starks had a couple good games, and thats it. I’ll admit he has quite a bit of promise, but to crown him now is a little premature.

I just hope the coaches give the best player the job—regardless of age or salary. Luckily we have MM and TT at the helm who have a pretty good track record of evaluating talent.

James Starks – much stronger on contact. Can break tackles, and with our offense focused on passing mainly, we need a back like him that gets whatever yardage he can, and always falls forward.

Pluses: Hands, blitz pickup, ruggedness, vision, ball-security.

Minuses: Needs to protect his body better (with some carefully-placed bulk), or he won’t hold up, even though he is still very young.
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Ryan Grant – While he doesn’t have a terrible amount of mileage on his tires, he has been oft-injured. The clincher is that he seems virtually incapable of breaking leg tackles, and always seems to get tripped up in traffic.

Pluses: straight-line speed, burst, ball-security.

Minuses: Lacks wiggle, and has hands of stone. Major ankle injury (and subsequent surgery) last year is a concern for a soon-to-be 29-year-old RB.
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The choice is clear…

James Starks.

June Jones has been at SMU for the past several years.

Source: http://www.spotrac.com/nfl/green-bay-packers/

Uhhh…. No offense, but I seriously doubt Green will beat out Grant or Starks. Don’t get me wrong, he has good abilities, but what you can expect from him is a short-yardage back and possibly a 3rd-down back. Which is kind of a sick combination….. If he shows good ability with blitz pick-up, it would be awfully hard to adequately deploy a D for 3rd-short with him in the backfield. But he really hasn’t displayed the vision or instincts to run outside the tackles, making him less than ideal for every-down work.

Personally, I like Grant, especially since that little episode with the car company before the Brewers game. I hope he gets his job back, at least for a season or two. However, if he does, and Green fills the short-yardage role, it would be a real bummer to see Kuhn squeezed out.

It really pisses me off to see the Packers having these “problems”…..

Brandon Jackson said that this was his last ride in Green Bay!!!!!!!!!!!

Why is he re-signing????

Your colleague MDS said this on Jan. 14, 2011.

“‘I enjoyed my opportunities here,’ Jackson told the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. ‘And I really don’t know what’s going to happen. But if it’s here, hey, I’m glad to be here. If it’s somewhere else, then I’ll take it somewhere else.’

Jackson becomes a free agent this offseason, and he says the Packers have said nothing to him about a new contract.”

Rosenthal, learn how to do your homework because your job is easy because your crap is all relied on Google!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

One thing is for sure, the Pack will have a strong stable of RB’s next year with Grant, Starks, Green, and hopefully John Kuhn…

Starks showed some promise, but he did not do enough to even be considered the 1st string RB yet. What flashes he did show look like he may have the potential to be better then Grant but too few games to judge him effectively.

My concern is what this means about Kuhn. He was a fan favorite guy who played RB when he was really more of a FB. His versatility is what let him make the team, if they decide to keep Jackson along with the 3rd round pick, Starks, and Grant they might opt for a more pure fullback which would kind of suck. (I like Kuhn)

As a die hard Packer fan I can say that Ryan Grant sucks. Starks broke tackles and brought explosiveness that Grant never did. That all being said, Green will be the starter by week 4. Green is the most “talented” back on the roster and he will be great for us.

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Keep your lack of football knowledge to yourself, you’re embarrassing the rest of Packerdom.

First, Grant is a one cut runner. Always has been, always will be. 1200 yards churned out the hard way is nothing to sneeze at. Grant was originally brought in when the Packers tried to implement the ZBS. He’s a workhorse.

Starks has some more shake to him and really showed up for a kid that didn’t play at all in the first half of the season.

Green will be nothing more than a third down back, ST returner. He is a incredible receiver for a big guy and his yards at Hawaii are mirage due to June Jones run and shoot offense. Teach him how to proper pick up the blitz and he will do more damage in the passing game than the running game.

I wish we had more sucky 1200 yard per season rushers like Grant.

How can you watch Grant and Starks run and conclude that Grant has more power than Starks? Grant does not break tackles very often and usually goes down on first contact, whereas Starks hardly ever goes down from the first hit and does break tackles.

I love my fellow Packer Fans but those two comments are not based on the facts. Sorry.

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You’re right—my claim of Grant’s better power was not evidence backing, per se; I was merely going off of what I remember seeing, which is relatively subjective.

Both backs seem to be the type who always fall forward—getting those extra 1 or 2 yards at the end of a run. I just remember Starks going down on some breakaways that were very similar to ones that Grant has taken to the house. Then again the sample size on Stark’s runs is too small to really make a valid conclusion as to who is more powerful thus far.

How can you watch Grant and Starks run and conclude that Grant has more power than Starks? Grant does not break tackles very often and usually goes down on first contact, whereas Starks hardly ever goes down from the first hit and does break tackles.

I love my fellow Packer Fans but those two comments are not based on the facts. Sorry.

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This is really an ignorant thing to say. You don’t know what each year will bring and what young team will break out. They will contend for the next 5 but to say if they don’t win 3 in a row, something that hasn’t been done since the Packers of the 60s, it will only be due to a lack of desire is just plain dumb.

That being said—a Grant + Starks 1-2 punch is still light years ahead of where we were when they were both off the active roster last year. Jackson + Kuhn just doesn’t get the job done.