Packer's 2026-27 Season

[Jopal78]

1 hour ago, OldSchoolSnapper said:

I think that's a stretch. Zeitler was refusing to play for anyone at league minimum and allegedly in shape. I'd guess Tomlinson and Zeitler are playing next week at the latest.

Right, but being “in shape” and having run with the pads on while taking hits are two different things. It’s one of the reasons they have a couple weeks training camp before the preseason games start. 
 

Zeitler in particular at 36 they’re going to make sure he’s ready to go before starting him and have him pull a hamstring or groin and miss 8 weeks. 

[Jopal78]

16 minutes ago, JosephC said:

Jayden Reed out for the year.  Have to wonder if this will turn out to be a career-ending injury.

Good thing they gave him that contract extension. He’s got a $2M roster bonus due in 2027, and will have missed 25 out of the last 34 games with injuries. Probably gets released after the year.

Too bad, he probably has some ability but using him as a ball carrier on jet sweeps, screens, and all the underneath routes has dealt more punishment than his body can seem to handle. 

But at least we’ll get more Bo Melton on offense.

[homer]

7 minutes ago, Jopal78 said:

Right, but being “in shape” and having run with the pads on while taking hits are two different things. It’s one of the reasons they have a couple weeks training camp before the preseason games start. 
 

Zeitler in particular at 36 they’re going to make sure he’s ready to go before starting him and have him pull a hamstring or groin and miss 8 weeks. 

Zeitler has been incredibly durable during his career. But yeah 36 is 36.

[OldSchoolSnapper]

2 hours ago, Jopal78 said:

Right, but being “in shape” and having run with the pads on while taking hits are two different things. It’s one of the reasons they have a couple weeks training camp before the preseason games start. 
 

Zeitler in particular at 36 they’re going to make sure he’s ready to go before starting him and have him pull a hamstring or groin and miss 8 weeks. 

They don't have 4 weeks. I don't think these guys are saving anything, but the team probably hopes they are. They could be 1-6 in 4 weeks. I'll be surprised if at least one of them isn't playing next week. Wouldn't shock me if they shove one out there this weekend. The situation is dire.

[homer]

15 minutes ago, OldSchoolSnapper said:

They don't have 4 weeks. I don't think these guys are saving anything, but the team probably hopes they are. They could be 1-6 in 4 weeks. I'll be surprised if at least one of them isn't playing next week. Wouldn't shock me if they shove one out there this weekend. The situation is dire.

I think that at least one will be out there this weekend for sure.

 

[HarryDoyle]

5 hours ago, OldSchoolSnapper said:

Because they have an incompetent GM who is doing June's work in October. The ghost of Aaron Rodgers let these buffoons believe that they could "just figure it out" with their patchwork OL and telling guys "yeah just go play over there."

Yeah, Gute has made himself look extremely foolish the way he's been scrambling to sign o-linemen this week.

[HarryDoyle]

3 hours ago, JosephC said:

Jayden Reed out for the year.  Have to wonder if this will turn out to be a career-ending injury.

Yeah, it doesn't sound promising. Shades of Sterling Sharpe, Nick Collins and Tim Lewis.

[Jopal78]

2 hours ago, OldSchoolSnapper said:

They don't have 4 weeks. I don't think these guys are saving anything, but the team probably hopes they are. They could be 1-6 in 4 weeks. I'll be surprised if at least one of them isn't playing next week. Wouldn't shock me if they shove one out there this weekend. The situation is dire.

Sure, but by the same token some guy who’s been working out but has not been taking hits isn’t set up for success to be tossed out there, pull a muscle and miss even more time, put them back to where they started until the season is truly lost. I expect Tomlinson to play Sunday he was on a practice squad. The other two, probably a couple weeks minimum 

[LouisEly]

7 hours ago, igor67 said:

Can anyone recall a team 3 games into a season needing to sign 2 offensive linemen not caused by injury?

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ZBB is out for the year causing Belton to have to play RT and Banks suffered a turf toe injury (on lousy turf) and is out for a while.  That's injury... or am I missing something?

If ZBB and Banks are healthy, they're not starting Monk, Jennings, or Burton at OG.

[CheezWizHed]

14 hours ago, LouisEly said:

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ZBB is out for the year causing Belton to have to play RT and Banks suffered a turf toe injury (on lousy turf) and is out for a while.  That's injury... or am I missing something?

If ZBB and Banks are healthy, they're not starting Monk, Jennings, or Burton at OG.

Monk was the preferred starter at RG both week 1 and week 2.  I never quite understood why Belton stopped playing RG during training camp and switched to backing up RT only, but they did pick Monk as the preferred starter.