Comments on: Packers shorten practice due to injuries

By: esotericmindguy

esotericmindguy — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 03:01:25 +0000

Onbucky, It’s the preseason, who gives a sh*t of they play. If it were regular season I’m sure most these guys would be playing.

By: onbucky96

onbucky96 — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 22:05:54 +0000

Damn these guys r fragile. Every year GB gets banged up, early AND often. What is the training staff for? Get healthy and back on the field.

By: jjblueflames

jjblueflames — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 18:04:28 +0000

“he still needs to put 11 guys on the field for every snap during the four preseason games.” Not true Florio … NFL rules permit a team to play with less than 11 players on the field. I would doubt McCarthy or any coach would ever field less than a full team, but I just can’t let your pithy statements at the end of every story go unchecked.

By: bringbacktheflex

bringbacktheflex — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 14:59:25 +0000

3 reasons for the additional injuries all teams are having this off-season:

1) Extra attention paid to concussions. Guys used to get their bell rung and keep playing. Now they sit out a week or more.

2) Lack of contact and pad wearing. If this was boxing you wouldn’t even think of preparing for a boxing match without hard sparring and getting hit. You can’t have an off-season of tippy-tap walkthroughs and then suddenly throw on the pads and not get guys hurt.

3) Players don’t wear the full compliment of pads. Players want to be fast, so they drop the thigh pads, the knee pads, the hip pads, rib pads, etc. The result is a lot of knee contusions and thigh bruises and rib bruises. The NFL or teams need to extend the required padding.

By: darquarious

darquarious — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 13:45:43 +0000

When is logic going to prevail and the pre-season is cut down to 2 games? Even 1 is enough.

These guys don’t do anything in most of them anyway, except the 3rd one.

Why injure more guys for nothing? Well of course it’s more $ to the teams, so there’s your answer.

Always follow the $.

Why are there thousands of assault rifles, AK47′s etc. sold, on the streets despite they being nothing more than killing machines? Of course, $$$$$.

Nobody hunts deer or ducks with AK47′s.

By: Soulman45

Soulman45 — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 12:57:30 +0000

They have a old folks home here I am in it he can stop by and pick a few of us up.

By: pmd5319

pmd5319 — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 12:57:07 +0000

If you lose 10% of 90, you’re still at 81 which is still more than you could bring to camp in previous years. Hope McCarthy can find 11 healthy guys out of his 81 available.