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Re: Green Bay sucks (4.12.11 - 9.10.15)
By: 46 Date: April 20, 2011, 8:41 pm
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Hey! Where's Bob? He didn't make it over? We got stiffed.....by
Bob? WTF?
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Re: Green Bay sucks (4.12.11 - 9.10.15)
By: Keysbear Date: April 20, 2011, 10:49 pm
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[quote author=46 link=topic=44.msg2486#msg2486 date=1303350075]
Hey! Where's Bob? He didn't make it over? We got stiffed.....by
Bob? WTF?
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He probably keeps spelling the site name wrong
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Re: Green Bay sucks (4.12.11 - 9.10.15)
By: packrat Date: April 21, 2011, 10:19 am
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LOL.
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Re: Green Bay sucks (4.12.11 - 9.10.15)
By: packrat Date: April 21, 2011, 10:20 am
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By Brian Carriveau on Apr 14, 2011 with 0 Comments
University of Wisconsin offensive lineman Bill Nagy might not
get the attention of fellow Badgers linemates Gabe Carimi and
John Moffitt, but that doesn't make him any less of an NFL
prospect.
"I don't feel overshadowed at all," Nagy told Cheesehead TV.
"Those guys had great careers here. Those are two of my best
friends, so I'm not jealous or anything of them. That's cool
that they get to do [the NFL Combine] and everything. I'm just
really focused on just bettering myself."
Nagy figures to be a late-round draft prospect or an undrafted
free agent type. But he feels that after his pro day workout
last month, he'll be getting more attention from NFL teams.
With Packers general manager Ted Thompson, head coach Mike
McCarthy and assistant director of college scouting Shaun Herock
in attendance that day, Nagy took it upon himself to put a face
to a name.
"I shook some of their hands, introduced myself to some of
them," said Nagy.
Among the more impressive numbers Nagy put up on March 9 was his
vertical jump, which reportedly measured in at 30.5 inches.
That height would have put him in the upper echelon of offensive
lineman at the NFL Combine and displayed his athleticism to all
the scouts and coaches watching, including Pittsburgh Steelers
head coach Mike Tomlin and Chicago Bears assistants Mike Tice
and Mike Martz.
"I think I bring athleticism to the offensive line, and I take a
lot of pride in the mental aspect as well," said Nagy. "I feel
like I'm a pretty smart guy and don't make many mental errors. I
feel like those are some of my strengths."
Despite being primarily an interior offensive lineman, there's
perhaps no better example of Nagy's athleticism than the two
consecutive games he started at tight end in Wisconsin's jumbo
package in wins against Minnesota and then no. 1 ranked Ohio
State last season.
It was a season in which Nagy started eight games for the
Badgers, helped them become co-conference champions, earn a trip
to the Rose Bowl and was named honorable mention All-Big Ten by
the league coaches.
As a player that's started at both guard and center throughout
his college career, Nagy has recently been working on improving
his game with former NFL offensive lineman and two-time Pro
Bowler LeCharles Bentley.
"I was working out with LeCharles Bentley leading up to
[Wisconsin's pro day], doing some offensive line stuff," said
Nagy. "I was just talking, watching film with him, just learning
all sorts of new stuff. And the cool thing that he said, he said
there are guys that have been in the league for 10 years and
they're still like, 'Man, I've got to work on this. I've got to
work on that.'
"So it's always a process of trying to better your game, try to
learn new things, just keep really doing well, sharpening the
trade I guess you could say."
The NFL Draft is exactly two weeks from today, beginning on
Thursday Apr. 28 and concluding on Saturday Apr. 30.
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Re: Green Bay sucks (4.12.11 - 9.10.15)
By: Keysbear Date: April 21, 2011, 10:31 am
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interesting that bot Tice and martz were at his workout
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Re: Green Bay sucks (4.12.11 - 9.10.15)
By: packrat Date: April 21, 2011, 11:06 am
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Moffit may be a fit for the Bears. UW OL players usually fair
pretty well in the NFL.
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Re: Green Bay sucks (4.12.11 - 9.10.15)
By: guest118 Date: April 26, 2011, 4:41 pm
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Hey! You guys missed me!!! I can speeellll....I clearly can not
type. I need to get my admin to type these! Ha!
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Re: Green Bay sucks (4.12.11 - 9.10.15)
By: packrat Date: April 27, 2011, 10:11 am
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I don't expect to see GB draft anyone on day one. Odds seem
overwhelming that they will trade down from #32.
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Re: Green Bay sucks (4.12.11 - 9.10.15)
By: packrat Date: April 29, 2011, 3:34 pm
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e-mail print By Bob McGinn of the Journal Sentinel
April 29, 2011 |(98) Comments
Excited: 92% Disappointed: 8% Total Responses: 7686
TOM SILVERSTEIN:
Green Bay — Making draft choices such as Mississippi State's
Derek Sherrod are how top National Football League organizations
stay on top for the long haul.
Twelve years after the Green Bay Packers drafted left tackle
Chad Clifton with the 44th overall pick, the Packers landed his
heir apparent Thursday night with the 32nd and final selection
of the first round.
"I hope he's as good as Chad Clifton in terms of pass setting
and doing what we want him to do," general manager Ted Thompson
said. "We'll see. We're going to give him a chance to play,
though."
Sherrod, 6 feet 5½ inches and 315 pounds, is a three-year
starter at left tackle in the Southeastern Conference just as
Clifton was a four-year starter in the SEC for Tennessee.
Besides similar body types, personnel people said there are also
similarities how Sherrod played compared to how the 34-year-old
Clifton has played for 11 seasons in Green Bay.
Sherrod is regarded as more of an athletic player than a power
player. By style, he probably fits better as a left tackle.
"He plays with good balance and base," Thompson said. "Hard to
knock off his feet. He has ability to run block and cross over
to pass block. We think he has a chance to be a complete
player."
Somewhat surprisingly, Sherrod was the sixth tackle to be taken,
although the Packers had him ranked several rungs higher. When
Sherrod fell to Green Bay, Thompson said the mood in the draft
room was jubilant.
"We were pretty happy," he said. "I feel OK. If you can get a
quality big man I think you always lean that way."
Sherrod's bid to play early in his career and become a long-term
player will be enhanced by his intelligence. He graduated,
earned a 3.54-grade point average and scored 25 on the
50-question Wonderlic intelligence test.
That gives him the edge on Clifton, who has always required
extra repetitions throughout his career as one of the most
gifted pass blockers in the business.
When the Packers get back to playing football, the assumption is
that Clifton will be at left tackle, Bulaga will be at right
tackle and Sherrod will be stationed behind Clifton with the
capability of playing both sides.
"I think either he or Bryan could play left tackle," said
Thompson. "We'll kind of see. It just works itself out."
Thompson said he wouldn't rate Sherrod as a better athlete than
Bulaga or Bulaga as a stronger player than Sherrod. On the bench
press, Sherrod came up short with just 23 reps.
"We were surprised Bryan was there (23) where he was last year
and we were kind of surprised Derek was still there," Thompson
said.
They say the best time for a team to draft a left tackle is when
they don't need one. The Packers didn't plan to start Bulaga as
a rookie but when Mark Tauscher was injured he was there to
offer solid performance at right tackle on a Super Bowl
champion. Now the hope is that Sherrod can do the same if the
oft-injured Clifton were to go down.
"I hope he's a 10-year player," said Thompson. "But I don't know
if I'll be here then."
The selection of Sherrod undoubtedly means that T.J. Lang will
play guard in his third season. He and Nick McDonald are
expected to compete for the No. 1 job at left guard even if
Daryn Colledge is resigned.
Marshall Newhouse, a fifth-round pick in 2010, might have the
feet for left tackle and will go to camp as the No. 4 tackle.
Tauscher almost certainly will not return.
Of the six top tackles, Sherrod's arm length of 35 3/8 inches
ranked third longest and are about 2 inches longer than
Bulaga's. His size-11 hands tied with Colorado's Nate Solder as
the largest.
"He's a big, long guy," said Thompson. "I guess the other guys
that took a left tackle would say their guy is the best. We
liked how it turned out."
Thompson said he had some discussions from teams interested in
acquiring the 32nd pick but nothing was serious in the last hour
before the pick was made at 10:38 p.m.
"It never was close," he said. "There were some stupid deals
offered to us."
Thompson said he was not offered a first- or second-round pick
in 2012 in exchange for No. 32.
"Once it got to be our pick we were ready to go," he said.
Unlike the last two drafts, when the Packers traded up for
linebacker Clay Matthews (first round) and safety Morgan Burnett
(third round), they stood pat this time even though several
players they liked slipped down the board.
Alabama running back Mark Ingram, a player that friends of
Thompson said he had tremendous admiration for since last fall,
fell all the way to 28 before NFC rival New Orleans traded up
with New England to take him.
"I won't talk about that," Thompson said. "That player is on
another team."
Meanwhile, Thompson bypassed Clemson's Da'Quan Bowers even
though sources said the Packers had serious interest in him. The
word was that the Packers planned to use Bowers as a third-down
pass rusher while teaching him how to play right outside
linebacker opposite Matthews.
In time, the feeling was that the 285-pound Bowers might have
been able to bulk up and play end in the 3-4.
After the combine re-check two weeks ago, the doctors for just
three teams flunked Bowers because of his post-operative knee.
The Packers cleared Bowers, but there are degrees of clearance.
Having been stung by defensive tackle Justin Harrell and his
multitude of injuries, Thompson decided against taking an
explosive pass rusher in favor of the safer pick at perhaps an
even greater position of need.
Asked if Bowers was a fit for the Packers' 3-4, Thompson
replied, "It's part of the discussion we were having. It's
debatable. But he's a good football player."
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Re: Green Bay sucks (4.12.11 - 9.10.15)
By: packrat Date: April 30, 2011, 10:20 am
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I absolutely loved the picks of WR Randall Cobb and and RB Alex
Green. Mayock said of the GB and Pitt picks "the rich get
richer".
Cobb is a "do-it-all" player, including kick returner. He does
everything from catch and run to even throwing a pass. Very
"aware" player.
Green has the receiving talent of a WR coming out of the
backfield.
Both players fit perfectly for the Packers' offensive style.
Adding Green and Cobb to Finley and the present WR corps should
make the passing game very hard to stop.
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