Eleven members of the 2016 Packers are set to be unrestricted free agents in the near future, and a solid case could be made for why each one of them should return, except maybe for Christine Michael.
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Offensive lineman J.C. Tretter, defensive back Micah Hyde, and linebacker Nick Perry are three of the Packers higher priority free agents. All three are in the prime years of their career, and each has contributed in their own way to the Packers’ success. Assuming the Packers won’t bring all three back, who would you choose?
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Whether Dom Capers is to blame for the Packers’ defensive struggles or not is up for debate, but one thing is for certain about the 2016 roster: the money spent on defense largely went to waste.
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It’s always best to arm yourself with some handy anecdotes heading into any big game, and instead of waiting for the talking heads on your pregame show of choice to recite them for you, why not just read them here? Here’s everything you need to know heading into Sunday’s NFC Championship Game against the Falcons.
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Training camp and the preseason this year felt different. We wrote early on that 2016 felt like a "Super Bowl or bust" campaign. If the Packers were to make a deep playoff run or make the NFL's championship game, there were a number of players who needed to step up or circumstances that needed to break the Packers way.
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It takes an incredible season to make it all the way to the NFC Championship game, and it takes a great effort to make it beyond the conference title game to the Super Bowl. Fortunately, the Packers have had more than a few great performances in their conference championship games, so let’s take a look at a few of the best.
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On the surface, the Dallas Cowboys and Atlanta Falcons feel like similar teams. Both won their division and finished with superb records – Dallas at 13-3 and Atlanta at 11-5. Both teams run the ball well behind a talented offensive line and have a superstar, game-breaking wide receiver.
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Only four teams have scored 32 points or more in more games than this year’s Falcons, led by quarterback and MVP candidate Matt Ryan. That includes the Packers’ early season matchup against Atlanta, a game Green Bay narrowly lost 33-32.
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Aaron Rodgers will face off against the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday for the seventh time in his career. To say he’s been superb in his career against the Falcons is an understatement; he’s averaged 332 passing yards and has a sparkling 122.2 quarterback rating, his personal best against any other team in the NFC.
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Packers fans have unintentionally helped advance an unusual trend brewing in sports media throughout much of 2016 and now 2017: the Joe Buck redemption tour.
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It’s always best to arm yourself with some handy anecdotes heading into any big game, and instead of waiting for the talking heads on your pregame show of choice to recite them for you, why not just read them here? Here’s everything you need to know heading into Sunday’s playoff game in Dallas.
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From the first playoff appearance against Arizona in the 2009 Wild Card round to this week’s Divisional round versus Dallas, Rodgers has generally exceeded expectations when the lights are brightest.
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Yahoo.com’s very excellent Shutdown Corner blog caught my eye with a headline on Twitter today: “Two years ago today,” they wrote, “Cowboys WR Dez Bryant was part of one of the most controversial plays in NFL history.”
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Now that the regular season stats are final, let's take a look at where some of the Packers' big names ended up.
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Please don’t send this article to Jason Garrett. Just keep this between us Packers fans, okay?
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We're very excited to announce The Power Sweep's first book: Following Favre. This short eBook dives into the stories of the four quarterbacks who could have been successors to Brett Favre in Green Bay.
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I recently visited the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio and was reminded as I walked through the hall of bronze heads of just how many Packers have made an indelible mark in league history. 24 men are enshrined, second only (for the time being) to the Chicago Bears.
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The NFL announced its Hall of Fame finalists Wednesday, and former Packers safety LeRoy Butler was not among them. Fellow safeties Brian Dawkins and John Lynch, however, did make the final cuts. That’s a shame, because Butler deserves consideration at least as much as they do.
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The most popular guy on a football team is the backup quarterback. The most popular guy in Green Bay might be director of football operations, Eliot Wolf.
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The Packers and Lions met five times in the 1994 calendar year, including two iconic playoff games.
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