The Packer Pundit

The Green Bay Packers backfield has entered The Twilight Zone.

Wynn — a rookie seventh-round pick who sat out most of the past four months with calf, stomach and quadriceps problems — is the only Packers halfback whose status seems certain for Sunday's regular-season opener against Philadelphia. Brandon Jackson hasn't been cleared to return from his concussion, newly acquired Ryan Grant is dogged by tight hamstrings, and Thursday, Vernand Morency didn't participate during the walkthrough portion of practice that was open to reporters. More >>


Special Teams
Unit takes on special importance
By TOM SILVERSTEIN / journalsentinel.com
Posted: Sept. 6, 2007
Green Bay - There are no ifs, ands or buts about it: The Green Bay Packers have to be better on special teams this year. They don't have very far to go to improve on 2006, considering they finished last in the Dallas Morning News' composite rankings, the second consecutive year they've done so. But if there's no significant improvement, then special teams coach Mike Stock can expect to be under fire because he has not been shorted in the talent department. More >>


Favre reaches out to Reid
By Jason Wilde / madison.com
GREEN BAY — Having faced drug addiction himself, Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre is offering more than just his support for Philadelphia Eagles coach Andy Reid and his two sons. He's offering to help in any way he can. Last month, Britt Reid, 22, was jailed for violating his bail after police said they found more than 200 pills in his truck, including the painkiller hydrocodone, when he was stopped on suspicion of driving while impaired last month. Free on bail at the time, he's awaiting sentencing for a January road-rage incident in which police say he brandished a gun at another driver. The coach's older son, 24-year-old Garrett, also is facing jail time for drug and traffic charges from a January incident in which he admitted he used heroin the day he ran a red light and struck another car. He faces a mandatory minimum of three days in jail. Favre, who battled an addiction to the painkiller Vicodin and alcohol abuse, called Andy Reid after the sons' arrests in January and voiced his support again in a conference call with Philadelphia-area reporters earlier this week. More >>


Bigby succeeds, his way
By Jason Wilde / madison.com
GREEN BAY — If only he'd have just cut the hair. If only he'd have compromised. Everything might have come so much easier. And it's not like it wouldn't have grown back. But that would have meant Atari Bigby would have lost more than just the long, flowing dreadlocks he's been growing since he was 15. He'd have lost who he is, what he stands for. "And you have to stand for something," the Green Bay Packers safety said Thursday. "If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything." When it comes to Atari Bigby, where he is — starting for the Packers in Sunday's regular-season opener against Philadelphia at Lambeau Field — has nothing to do with his hair. And yet, who he is, or at least the long, out-the-way route he took to get here, is all about his hair. More >>