(By Rory Lee - PC Staff) - Last week, after the Packers’ suffocating defensive performance against the Cowboys, I suggested that we might be witnessing a shift in this team’s core strength:  that is, although the Packers have been an offensive-oriented team for the last decade, their defense might slowly be becoming the dominating unit.  All this was said cautiously, however, and I made sure to include the caveat that it was too soon to tell, at least definitively, which unit was better:  after all, the offense has many weapons, two of whom—Jermichael Finley and Jordy Nelson—just returned from injury.  Regardless, I felt relatively safe proclaiming that we were starting to see some much needed balance in Packerland:  both the offense and defense are capable of taking over a given game.
Last week I also said that “it’s amazing what a difference a week makes” and that “I just hope I don’t find myself saying that next week.”Well, here we are, a week later, and I’m saying it:  what a difference a week makes.
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(by Michael Smith - PackerChatters Staff) - The Packers open the preseason against the Cleveland Browns at legendary Lambeau Field on Saturday night. Hopefully, if you have been reading my articles, you can tell that football and I have a very unhealthy relationship. Some would even call me “sick”. Anyway, due to my problems I will be recording the first pre-season game and breaking down the film for a little Monday morning analysis on packerchatters. However, if you aren’t a football deviant like me here are 10 things to watch even when all the starters are on the sidelines.
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(PackerChatters Newswire) - No morning practice today as the Packers prepare for tonight’s annual Family Night Scrimmage. Evening activities get underway in the stadium at 5:30 p.m., followed by on-field football drills at 6:30 and the scrimmage at approximately 7:30.
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Packer Notes: Packers.com posted Mike McCarthy’s press conference transcript from today and he commented on RB Ryan Grant.
“I think Ryan has had a very solid camp. It’s really our first time going through a full camp with Ryan. We acquired him the first year after training camp, and then last year obviously he had the hamstring injury. We get better every day.
I talk about the philosophy to the offense, you…
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(PackerChatters Newswire – Dan Kowalsky) – *The new Ray Nitschke Field is gorgeous. It has perfect sight lines and is close to the action, not to mention being styled perfectly after Lambeau Field with the red brick and wrought iron gates. The only negative is during position drills where you used to be able to roam up and down Oneida to different parts of the field and watch the different groups. It was packed in so tight yesterday that it was impossible to leave your seat. I would expect that under more regular circumstances, there will be more open space to roam during a practice.
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Press Release - PackerChatters.com relaunched their entire website today offering many new features and easier site navigation.
Some of the features, besides the cleaner interface, include the option to leave a comment for all of our Op/Ed articles, our Newswire section with the latest news from selected media outlets, a more informative Packers Fan Calendar, latest posts from our Forums with direct linkage, PC Twitter and Facebook access and much more in our drop down menus.
More features will be added as we go along and we thank everyone for their interest and support.
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With the NFL Draft only 2 weeks away our very popular annual Live Draft Chats rev it up even more stating Monday evening on PackerChatters.com.
21 Draft Chats have been completed since Drew Boylhart kicked off the 2009 Chat season on January 14th and 11 more are on our Chat Schedule.
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The 13th Annual PackerChatters Draft Contest will be open for entries on March 25th, 2009 at 12:01 Eastern time.
Contest Rules. YOU MAY ONLY SUBMIT ONE ENTRY!
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Written by Jerry Katrichis - PackerChatters Staff
With all the rumors and speculation surrounding free agency next week, I was really curious as to where we stood on the salary cap going into this free agency period. There seems to be a ton of conflicting information regarding exactly where we stand. Part of the problem is that the information is pretty dynamic and changes from moment to moment. How much money each team has is impacted every time they cut a player, and the amount of cap space each team has is influenced heavily by how many of their own free agents a particular team has to worry about. So the actual situation is pretty clouded.
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