Packers Game Ball Of The Week: Desmond Bishop

The main problem that has plagued Bishop so far has been consistency. Sure he might make that key stop of Adrian Peterson on fourth down, but then the next drive he blows his coverage assignment and AP makes the big play that seals the game up.

This year so far he hasn’t had that same up and down play. He’s made plenty of key plays, and has not given up any huge plays either. Each time I see him make a huge play it makes me that much more comfortable about the possibility of Hawk leaving next year and Bishop stepping up into the main rotation. Who knows, maybe he could make Barnett obsolete as well.

Heres a reason why the Packers signed 3 LB in the past couple days… Brad Jones has a “significant” shoulder injury and needs surgery to repair it. No mention as to whether he can play w/ it for a couple games or when the surgery was going to be performed. Could very well end his season too. That would mean we lost Barnett and Jones as starters and CHillar the primary backup ILB to injuries for significant portions of the season. Haven’t heard about Chillar… Thought he would play vs Minn, but I didn’t see him at all.

And the injuries keep on comin!!!

brad jones has been placed on IR and we picked up some nose tackle from the jets off waivers. sigh*

Bishop getting experience is probably going to make Hawk expendable, while Barnett’s injury isn’t the kind of thing that should hurt his play in the long run. His problem isn’t so much ability as it is consistency, and experience helps a player’s consistency soooo much more than practice (although this is precisely when Burnett’s injury is so bad, IMHO). I’m sure we all remember the maddening inconsistency of Sharper and Collins in their first years. I think Tramon Williams’ excellent play this year is an example of this unsurprising phenomenon.

As long as we have young talent behind a position I’m not so worried about injuries. The positions we have no young talent at, now Those are the injuries that really get me.