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  The magical prick
Posted by: PapaScott - 10-16-2017, 12:04 PM - Forum: The Longship - Replies (6)

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I'm not buying this Aaron Rodgers is done for the year ( I will believe it when I see it)  I get the feeling it's not as bad as it's being "reported" by the Packers and it's setting up for the Miraculous healing power of Aaron Rodgers" (actual statement by one of the talking heads on Sunday)  

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  Despite flawed QB options, Vikings control division
Posted by: purplefaithful - 10-16-2017, 11:48 AM - Forum: The Longship - Replies (2)

Vikings to face variety of somewhat flawed QB optionsIf Teddy Bridgewater is cleared to practice and looks like the team's best quarterback, the Vikings will face a torturous decision under radically revamped circumstances.

By turning Aaron Rodgers’ upper body into an unwilling accordion, Anthony Barr might have altered the NFC North the way a bulldozer alters a condemned house.
As of midafternoon Sunday, the convalescing Teddy Bridgewater had a better chance than Rodgers of playing in Super Bowl LII at U.S. Bank Stadium, and for the first time in 25 years, the Vikings found themselves stronger at quarterback than the Green Bay Packers, even amid the Vikings’ typically dramatic uncertainty at the position.
If the Vikings ride to the NFC North Division title behind Case Keenum, Sam Bradford, Teddy Bridgewater or Kyle Sloter — or behind an out-of-work activist or an employed television commentator — Barr will become their stealth MVP, to be rewarded by teammates with surreptitious fist bumps and Bitcoin.
When he broke Rodgers’ collarbone, Barr made Sunday’s 23-10 victory a certainty and a division championship a more likely possibility.
The previous weekend, Rodgers led the Packers to the kind of improbable, last-second victory remindful of his greatness while the Vikings started Bradford, watched him limp like he was wearing a too-loose prosthetic, and won at Chicago behind Keenum.
This Sunday, Bradford couldn’t play, Rodgers suffered what the Packers termed a possible season-ending injury, Keenum won again and Bridgewater prepared for a week in which he might be cleared to return to practice, which would give the Vikings 21 days to decide whether to activate him.
It is typical of the Vikings’ history at the position that suddenly Bridgewater is deemed to have healthier knees than Bradford, a little more than a year after Bridgewater suffered an injury that could have cost him his life or his leg.
It is atypical of this rivalry that the Vikings have three quarterbacks on their roster that are better than the Packers’ default starter, Brett Hundley, who succeeded Sunday in proving that Rodgers is the NFL’s most indispensable player...
http://www.startribune.com/vikings-dispe...451013143/

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  Life without Aaron Rodgers: How Packers can survive -- with help
Posted by: purplefaithful - 10-16-2017, 11:14 AM - Forum: The Longship - Replies (3)

For the second time in five seasons, the entire state of Wisconsin hinges on a single broken collarbone. One thousand four hundred forty-four days after Aaron Rodgers broke his collarbone on Monday Night Football in a 2013 loss to the Bears, the Packers' future Hall of Fame quarterback suffered the same injury to his other clavicle in a brutal loss to the Vikings on Sunday afternoon. The team's official Twitter account suggested Rodgers could miss the remainder of the season, but unless the Packers get lucky over the next couple of months, it might not matter.





If Rodgers needs surgery and the Packers are without his services for the rest of 2017, Green Bay is in serious trouble. Barring a stunning improvement from Hundley, McCarthy's offense would struggle to score points. The Packers have neither the running game nor the defense to make up for the hit. If they can get Rodgers back late in the season and get enough help from the rest of the NFC North to hold on and stay within striking distance of the divisional title, though, they might be able to stage a repeat of that unlikely 2013 divisional title.




http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/page/Bar...-nfc-north

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  Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Pooof, Season Done
Posted by: JustinTime18™ - 10-16-2017, 10:00 AM - Forum: The Longship - Replies (15)

http://www.jsonline.com/story/sports/nfl...765358001/

Couldn't happen to a better fan base...

Fuck the packers
Fuck their fans

Happy Monday!

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  Anyone think Eagles are best team in NFC?
Posted by: purplefaithful - 10-16-2017, 01:46 AM - Forum: The Longship - Replies (13)

I'm not their yet...

You know who I think isn't done yet? Seattle. 


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  get the wins now...Only 3 of last 9 games @ Home
Posted by: purplefaithful - 10-16-2017, 01:44 AM - Forum: The Longship - Replies (9)

And 3 of those road games are Carolina, Detroit, Atlanta...

If somehow we can get to 6/2 by the bye...

I still believe getting wins in December will be crucial. 


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  .....when Barr drove him into the turf after he got rid of a roll-out pass.
Posted by: ThunderGod - 10-16-2017, 01:25 AM - Forum: The Longship - Replies (13)

Packers: Rodgers could miss rest of season with collarbone

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JON KRAWCZYNSKI
Associated PressOctober 15, 2017

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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Walking gingerly to the sideline with his throwing shoulder throbbing in pain, Aaron Rodgers turned back toward the field and barked at Minnesota Vikings linebacker Anthony Barr.
Rodgers likely already knew that his season was in jeopardy after Barr's hit broke his collarbone, and the fiery quarterback's frustration boiled over.
Now the Green Bay Packers have to try to make sure their season as a whole doesn't go down the drain with it.
Rodgers was knocked out of the 23-10 loss to the Vikings in the first quarter on Sunday with an injury that could cause him to miss the remainder of the season .
It's a crushing blow to a team that entered the season with Super Bowl aspirations, optimism based primarily on the right arm of one of the game's best quarterbacks.
"It's devastating," receiver Randall Cobb said. "No question about it. First and foremost, that is one of my closest friends, so to see him go down with that is tough. We still have to play football. We have a long season ahead of us to figure out what we are going to do."
Brett Hundley, the only other quarterback on the roster outside of practice squad player Joe Callahan, was rushed into duty. He finished 18 of 33 for 157 yards with one touchdown and three interceptions.
"Losing Aaron Rodgers speaks for itself," Packers coach Mike McCarthy said. "In my opinion, he's the best player in football. This is the ultimate team game. We need to be better with the 11 people on the field that we have, regardless of the phase that we're in. Ultimately that's my responsibility."
Colin Kaepernick, who has had difficulty finding a job since becoming the face of league-wide demonstrations during the national anthem that protest social injustice, and Tony Romo, who joined CBS as an analyst after retiring from the Dallas Cowboys, could be outside options to fill in for Rodgers. But McCarthy said after the game he was not considering anything like that yet.
"Brett Hundley and Joe Callahan, that's what we're going with," he said.
Despite several key injuries to the secondary, the Packers entered the game Sunday against their NFC North rivals at 4-1 after Rodgers engineered a game-winning touchdown drive to beat the Dallas Cowboys last week.
Vikings coach Mike Zimmer's defense has always gotten after Rodgers in these tense matchups, and it happened again in the first quarter when Barr drove him into the turf after he got rid of a roll-out pass.
The impact did not appear to be that violent at first glance as Rodgers rolled through the hit. But it became apparent quickly that he was in considerable pain. He writhed on the turf as McCarthy argued for a roughing the passer penalty.
"I know Anthony Barr personally," said Hundley, a fellow UCLA alum. "I wouldn't imagine he's a dirty player. I didn't really get a good look at it."
Rodgers rode a cart to the locker room for further tests and remained there throughout the first half. He was initially deemed questionable, but the Packers announced after halftime that he would not return to the game.
"He's the best in the game so I hate to see that for him," Vikings safety Harrison Smith said.
Since becoming the full-time starter in 2008, Rodgers has been remarkably durable. He missed seven games in 2013 with a fractured collarbone, but he has started 132 of the other 134 games during that time period.
Of course, being able to count on a quarterback to take the snaps is nothing new for Green Bay. Since Brett Favre took over for the injured Don Majkowski in the third game of the 1992 season, the Packers have had Favre and Rodgers for all but nine games.
Matt Flynn, Scott Tolzien and Seneca Wallace were forced to fill in while Rodgers was out in 2013 and the Packers went 2-4-1 in that stretch. Flynn started once in 2010 when Rodgers sat out with a concussion and again in 2011 when he rested during the regular-season finale with the Packers having clinched the top seed in the NFC playoffs.
Favre never sat at all.
Hundley had only thrown 11 passes over the course of his first two-plus seasons in the league before jumping in on Sunday.
"I hope @AaronRodgers12 is OK!" Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman tweeted. "The league is better when he's healthy. Praying for you."
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For more NFL coverage: http://www.pro32.ap.org and http://www.twitter.com/AP_NFL

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  Bob Sansevere: Packers painfully aware of what Aaron Rodgers’ injury means
Posted by: purplefaithful - 10-16-2017, 01:17 AM - Forum: The Longship - Replies (3)

The Packers were a legit Super Bowl contender with Rodgers. Without him, they will struggle to float above .500.

In 2013, Rodgers broke his left collarbone. The Packers had won four straight and were 5-2. They failed to win any of the next five games after his injury. Rodgers did return for the final regular-season game but, remember, the break that time was to the collarbone adjacent to his non-throwing arm.
The succession of Hall of Fame-caliber play from Brett Favre to Rodgers has given the Packers the best situation at quarterback in the NFL for the past quarter century.
That ended Sunday with the loss of Rodgers.
Brett Hundley is the Packers’ quarterback now, and that is not a salve that will ease the pain of losing Rodgers.






“I hate to go with the whole ‘next man up’ thing,’’ Packers linebacker Clay Matthews said, “but we have a lot of next men up right now who are being thrown to the wolves, so we have to weather the storm somehow, get healthy, and get better.”

The Packers will exist in a world where late-game heroics by their quarterback is a thing of the recent past. They get to see how many other NFL teams have lived over the past 25 years.
Meantime, the rest of the NFL gets to see how Mike McCarthy coaches when he has to do a lot more than tell Rodgers to “go get ‘em.”





“Losing Aaron Rodgers speaks for itself,” McCarthy said. “In my opinion, he is the best player in football. But this is a team game. This is the ultimate team game, and we need to be better with the 11 people on the field that we have regardless of the phase we’re in, and ultimately that is my responsibility.”
After news wafted to players just how bad their quarterback was injured, a reporter asked Nelson what Rodgers meant to the Packers. He needed just one word to answer.
“Everything,” he said.
http://www.twincities.com/2017/10/15/bob...ury-means/

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  Laquon Treadwell’s one-handed grab shows promise for Vikings
Posted by: purplefaithful - 10-16-2017, 01:13 AM - Forum: The Longship - Replies (1)

Well, it does, right?

http://www.twincities.com/2017/10/15/laq...r-vikings/

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  Murphy: Messy win over Packers proves Vikings can compete in “alley fight” for NFC North
Posted by: purplefaithful - 10-16-2017, 01:10 AM - Forum: The Longship - No Replies

Case Keenum vs. Brett Hundley is not the quarterbacking marquee to lure the masses off the couch but here we were defining the latest Vikings-Packers border battle by this unlikely clash of back-ups.
Anthony Barr flattened Aaron Rodgers like a human rolling pin on Green Bay’s second possession and chased the megastar to the locker room with a broken collarbone. The linebacker also smashed conventional wisdom about how Sunday’s NFC North showdown would play out at U.S. Bank Stadium, and how the division will be decided in the second half of the season.




The Vikings’ scruffy 23-10 win was their second straight in the division. It also signaled they are down for the alley fight this race is shaping up to be, with Rodgers out indefinitely, the Bears rebuilding and the unpredictable Detroit Lions mired in their perpetual identity crisis.
The NFC North is anyone’s for the taking, and the supposedly hexed Vikings might emerge in January with the flag between their teeth after all.
“We’re focused on us,” insisted defensive end Everson Griffen. “We’re not worried about the division. We’re worried about how we compete, how we come together. That’s our No. 1 focus. It’s nobody else.”




“Ah, the media darling,” coach Mike Zimmer said proudly as he strolled past the postgame media scrum at Smith’s locker.
“I thought Harrison played great,” Zimmer proffered later for the official record. “He’s smart, he’s tough, he’s physical, he’s instinctive. That was a play they’d run against us in the past. He saw it and made a good play.”
Harry the Hitman contributed 1 1/2 sacks, two quarterback hits and a pair of pass breakups, swarming the football and punishing anyone with their hands on it. He led another ferocious Vikings’ defensive performance.
The unit bullied its way to four sacks and three interceptions, elevating its stature among the NFL’s best with each week’s dominance.




No telling how long Keenum’s pixie dust will last. He was very erratic early and threw his first interception for Minnesota. But he never wavered, made big plays with his legs and strengthened his bond with clutch receiver Adam Thielen.
Keenum improved to 3-2 as a starter in place of Sam Bradford, who for all we know is visiting NASA to have his balky left knee injected with moon dust to treat what appears to be a chronic issue with his twice surgically reconstructed appendage.
There even was a Laquon Treadwell sighting. He surfaced from purgatory to make three receptions, including a dandy one-handed snare that reminded forsaken fans why the Vikings spent a first-round draft choice on him.
They created their own breaks Sunday, including one very big one on Rodgers.
It is up to the Vikings to pull away from the rest of the pack and take an NFC North that is up for grabs.


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