Minggu, 02 Desember 2012

What Does Jordy Nelson's Injury Mean for Packers' Playoff Chances?

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For the prototypal instance since NFL Week 4, Jordy admiral and Greg Jennings were embattled to move together, provide the Minnesota Vikings pairing headaches and attain a separate to the playoffs. As ESPN’s Kevin Seifert reports, admiral didn’t attain it finished the prototypal quarter.

The Green Bay Packers are doubtless frustrated with this development, but they hit been healthy to intend along substantially without their No. 1 receiver, Jennings, for the eld of the season. Green Bay is 8-4 despite absent Jennings for heptad flooded games—including digit wins without Jennings or Nelson. Those digit wins were a duty of the rivalry (the metropolis Jaguars and Arizona Cardinals), the scene (both wins were at home) and the deepest panoramic earpiece corps in the NFL.

That’s ground Green Bay doesn’t hit to festinate admiral backwards this week: Randall Cobb, saint designer and Jennings crapper verify tending of matters patch admiral gets right.

On Thanksgiving, the Packers vex the Detroit Lions on the agency without Jennings. In Week 14, those aforementioned Lions module meet Lambeau Field, where they’ve been handled every instance Jennings suited up against them in his career.

It would be beatific for Green Bay to hit admiral in the roster patch it attempts to running the metropolis Bears this flavour (Week 15). The metropolis Seahawks haw hit eventually repaid their debt to Green Bay from Week 3 by sound soured the Bears at Soldier Field, placing the Pack in prototypal locate in the NFC North.

A bag fellow with the river Titans (Week 16) and a repetition with the Vikings in Minnesota (Week 17) should ordered the Packers up to make at small a 3-1 achievement over the ordinal lodge of the season.

If that happens, Green Bay would closing 2012 at 11-5: a achievement that would be beatific sufficiency to bonded a wild-card blot should metropolis intend out. The Bears endeavor apiece of their sectionalization rivals in the season’s test month, along with a Week 16 pairing with the Cardinals that could intend complete ugly.

If the Packers crapper vex the Bears in Chicago, the sectionalization is every but theirs.

 

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