Training Camp Thread

[TheMove]

What are you, like eight feet tall?

Im a man child.

[MickeyDavis]

I highly suggest going up there for practice for any Packer fans. It's a great time, you are as close to Packer football action as you'll ever get. Tonights practice went more than 2 hours.

[TheMove]

Stay away from Jordy Nelson hes got like pms or something.

[Wilford Brimley]

Stay away from Jordy Nelson hes got like pms or something.

LOL

What happened?

[mnstinks]

Stay away from Jordy Nelson hes got like pms or something.

Poor guy didn't get an autograph?

I have run into Nelson a couple times and havent had a problem.

[Aaron It Out]

Nelson was pretty cool when I met him. All players are human. You always hear stories about certain players being jerks, last year some paper made a big deal out of Rodgers not signing autographs for some girl at an airport and made him ou to be a jerk lol.

[TheMove]

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[TheMove]

I dont care for autographs theres no point. All I want is a Pic with Rodgers doing the championship belt together for my Facebook pic. Thats my goal this summer.

I got quoted in the paper today from last nite which is cool. Also made Nick Collins fall to his knees lauphing. Such a fun nite.

[ReasonablySober]

Don Banks is in Green Bay covering the team. He just tweeted that Green Bay may have found themselves another weapon in D.J. Williams and that he looks legit. //fap

[emunney]

Williams was a great college TE. Seems like he went later just because he's short. Reminds me of Dallas Clark.

[an_also]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/w ... nfl_t11_a4

Don Banks>INSIDE THE NFL
Postcard from camp: Packers

SI.com has dispatched writers to report on NFL training camps across the country. Here's what Don Banks had to say about Packers camp in Green Bay, Wis., which he visited on July 30. For an archive of all camp postcards, click here.
Where's SI.com?

In Green Bay, Wis., aka "Titletown,'' where the Packers players still practice that quaint and time-honored tradition of borrowing bikes from kids to ride rather than walk the short hop across the street from Lambeau Field to the team's Ray Nitschke Field practice site. Everybody was on their Schwinns Saturday night before Green Bay's first practice of camp, which was attended by an enthusiastic crowd of roughly 2,000.
Three Observations

1. Green Bay got better just by getting healthy. It's not mere hyperbole. Players such as running back Ryan Grant, tight end Jermichael Finley, safety Morgan Burnett, linebacker Brad Jones and defensive end Mike Neal have all returned healthy this year after missing most of last season on IR. Grant and Finley are especially eager to make up for missing out on so much of last season's Super Bowl run, and that should help the defending champs fight the post-Super Bowl letdown syndrome. "I did rehab every day, 24/8. I added an extra day to it,'' Finley said, in his trademark overstatement. "If anybody does try to relax this year, we got a bunch of guys who will step up and take over.''

2. Aaron Rodgers is definitely the man these days in Green Bay, but he's not the GM. That doesn't mean, however, that what he says doesn't carry some weight within the organization. Early last week, Rodgers was quoted on radio saying the re-signing of Packers free-agent receiver James Jones should be the team's "No. 1 priority.'' In the same interview, he added his hope of the team retaining veteran offensive tackle Mark Tauscher. Packers GM Ted Thompson was at least partially listening, because while Tauscher was one of five Green Bay veterans released last week in cap cuts, the team re-signed Jones, its No. 3 receiver, to a new three-year contract Sunday afternoon. Just an hour before Jones signed, Rodgers hinted to me and another reporter that the Packers might be successful in their pursuit of Jones.

3. We might already have our answer as to who replaces departed left guard Daryn Colledge. First-round pick Derek Sherrod, who was drafted as a left tackle out of Mississippi State, worked with the first team at left guard in Saturday night's camp-opening practice. The Packers have never been afraid to move guys around on the offensive line in an attempt to get their best five players on the field at the same time, even if some are playing new positions. Colledge signed with Arizona last week, but the beat goes on for the Packers offensive line.
Step On Up

With ex-Packers defensive end Cullen Jenkins signing a five-year, $25 million deal with the Eagles (who else?) on Saturday, Green Bay is officially looking for someone to fill his old 3-4 defensive end slot. The Packers will probably use more of a rotation, but Mike Neal, a second-round pick out of Purdue in 2010, is going to get plenty of playing time. Neal missed all but two games last season due to rotator-cuff surgery, but the 6-foot-3, 294-pounder is powerfully built and looked impressive early on.
New Face, New Place

The Packers don't really do free agency, as you know, so our pick in this category is second-round rookie receiver/return man Randall Cobb, from Kentucky (someone has to call him "Tex'' by now, right?). The Packers return game was one of their real weaknesses last season, but Cobb should add more than just some speed and explosiveness to the punt and kickoff returns. He's a 5-10, 192-pound slot receiver who some have likened to Percy Harvin or Josh Cribbs, and Cobb even handled some Wildcat quarterback duties at Kentucky.
Looking at the schedule ...

I don't see the Packers doing any worse than 12-4 this year, but it's a weird schedule for the champs. They play on all the major holidays -- Thanksgiving, Christmas night and New Year's Day. There're four night games, five national TV games, all the usual treatment for a defending Super Bowl winner. And how's this for a quirk: Green Bay opens at home and plays its last two games at home, but in the 107 days that fall between Sept. 9 and Dec. 24, the Packers take the field just five times at Lambeau.

Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/w ... z1TiNqDVyK

[Captain Erv]

I just moved to the GB area about a month ago (about 10 minutes from Lambeau). I'm going to camp tomorrow night for the first time in a long time, any tips or advice?

[jimmybones]

Thanks for the updates MD.

Grant looking good? Us with a running game?

DJ Williams looking legit? Another good receiving TE?

Randall Cobb, return game

Jermichael Finley...enough said.

I can fap to this.

[PkrsBcksGphsMqt]

TomSilverstein tom silverstein
Underwood is definitely a safety now.

[PkrsBcksGphsMqt]

RobDemovsky Rob Demovsky
Erik Walden working at ROLB with the first group today. It was Zombo yesterday.

[PkrsBcksGphsMqt]

RobDemovsky Rob Demovsky
Newhouse getting a lot of reps at LT with the ones. Clifton looks to be getting a light load tonight.

[Ayt]

TomSilverstein tom silverstein
Underwood is definitely a safety now.

Welcome to Cutsville, son.

[MickeyDavis]

Sounds like Shaky is making some nice catches. Lori Nickel says he did last night too but I didn't notice him at all. Francois and Jackson still get all the work as backup ILB's.

[MickeyDavis]

Williams having another good night. Quarless better get his butt out there pretty soon.

[ReasonablySober]

Without doing any kind of in depth look at our roster and available spots, my inclination is to think Quarless is cut.