Packers GM Ted Thompson has built a young, talented roster set up for sustained success

January 28, 2011 By 3 Comments
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The Green Bay Packers are headed to their first Super Bowl since the 1997-98 season, and they have a roster that is built to succeed for years to come.

The Packers’ roster is loaded with younger players; 41 players on the active roster have five years or less of experience and nine are rookies. Of the other 10 players on the active roster, only four have 10 or more years of experience.

Let’s take a closer look at the active players on the roster, how long they’ve played and how old they are, starting with the veterans:

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The Aftermath – Life Imitates Art for the Packers

October 11, 2010 By 2 Comments
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It continues to be amazing how art, or in this case Electronic Arts, is so good at imitating life.

On Friday nights before the real games are played, I have been playing the Green Bay Packers on Franchise Mode in Madden, this weekend playing the Washington Redskins. Of course the composition of my personal team is a little different now than the current Packers. Ryan Grant is still active in my imaginary world, never mind that a gain of one out of him is a moral victory. Also I made a couple of other free agent acquisitions before the season.

But the Madden games I have been playing lately have been proving to be alarming precursors to the actual games themselves. Two weeks ago I played against the Bears. Mason Crosby biffs a field goal, and the turning point came when Aaron Rodgers gets popped while trying to get off a pass in the red zone. The ball is grabbed out of mid-air by Freddie Roach who runs 90 yards while my vibrator keeps going off, not even allowing me to find a man to run down Freddie. Bears end up winning on Robbie Gould FG, just as he did for real a few nights later.

Then came my game v. the Skins.

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The twists, turns, tales, and possible endings of the never ending Brett Favre saga

August 8, 2010 By Leave a Comment

[Editor's note: I am happy to introduce yet another new writer to you. Kurt Allen is the latest to join the MSF team, and like Griffin Gotta is based in Wisconsin. Any more cheeseheads and we may just have to spin off a new site with coverage of the Packers.

Kurt has a lot of experience creating content online and will be covering a wide range of stories for us in the coming weeks and months. He is also an avid Tweeter and you can follow him here.

Enjoy his first piece below.]

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We now preempt regularly scheduled offseason programming to bring you the latest developments in the saga of Brett the Purple Dinosaur.

Well it sure took long enough.

In another major development a few weeks back, there were unconfirmed reports that Deanna Favre has renewed her membership at a Twin Cities area health club for another year. You could cue the Dragnet music on that, although I’m sure Mrs. Favre could afford to swallow her membership fee for a year if forced to do so.

But if you have spent the last week in a coma, which is probably the only way possible to avoid the Brett Favre newsfeed, really not much has changed.

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Brett Favre Proves He Still Has the 4th Quarter Magic

September 28, 2009 By 3 Comments

As I sat in the Edward Jones Dome Sunday afternoon and watched the Green Bay Packers beat the hapless St. Louis Rams, I couldn’t stop a wandering eye from glancing up at the far side of the building.

There on the ring of honor, beside Rams greats like Marshall Faulk and Merlin Olsen, and other St. Louis football icons like Dan Dierdorf, were digital displays providing scores and stats from around the league.

Packers fans delighted in seeing the Minnesota Vikings trailing San Francisco late at home. Former Packers quarterback Brett Favre was having a yeoman’s day, completing 50 percent of his passes for a pedestrian 221 yards.

At the same time inside the Edward Jones Dome, new Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers was hitting big plays to Donald Driver and Greg Jennings, and leading the Packers to a 36-17 win.

Rodgers had a sparkling passer rating of 126.9 by virtue of his 13-for-23 day with 269 passing yards and touchdown tosses to Driver and fullback John Kuhn. Rodgers also ran for a score, and picked up another 38 yards with his legs.

What the thousands of Packers fans in St. Louis were unable to see was the switch in Favre’s head they had grown so accustomed to seeing for 16 seasons get flipped.

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