packers played their most complete game of the season Sunday, using the game in Cleveland Sunday as a warm-up to next week’s rematch for a showdown with the Vikings at home. The Pack put up 460 yards of offense and held Cleveland to under 150 yards in a 31-3 beating. “We felt like it [...]

Inactives for the Packers-Browns

Green Bay: RB Ahman Green, OT Chad Clifton, OG Evan Dietrich-Smith, DL Jarius Wynn, WR Jordy Nelson, FB Korey Hall, OT Mark Tauscher, SS Matt Giordano. Cleveland: OG Billy Yates, QB Brett Ratliff, RB Chris Jennings, CB Coye Francies, CB Gerard Lawson, PK Phil Dawson, TE Robert Royal, TE Steve Heiden.

T.J. Lang to Start at Left Tackle for Clifton Sunday

The Green Bay Press Gazette reports that T.J. Lang will start at left tackle tomorrow vs the Browns: There will come a time – perhaps as soon as March, when left tackle Chad Clifton is scheduled to become an unrestricted free agent – the Packers will have to move on at one of the game’s [...]

Packers Might Be Looking To Replace RB Ryan Grant

Michael Lombardi of the National Football Post reports that the Packers are reportedly looking for a replacement for running back Ryan Grant and that they were active in trade talks prior to Tuesday’s trade deadline. Lombardi says that according to sources around the league, the Packers were very aggressive in asking about backs who may [...]

Packers: Tridaily News

Guest Senior Writer jclombardi @ http://lombardiave.com Penalties: In “Penalties Not Killing”, a writer presented statistical analysis proclaiming penalties do not really matter with pass protection being a more important indicator about a successful team. Apologists are a bad ego breed to the Lombardi winning discipline along with their suck-up bloggers reading their reviews.  The answer is yes and [...]

Packers Ink Former Running Back Ahman Green

Lombardi Ave reports that the Pack has brought back an old friend, running back Ahman Green: Running back Ahman Green signed a one-year contract with the Packers. RB Green played seven of his 11 NFL seasons with the Packers from 2000 to 2006. He left signing a free-agent contract with the Houston Texans. Now, he [...]