Is it smart/best to just rest our starters? Let em play a half? Or not at all?

The play a half nonsense seems weird if you ask me. Either play em or dont.

I suppose if we are set to play Arizona in the first round, then maybe get a few reps to get a good look at what to expect. But then maybe we're better off not giving them any of our looks.

I say put backups in for the whole game. Why risk injury for a meaningless game? I have yet to hear a good argument.

Because we don't know any of the seeds, I think we should play this game to win. Pickett and Clifton can sit out and that's it.

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Only for injury in the 1st half. Once we hit the 2nd half it would depend on the game.

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It depends, quite interestingly, if the vikings win or loose at 12PM. If they win, we automatically play the cardinals meaning we don't want to give away too much information.

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McCarthy on Sunday's game:

rest the players who need to rest like barnett and who are getting back or working with little-middle injuries...let play a decent quantity of snaps the starters so they dont lose con the rhitm or the confidence...give a chance to play to that player like flynn, wynn, bush, underwood, bell....

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i think our starters need to play, and play hard. I would be disappointed if they didn't, and I'm sure the Cardinals will do so as well, seeing as how they were able to build the momentum to make it to the SB last year by playing with their backs against the wall every single week.

That being said, I think the right thing to do, for both the Packers and Cardinals, is to give every ounce of effort they can muster... with a vanilla gameplan. Give it all you've got, but don't give up anything.

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The interesting thing is, if Arizona win, they have a chance at getting a bye week. So it's very well possible that game is actually not meaningless at all, given those comments from McCarthy if they're true.

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I say give a heavy dose of Desmond Bishop 🙂.

Also, I don't know if it's a good idea to rest Clifton or not. Sure, it's fine if we sit Rodgers as well, but don't let Rodgers out there with out his starting left tackle.

Get some of the reserves some reps and get them prepared for the playoffs.

I have a feeling we will see a lot of people like Bishop, Havner, Obiozor, Lang, etc. I think it will be good though.

I just don't want the starters to play the whole game and risk injury. Hopefully we don't have anything to play for. I have to root for the Vikings so that we DO play the Cardinals in the playoffs. I don't feel like going to Philly or Minny in the first round.

The main guy that we need to get in and get out is Charles Woodson. I'm not going to say anything speculating that because I don't want to jinx.

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