The Packers have 7 WR on the roster and Aaron Rodgers only throws to Jordy Nelson and Randall Cobb 80% (guessing) of the time, so cut Jared Abbrederis since he's not getting any action and sign a running back.


But, what running back?


In addition to what I said about cutting Jared since he's not being used anyway, this little tweet isn't a good sign. You can't let the other team out muscle you. Legal or not.

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That's fucked up. I like Abby.

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So illegal contact at the top of the route that knocks him down deserves that player to be cut? ;)

But if that is the criteria, then we better get the scissors out... because we got alot of roster trimming to do.

The Packers need more players that can get open via a route verses more sticks in the mud that don't. Adams struggled much of the day to get off the line... so did Cobb. Nelson isn't fully back yet, like he doesn't trust that knee yet. I think we need to keep as many options as we can at WR... Justin Perillo is not a viable option to be split out at all. Rodgers either.

But yes, it is laughable that a Pro team has one back available prior to any game... and not a healthy one at that.

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If Starks just had surgery, I think we would be better off putting him in IR to open the spot for another RB.

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Damn dude. I mistakenly read that he WAS cut. lol

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I think it depends on what type of surgery and what then normal recovery time is...

That being said, the Packers have too many injured guys that are taking up roster spots but not playing... someone needs to go to the IR. If that's Shields, Starks, Cook or whom ever... then so be it... but you can only carry so many injured players. I'm not sure... are 46 of the Packers 53 players even going to be healthy enough to play? 11 players didn't practice.

Also I've been saying this for years, but they need to open up returning from IR to all or none... this only one player per year is BS. Needs to be all or none. Wait so many weeks and if they're healthy, then they can return.

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I think the point is that the Packers are not utilizing Abby and even in cases where a WR has gone down, they've put Davis in instead. He's not even going to get plugged in if there's an injury. Right now we're down to Lacy and Rip, and Lacy is banged up and could stand to have his carries limited. Starks was a good, fast(er) counterpart to Lacy, right now we don't have that. Plugging in Monty isn't going to do it. We need another RB right now more than we need another WR.

Then again, this is crazyland and for all we know we'll lose two WRs next week and then Abby will have a 100+ yard game while Lacy is perfectly fine. Just going off the info I have right now.

That brings up another point... some of the reason the Packers passing game is struggling is because Rodgers won't throw it until he sees and knows that you got open... he's not throwing before the break trusting WRs, he's waiting to see it... which ruins some of the timing of when guys get open via good route running and QBs have to throw it as the WR is making their cut/break.

Also since the time of like, Al Harris leaving and/or Richard Sherman becoming a good player... the Packers WRs have struggled a lot against physical DBs... it's like the WRs don't ever practice against physical DBs, so they no longer know how to beat them, and then the Packers are complaining about PI when the refs are playing loose.

The Packers probably need to practice the refs being extremely offensive friendly and defensive friendly on different days... and the coaches need to let players know... they need to figure out how the refs are calling and play to that standard.

And some days, they need to let the DBs maul the WRs some days so they figure out how in the hell to handle that (and hopefully still make plays) and they need to get extremely tight calling everything on the defense other days to get the DBs back and so hopefully they know how to back off when the refs are calling it tight (well that or the Sherman approach to keep doing it, because the refs are going to get tried of calling PI sooner or later and you need to learn how to get away with it by doing it smartly (like how at times LT Bak has held a lot and not got called because it does it smartly).

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Exactly right Beast! The balls are not just often inaccurate, they're often not being delivered in rhythm. This will increase the # of drops nd makes guys lok like they;re covered when they're not. Jordy is wondering where his QB went.

Back during TC I was mad as could be that there was talk of keeping 7 WRs. It's stupid. You can't utilize 7 WRs. Keeping more than 5 is a wasted roster space because you can't even use 5 WRs effectively.

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