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LB Hawk Suffers Chest Injury

When the Packers take on the 49ers in an exhibition game on Saturday, they’ll be without the services of linebacker A.J. Hawk. Coach Mike McCarthy has been vague about Hawk’s chest injury. He was hurt in the third quarter of Monday night’s loss to the Bengals. McCarthy says he doesn’t have an [...]

Posted by Matt Loede on Aug 14 2008

Rodgers Makes First NFL Start Tonight vs Cincy

Aaron Rodgers makes his first start in the National Football League tonight when the Packers host the Bengals in an exhibition game at Lambeau Field.  Rodgers is expected to play about a quarter with the number one offense tonight.  Rodgers says running through the tunnel as the Packers’ starting quarterback has been his dream for [...]

Posted by Matt Loede on Aug 11 2008

Packers Add Babers

Green Bay Packers general manager Ted Thompson announced on Friday the signing of undrafted free agent cornerback Scorpio Babers; Babers was a three-year player at Sam Houston State who had originally signed with the Miami Dolphins in May 2008.

Posted by Stephen Rhodes on Aug 08 2008

Favre Era in Green Bay All But Over

Brett Favre won’t be playing for the Packers.  That’s the only certainty coming out of Favre’s lengthy discussions with Packers head coach Mike McCarthy.  McCarthy decided that Favre was still too emotional over recent troubles with management.  The next step is likely to be a trade.  There’s a report in the “Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel” that Favre [...]

Posted by Matt Loede on Aug 06 2008

NFL Says Vikings Didn’t Tamper With Favre

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell says the  Vikings did not tamper with quarterback Brett Favre.  In a letter to both teams, Goodell acknowledged that Favre and Vikings coaches did speak, but none of those conversations suggest that Favre was soliciting a job or that other teams were soliciting his services.  The Packers released a statement saying they [...]

Posted by Matt Loede on Aug 05 2008

McCarthy Presser About QB Issues Scrapped Till Tomorrow

The most anticipated press conference possibly in Packers history has been, for now - put on hold. Mike McCarthy was set to meet with the media tonight to talk about the QB spot and Brett Favre coming back to the team, but with media and fans waiting for an answer from the coach, he [...]

Posted by Matt Loede on Aug 04 2008

Packers President/CEO Mark Murphy Releases Statement on Favre

Packers President Mark Murphy has released a statement on the return of Brett Favre:
Sixteen years after Brett Favre came to the Packers, he is returning for a seventeenth season. He has had a great career with our organization and although we built this year around the assumption that Brett meant what he said about retiring, [...]

Posted by Matt Loede on Aug 03 2008

Favre On His Way to GB After Says He’s Been Reinstated

The saga continues in the Brett Favre fiasco, as now it’s being reported by him that he has been reinstated. ESPN’s Wendi Nix reports Brett Favre’s plane is scheduled to land in Green Bay at 6:30 p.m. ET, but Favre does not plan to attend the team’s sold-out Packers Family Night at Lambeau Field.
ESPN’s Ed [...]

Posted by Matt Loede on Aug 03 2008

Favre Reportedly Considering Payoff Offer

Brett Favre is reportedly considering a 20-million-dollar payoff offer from the Packers.  ESPNews reported late last night that Favre is giving serious consideration to the offer, which would give him 2-million-dollars-a-year-over the next ten years to stay retired.  In a text message to an ESPN reporter, Favre reportedly said the offer, though “awkward and unsettling [...]

Posted by Matt Loede on Aug 01 2008

Packers Talk to Vikings, Bears About Favre - Offer $20 Mil for Him to Stay Away

The Packers have discussed the possibility of trading Brett Favre to the Bears or the Vikings.  According to a report in today’s Milwaukee “Journal Sentinel”, such a trade is one of the options being considered by the Packers internally.  If Favre were traded to the Vikings, he would be playing against the Packers on opening [...]

Posted by Matt Loede on Jul 31 2008