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Re: Green Bay sucks (4.12.11 - 9.10.15)
By: packrat Date: August 3, 2011, 9:41 am
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Evaluating Packers 3 QBs:
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Re: Green Bay sucks (4.12.11 - 9.10.15)
By: packrat Date: August 3, 2011, 9:45 am
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Packer TEs:
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Re: Green Bay sucks (4.12.11 - 9.10.15)
By: packrat Date: August 3, 2011, 6:44 pm
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Finley's double catch:
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Re: Green Bay sucks (4.12.11 - 9.10.15)
By: packrat Date: August 5, 2011, 10:29 am
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Green Bay - Davon House didn't get a rookie orientation from the
league, thanks to the lockout. He hasn't even seen the inside of
Lambeau Field yet, thanks to the crash course this training camp
has been.
He's been thrown out there and hasn't used any of it as an
excuse not to make plays.
At practice Wednesday night, the 6-foot, 195-pound Green Bay
Packers rookie defensive back made the right read, shot his gap
as fast as he could and ended up breaking up a pass from Aaron
Rodgers to Greg Jennings in the end zone. And Thursday, he kept
it up with an interception on one tipped pass.
He's shown his physical ability by shedding blockers.
"I'm out there playing fast," House said.
That's fairly remarkable on a field crowded with star
cornerbacks. House has taken coaching well. When cornerbacks
coach Joe Whitt Jr. told him to lower his stance, he did. When
Charles Woodson and Tramon Williams, who also hails from the
Western Athletic Conference - give advice, he's listening.
"I'm asking Al the questions I can ask," House said.
Perhaps another reason House is off to a good start is because
he is experienced as a quick learner. He played in three
different defenses for three different defensive coaches at New
Mexico State, from man to zone to a combination of the two.
"That made me learn defenses a lot faster and techniques a lot
faster," House said. "Three defenses in college in three years
was crazy."
During the lockout, he worked out on his own the best he could,
but there was no guidance or direction other rookies got in past
seasons. Once the lockout was lifted, House just asked director
of player development Rob Davis for tips on finding a place to
live, his main concern.
Then he devoted all his energy to get caught up in football.
"When I got here, I wasn't prepared for all this - but I didn't
have much to work with," House said. "Now I'm a small fish in a
big pond.
"I mean, I feel like I belong. But I feel like I start making
plays, people will start noticing me more. It would make me fit
in more."
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Re: Green Bay sucks (4.12.11 - 9.10.15)
By: packrat Date: August 5, 2011, 6:46 pm
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Starks Looks Bigger, Badder, Better
RB James Starks (Nelson Chenault/USP) By Bill Huber
packwriter2002@yahoo.com
Date: Aug 5, 2011
Running back James Starks is bringing a new-and-improved body to
the Packers' talented backfield. Starks talks about what he did
in the offseason to explain what he did during Thursday night's
training camp practice
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Re: Green Bay sucks (4.12.11 - 9.10.15)
By: packrat Date: August 6, 2011, 11:30 am
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By Mike Spofford
Posted Aug 1, 2011
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If one Packers rookie jumped out on his first day as a pro in
pads, it was second-round draft pick Randall Cobb.
Cobb, a receiver and kick-returner from Kentucky, caught at
least a half-dozen passes in team (11-on-11) drills during
Monday night’s workout at Ray Nitschke Field.
Working with every quarterback on the roster, Cobb started his
impressive night by grabbing a couple of throws over the middle
from third-stringer Graham Harrell. He ended his night with a
leaping two-handed snag of an Aaron Rodgers bullet on a deep
crossing route in the final team period.
“Randall is everything physically we thought he would be,” Head
Coach Mike McCarthy said after practice. “Very bright,
bright-eyed, communicates very well and seems to be picking
things up very rapidly.”
Cobb is trying to learn all the receiver positions in the
offense rather than be slotted into one, and he admitted the
playbook was “huge” when he first saw it but, as he dug into it,
he began to recognize some things.
“It’s not really as bad as it looks,” Cobb said earlier on
Monday. “It’s just the terminology. I ran a lot of the same
plays and the same concepts in college. It’s just the
terminology that’s different.”
If there was one flaw to Cobb’s work on Monday, it was that he
went to the ground too many times, either as he was catching the
pass or afterward the catch, negating opportunities for yards
after the catch.
McCarthy feels that will get smoothed out the more Cobb works
with Rodgers and tries to become another reliable weapon in a
deep receiving stable that already includes Greg Jennings,
Donald Driver, Jordy Nelson and the newly re-signed James Jones,
who was in attendance watching from the sidelines...
<i>Remember this name.</i>
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Re: Green Bay sucks (4.12.11 - 9.10.15)
By: packrat Date: August 6, 2011, 11:50 am
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More Cobb:
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Re: Green Bay sucks (4.12.11 - 9.10.15)
By: packrat Date: August 8, 2011, 6:25 pm
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Shaky Smithson chooses GB becaue it's a small town.
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Re: Green Bay sucks (4.12.11 - 9.10.15)
By: packrat Date: August 8, 2011, 6:30 pm
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Brandian Ross:
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Re: Green Bay sucks (4.12.11 - 9.10.15)
By: packrat Date: August 9, 2011, 6:48 pm
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Missing Super Bowl part of motivation
By Tom Silverstein of the Journal Sentinel
Aug. 8, 2011 |
Green Bay - Long before Aaron Rodgers threw his first pass,
referee Walt Anderson flipped a coin and Christina Aguilera
botched the national anthem, Green Bay Packers linebacker Erik
Walden had an end zone at Cowboys Stadium all to himself.
With nary another player around and linebackers coach Kevin
Greene keeping a watchful eye over him, Walden ran sideline to
sideline to test an ankle sprain he had suffered in the NFC
Championship Game two weeks earlier. Heavily taped, Walden gave
it his best and then got the news from Greene.
He wasn't going to play in Super Bowl XLV.
"KG did a great job of just kind of calming me down and making
me see the big picture," Walden said, now six months later. "As
long as we win, I'll still get a ring. That's the main thing.
But that was tough; that was a tough pill to swallow."
It was tough because Walden came out of nowhere to secure the
right outside linebacker position and become a prime-time
performer for defensive coordinator Dom Capers in the playoffs.
Before he rolled his ankle on the messy Soldier Field turf, he
had amassed 31 tackles, four sacks, eight quarterback hits and a
forced fumble in the final four games.
As fulfilling as it was to help the Packers achieve their dream,
there was an empty spot in the pit of Walden's stomach left over
from not playing.
"That's why I've been working so hard to help get this team
back," he said. "Lord willing, hopefully, I can play this time."
Locked in a three-way battle with Frank Zombo and Brad Jones -
both of whom started games at the position before Walden took
over - Walden has been the one who has charged out of the gate
first.
Every practice he seems to make one physical play that sends
Greene into an apoplectic rush of celebration, usually resulting
in Walden getting slapped on the helmet or chest-bumped.
Physically more imposing than he was a year ago, Walden seems to
be taking it just fine.
"I saw him at the ring ceremony and I was like, 'Man you
swolled,' " inside linebacker Desmond Bishop said. "He
definitely got bigger and more powerful in the off-season. It
definitely shows."
Anyone who has watched practice tape can see that Walden can get
underneath the pads of an offensive tackle and jack him up on a
running play. He said he put 10 pounds on his 6-foot-2 frame and
greatly increased his upper body strength.
Signed Oct. 27 after being released by the Miami Dolphins,
Walden didn't have the luxury of learning what Greene wanted
from him over the course of an off-season or training camp. He
was a quick study when it came to the playbook but didn't really
start to come around until Zombo got hurt against Detroit Dec.
12.
Walden has a better idea of what Greene wants, and that's why he
hit the weight room hard in the off-season.
"He wants us to be physical," Walden said. "When you're not
being physical, there's a problem. What he's teaching us has
worked for him and I'm sure it will work for us. We just have to
make sure, especially as an outside linebacker, that we be
physical. There's no ways around it.
"That was kind of my approach to be more physical and set up
other things for me as far as pass rush and things of that
nature."
Walden wasn't sure until early July that he would be able to
play this way because the high ankle sprain he suffered against
the Bears was slow to heal. Tests were done again in the
off-season, but he was assured nothing was wrong structurally
and the ankle would heal on its own.
About the beginning of July, he was able to start running
without the ankle taped heavily.
The two things Walden holds over the other two linebackers is
strength and versatility. Zombo improved greatly dropping into
coverage and can rush the passer better than the other two, but
he's not as stout at the line of scrimmage. Jones plays with
good leverage at the line and also drops well into coverage, but
he hasn't shown much pass rush ability.
That's where the power comes in. Walden would like to get
opposing tackles worrying about his bull rush so he can counter
and slip around them. The power is the part that's noticeable
now.
"You can tell he was doing some good things in the off-season,"
guard T.J. Lang said. "Watching him on film, he's a good player.
He's a guy who sticks out. He's having a great camp so far."
Because it's a three-man race, Capers has the option of going
with just one or using all three. How he decides to use them in
the regular season will depend a lot on the opponent unless one
of the three just consistently outperforms the others.
"Each guy has his strengths and weaknesses," Capers said. "We
use so many different personnel groups that if certain guys have
their niche, we might fit them in different personnel groups.
We'll do a lot of different things with those guys."
Walden, like the others, would prefer not to come off the field,
but to do so he'll have to add a better pass rush to his game.
He did a fine job of dropping into coverage and spying the
quarterback, but Capers needs someone to replace end Cullen
Jenkins' ability to apply pressure.
"I feel like I really have a whole camp to develop," Walden
said. "Last year I had to struggle to learn the plays. I had to
do that in practice. Now I have a whole camp, a preseason to
work on my fundamentals and techniques, so I think that's going
to enhance my play a lot.
"I feel like it's going to be a great competitive battle and may
the best man win."
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