Last year, Coach McCarthy said he expected the switch to a 3-4 defense to beef up special teams. It didnt happen, and hes looking for the jump this year.
No one expected Al Harris to be ready for football by the start of training camp and he isnt but theres reason to believe he could be ready for the regular-season opener.
NFL preseason capsules as training camps open: AFC EAST NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS (10-6) LAST YEAR: Won the AFC East for the sixth time in seven years, but in the playoffs fell behind Baltimore 24-0 in the first quarter and lost in the wild-card round for the first time since 1998. Tom Brady returned after missing all but the first quarter of the previous season with a knee injury and passed for more...
Two-a-days and wind sprints. Lugging heavy playbooks and checking into dorms. As NFL teams get going this weekend, take a long, hard look. This might be the end of training camp as we know it. Next year a work stoppage might affect camps. Then by 2012 the league's owners hope for an 18-game regular season, which would throw off the traditional football math of late summer: two weeks of camp before...
It's an anniversary kind of season in the NFL, and quite a few new books are about to give you the details. Fifty years ago, Lamar Hunt, the son and heir of Texas millionaire oilman H.L. Hunt, and a few rich pals started something called the American Football League. A co-owner of one of the new teams, Wayne Valley of the Oakland Raiders, dubbed all the owners "The Foolish Club." The...
Mike McCarthy is as aware as anyone of the high expectations surrounding his Green Bay Packers for 2010. But the head coach isn?t going to hide them from his team, or more importantly let his team hide from them.
Head Coach Mike McCarthy announced at his Friday press conference that three players will begin training camp on the physically unable to perform list, including incumbent starting strong safety Atari Bigby.
The Green Bay Packers, Bellin Health and the Center for Childhood Safety on Tuesday, Aug. 3 will team up to promote bike safety with a free bike helmet fitting and giveaway during a Green Bay Packe...
(How happy are you to have Bryan Bulaga signed?) I?m very happy to have all of the rookies signed. It?s obviously more of a challenge to get your first-round pick done in time, so you would like ...
Two years after he co-founded the Packers with Curly Lambeau, George Calhoun began writing a piece called The Dope Sheet, which served as the official press release and game program from 1921-...
General manager Ted Thompson and coach Mike McCarthy have all the pieces in place to bring the title back to Titletown. McCarthy says it's the best team he's coached, but can he navigate around some nagging issues? The road to the big game starts today.
Not all the news is bad with Al Harris, Atari Bigby and James Starks failing their pre-camp physicals on Friday. The absence of Harris and Bigby, in particular, will help the young players the team might be counting on this season.
We wrap up our two-positions-a-day preview of training camp with a look at the kickers and punters. The Packers' roster is stacked at every position but there are huge question marks at both of these positions.
Packers coach Mike McCarthy just completed his training camp-opening press conference. We have all of the highlights in this on-the-fly report from the Lambeau Field media auditorium. The big news is that Harris, Bigby and Starks failed their physicals.
The Packers have announced the signing, meaning all of the draft picks will be at camp on Saturday. One day after team President Mark Murphy complained about rookie salaries, how does Bulaga's contract stack up with last year's No. 23, Michael Oher?
If championships were won in July, the 2010 Packers might have been crowned already. But as McCarthy knows - and was reminded of Friday - the road to the Super Bowl is dusted with bubble-bursting bobby pins.
Chill out, Packers fans. Roger Goodell, commissioner of the National Football League, didn't flat-out reject the idea of Lambeau Field hosting a Super Bowl some day.
With Lambeau Field and the Packers as set pieces, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and Packers' CEO Mark Murphy said that the league needs a new collective bargaining agreement with its players as soon as possible.
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