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8 years ago

Even without five vital defensive starters, the Packers managed to chalk one up in the "W" column on Sunday against the Lions. The scoreboard at halftime told one story that would be headlined 31-10, and the scoreboard by the end of the game read a frightening 34-27. A clear second-half tilt that was in favor of the visiting team.
Matthew Stafford and his troop gashed the Packers' secondary that was without the two leaders of their respective groups, Sam Shields (concussion) and Morgan Burnett (back). It goes without saying, even with those two manning down their assignments, the Packers' defensive backs have been less than optimal.


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It's kind of funny. No matter when GB gets the bye someone is saying it came at the right time.
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Zero2Cool
8 years ago

It's kind of funny. No matter when GB gets the bye someone is saying it came at the right time.

Originally Posted by: wpr 



Even when the Packers go into a BYE completely healthy, the team says it's a great time to have the BYE so they can build on the momentum in the class room and prepare to go on a hot streak to finish the season.

I assure you there are absolutely no teams that want their BYE week before the middle of the season.
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nerdmann
8 years ago
They've been trying to reduce injuries for a decade now.
“Winning is not a sometime thing, it is an all the time thing. You don't do things right once in a while…you do them right all the time.”
Zero2Cool
8 years ago

They've been trying to reduce injuries for a decade now.

Originally Posted by: nerdmann 



Routinely we see players coming off a "hold out" come back and have a soft tissue injury (e.g. hamstring) and this is because of the lack of conditioning and gradual introduction into a physical contact sport. The same applies when players are not playing in the exhibition season and then suddenly are full go for the season. You go from no contact (or little contact) to full bore physicality of an NFL game. Your body needs to gradually increase conditioning of those hits and physicality.

Maybe a better example is when you work out, you always are instructed to do a warm up, right? That's so you don't pull muscles or injure yourself. Well, when players aren't allowed to hit in practice or exhibition games, that's their warm up and then the regular season games are the actual workout.

Why do you think you see so many more injuries the first six weeks of the season than you do the final six?
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8 years ago

Even when the Packers go into a BYE completely healthy, the team says it's a great time to have the BYE so they can build on the momentum in the class room and prepare to go on a hot streak to finish the season.

I assure you there are absolutely no teams that want their BYE week before the middle of the season.

Originally Posted by: Zero2Cool 



I agree. Bye before week 7 or 8 is horrible.
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beast
8 years ago
Will all the talk about the NFL wanting to expand to 18 game season (basically said they are going to do it, when they can get the TV revenue for extra games) and players (rightfully) complaining about playing on Thursdays after playing on Sunday... I have not figured out why they haven't simply added another bye week for every team.

Think about it, adding a 2nd bye week and making a rule that says every team must have a bye week before their Thursday Night game... so instead of one short week, and one long week, you now have two long weeks, so players get to rest more. And instead of a 17 week schedule (which includes 17 weeks of regular season weeks of TV revenue) the NFL now gets 18 weeks of TV revenue because TV is paying by the weeks not the games.

The only conflict I see with this is players complaining that they have to be in their NFL city an extra week (boo hoo... you get paid millions, you can stand an extra week of rest in your NFL city) but even then... there is a possible solution... get rid of a preseason week (assuming TV/fan revenue for the preseason is less than TV revenue for the regular season... which I could be complete wrong about, which is why I said possible solution).

But why not get extra regular season TV revenue weeks, with equal number of games by giving more bye weeks? In theory it's safer by giving players more rest time... especially if you put it before their Thursday night games. Also make the early or late bye weeks more fair as they would probably spread them out some.

Also it MIGHT free up the schedules a little more... meaning the schedules would be easier to make now that teams sharing stadiums (ie. New Jersey... yes NEW JERSEY!!!! ... they ain't in New York) now that the teams sharing stadiums will have another bye week to make scheduling even easier (though might not always be connected with Thursday).

Just a thought/question/rant.
Just seems like both sides MIGHT be in favor of something like that... of course maybe they're been too busy going after each other to think about ideas that they both might agree on.
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Zero2Cool
8 years ago

I have not figured out why they haven't simply added another bye week for every team.

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I believe in 1993 they had two BYE weeks. I hated it. I never want it back.
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beast
8 years ago

I believe in 1993 they had two BYE weeks. I hated it. I never want it back.

Originally Posted by: Zero2Cool 



True... but do you hate it because it had two bye weeks... of because 1993 was the year of the silver and blue... as it's the last time (I assume) that the Lions won the division and the Cowboys won the Super Bowl? And while the Packers went 2-6 in the division...


Also speaking of things we hate... I HATE the draft format... I loved the 3-4 format with 3 rounds on Saturday and 4 on Sunday... get up early in the morning and that weekend was draft weekend.

Now you got to wait all day into the night and you only get one pick on the first day. I kinda want them to trade their 1st round pick for more 2nd picks... then again, that also might be because Ted Thompson seems to do better with 2nd round picks than 1st round picks.
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8 years ago
Beast no matter if it is 1 or 2 bye weeks I have been saying that teams who play on Th should have their bye the week before. Those teams that play in London should get their bye the week after. If a team does have either of those options then the week after a Monday nite game. Also no two teams in the same division should have the same bye. Unless they play ea other on Th.
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Cheesey
8 years ago
Injuries happen to ALL teams at some point in the season.
For us, the bye this week ended up being a good thing. A chance to hopefully get some guys healthy.
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