Buy week

You can tell he's packing on shellfish weight! Crab legs and crawfish are among the fattiest of foods!

It's the butter...

Crab butter shots? Figures.

I more optimistic about a team that often has to struggle through the weekend than a team that dominates every weekend.

thank you Confucius 

Gotta wonder about this comment.   I don't think I would ever make it.

Great way to start this week for MM.

[from packers.com:]

McCarthy returns to honor his roots

St. Rosalia Academy presented with Wilson Golden Football, while Pittsburgh proclaims "Mike McCarthy Day"

Mike McCarthy has never forgotten where he’s from, and where he’s from won’t forget him, either.

The Packers head coach returned to Pittsburgh on Tuesday during the team’s bye week to honor his roots as well as be honored himself.

As part of the NFL’s Super Bowl Honor Roll campaign to recognize communities that have produced Super Bowl champions in the 50 years of the NFL’s league title game, McCarthy presented St. Rosalia Academy in his native Greenfield neighborhood with a commemorative Wilson Golden Football.

At the same time, the city of Pittsburgh issued a “Mike McCarthy Day” proclamation. Several McCarthy family members were on hand to enjoy the day, along with a few dignitaries, namely Pittsburgh city councilman Corey O’Connor and Bishop David Zubik, the current bishop of the Diocese of Pittsburgh and formerly that of Green Bay.

“It’s always great to get back to Pittsburgh,” McCarthy said in a brief phone interview with packers.com following the festivities. “You walk through the halls of the school and the cafeteria, it brings back a lot of great memories.

“Some of my former classmates were here today, and it was great to catch up and have a few laughs.”

One individual he caught up with was longtime coach Jim Gregg, who has coached youth baseball in Greenfield for the last 50 years. McCarthy has spoken often of his reverence for Gregg as a community icon and the impact he had on McCarthy and continues to have on Greenfield youth.

In his younger days, McCarthy also played basketball, the only school sport offered when he attended St. Rosalia up through eighth grade. The Super Bowl Honor Roll campaign is targeted for high schools, but the Bishop Boyle High School in Homestead, Pa., that McCarthy attended closed in the 1980s, so he chose to honor St. Rosalia.

“It taught you a lot of things – structure, discipline, obviously the spiritual education,” McCarthy said. “We were very good in sports. We had good coaching. There was a lot of school pride.”

That pride was evident during the golden football presentation, which McCarthy said was “like a pep rally.” McCarthy visited with several current students and took questions from a few.

 

Two students in attendance were his own nieces, further illustrating the McCarthy family’s longstanding connection to St. Rosalia, where McCarthy’s parents still attend church and are active members.

Schools receiving a golden football will have an opportunity to tap into some of the NFL Foundation’s resources, including a new character education curriculum and the opportunity to apply for grants to help support football programs.

To McCarthy, that made the day an extension of charitable efforts he’s made on behalf of the Greenfield area and St. Rosalia in the past. Both have been among many beneficiaries of the McCarthy Family Foundation, a philanthropic commitment McCarthy and his wife Jessica began several years ago.

“It’s helped a lot of people here, and that’s what it’s all about,” McCarthy said. “It’s about giving back.”

St. Rosalia welcomes home @packers coach Mike McCarthy to celebrate his donation of @nfl gold football to alma mater pic.twitter.com/ZXlZKf4kKc

— Kevin Gorman (@KGorman_Trib) October 20, 2015

.@packers coach Mike McCarthy inducts St. Rosalia Academy into Super Bowl honor roll to celebrate SBXLV victory. pic.twitter.com/PbU1gfg3uw

— Kevin Gorman (@KGorman_Trib) October 20, 2015

Jesus...can't the guy lay on the couch for a week and watch ESPN in his underwear?

1000 million likes, oldie. No doubt!!!

This buy week is going to ****ing kill me. Might post some weird **** here... I mean, weirder...

Damn, I love this team. So great to see them 6-0, and just starting to get it all together. A lot to build on there.

 

 

- Eddie’s fat

- they should use "bunch" formations to get Cobb open

- need to adjust to the current personnel

 

 

 

Hopefully the self-scouting the coaches are doing will find the reason behind the 6-0 start and they get that fixed

 

 

 

 

 

Hopefully Lacy is making the most of this 2 week period and putting in workout tapes by Fonda....

I've had my knickers in "bunch" formation ever since Eddie started putting on weight.

My "team" have made the adjustment.

 

God, it's going to be a long ****ing week.

I'm going out of state to a wedding this weekend.

Are the rest of you sitting on the couch like Al Bundy?

I only need one hand to drink beer coach.

       

It's all kicking off in #Devon... pic.twitter.com/sG8KAcMVeT
— Steve Clark (@steveclarkuk) October 20, 2015

Running the Fall 50 in Door County this weekend.  No sitting on the couch for me.

Great start.  MM focusing on bigger picture trying to get guys healthy and still 6-0.  

 

Player poised for strong finish?

 

B J Raji.  The extra week will allow him to recharge his batteries.  His push up the middle was missed last week.  Having a 'Show me the money' season.  

Buh Bye week?  Finishing cranberry harvest this week.  Been playing hurt last 3 weeks with shoulder impingement.  Randall Cobb is one tough SOB to play through his!

 

Thinking about taking a trip to Illinois or Iowa. ..........  That's all just thinking about it.  The greatest attraction in either are the signs announcing the borders are just ahead of you.

Down on the farm.

 

 

Numbers are fun. Based on simulations from here on out, we have a 99.7% chance of making the playoffs. Highest in the NFL. But I believe that's about the same percentage we had of winning the game after the Morgan Burnett interception. Before he went to the ground.

 

http://www.footballoutsiders.com/stats/playoffodds

 

Different types of numbers. Still 6-0.

 

#Packers are most banged-up team in NFL based on missed starts (and eventual missed starts). https://t.co/5Fr6EWsg1W

— Rob Demovsky (@RobDemovsky) October 21, 2015

... Below, with the help of NFL Nation, we rank the most injured teams in the NFL from 1 to 32. Before getting to the list, a quick note on the methodology: The ranking was determined by each team's "total starts missed." What does that mean? Each time a starter or integral special-teams player missed a game, it counted toward that total. Players who had already been placed on season-ending injured reserve or short-term IR were given the number starts they're guaranteed miss while being sidelined.

Here are the teams who have been most banged up so far this season.

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1. Green Bay Packers

When Jordy Nelson blew out his knee in the preseason, it was almost a guarantee that the Packers' offense would have to change. Without his best deep-threat receiver, quarterback Aaron Rodgers has not thrown the ball downfield as much. In his first seven years as a starter, Rodgers averaged 2.1 pass attempts per game that traveled 30 or more yards in the air, according to ESPN Stats & Information. This season, he has averaged just one per game and has had two games where he didn't attempt any. It's not just Nelson, either. The Packers have played half of their games without Davante Adams, who was expected to replace Nelson as that deep threat. -- Rob Demovsky
Players out for season: WR Jordy Nelson (knee), LB Sam Barrington (foot), DE Josh Boyd (ankle), S Sean Richardson (neck)
Players injured: TE Andrew Quarless (knee), S Morgan Burnett(calf), WR Davante Adams (ankle), OT Bryan Bulaga (knee), OLB Nick Perry (shoulder/hand), NT B.J. Raji (groin)
Total starts missed: 78 -- Nelson (16), Barrington (15), Boyd (14), Richardson (13), Quarless (7), Burnett (5), Adams (3), Bulaga (3), Perry (1), Raji (1)

Makes it even more impressive that we are 6-0 & speaks to TT's ability to build depth (and of course having AR & CM playing doesn't hurt!) 

       
       


We can only hope...

Eddie is fat!

I know we have a Vikings Suck thread and a TBSS thread, but let's not forget the pathetic excuse of a football team from Detroit.

 

#Packers went into their 2014 bye week trailing the Lions in the NFC North standings. Since then, Detroit is 6-9. Green Bay is 14-2.

— Paul Imig (@Paulimig) October 21, 2015

 

Up to a 5 lb bag by now. 

 

 

I read this as putting workout tapes in fondu.....mmmmm.