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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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 most [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
The Green Bay Press-Gazette is reporting that Packers offensive tackle Chad Clifton suffered an ankle injury in Sunday’s win over the Lions. The injury isn’t expected to be as serious as the injury that sidelined him earlier this season, and he could practice as soon as Thursday. Clifton and the coaching staff sounded optimistic when [...]
Coming off the bye week, the Packers looked like a focused team Sunday, putting a severe beatdown on the Detroit Lions, making them look like the 0-16 team that wrapped up their winless season in Green Bay a season ago with a 26-0 shutout win. The tough Packers defense dominated the game, never really [...]
