Exercise: Imagine pre-season didn't start yet. Make a list of the starters that would hurt the most our team if they are lost for the season.


Here's mine:

1. A. Rodgers
2. Bakthiari/Bulaga
3. S. Shields (I don't trust the others to cover the best WR)
4. E. Lacy
5. J. Nelson
6. R. Rodgers
7. R. Cobb
8. M.Crosby

I'm surprised only shields is from the defense, CM3, all the LBs,DLs, Safeties, CBs, they all rotate a lot and I think any of them can be lost without a huge impact in our season. I'm not sure if that speaks well or bad about our defense.

Luis.

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Jordy was #7 on Rodney's list.  

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I have Sitton in where Bakttiari is. The rest I agree with but I have Lacy 2nd...actually have Raji in my Top 7 instead of Bakhtiari. Shields would be a little further down my list, too.

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Losing Jordy hurts bad, but think of it this way.

Dropoff between Jordy and Cobb is low
Dropoff between Cobb and Adams, with what we know from Adams last year is Moderate. Potential for Adams to turn that into low.
Dropoff between what we know about Adams to what we know about Montgomery is low

Issue isn't so much that there's a huge dropoff beneath Jordy on the depthchart (and beneath cobb, etc etc etc) since the roster is extremely deep in that position, but that unless if Adams turns in a 2014 Cobb performance, it puts pressure on everyone underneath by not having the one-two Cobb-Jordy punch. Having Cobb-Jordy made it easier on everyone else.

Next man up. Hope these young guys pull through.

Walter Football has Jordy Nelson as the 4th most overrated player in the NFL.  

I bet most opponents didn't overrate him - more like they thought they could handle him and couldn't.

A lot of names mentioned in just these few posts who NO WAY would be on my list. Crosby, for example, kickers who are 95%, maybe even 100% of Crosby's quality are all over the place looking for teams to sign with, and many more will be cut soon. Look at Pittsburgh when Suisham went down. Raji? Do I even need to say anything hahahaha? Shields is good, but we are about as loaded at Corner as we are at WR. And Richard Rodgers? Arguably Quarless is better.

My List: - Everybody's #1 is Aaron Rodgers.

2. Sitton
3. Clay Matthews - People shouldn't be so negative about him.
4. Lacy - If you assume we should have a power runner, there is none better.
5. Shields - even if we do have good replacements
6. Bulaga/Bakhtiari - just because we have so little backing them up; They, Bakhtiari especially, are not that special.
7. Daniels - arguably the ONLY quality D Lineman
8. Peppers - Even in old age and with a lot of decent backups, he is still unique and great.
9. Barrington - Look at ILB before he stepped up - now it's better.
10.Any other O Lineman - Continuity there more than any other position is important to success, plus, we have a lot of real question marks for backups.

Edit: oops I forgot Nelson and Cobb - probably about 7 to 10.

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1: Aaron Rodgers
2: Bakhtiari/Bulaga
3: Cobb
4: Richard Rodgers
5: Clay Matthews
6: Eddie Lacy
7: Any of the Dbacks

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