Comments on: Position Review – Linebackers http://packergeeks.wordpress.com/2008/08/21/position-review-linebackers/ All Things Green Bay Packers Sat, 15 Jun 2013 18:12:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: bucky http://packergeeks.wordpress.com/2008/08/21/position-review-linebackers/#comment-3265 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:22:39 +0000 http://packergeeks.wordpress.com/?p=1506#comment-3265 I’ve never understood why Poppinga keeps getting all the snaps. I can see that he is a high-energy sort of player, and that that is the sort of thing that coaches luike to see, but more often than not his high energy takes him well away from the play. It’s almost as if he gets focused so narrowly on one aspect of a play that he can’t see what is happening around him.

I’ve also wondered why Hodge is stuck in the MLB slot. I always thought he’s be a good OLB, but apparently the coaches do not agree. I would like to see what would happen with him on the field instead of Poppinga.

]]> By: RayMidge http://packergeeks.wordpress.com/2008/08/21/position-review-linebackers/#comment-3250 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:47:53 +0000 http://packergeeks.wordpress.com/?p=1506#comment-3250 Hodge and Bishop seem to be the key to this group going to the next level of being a real advantage for the defense as a whole. When they were drafted each of them were praised as instinctive, smart players who can’t be measured by 40 times etc… Both were almost universally praised as great value picks, and I have expected at least one of them to emerge as that third LB who would fit in with the steady Hawk and do-everything Barnett but it just hasn’t happened. I am all for the accumulaitng draft picks strategy that TT uses, but the goal of assembling all of that volume is to have one or two gems emerge from those mid to late round picks and while these guys have been on-the-verge for a few seasons it’s now time to show it on Sundays in the regualr season.

]]> By: awhayes http://packergeeks.wordpress.com/2008/08/21/position-review-linebackers/#comment-3244 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 02:13:40 +0000 http://packergeeks.wordpress.com/?p=1506#comment-3244 Ebongreen – sounds painful. May qualify as an Old Man Injury if this injury was caused by doing not dangerous/strenuous.

]]> By: ebongreen http://packergeeks.wordpress.com/2008/08/21/position-review-linebackers/#comment-3243 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:48:30 +0000 http://packergeeks.wordpress.com/?p=1506#comment-3243 I mildly sprained pretty much my entire left torso a couple of weeks ago. Trust me – you do NOT want to do this.

http://www.runnersworld.co.uk/forum/forummessages.asp?SP=&V=1&dt=4&last=1&utn=1207

Portions are still sore to the touch, and I’m not a football player. … I’m sure that, with AJ being the stud he is and the training staff being the experts that they are, he’ll heal quickly. But depending on seriousness of the injury, he may be limited for the first couple weeks or for September as a whole.

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