NFL analyst and NFL Films senior producer Greg Cosell had high praise for Packers seventh-round draft pick Sam Barrington on Tuesday. Speaking with with Doug Farrar of Yahoo Sports on the Shutdown Corner podcast, Cosell called the 6-foot-1, 235-pound linebacker from South Florida an “athletic kid,” whose “athletic ability was a second- or third-round pick.” […]
Packers linebackers
Packers LB Desmond Bishop: DPOY or Playing for a Different Team?
This story from Tyler Dunne in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel about Packers linebacker Desmond Bishop is extremely well written. After reading it, you can’t help but like the guy even more than you probably already do. In the story, Bishop says one of his goals is to win defensive player of the year in 2013. Unfortunately, […]
Talking Packers Linebackers: Present and Future?
Let’s talk Linebackers, inside and outside. These positions in the 3-4 are what can make it a dominating defense or just another also ran. The roles of the ILB and OLB really quite different then any other scheme. The OLB’s are more like a right side DE in the 4-3 then the OLB in the […]
Packers News: Nick Perry fined $15k for hit on Luck
In the latest edition of players getting fined for playing football, Packers linebacker Nick Perry was fined $15,000 for his hit on Colts quarterback Andrew Luck this past Sunday. According to Rob Demovsky of the Green Bay Press-Gazette, Perry plans to appeal the fine. On the play, the official referred to Luck as a “defenseless […]
Packers LB Terrell Manning Battled Health Issues Throughout Camp
Packers rookie linebacker Terrell Manning had a mysteriously quiet training camp. Although Manning was just a fifth-round pick in the 2012 NFL Draft, many draft experts had drafted rated much higher than where he ultimately came off the board–ESPN tabbed Manning the tenth-best outside linebacker of the 2012 draft class. Fast forward to the summer, […]