Tebow? It's worth a shot

Our guy Kevin Seifert had a blog post after the NFL Scouting Combine suggesting that Florida quarterback Tim Tebow could well wind up in the NFC North, and ESPN.com said the Packers were among the five or six most likely suitors for the former Heisman winner.

And I’ve got to say, I think Tebow could be [...]

Childress to Favre: Take your time; Bosling to Childress: Give it up

To recap:

–Brad Childress said he talked to Brett Favre twice this week, but couldn’t pin him down on how he feels about returning, because Favre had other things — like landscaping — on his mind.

–Childress said Favre has “earned that latitude” to essentially take as long as he wants to make a decision, possibly even [...]

OBOD is now officially one-year old - thanks everyone!

A quick story: Before we were up-and-running as a site, we originally thought about going with “Dan Devine’s Dog” as the name for our blog. It would have been funny (albeit darkly so) and something most Packers fans would instantly recognize. Those who didn’t could perhaps Google it and become enlightened on an, um, interesting chapter in [...]

Pickett gets franchise tag ... and thoughts on Westbrook

Greetings, faithful readers — and apologies for my extended absence from the site. I’ve been tied up with a number of different work projects lately, but Chris has done an admirable job holding things down, as he always does. Anyway…

The Packers placed the franchise tag on defensive tackle Ryan Pickett today, meaning he’ll earn at [...]

Darren Sharper on Nick Collins

Darren Sharper weighed in from the Super Bowl on Nick Collins’ contract situation with the Green Bay Packers, which in some ways mirrors his own departure from the Packers after the 2004 [...]

If this is it, when does No. 4 go up?

Just wanted to throw this out there after reading this solid piece by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s Michael Hunt this morning:

Assuming — and this is a big assumption — that Brett Favre finally retires to his tractor, when do you retire his number?

Hunt suggests two years, or one for every time Favre beat the Packers [...]

Packers fans rejoice…and Vikings fans are crushed (AHAHAHAHA!!)

Originally, I thought about writing a recap of Sunday night’s NFC Championship Game.

By now, though, we all know what went down in New Orleans, so there’s no real reason to recap the game itself (don’t worry – we’ll be back with plenty more Judas bashing in the days ahead). It was great. It was epic. It was the [...]

Rex Ryan, please shut up

Well, that didn’t take long: The media might not have big-timed Charles Woodson, the defensive player of the year from little Green Bay who beat out New York Jets cornerback Darrelle Revis, but Jets coach Rex Ryan has already blasted the reporters who voted for Woodson over Revis.

This from Ryan, as quoted by the Milwaukee [...]

Now what?

It’s been about 16 hours since the Packers were bounced out of the playoffs by the Arizona Cardinals (or is it kicked? Let’s ask Aaron Rodgers about that one). And I’m not bumming about this loss because of the fateful Rodgers fumble that decided it–although from watching numerous replays, it sure looked like his tuck [...]

Matthews finishes third in defensive ROY vote

Get ready for a long line of postseason awards where Packers players don’t get the credit they should. The first such snub came tonight.

Clay Matthews, the Packers’ revelatory rookie linebacker who’s posted 10 sacks, recovered three fumbles, forced another and made 50 tackles this season, finished third in the voting for the NFL’s defensive rookie [...]