Let's give Jarrett Boykin some much-earned love

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When our guys get healthy, just look out. 4 and 5 receiver sets,

Boykin's been a pro since he joined the NFL.  No surprises here.

Remember the competition with "Deondre Borel," or whatever his name was?  They had to keep Boykin, because he caught everything they threw at him.  Literally every last ball.

Pretty tough to cut a guy whose hands are a football magnet.  

So when Jones returns who is going to slide into the slot, Boykin or White?

I hope it's Boykin but I'm not sure he has the quicks for the position. 

White looks like a nervous squirrel out there. 

I'm not taking anything away from Boykin or his efforts as we can see he's getting better with more touches/playing time. But for now as we sit here just 2 weeks into his 'real' playing time, I'm guessing much of this success has to do with who's throwing him the ball.

Rodgers said he and MM sat down before the Browns game and came up with several high percentage passing plays that they felt would help Boykin. Apparently Boykin is a confidence guy and a worrier if he drops any passes in practice, he's convinced he's about to be cut. So getting his confidence up there was important and thus MM and Rodgers recognized this and did something about it.

I don't know if a lot of NFL QB's would do that. Certainly the guy who played QB before Rodgers likely wouldn't have given a rats ass about his lack of confidence and be giving him dirty looks for running the wrong routes...especially after he just threw a pick.

When JJ comes back, it'll be interesting to see what Boykins role will be. The Packers face some pretty lousy/injured secondaries in the next few weeks. That should help as well.

White looks like a nervous squirrel out there.

thought the same thing.  that, and he's tiny.  he needs a year in the weight room pronto!

Boykin has great size, catches the football and makes plays.  He belongs at this level.  White looks like he's a bit out of place at this time. 

Jordy, with Jones and Boykin outside.

Myles is quick/fast, but damn, does he even weigh 150?

Boykin has come up huge since Baltimore. Watching him toy with press coverage on his long reception up the sideline last night was fun to watch. White reminds me of a raw Tim Dwight. Fast as hell and a potential nightmare for defenses if they're accounting for Jones, Jordy, Boykin or Lacy. He just needs more time to develop. 

Speaking of decisions that will need to be made. I'm not sure Lattimore isn't the best option to start at ILB permanently. 

Thanks H5, that does sound like the most potent scenario. 

At least he gets out of the way of the semi if he's in the middle of the road.

One more thing. Randall Cobb will be back week 17 but he won't play in that last game

Both of Jordy's TDs came from the slot.

Greg Jennings can attest to how important the QB is to a receiver. Other than the bad drop I thought White looked OK but he does need to bulk up a bit.

Boykin is a keeper; White is a stop-gap. I'll be interested to see what Harper can do.

We have young guys, but Rodgers is flying under the radar with how great he's doing this year with this group of receivers. This morning on Mike & Mike, they were championing Brady and Belichek and how they are awesome with the receivers they have. MM getting no love for the coaching job he's doing.

Heck, for the first time in a long time, I was impressed with MM's play calling last night (except for that stack on the goal line when everyone knew what play was called).

In fairness to Mike and Mike, I would bet they saw very little of the Packer game last nite,  the matchup was not very attractive to anyone other than Packer/Vikes fans and the World Series did command a lot of national attention.

Kind of where I'm sitting, as well. I don't know how they can justify taking him off the field right now.

I'll second, third and fourth that on Lattimore!

So, if B. Jones is one of the best ILBs and Hawk is playing great right now who do you sit to play Lattimore, who I agree is playing terrific? Do you wait for Jones another couple weeks to make sure you have him in the stretch run, or do you sit Hawk, who has apparently found the fountain of college play?

Nice problem to have. But for the time being with all the Packers injured LB's Jones might be needed to play a little Outside LB as well as rotate in with Hawk and Lattimore.

Rotate them. Jones was playing terrific ball until his injury.