Lacy ran for over 1100 yards in each of his first two seasons in the league, giving the sense that the Packers finally have a running back they can trust and pair up with Aaron Rodgers.
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Mike McCarthy and Rodgers both downplayed the significance of the injury after practice. “It’s Week 11 coming up, everybody is dealing with different things”, Rodgers said. “That’s the NFL. You get a routine, learn how to take care of your body and push through things”.
-Houston Texans quarterback Brian Hoyer is not expected to play Sunday and is reportedly experiencing memory loss related to a head injury that knocked him out of Monday’s game at Cincinnati.
Aaron Rodgers was limited in practice Wednesday with a right shoulder injury, but he tells Action 2 Sports there are no concerns that he’ll miss Sunday’s game.
There haven’t been many star running backs that have struggled quite as badly as Lacy has in recent history.
“Don’t give ’em as many opportunities to hit the quarterback”, left tackle David Bakhtiari said Friday.
While one could continue going down this path, the sum total is that the Packers aren’t playing well enough offensively right now and their season will remain stuck in neutral until that changes.
The Week 11 matchup between the Green Bay Packers and the Minnesota Vikings is a showdown between division rivals that are battling for first place. And, wouldn’t you know it…the NFL’s schedule rotation does, in fact, have the Vikings playing a road game at Jacksonville next season. Not only will they be sure to step up to the occasion of stopping Rodgers when they’re on defense, but most important key will be giving Adrian Peterson a heavy workload and let him carry this team.
“That’s why I say you have to play smart”. T.J. Yates, who was signed on October 28, helped lead the Texans to a 10-6 victory.
As for the Vikings, what a job Mike Zimmer has done with this team in the two years he’s been there. The Packers last week managed just a season-low 47 yards on 18 carries against what was then the league’s 30th-worst defense against the run.
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“We haven’t been where we’d like”, McCarthy said. “So far, so good”. He threw for 333 yards Sunday but needed a career-high 61 pass attempts to do so, completing 35.
