German_Force » Packers shopping Trevor Davis before final cuts

Jace Sternberger Jersey Mens , per report The Green Bay Packers don’t have to submit final cuts to the NFL league office for several hours, and the team apparently wishes to use that time to seek a trade partner. According to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel’s Tom Silverstein, the Packers have begun shopping Trevor Davis.Typically, teams don’t shop a player in the hours before final cutdown if it intends to keep him on the 53-man roster. That would suggest the Packers have already decided to move on from Davis and simply hope to find any modicum of value for him. General manager Brian Gutekunst has already consummated multiple trades in his first year on the job, most recently dealing backup quarterback Brett Hundley to the Seattle Seahawks for a sixth-round pick.A third-year wide receiver of California, Davis led all Green Bay returners last season with 22.8 yards per kickoff and 12.0 yards per punt. However, he missed nearly all of training camp and the preseason while nursing a hamstring injury and didn’t see any live action until last Thursday’s preseason finale against the Kansas City Chiefs. Davis fumbled a punt during the first half, perhaps eliminating his chances to remain with his current team.With J’Mon Moore Youth Jace Sternberger Jersey , Marquez Valdes-Scantling, and Equanimeous St. Brown -- three rookies drafted in April -- competing for roster spots at wideout along with training-camp darling Jake Kumerow, the Packers might have determined they lack space for a special-teams contributor like Davis. The team must submit final cuts by 3 p.m. CT Saturday afternoon. Separate and apart from the question of whether Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers should be talking publicly about his apparent disagreement with the lack of freedom he’ll have at the line of scrimmage in the team’s new offense is the question of whether he should have more freedom at the line of scrimmage.Although I disagree with the airing of dirty laundry (as the owner of a football news website, I approve of it), I agree with Rodgers’ belief that his 11 years of experience has helped him develop a football supercomputer in his brain that allows him to process pre-snap information and to make decisions about whether to change the play that was called and, more importantly, which play to call in its place.It’s nevertheless a delicate balance, as illustrated by the article published earlier this year by Tyler Dunne of BleacherReport.com.“When you put a quarterback in a position and you talk about how cerebral he is and you give him flexibility to make some changes White Jace Sternberger Jersey , guess what?” former Packers running back Ryan Grant told Dunne. “You develop A.I., because it has the capacity to run without you. And then when it runs without you, it’s like, ‘Wait a minute!’ But in the same breath, if you’re not actually able to stay ahead of it, it’s going to outthink you and it’s going to say, ‘Me making the decision is the better decision.'”As a result, and as Grant said of Rodgers http://www.packerslockerroom.com/authentic-brett-hundley-jersey ,”You live and die by his greatness.”That greatness resulted in an increasing amount of freelancing from Rodgers in the latter years of the Mike McCarthy regime. Dunne cited one unnamed source in support of the position that Rodgers changed roughly a third of the plays that McCarthy called.“An alarming amount,” the source told Dunne. “That is embarrassing. And they don’t work!”Rodgers routinely audibled out of running plays, Dunne reported. Rodgers also, according to Dunne, would expect receivers to run not the route dictated by the play call but the route Rodgers wanted them to run.It came to a head against the Patriots, when receiver Equanimeous St. Brown was supposed to run a flag route, St. Brown ran a post route at Rodgers’ direction, Rodgers while under pressure threw the ball to the flag Ty Summers Jersey Mens , St. Brown wasn’t there because he’d run a post, and St. Brown admitted when grilled by coaches that he improvised in order to stay on the quarterback’s good side.The question is whether the new coach will stay on the quarterback’s good side. It could be that LaFleur is willing to risk some short-term Aaron alienation in order to avoid having A.R.’s A.I. take over, like it apparently did under McCarthy.