The NFL has now unveiled the Green Bay Packers’ preseason opponents, with the weekend dates they’ll be playing. We’ll know the exact dates when the NFL announces the complete 2016 schedule later this month but you’ll find the opponents inside.
The NFL draft is the gift that keeps on giving in Green Bay. It affects the future, to be sure, while also having a terrific impact on the present. There are several identifiable traits among Super Bowl champs. They have an exceptional head coach. They are fueled either by a great quarterback, a suffocating defense, or both.
While driving a serpentine road to the remote Village of Hana on the island of Maui, we spotted a home with this sign proudly displayed in its front yard. Packers fans are everywhere. They are truly the world’s team! Go Pack Go!
Packers’ GM Ted Thompson signed former St. Louis Rams tight end Jared Cook to a one-year deal reportedly worth $3.6 million. Clearly, head coach Mike McCarthy is on board. Earlier in the offseason McCarthy offered a fairly impassioned statement of the obvious: The Packers’ offense lacked the big-bodied playmaker to establish control of the middle of the field.
The prevailing presumption is that the Packers will be better this season than last. That is based on Green Bay’s stellar record under GM Ted Thompson, who has presided over one of the NFL’s most consistent, successful teams for more than a decade. Fans don’t merely hope their Packers will be in the postseason. They have come to expect it.
That shot heard ‘round the NFL marked the beginning of the free agent signing period, aka the slow season in Green Bay. The Packers don’t participate in free agency. They observe it. They watch it unfold. They see teams like Houston overpay quarterbacks like Brock Osweiler and they shake their heads. The draft-and-develop approach never looked better, especially when compared with overpay-and-under perform, which happens in free agency.
They say it’s better to be good than lucky. Damarious Randall is both. The Packers’ promising second-year cornerback had a brush with Scottsdale, Ariz., police last week that nearly changed his outlook on the upcoming NFL season.
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Bart Starr was one of my idols growing up. He still is. That’s why it was difficult to read Cherry Starr’s recent revelation that her husband’s chronic back pain arose from a barbaric hazing ritual at Alabama. Cherry told AL.com that “members of Alabama’s A-Club would line up with a big paddle with holes drilled in it and it actually injured his back.”
The Packers’ draft-and-develop philosophy under GM Ted Thompson and head coach Mike McCarthy has produced one of the league’s top teams in the past decade. Still, criticism comes quickly to a fan base that is knowledgeable, passionate and teeming with unsolicited but well-intentioned suggestions.
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