Surviving Sunday: Packers News, Notes and Links for the Football Deprived

When is it time to get worried about the Packers recent history in the first round of the NFL draft? Bryan Bulaga (2010): Missed four games in 2011 with a knee injury and seven games in 2012 with a season-ending hip injury. Derek Sherrod (2011): Broke his leg toward the end of a ho-hum rookie […]

The Statistical Reason Why The Packers Defense Has Declined

  While doing research on my last article, I noticed one very interesting fact: Dominant 3-4 defenses tended to have a star 5-technique defense end.  The 3 best 3-4 defenses in terms of Advanced NFL Stats’ dEPA (defensive expected points added) in the NFL right now are San Francisco, Arizona and Houston and each team boasts […]

Could Packers Trade Up in 2012 NFL Draft to Pick a Pass Rusher?

The day was April 25, the Saturday of the 2009 NFL draft, and Green Bay Packers general manager Ted Thompson had a franchise-altering decision staring him in the face. As he sat in the Packers’ war room, having already acquired nose tackle B.J. Raji from Boston College with the ninth overall pick, there was a […]

Green Bay Packers Offseason: Another Veteran Purge Could Be Coming

It didn’t take long into Ted Thompson’s reign as Green Bay Packers GM for the unwavering 52-year-old to firmly establish that football moves under his direction would be made without the cling of emotion, void of any sentimental feelings that could effect a given decision one way or the other. Among Thompson’s first moves as GM […]

Jarius Wynn: 2011 Green Bay Packers Evaluation and Report Card

1) Introduction: For a couple games early in the season, it looked like Jarius Wynn had a shot at becoming the next no-name player to become a name player on the Packers roster. Unfortunately, Wynn fizzled out and got stuck in no-name playerville, a city populated by several Packers defensive linemen. 2) Profile: Jarius Jessereel Wynn […]