Organized Team Activities (OTAs) are usually noteworthy more for who’s not there than for anything that actually happens on the field, but that wasn’t the case yesterday. Some big news came out of Wednesday’s practice and it had absolutely nothing to do with no-shows Atari Bigby, Johnny Jolly and Tramon Williams. The team has...
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The Green Bay Packers drafted two offensive linemen last week; that makes 10 big uglies in the past five Aprils. Two are no longer with the team, but eight remain, and from that group should come the offensive line of the future. Just for fun, let’s project how things could look two years from...
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The Green Bay Packers just gave $20 million – $7.5 million guaranteed – to an aging left tackle whose body is capable of breaking down at any moment. Sounds crazy, but that’s what happens when a GM fails to adequately prepare for the future. Ted Thompson had five years to find a successor to...
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With Chad Clifton out again with an ankle injury, T.J. Lang will make his first start on Sunday at Cleveland. The scrappy rookie from Eastern Michigan has looked pretty good in brief relief appearances at left tackle against Minnesota and Detroit. So is tomorrow’s game a glimpse into the post-Clifton era? Probably not. “I...
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