Packer Notes: On Trading Hawk, and Sitton On Defense

by Brandon on Sep 17, 2010 7:00 AM CDT in Green Bay Packers News

- I feel for LB A.J. Hawk and understand why he might think a trade is the best thing for him. However there is no way the Green Bay Packers will trade him. If they didn't do it last offseason, they aren't going to do it now. It sucks for him because he worked hard this offseason, drew the praise of Mike McCarthy this summer, and wasn't in for a single play on defense against the Eagles. Mike McCarthy said he will "not apologize for having more than 11 defensive players." Hawk is the no better than the 5th LB because he's not as good in pass coverage as LB Nick Barnett and LB Brandon Chillar, and he's not good enough as a pass rusher to spell either LB Brad Jones or LB Clay Matthews. Is there any reason he should play ahead of any of them?

- After watching DE Cullen Jenkins and DE Justin Harrell leave with injuries last Sunday, I knew they only had two other defensive lineman suited up (NT B.J. Raji and DE Ryan Pickett). Luckily Jenkins returned with a cast on his broken hand to spell Raji and Pickett, but if they had needed another big body on the defensive line, the Press-Gazette reported that it would have been RG Josh Sitton. That makes sense because he's the biggest interior offensive lineman who was active on Sunday.

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Buffalo announced again they will not trade Marshawn Lynch

Sounds like that is going no where.

"No player is greater than a team."
-Vince Lombardi

by Jabooty on Sep 17, 2010 10:07 AM CDT reply actions

3 DL?

How does a reputedly knowledgeable coach and GM go into an NFL game with 3 DL? They’ve never heard of that thing called ’injuries?"

What could they actually get for Hawk? Anything?

by Egbert Souse on Sep 17, 2010 11:21 AM CDT reply actions

Well they went into the game with 4 DL but yeah, just stupid.

by packallday555 on Sep 17, 2010 11:48 AM CDT up reply actions

CJ Wilson and Jarrius Wynn are expected to play this week against Buffalo, so that is 5 DL. Neal will be out.

"No player is greater than a team."
-Vince Lombardi

by Jabooty on Sep 17, 2010 1:27 PM CDT up reply actions

I appreciate the reaction here, but I’m not sure I agree with it.

As I understand the game-plan, they were planning to play only two d-linemen for many of their defensive possessions so that they could disguise coverages with linebackers and have a bunch of D-backs on the field to clog the lanes against a talented-but-inexperienced QB. It sounds like a decent plan to me. I mean, disagree with it if you want, but it hardly sounds “stupid.”

Plus, they might’ve gone with fewer position players for the sake of special teams, which, seeing as how they wound up performing very well, it’s hard to kill them for that decision.

by Curly Lambeau on Sep 17, 2010 2:41 PM CDT up reply actions

Sitton?

would you really put your best offensive lineman out as a dl? That has disaster written all over it.

by Wisfan on Sep 17, 2010 1:09 PM CDT reply actions

+1

"No player is greater than a team."
-Vince Lombardi

by Jabooty on Sep 17, 2010 1:27 PM CDT up reply actions

Well, we’re talking about an emergency situation here. The only reason Sitton was being talked about at all was because of the eventuality of 2 injured players at that position. Also, the only situation in which they would’ve put Sitton in was if there was a need for a goal-line defense.

by Curly Lambeau on Sep 17, 2010 2:29 PM CDT up reply actions

That's understandable

but I think they should really consider using an offensive lineman that is not a starter.

I’m sure it’s not a big deal because I don’t think we’ll get into the situation of using an OL in the game, but this is a worst case scenario.

"No player is greater than a team."
-Vince Lombardi

by Jabooty on Sep 17, 2010 2:41 PM CDT up reply actions

Yeah I get that I just think they shouldn’t use their best OL he was a beast last week blocking in the run game. Hopefully the situation doesn’t arise again.

by Wisfan on Sep 17, 2010 10:27 PM CDT up reply actions