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[LikeABosh]

Did Dez Bryant catch the ball? Of course he did, but strange things happen with the officiating in Lambeau Field. This game is away from the friendly confines for Green Bay, and that absolutely matters.

Maybe Risdon should stop complaining about the Packers getting all the calls and spend a little time looking up the score of when the Cowboys played the Packers at Lambeau last year and the score when the Packers played in Dallas.

What year is this? That was 4 seasons ago, jeez..

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[LikeABosh]

After the result of Finley, Collins, and Shields head/neck injuries that is a pleasant surprise

[crkone]

After the result of Finley, Collins, and Shields head/neck injuries that is a pleasant surprise

It's almost stunning.

[BUCKnation]

After the result of Finley, Collins, and Shields head/neck injuries that is a pleasant surprise

Honestly my first thought when he was laying there lifeless was "not another one"

[MickeyDavis]

McGinn has a long, scathing article on Randall and how he needs to be traded now (he thinks we could get a late pick). I can't post the article since it's subscription based but here are a few quotes

“He can’t play,” an NFC personnel man said after reviewing Randall’s second season. “Not competitive enough. Thinks he’s hot (expletive). Soft.”

Upon meeting Randall for the first time, one man said, “Like talking to Deion (Sanders).”

Randall’s potential, mostly imagined at this point and certainly unfulfilled, stamps him as the quintessential coach killer. Fortunately for Mike McCarthy, he has won enough games and probably can’t be brought down by the erratic performance of one cornerback.

Don’t forget, though, that Randall already aborted one playoff run with his blown assignment as a rookie that enabled Larry Fitzgerald to steam unimpeded 75 yards to set up Arizona’s winning touchdown in overtime.

If the Packers end up giving Randall more chances, good luck to them. After 2 ½ seasons he is what he is, a soft, inconsistent player who doesn’t fit the Packers’ press-man scheme and thinks he’s so much better than he really is.

“He’s always walking off the field,” one personnel man said in January. “He’s got ability, no question. He could mature, but does he like football? He plays like a guy with no confidence or he just doesn’t care because he just lets people catch the ball on him.”

At mid-week, Capers made an interesting observation on the appearance of athletic swagger required at the cornerback position.

“Sometimes there’s a difference between confidence and maybe false confidence,” the 67-year-old coordinator said. “It’s who ends up going out on Sunday and producing on the field.”

“There are teams that would take him,” a high-placed NFL personnel man said last week. “Some teams may move him back to safety. You start with a four (fourth-round draft choice), take a five.”

Unlike many of his peers, that executive praised the selection of Randall as a slot corner, not an outside player, not long after the Packers made the choice. Now, says the scout, he has seen enough to admit Randall isn’t going to become a player.

“But everybody thinks they can change everybody, right?” the scout said. “And everyone wants a corner.”

[M-C-G]

After the result of Finley, Collins, and Shields head/neck injuries that is a pleasant surprise

It's almost stunning.

Craig Bragg, Ken Berry (?), Jamaal Franklin and Jeremy Thompson as well as I recall


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[th87]

After the result of Finley, Collins, and Shields head/neck injuries that is a pleasant surprise

It's almost stunning.

Craig Bragg, Ken Berry (?), Jamaal Franklin and Jeremy Thompson as well as I recall


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I also think back to Sterling Sharpe, Tim Lewis, Gary Berry, and Terrence Murphy.

[thomchatt3rton]

if the Packers go into Dallas Sunday and get a win and go to 4-1 I'll give McCarthy some props.

Go forward, rilamann, and fulfill your destiny. Render the props unto he who is due.

[rilamann]

if the Packers go into Dallas Sunday and get a win and go to 4-1 I'll give McCarthy some props.

Go forward, rilamann, and fulfill your destiny. Render the props unto he who is due.

Give good ol Mac coach of the year....lol.

Like I said I'll give him McCarthy his props, to be sitting at 4-1 with the injuries right now is impressive and you have to give McCarthy some credit for that.That Aaron Rodgers guy is pretty good too lol.

[thomchatt3rton]

if the Packers go into Dallas Sunday and get a win and go to 4-1 I'll give McCarthy some props.

Go forward, rilamann, and fulfill your destiny. Render the props unto he who is due.

Give good ol Mac coach of the year....lol.

Like I said I'll give him McCarthy his props, to be sitting at 4-1 with the injuries right now is impressive and you have to give McCarthy some credit for that.That Aaron Rodgers guy is pretty good too lol.

You no-good welsher. Can't even give Mike his due without loading it with sarcasm and multiple qualifications.

I'm ashamed of you, rilamann, but I can't say I'm surprised.

[M-C-G]

if the Packers go into Dallas Sunday and get a win and go to 4-1 I'll give McCarthy some props.

Go forward, rilamann, and fulfill your destiny. Render the props unto he who is due.

Give good ol Mac coach of the year....lol.

Like I said I'll give him McCarthy his props, to be sitting at 4-1 with the injuries right now is impressive and you have to give McCarthy some credit for that.That Aaron Rodgers guy is pretty good too lol.

Honestly, we have had a brutal schedule, brutal injuries and if we go 1-1 we will be 5-2 entering a much needed bye week and a much easier (looking) schedule in the back half.

I'm really excited about our chances to get that second ring this year.

[dools644]

There's an article on espn.com about how Adams shouldn't have played. It's a dumb article.

There's this notion out there that you can judge the severity of a concussion by how the hit looks on TV - it's nonsense.

If you watched the Frontline documentary on head trauma, they go into how the viciousness of the hit doesn't really tell you anything about the concussion. Also, they get into how CTE and the other issues are caused by the more subtle, repetitive hits prolonged over a career. It isn't the one or two horrible ones that do a lot of damage, typically.

The Packers have been far more cautious with their guys than a lot of other teams have been. If there were any hint that Adams couldn't go, they never would have sent him out there. I don't think they go by how he says he feels at all. He has to pass the protocol with flying colors to go.

[RRyder823]

There's an article on espn.com about how Adams shouldn't have played. It's a dumb article.

There's this notion out there that you can judge the severity of a concussion by how the hit looks on TV - it's nonsense.

If you watched the Frontline documentary on head trauma, they go into how the viciousness of the hit doesn't really tell you anything about the concussion. Also, they get into how CTE and the other issues are caused by the more subtle, repetitive hits prolonged over a career. It isn't the one or two horrible ones that do a lot of damage, typically.

The Packers have been far more cautious with their guys than a lot of other teams have been. If there were any hint that Adams couldn't go, they never would have sent him out there. I don't think they go by how he says he feels at all. He has to pass the protocol with flying colors to go.

I agree.

What I find dumb about it when people say u have to give him more time simply based on the hit.

After passing protocol which includes being cleared by an independent neurologist the risk of reinjury, (another concussion in this case), is the same this week as it will be a month or a year from now.

Not to mention, as u said yourself, the Packers are one of the most cautious teams in league when it comes to injury

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[BUCKnation]

We literally just had a player in his prime retire from concussions. If we aren't careful about concussion recovery, who is?