Packers LB Nick Barnett out for season...

[MrBill]

Just saw this on Twitter....huge blow to the Packers defense.

@Adam_Schefter Packers LB Nick Barnett is out for season after suffering a wrist injury similar to one that ended Brian Urlacher's season last year.

 

[Colonel Angus]

This has been about as bad a week for me as a Packers fan that I can remember. Now that Barnett is on IR I think it's safe to say the Packers are done. The defense was already pretty shaky with the starters they had. Everyone seems to be holding out hope that the guys coming off the PUP list after week 6 will immediately contribute in midseason form. Yeah, that will not be the case. It's going to be a long season for Packer fans..

 

[Spidey]

I'm not losing faith yet but it certainly seems this season is edging closer and closer to a throw away. Barnett out for season, Burnett out for season, Chillar likely to miss time, Grant out for season, Collins possibly out this week, Tauscher possibly out this week (although this may be a blessing as he hasn't looked good).

I am not going to panic until we start losing games. Im certainly concerned though. I like Barnett but I feel like we can survive without him. Really, his loss is compounded by the loss of Chillar. Once Chillar is back, that should help. My big concern is our safety situation if Collins can't go. Our safetys this week if Collins cant go will be Charlie Peprah and Derrick Martin with Jarrett "I have incriminating pictures of TT so I cant be cut despite being the worst football player on the planet" Bush backing them up. Thats a disaster waiting to happen.

 

[MrBill]

This has been about as bad a week for me as a Packers fan that I can remember. Now that Barnett is on IR I think it's safe to say the Packers are done. The defense was already pretty shaky with the starters they had. Everyone seems to be holding out hope that the guys coming off the PUP list after week 6 will immediately contribute in midseason form. Yeah, that will not be the case. It's going to be a long season for Packer fans..

This has been a shitty year for injuries but we still have a long way to go to match the 2005 season. The Packers lost more starters to injury than any other year in team history.

 

[Blade]

Time for AJ Hawk to step up.

 

[Tengo Juego]

Dammit! I just said he'll be fine in that Lynch thread. Now I look like an idiot.

Even worse, we have another hole to fill. Desmond Bishop you wanted your PT. Better make the most of it.

 

[Senser81]

Whatever happened to Brad Jones?

 

[Spidey]

Whatever happened to Brad Jones?

He was hurt earlier in the season. Since then I'm not sure. I swear I read somewhere that he had fallen out of favor with the coaching staff and that they had grown quite fond of Frank Zombo. I'll see if I can find where I may have read that. Until then, take that with a grain of salt. My memory is not what it used to be after years of binge drinking through high school and college and beyond.

EDIT:
This is the best I could come up with. From 9/30/2010. Doesn't say that Jones has fallen out of favor. Just that he was hurt, Zombo played well and will continue to start even with Jones coming back from injury.

GREEN BAY -- Brad Jones’ long list of injuries in his short career has caught up with him.

Undrafted rookie Frank Zombo, who got a sack and generally played well in place of Jones on Monday night at Chicago, has supplanted the second-year Jones as the starter.

“It is something we have talked about here since I have arrived,” coach Mike McCarthy said on Wednesday. “You have to be available and you need to be accountable, and Brad is going through an injury situation right now. I’m not sure if he is healthy enough to play Sunday, so we’re going to play the prepared players.”

Jones, who missed part of training camp last year as a rookie with a back injury, played in only one preseason game this summer because of back and shoulder problems. Early in Week 2 against Buffalo, Jones suffered a knee injury but played most of the game anyway. He was limited at practice all week and was inactive for the Chicago game.

Jones was listed as a full participant at Wednesday’s light practice but it was Zombo and Clay Matthews playing with the starters.

“We’re going to play the experienced players,” McCarthy said. “I felt as a staff, particularly the last two weeks, that we have been way too up-and-down during the course of the week of trying to prepare players based on their health situation and waiting on a certain number of individuals to get healthy by the end of the week. So, it is something that I actually addressed in the team meeting today, the ability to prepare and play the prepared player over going back and forth all week. Frank Zombo is the starting outside linebacker today.”

Zombo was involved in one of the key plays of the Chicago game, when his hit on quarterback Jay Cutler led to Nick Barnett’s interception. Zombo, however, was flagged for a helmet-to-helmet hit on Cutler, nullifying the interception and allowing the Bears to drive for the tying field goal.

“I saw it in the preseason,” Matthews said. “We bought in three rookie free agents, and I told him (then), I really thought he had a good chance of making this team. He worked hard. That’s the biggest thing you want to see from guys trying to make this team — their progression as a player, and how hard they’re willing to work. That’s what he’s continued to do. It’s a fantastic story. I think it’s great. He needs to continue to develop.

“Who knows? He might come out, get three or four sacks, and then you guys will be lining up at his locker and I’ll be over here going, ‘What the heck, guys?’ But I like him. I’m a big fan of his, and I really do pull for him.”

 

[Primetime]

AJ Hawk played great last week. Hopefully he can step up his performance like that throughout the season. Barnett is irreplaceable, but Hawk can at least mask the effect of his injury. Hopeful the guys on the line can step up and stop the run throughout the season. If not, it's going to be a long line of disappointments this year. The offense should still be able to win enough games to get a playoff spot if we find a running game. TT needs to step up and get his head out of his ass immediately to make some moves. His ego isn't helping us at all at this point.

 

[Colonel Angus]

It's not really that Barnett is a great player either. He's rarely a key difference maker from week to week. It's just that he is probably the most experienced player on that defense other than Woodson, and he makes the reads before each play. It was obvious how much he meant to the defense when he blew out his knee in 2008. That defense was hard to watch and it was the last straw before switching the scheme going into 2009.

I think it's going to be a disaster on Sunday, but I really hope I'm proved wrong!

 

[Aso]

I think they did lose a great player. Nick Barnett could do just about everything. Stopping the run, blitzing, pass coverage. HUGE blow to that defense.

 

[Rayman]

Is Brady Poppinga still on the roster?

 

[Spidey]

Is Brady Poppinga still on the roster?

Yeah. Spent some time injured but still there. I think he's fine now. Not sure.

In other Packers bad? or good? news...

RT @MattBowen41 NFL source tells the NFP's @BradBiggs that Packers' Mark Tauscher could miss significant time. http://bit.ly/aUwCS3

Tausch has not been playing well so not sure this matters all that much. Packers have been preparing Bulaga to play for him this week.

 

[ram29jackson]

This has been about as bad a week for me as a Packers fan that I can remember. Now that Barnett is on IR I think it's safe to say the Packers are done. The defense was already pretty shaky with the starters they had. Everyone seems to be holding out hope that the guys coming off the PUP list after week 6 will immediately contribute in midseason form. Yeah, that will not be the case. It's going to be a long season for Packer fans..

As bad a week as you can remember?
long season for packers fans?

you havent been around or been a Packers fan for that long at all.

theres a couple small issues that wll be fine as the season goes on.
its peaches and cream compared to any Packer woes of the past.
Absolutely nothing to worry about yet.

 

[Colonel Angus]

As bad a week as you can remember?
long season for packers fans?

you havent been around or been a Packers fan for that long at all.

theres a couple small issues that wll be fine as the season goes on.
its peaches and cream compared to any Packer woes of the past.
Absolutely nothing to worry about yet.

If you're relating to anything before the Favre era, no. Haven't been around that long. The worst was the 05 season (I think) where Brett said "Superbowl or bust" and then they came out opening game and lost to Detroit. Javon Walker blew his knee out that game too. They then went 4-12. I think that was the worst.

This rivals it though. I think you guys are a little bit too optimistic. This is baaaad.

 

[Tengo Juego]

Whatever happened to Brad Jones?

Hurt, then lost his job to the better playing Zombo.

Is Brady Poppinga still on the roster?

Yep, but sucks at OLB. Cant pass rush, only good on special teams.

Barnett is having second thoughts about season ending surgery per JSO

Curious if they could immobilize the wrist with a club as they did with Jenkins.. 4 months to go in the season though, may not be realistic.

It would be a full arm club. Shit, that would be a weapon lol.

 

[Primetime]

Barnett and Chillar are both getting 2nd opinions on their season ending injuries.