That pretty well sums things up. The Packers lost JMike at the beginning of the SB season. It just happens, anytime, anywhere and almost completely at random.
Once teams start TC with 90 players in tow, it's very likely you could fill out the starting 53 with 95% accuracy. But the meaningless games are important to weed out that last 5%. I don't think the preseason should be eliminated. Maybe reduced to 2 games where the first team plays one series, and then onto the rest. No perfect answer here.....
Yes, but any half-competent trainer would have no trouble detecting a Grade 3 and if they detected one, they wouldn't have let him walk to the locker room like that. I'm still banking on a low to moderate severity Grade 2 at this point. Here's hoping...
Agree. Nelson's loss is huge. That's why I'd like Janis to get first team reps with ARod now. Better to find out in a meaningless game if some semblance of chemistry can be established. Janis has the height and speed. He needs to improve his route running and greatly reduce dropped passes. If not ARod won't even look at him.
What are you basing that on?
Where are all these dropped passes you speak of? When you say "greatly reduce" it implies that there has been an egregious excess of drops. I've seen every snap he's played and I've only seen one play where he didn't catch a pass that a defender didn't get a hand on, and even then The Rock said on the radio he was pretty certain a defender got just enough of a finger on it to deflect it's path at the last second. The replay looked like he may have been right. Janis has things to work on, like everyone does, and everyone who has coached him has indicated he has made good progress. With Jordy out, it's time to throw him in the lake and see if he swims. I think he'll do fine, but it would be silly not to expect some hiccups along the way. It took Jordy several seasons to get where he is. It would be unrealistic to expect Janis to do everything Jordy does in his second year and that should not be the standard of measure at this point.
Common sense tells me Jordy with 98 receptions last season to Cobb's 91 is even more easily a 100+ catch type of WR. What I see on the field is Nelson, in addition to having more receptions, has a higher average per reception. And I see the opponent's best CB cover Nelson more often (for example the NE game last season) rather than Cobb. BTW, according to nfl.com, Nelson averaged 15.5 yards per reception in each of the last two seasons.
True, and I would love to see the stats to who Rodgers throws to after they have a drop. It seems to me that every time someone has a drop, he comes back to them on the next play as if to say, we're still good, make the play. At least with the guys he trusts, Jordy, Cobb, Jones, Jennings, Finley, Driver, etc.
I haven't had a chance to look at that again, but if you're talking about the play that was first ruled in bounds and later changed to not-a-catch I don't know if his awareness was as much of a factor as where Tolzien threw the ball. Perhaps Janis could have dragged a foot but if he had it would have been a spectacular catch. BTW, as I remember it he did catch that ball at full extension so at least his catch radius wasn't an issue on that play.
yes, it would have been a great catch, and when someone is giving you an opportunity to make a play for the easy on you missed the play before, i think you need to make it. I'm not saying he's horrid and needs to be cut, but those are the plays that separate NFL WR's and fast guys that can catch a football sometimes. I think he'll still make this team, but he seems a long ways away from instilling confidence, in me at least. I think those back to back plays are why he should only be a 5th or 6th option on a team with healthy WR's.
