Predict The Packers 53-Man Roster

I like Donald Lee, but I suspect that the TE position is going to have some added responsibilities that Lee might not be such a great fit for. Quarless is fresh – someone they can shape into the kind of player they want at the position.

I’m still kind of skeptical about Tramon Williams at safety…. I also think Jones locks down a start at LB. Maybe I’m carrying the torch a little too ardently for this guy, but I think he’s going to show us all something in the preseason that will calm the skeptics down a bit. I liked what I saw and even though it wasn’t lights out, there’s some promise there.

If he’s making the roster mid season then Flynn or Rodgers has gone down for some reason. That’s not a good thing.

I think it’s a safe bet he’ll be our 3rd String QB, only on the Practice Squad.

But the Packers have tried to keep a couple recent 5th round picks (WR David Clowney, RT Jamon Meredith) on the practice squad but ended up losing them to other teams during the season. So it’s a move I could see repeated again if Quarless and Newhouse don’t shine in the preseason.

Newhouse and Quarless will make the roster

My thought was that it was done because Johnson was a rookie who they had to keep on the 53-man roster. They ended up using Korey Hall so little last season that I think they’re ready to give up on him and go back to 2 FB, 3 TE like before 2009.

I don’t think they’d release Jolly. Big guys with his agility don’t come along that often. He’s too much of a commodity to release outright. I wouldn’t mind seeing a trade though.

Maybe Jolly and one of our fullbacks to the Redskins for Haynesworth and their first round pick. (just kidding. It always cracks me up when people talk about packaging one of our fullbacks in a trade, as if anybody would give us a bag of footballs for our fullbacks! …or Atari Bigby… hahah. We’d be lucky to get a nice Happy Meal toy for him) Seriously, I could see Jolly getting maybe a 4th round pick if we wait for a needy team to get hit with an injury or two. …assuming that we don’t get hit with some injuries ourselves! Yeah, upon further review, I think we should stick it out with Jolly this year and worry about it when his contract is up next year, a la Colin Cole. (although Jolly’s much better than Cole, who was basically just a fat guy.)

He was a default option. It’s possible they keep only 4 WRs, but they usually have 5 WR in case of injuries, so I had to add someone. After Swain, all of the other WRs have never been on the active roster, and none of them played last preseason, so I hadn’t seen any of them play. I wouldn’t be surprised if one of them stepped forward to beat out Swain.

This doesn’t take into account the one last weird move TT always does right before the year starts. We should start to call it the Ryan curse.

BTW Bush played with the first team during the OTA so i think he’s prolly a front runner to make the team.

Well, as bad as Barbre was against the pass (and I agree that he was beyond awful), he was still okay in the run game.

I think they should try him out at guard so that he won’t have to play in space, which is where he failed as a tackle. …and I did read that he is the backup guard right now in OTAs as Spitz comes back from back surgery.

(although I was disturbed to read that Spitz had the same kind of back surgery that Justin Harrell had! Yikes!)

You know, I have this feeling that Shields is going to be more valuable as a gunner. From what I’ve read that really seems to be what he did down at the U, and that seems to be his mindset.

And that’s a great thing.

If he pans out to be a top gunner then he can help solidify our special teams and push Bush out of a spot, cause really that’s what’s been saving Bush’s career to this point.

There does always seem to be one thing that comes out of left field. …and doesn’t that make it impossible to predict by definition? But, to take a stab at it… how about…

4 quarterbacks (and does that make 1 fullback? …get it? “quarter”…“full”)

no, but seriously, how about…
…can’t say two punters, ‘cause that’s Sherman’s move.
…can’t say too many CBs, ‘cause that’s not so crazy.
…can’t say 3 fullbacks, ‘cause he’s already done that.
…can’t say too many white linebackers, since he does that every year (which, as an aside, isn’t it strange that nobody calls him on this? Especially since TT himself is a former white linebacker? I don’t know. I just find it odd, I guess. We’ve got to have some kind of modern era record for “most white linebackers”) anyway…
…yeah, I give up. I have no idea. I’ll go with this as my prediction:

TT will cut Desmond Bishop so that he can sign himself to a one-day contract, enabling him to ‘retire as a Packer.’ Bishop will then be claimed off waivers by the Seattle Seahawks, causing Wisconsin to experience a great disturbance in the force as millions of voices suddenly cry out in terror and are suddenly silenced. The cry that is heard will be this: “WTF?!”

Oh I’m not counting anyone out. But those are two guys I’ve really got to see. Can they rush the passer? I could see it right away with guys like Cullen Jenkins and Brad Jones. If they show it, as long as they can contribute on special teams too, they’ll become locks to make the roster.

LMAO!

Goth, you gotta do some research man!

QB two is a stretch with as many sacks as this team took last year . You did draft O-line #1 for a reason . If you hold both vet OT’s on opening day I’ll be suprized.

What do you mean if we hold both vet OT’s on opening day you’ll be surprised? Are you saying we’re going to cut one? Seems doubtful after we just signed both to new deals…

RB A vet here is a must . Who will give you the sweep at home you will need to contend with the Vikes !!!

I guess I’d consider Grant a vet. He’s 29, and has started for us the past 3 years. I’m not real high on him but he still is a veteran guy.

WR Driver’s presence in the first six games will be solid . But after that ? Great depth in the first half of year .

What do you mean first 6 games? Are you predicting injuries now too!? Nelson and Jones have been just fine behind him, but honestly without Driver we’d be fine with Jennings and Finley.

It’s laughable that you’d mention Griffen with Peppers and Suh, and even Suh with Peppers. Peppers is an all-pro, Suh was considered the best DT prospect in the last 20 years, and Griffen was a guy who dropped to the 4th round because he is terribley inconsistent.

DE Jolly was a key to this up and coming D . Know what ? Neal is a work in progress . McCarthy does have this group ready though . Mathews will be watched by the commish as all USC players will we will hope that he has 10 clean sacks this year as last .

Jolly really isn’t a key. He was probably our 4th best DL behind Jenkins, Pickett, and Raji. He had been playing less and less as the season went on, and Raji got healthy. He’s great as a depth guy but even if he isn’t available for us, we drafted a couple of DT’s this year. So just because Cushing went to USC and tested positive for PED’s that means Matthews was on them too? Seems silly. Does that mean Malaluga and Matthews did too? Hell, does it mean Sanchez took them? Flawed logic there.

CB old and older . How much longer can you wait . OL or CB in the first ??? I agreed with your strategy but it doesn,t make things feel better ……

Well to answer, we went OL first. Woodson had his best year ever last year. It’s not out of the question to think he has a couple good years left. Tramon Williams is good, and let’s see how our 2nd round pick from 2008 Pat Lee pans out. Underwood was also a guy who was better then expected last season, and appears to have a future as a starting Cb (probably nickel).

P WOW no comment ……

I’m curious, do you even know either of the guys we have on the roster now at punter haha? Judging by some of your evalutations of us, I’m guessing you don’t. That aside, the punting situation doesn’t look pretty. Though getting rid of Kapinos and bringing in 2 new guys was a good move.

ST The North as a whole has some amazing KO/PR guys and unfortunately GB isn’t mentioned in this conversation . Field position on offense could help that O-line .

Actually, we do have a pretty good return guy. Will Blackmon. He was injured last season but had 2 punt return TD’s in 2008, and average 12 yards per return. Also average 23 yards on kickoff returns. Not great, but not too bad. It could be argued that after Hester, Blackmon is the best punt returner in the division.