PACKER injuries

It's the first time I saw the clip today, and I find it pretty amazing that he jogs off the field.  Here's to a speedy recovery Jordy.  

He was fine jogging off because he didn't need lateral stability to do that.  The way he came down after the catch and turned, it looks like he didn't put any weight on his right leg, only on his left so I guessed it was his left.  Then seeing him limp off, he steps down harder on his left which made me think it was his right.  If so, he must've popped it on his break/stop move before going up for the ball and when he came down to turn and run, blatto.  His torque was gone.

The injury concerning me as closest to "irreplaceable" is Bakhtiari. It sounds like Tolzien was kept overnight following his melon bash in addition to Rodgers' wrist at the hands of Barclay's whiffs. Walker was brutal too when he got the chance. I know they want to settle guys in, but I think it's time to move the more athletic Tretter back out there if they want to leave eveyone else in their normal positions.

If the coaches thought Tretter could play tackle, he'd be taking snaps there. Barclay has been brutal from day 1 and Walker never played tackle until about 10 days ago.

Barclay is a guard that they keep trying to play at Tackle. Any sort of speed off the edge just overwhelms him and the end result is just ugly. Dude just gets thrown aside

The problem isn't the number of preseason games. Although they frustrate the fans, they do serve a purpose to the teams. The way Nelson's injury happened shows that it could have happened in practice or in the first play of the regular season.

The real problem is the number of NFL teams. The impact of injuries would diminish if the talent pool wasn't spread so thin.

Respectfully disagree.  Someone is going to win the job either way, and if some GM's and coaches can't figure it out from scrimmages, then that's their problem, and it should just be part of the game. The games are nice for coaches to see how younger guys do in live action.  I get that.  But to say the games are "necessary" is patently false.  Nothing could be less "necessary."  

Did you see the stands in Pittsburgh?  The place was empty.  They are bull**** games that mean nothing to anybody, except for longshot players dying to prove themselves. So they go balls out, with nobody watching, and people get hurt.  For no good reason. That is pretty much the definition of "unnecessary."

The best solution would be for coaches to not let any starters play.  But no coach has the restraint to do that, and if he did, he'd be behind the rest of the league.  So he puts the starters in, for "just one quarter," as if that is going to eliminate the risk, which of course it doesn't.  And the debate goes on, meanwhile careers and even seasons are ruined.  Yay.

Yep. No idea why Ted hasn't selected a tackle in the past two drafts.

I think Jordy jogging off the field was actually a bad sign. When you partially tear a ligament, it hurts like the dickens. When you fully tear it, no pain after the initial ouch.

To illustrate: My other half jumped off a loading dock, heard a pop, got up, walked off with only a little limp and then no limp. Later said her knee felt "weird." When I did a bent-knee, pull-behind-the-calf test, her lower leg slid forward a good inch. Immediately I knew it was an ACL. But she said, "It can't be. It doesn't hurt!" I said, "Go to the ortho doc." A couple weeks later, she was in surgery getting the ACL fixed. THEN it hurt!  So, when I saw Jordy do the same thing and the speculation of ACL, well, I'd be more surprised if it wasn't the ACL. I'm hoping it's not, but...

Sure they serve a purpose.  Just not a necessary one.  Again,  colleges live without them and last time I checked, ratings for college games are damn high.  Second only to the NFL.

I don't get the talent pool argument here.  There's always going to be standout performers who shouldn't be subjected to unnecessary risk.

Haven't seen it posted. Maurkice Pouncey broke his leg yesterday. Surgery is today. Not calling it year ending yet but he'll be hard pressed to return in 2015. 

FWIW, Maurkice is a POS. 

Apples 1999 roster vs. oranges 2014 roster. Not a very fair comparison in my opinion.

But anyway, ultimately I'm afraid Janis's problem could best be described as him thinking "Grandma Got Runover by a Reindeer" is good Christmas music.

Effin Yoopers.

College FB has preseason games as well, it's just that the big boys play Div 3, St. Mary's School of the Blind, and it counts in the standings.  Sometimes they don't play them the first game of the season for a true "preseason" game, but they have patty cakes on the schedule, that are consistent with preseason NFL games.  The scrubs (2nd and 3rd teamers) play most of the game after the 1's put up 40+ points in 20 min.  

Maybe it could have happened in practice.  Or maybe, since his back was turned to the defender, he pulled it to make his move faster than would have in practice for fear of someone diving at has legs. Since they've probably done the play 50 times in practice this year without injury indicates the latter to me.  (Yes it is all speculation.)

And if it happened on the first play of the regular season, ya know, at least he got the team a first down in a meaningful game.

The first several games of the regular season have looked sloppy and pre-season like since the new CBA.  Lack of enough full contact game-simulation during practice as well as other training camp restrictions are probably contributing to that.

I say we dress up Janis in Jordy's jersey, hope nobody notices, and use him as a decoy.

1.  Not for the good teams.

2.  Seriously?  You want more contact and more risk of injury so your viewing experience is better the first couple of games? Come on now.

And yet somehow there are more injuries in the preseason since the new CBA than before.

So by extrapolation you want no contact until the season starts?  Because by your line of reasoning, that would result in less injuries.  OK.

Farm system.  

I would love to se McCarthy pull every starter from these next two preseason games. Why not?

Wouldn't be that much of a stretch.  Didn't BB start the "sitting all starters for 4th preseason game" thing?  I think a lot of teams do that now.  MM would just be raising the stakes from last game to last 2 games.

Won't happen, butI think every starter would be thrilled.

Holy crap.  Can you imagine if we hadn't been able to re-sign Cobb?  

But we did, so it's not worth mentioning.

I'm more worried about our LT than the WR position

Just to add more fuel to the fire, Adrian Peterson doesn't play in preseason due to risk of injury. 

I would vote for eliminating one or two of the preseason games.  You have to have a couple games along with training camp to be able to evaluate the players but four preseason games is too many.  But,  I'm sure the lost revenue from eliminating some preseason games would be a big factor.   

Aaron says go with two preseason games.  I agree.

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/e...hould-be-cut-in-half

But we did, so it's not worth mentioning.

Thank goodness we did.  Could be worse is all I'm sayin.  Sheesh.

There will be no lost revenue because the league will only reduce the pre season to two games after they increase the regular season to 18 games.

Anyone remember when the preseason went from 6 games to 4 games? Was it the same year the regular season changed from 14 games to 16 games?

The league might force the teams to play 4 preseason games, but coaches aren't forced to play their best players in 4 games. 

You're hinging your argument on "lesser teams"?  I don't recall GB looking so great the first 3 games last year either.  Or the the last several years.  They played some tough games early but I remember higher than usual mental errors.  Maybe that was just Brad Jones.

Just announced Nelson to miss remainder of season. Big. Bad. Bummer.

Not breaking any news here, but:

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I hope all of the injured players from that game file a class action lawsuit against the stadium owners for that crappy field.

This.

FWIW, the last time Jordy missed any action was 2012.  He missed 4 games that season.  Rodgers threw for nearly 1000 yards, 8 TDs, 0 INTs and the Packers were 4-0.

Meanwhile, in 2013 when Rodgers was out, Jordy had 32 catches for 437 yards and 1 TD in 7 games.  When Rodgers returned for the Bears game Jordy had 161 yards on 10 catches.

He will be missed, especially when it comes to the play action bombs and big 3rd down plays, but I don't think this will prevent them from winning the division or even a Super Bowl.  

Agreed.