is not their best cover corner (that would be Charles Woodson). He’s not even the third best. He’s struggled mightily with coverage this year and has slowed down considerably. I’ve even suggested they convert him to safety, but he gets outjumped and burned in zone coverage enough as it is. The one thing we’ll miss him huge in is in run support. Expect a lot more runs to the outside now.

The big loss with Harris is the fact that after Tramon Williams, there’s no one there. It’s a real shame Pat Lee and Will Blackmon are out for the year as well- talk about a snakebitten secondary. I’m hoping Underwood can step up as the nickelback, but I’m also going to expect there being a lot fewer corner blitzes for the rest of the year as well.

Kampman was definitely coming on as a pass rusher again, so losing him really sucks, but bringing in Jones will help us out in coverage tremendously. I’m going to also assume that Poppinga will rotate in that spot as well to boost the pass rush and run support.

Both losses are bad, but we overcame losing Harris just fine last year when Tramon stepped in and didn’t miss a beat. I also find it curious how we happen to lose the two guys who were struggling with the change to the 3-4 the most in the same game, when they were putting in their best game of the year… The Pack’s defense fell apart immediately since the backups were not adequately prepared in the 4th after they went down. Good thing we hung on and essentially have a second bye week after the Lions game this week.

 Jarrett Bush is horrible. I don’t even see him doing much on special teams anymore. I always pray they get rid of him. T Williams will do good. The whole underwood / Ford thing scares me. I hope we Bliz all the time now so we don’t have to see them get burned

absolutely unreplaceable. Look for some very large numbers from opposing QBs from this day forward, and my playoff aspirations just got thrown out the window.

but Tramon Williams to Jarret Bush. That is a huge loss.

reads like a phonebook. I don’t think this torpedoes the season, with respect to the playoff picture, just because the remaining NFC opponents are definitely beatable (Bears highly inconsistent, Lions have a couple of years of rebuilding to be a decent .500 team, Seahawks and Cards showing high pass offenses can outscore them over 4 quarters easily enough…), but as a fan who always wants a superbowl bound Pack, this one really hurts.

Heres the problem w/ losing Harris and Kampman. It everyone having to learn to play roles for which they haven’t been preparing for. The trickle down efffect. Neither Harris nor Kampman were really good in the new D, but they knew their roles and were prepared for them, and have been preparing for them all season.

Indy lost Sanders, but they had been dealing w/ his loss for the past 2 years. So other guys were able to prepare for new roles and get accustomed to what was expected of them in those roles. Tramon Williams will be fine, he was a defacto starter anyway, its Bush and Underwood who have to adapt to roles for which they have never prepared for before, nor are they necessarilly ready or able to play those roles. Lee and Blackmon would have been much better options. In the long run, its not that big a deal, but in the short term, like the remainder of this seaon and playoffs, all the changing of roles will catch up w/ them…