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How Nelson injury could affect Packers
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The headline of this article is How Nelson Injury Could Change Packers Offense. The Article didn't talk about how the offense would change at all other than to state the obvious, that other players need to step up.
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Jordy Nelson has 18 career TDs of 40+ yards, but 7 of them - close to 40% - came just last year. So while he is a tremendous big play, highlight reel threat, odds are that those numbers would have come down this year as last year was more of an exception, not the rule. The chances are that this GB offense would need to find different methods of scoring than last year so that aspect of it isn't as big a concern for me.
Bigger concern is down in, down out - the professionalism, the route running savvy, the 4th down conversions, catching the ball anywhere up and down a 9 foot ladder, the sideline awareness. No one else on the roster has all that and really no one else in the league could come in and do the same thing. Aaron will just have to find a way to spread the ball to everyone and anyone, like Favre had to do for most of his career.
Bigger concern is down in, down out - the professionalism, the route running savvy, the 4th down conversions, catching the ball anywhere up and down a 9 foot ladder, the sideline awareness. No one else on the roster has all that and really no one else in the league could come in and do the same thing. Aaron will just have to find a way to spread the ball to everyone and anyone, like Favre had to do for most of his career.
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Great post rp. Summed it up nicely.
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rp, nice post. By no means am I turning this into a Favre thread but he did it. Aaron has all the same skill sets, if not better and I will assume that he will do it too. Losing Jordy hurts bad. As you said, that dude has an awareness that I have not seen in awhile. Hoping against hope that it's something other than a tear.
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Last year was a little unusual in that only 7 different players caught TD passes for the team. Prior to that it was usually 9-10 different players. Not sure how much can be read into that other than last year AR was really locked into Jordy and Cobb whereas historically he hasn't been locked into 1/2 players like that. He's done it before, he can do it again. Overall the team will need to get used to playing in and winning closer games, which maybe isn't such a bad thing.
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Jason Wilde @jasonjwilde 3m3 minutes ago
Important details from @AdamSchefter on #Packers WR Jordy Nelson's knee injury: Nelson tore his ACL but MRI showed other ligaments intact.
Important details from @AdamSchefter on #Packers WR Jordy Nelson's knee injury: Nelson tore his ACL but MRI showed other ligaments intact.
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Idle speculation: could Jordy's off season hip surgery be related to the china doll knee injury?
I wonder about that, because I see a lot of people who get hip replacement surgery develop knee problems. You change the body mechanics just a bit, and other areas are prone to overuse and strain. I wouldn't be surprised if Jordy was a bit out-of-kilter, he was down all spring.
I wonder about that, because I see a lot of people who get hip replacement surgery develop knee problems. You change the body mechanics just a bit, and other areas are prone to overuse and strain. I wouldn't be surprised if Jordy was a bit out-of-kilter, he was down all spring.