Archive for May 21st, 2011
Game 6: Hook, Line and S(t)inker
by Boris on May.21, 2011, under Commentary, Game Recaps
October 17th 2010
It was a week of uncertainty and anxiety for the Green Bay Packers. They had inexplicably lost a game they should have won the week before in Washington D.C. but worse, they had lost a veritable battalion of players–including Quarterback Aaron Rodgers who had suffered a concussion on the game’s last play.
Given the NFL’s newly mandated policy toward head injuries, Rodgers had to go through a stringent battery of tests to prove he was in good enough shape mentally to play the following week vs. Miami.
Rodgers sacked by Miami 5 times
There were other questions about other players as well–including play-making tight end Jermichael Finley, who a few days earlier had confidently said his knee injury suffered against Washington was “nothing major”. Now, unsettling stories were coming out of Green Bay that the injury was a lot more serious than first thought. He would certainly not play against the Dolphins and anything after that was up in the air.
As a team, the Packers were reeling. They had lost twice on last-second field goals but had played so poorly in both games that very little consolation could be taken from how close they were. Indeed, they had played almost as poorly in their 3 wins. They finally received some good news late in the week when Rodgers was cleared to play. A home game against an up & down Dolphins team seemed like terrific medicine for the Packers.
But a familiar script was about to be written.
