McCarthy has made it a priority to set get his starting offensive line settled as soon as possible to promote the early-season cohesion the unit line has lacked in his previous years, so theres a good chance hell determine his starters at right tackle and center for this weeks dress-rehearsal game at Arizona. The early returns suggest this will be the best group of linemen hes had to start a season.

I think our line is good, General Manager Ted Thompson said Sunday. To be successful in this league, you have to be able to run the ball. Time will tell. Certainly the coaches have done a good job getting the guys ready.

The two decisions McCarthy and his offensive coaches face are whether to start Jason Spitz or Scott Wells at center which in turn will determine whether Spitz or Josh Sitton starts at right guard and whether Allen Barbre or Breno Giacomini starts at right tackle.

The best guess after three weeks of camp is that Spitz will be the center, though Wells has had a good training camp despite coming off a serious shoulder injury last year.

"Green Bay Press Gazette" wrote:

Not so fast Bozz. Babre will be left tackle,

"DakotaT" wrote:

"DakotaT" wrote:

Greg_A_Bedard: Spitz sitton and barbre won starting jobs
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Twitter Greg_A_Bedard: Flynn is questionable this week. Matthews likely for Titans
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Twitter Greg_A_Bedard: McCarthy: "Scott Wells has graded out at a very high level, Scott's probably one of our top three or four linemen as far as grading out...
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Twitter Greg_A_Bedard: ....that was a very difficult situation as far as determining which starter you go with because Scott has played a lot of football here."
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Twitter Greg_A_Bedard: Scott's a professional. I didn't expect him to be excited about it and he was not. But we personally talked one on one at length about it.
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Twitter Greg_A_Bedard: I just think (Giacominin's) coming on, we just think (Barbre's) further ahead and that's why we made the decision (at RT).
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Twitter Greg_A_Bedard: "(Sitton's) a physical player on that right side and that's probably the reason why we did go with him."
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Twitter Greg_A_Bedard: Oh, and expect Brady Poppinga to be the opening-day starter at ROLB. He's like a cockroach. He survives anything. #packers
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Twitter Greg_A_Bedard: The starting o-line is: LT Clifton, LG Colledge, C Spitz, RG Sitton, RT Barbre. #packers