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Sylvester Williams Jersey , Wis. (AP) — The Green Bay Packers were missing star quarterback Aaron Rodgers when they closed last season with a road loss to
the Detroit Lions.When the Packers return to Detroit on Sunday, Rodgers could be
without his top three receivers.Davante Adams injured a calf on Wednesday and
did not practice on Thursday.Randall Cobb injured a hamstring last week, didn’t
play on Sunday against Buffalo and hasn’t practiced this week.Geronimo Allison
suffered a concussion last week and hasn’t practiced this week, either.“We got a
little thin at practice,” coach Mike McCarthy said on Thursday morning.That’s
one way to put it.Of the Packers’ 103 completed passes for 1,185 yards and seven
touchdowns, 64 catches, 768 yards and six touchdowns have been made by Adams,
Allison and Cobb.The receivers who potentially could be in the lineup on Sunday
have a combined two catches for 41 yards and zero touchdowns.The next men up are
rookies: fifth-round draft pick Marquez Valdes-Scantling, fourth-round pick
J’Mon Moore and sixth-round pick Equanimeous St. Brown.“At some point in the
season, your young players are going to play, and our receiver position is
potentially in that situation
http://www.lionslockerroom.com/authentic-matt-prater-jersey ,” McCarthy said.Valdes-Scantling played 20 snaps in the first three games and 54
on Sunday against Buffalo, when Cobb was inactive. He has the two receptions.
Moore didn’t play on offense in the first three games before playing 11 snaps
after Allison went down against Buffalo. St. Brown hasn’t played on
offense.“They’re getting better,” Rodgers said. “You guys don’t see the
practices, but J’Mon’s been making a lot plays in practice and improving and
same with Eq. (Valdes-Scantling’s) been ahead of those guys for a while and
getting more opportunities, as you saw last week with Cobby being out and him
being first up.“But I told those guys before Week 1, ‘You’re all going to get an
opportunity at some point. When you step in, there’s an expectation you’re going
to make the plays.’ So, we’ve got to keep improving in practice.”There’s time
for one or more of the starters to get healthy. With their pedigrees, McCarthy
would feel comfortable playing any of the three without any practice time.Still,
there appears to be at least a decent chance that Green Bay will go into a key
NFC North game without any of its top three receivers.“I think we’ve still got
some progress to make before I think both sides would be comfortable,” Cobb
said. “It’s a long season and we’re on Game 5, but at the same time
Womens Anthony Zettel Jersey , it’s a short season, and we’re on Game 5.“So, it’s trying to balance both of those. If something was to happen and I
re-injure the same hamstring, it’s going to put me out for double the time. So,
it’s trying to be smart on both sides of it, which I struggle with because I
play through emotion.”Of the three rookies, Moore entered training camp as the
front-runner to be the team’s No. 4 receiver.However, as Moore dropped passes
throughout the summer, Valdes-Scantling’s consistency allowed him to jump to the
top of the list.“I always prepare like I’m going to be the No. 1 receiver,”
Valdes-Scantling said.“You just never know. This game is a contact sport where
injuries are 100 percent bound to happen, so you just never know when someone
will go down, and you’ve got to prepare to play every position and every
play.”Given the outlook at receiver
Womens Barry Sanders Jersey , Rodgers might have to direct the passing game elsewhere. Tight end Jimmy Graham is fourth on the team with 16 receptions
and running back Ty Montgomery, who started his career as a receiver, is fifth
with 11.Notes: For the second consecutive week, Rodgers practiced on Thursday.
He had limited participation last week but full this week … To bolster the
receiver group, Green Bay signed DeAngelo Yancey to the practice squad. A
fifth-round pick last year, he spent all of his rookie season on the practice
squad. … CB Kevin King, who injured a groin in Week 2 vs. Minnesota and has
missed the past two games, had full participation for the second consecutive
day, but S Kentrell Brice was added to the report and was limited by an ankle
injury. Late in the fourth quarter of Sunday’s game, the Lions had the lead and
the ball and called a third down swing pass that appeared to seal the win: It
picked up the first down, the Cardinals were out of timeouts, and it seemed for
a moment that Detroit would just run out the clock and head home
victorious.Instead
Womens Levine Toilolo Jersey , the play was waved off because the officials ruled that the Lions called timeout an instant before the ball was
snapped. It was Lions offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell who signaled for the
timeout, but head coach Matt Patricia took responsibility for it afterward,
saying it was his call.“I’m calling the timeouts,” Patricia said, via the
.Patricia said he didn’t realize Matthew Stafford was going to be able to get
the center to snap the ball before the play clock expired, and he feared a delay
of game penalty.“We’re looking at the play clock trying to get that stuff down
and get it figured out at that point. Stafford did a great job of getting it
off, but really again, whether it was at 0 [seconds on the play clock] or 1,
either way, the mechanics, the way that works with the officials, the guy back
there
Eli Harold Jersey , he’s staring at the play clock and he sees it. So again, we’d rather be in third-and-5 than [take a penalty and be in] third-and-10 in
that got-to-have-it situation. We’ve just got to go out and execute the next
play,” Patricia said.As it turned out, after the timeout, the Lions threw an
incomplete pass on third down, giving the Cardinals plenty of time to march down
the field and score, sending the game into overtime. The Lions ended up with a
tie, in a game they thought they had won.
