Its getting to be that time of year so thought a catch-all thread was in order.
Bill Barnwell at Grantland came out with his All Pro team today. Good read. Packers' entries excerpted below.
http://grantland.com/the-trian...nd-nfl-all-pro-team/
Quarterback
Aaron Rodgers, Green Bay Packers
... Throughout the season, it’s been tough to pin down who is the best quarterback in football. It was Philip Rivers in September, but by the end of October, it was Tom Brady — who had been so bad in September that some wanted to bench him for Jimmy Garoppolo. Aaron Rodgers took over with a freakish November in which he threw for 13 touchdowns without a pick, but even he has slipped in recent weeks.
The guy with the best numbers? That’s Tony Romo, who leads the league in completion percentage (70.3 percent), yards per attempt (8.5), passer rating (114.4), and QBR (82.3). I don’t get the feeling that people are taking his MVP candidacy seriously, which is in part based on the unfair fact of life that he is Tony Romo. You can make a case that those numbers oversell his position; he has narrow leads in each of those categories, missed a game and a half with his back injury, and gets to play with the best running game in football behind the best offensive line in football. I think Romo is phenomenal, but he’s not the best quarterback in the league.
So, given the numbers, given the records, what did I do? I went back to the Quarterback Championship Belt logic and chose the one quarterback I’d want to run out on my team if my life were on the line. That’s Rodgers ...
Wide Receiver
Jordy Nelson, Green Bay Packers
There was a time I thought Nelson was another cog in the Aaron Rodgers machine, a useful-if-limited receiver who might top out as something close to Antonio Freeman in terms of his absolute value. I was very, very wrong. I don’t know that I’ve seen anybody besides Odell Beckham Jr. get consistently more wide open when teams should be double-covering him than Nelson has this season. He’s very clearly the best receiver Rodgers has ever had...
Guard
Josh Sitton, Green Bay Packers
Sitton is a reasonable candidate to be considered the most underrated player in all of football. The 2008 fourth-rounder has made only one Pro Bowl and doesn’t ever get discussed as one of Ted Thompson’s best draft picks, but Sitton consistently stands out as the best player on the league’s sixth-best run-blocking offensive line. STATS has him down for just three penalties and zero sacks this season.