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He had 3 tackles on kick returns for the Packers this week. Good to see they are at least letting him play. Good story in my opinion. Cut from the Steelers, at least getting to play for the Packers. Better than being out of the league.
 

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Here's some ofthe Packers practice report from today. Notice that the team is having all kinds of injury problems at RB and four different runners are mentioned as possibly seeing some playing time on Sunday. Guess who isn't mentioned at all?


The musical chairs at the running back position continues.

RB Vernand Morency (knee) was limited again Thursday but has done enough to show the coaches that he's ready to play unless he suffers a setback. He injured his knee in the first training camp practice back in July and missed the entire pre-season. Given that head coach Mike McCarthy said he will only have four backs on his game day roster, he'll need to figure out which backup to de-activate. That could be rookie RB Brandon Jackson (shin), who did not practice Thursday and was added to the injury report. It's unlikely rookie RB DeShawn Wynn will be inactive because he has been entrenched as the third-down back of late and has been their most productive back. The same goes for backup RB Ryan Grant, who is a key special teams player. That could leave Jackson as the odd man out.

"(Morency) looked good two days in a row," McCarthy said after Thursday's practice. "I think he's put together back-to-back practices where in the past he's been frustrated the day after a hard practice because of the way he feels."

 

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i don't get why they took a guy that wasn't really a blocking fullback for Steelers and made him their second string Fb... makes no sense for me. especially since in a very limited action for Steelers he looked very solid running and catching a ball.
 
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Kuhn did get in on in some offensive plays last week, but those only took away from Korey Hall except the one play they had two fullbacks in. What I seen from what you can gleen from the TV is that he had at least two solid blocks one against a much larger lineman and one versus a LB, no pancakes but he did seal off his man. I'm unsure of his position on the coverage units, but I think his job is to seal off the backside of the return which of course allows the "athletes" to get the glory for the most part.
 

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well, i really don't see, struggling as they are with their RB by commitee approach, why they won't give Kuhn a couple of carries. what do they have to lose?
 
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Hall I believe has all of 3 catches so maybe McCarthy has his caste orders. Truthfully its not very often that the upman in a two back set gets a carry these days regardless of his color. Not like the days of Taylor and Hornung or even Alstott and Dunn. But since coaches follow the trends I don't see them doing much to challenge conventional wisdom.
 

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i don't mean for Kuhn to get an occasional carry from the FB spot, like Hoover, or Karney occasionaly get, what i mean is for him to line up as a tailback, akin to what Pats do with Heath Evans at times.
 
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Now is the time when they are running a spread to utilize Kuhn even if the "real" rb is used as a decoy with motion. He has been in on some plays in a set either for an outside run or pass, but enough tape exists that the coaches should add a variable with Kuhn or Hall taking a few handoffs to keep the others off guard.
 

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Yes john is not starting but what s the big deal? White rookie fb form boise state( his name escapes me at the time)is starting and im fine w\that
 

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celticdb15 said:
Yes john is not starting but what s the big deal?  White rookie fb form boise state( his name escapes me at the time) is starting and im fine w\that

the big deal is that John Kuhn is probably the best RUNNINGBACK they have on a roster. and seeing how Morency had 1 carry for 2 yrds before going down and how their other RBs have this kind of stats:

Brandon Jackson 38 97 2.6 9 1
DeShawn Wynn23 87 3.8 38 2

i really don't understand why don't they give Kuhn a chance. i mean those are stats after four games... 97 yards and 2.6 ypc for their leading rusher, what do they have to lose?
 
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Their caste gimp standings that is what. Imagine what the "athletes" would be saying about giving the ball to an unapproved white rb? The Caste Gimps would react in horror as well even if he matched the production of the "real" rbs. People get by by not innovating they get by by going with the flow, and it is no different with sports. This is Don King's America everyone knows there is something wrong with the ship, but like people thruout time they go back to believing in the old magic and refuse to even contemplate the end.
 
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I'm not the greatest guru, but it seems a guy in the fullback position could get 3 yards a carry as a given with the defense playing their gaps and waiting for an lb to cover up the hole. This would also draw in the defense giving the scat back type a one up match on the outside from a swingpass on a play action. And Kuhn looks like he has the legs to push it up the gut.
 
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It looked as if Kuhn is taking away snaps from Hall, maybe Hall's neck is slowing him down.
 
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Missed a block on a punt, probably the play that broke the Pack's back. But they came in intimidated by the weather, and all around regardless of race they sucked except Poppinga.
 

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Kuhn was crapped on by Pittsburgh even though he played well in his two carries
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. He barely made the practice squad even though he is better than the majority of the running backs in the league. He will always be considered a blocker no matter what. Classic example of white discrimination in the NFL.
 

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Kuhn has had 1 rush in each of the past two games, his first two in a season and a half as the Packers' human battering ram. The taboo against letting the few white fullbacks left carry the ball is almost as strong as it is with white tailbacks.
 
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Have no fear McCarthy is no doubt being bad mouthed by the brain dead morons who enforce the caste system.
 
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The fullbacks got one penalty today that is about it, so the loss must be their fault by caste logic. Hall got that penalty to resorting to tackling Jared Allen, or an attempt to tackle "the force."
 
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Kuhn two runs for first downs, McCarthy will be summoned to Caste HQ to explain this. All in all it looked like a good day for the fullbacks for not being in the Jim era (Taylor, Brown)
 
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Kuhn a nice effort to put the pig in the endzone. But leave it to the announcers to mock his leap.
 
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