Wisconsin News and Sports
The 2012 NFL schedule will be released tonight (6pm CT) on a three-hour show on the NFL Network.
Many thought the Green Bay Packers would face the Giants in the Kickoff Week opener. But that game belongs instead to the Dallas Cowboys and New York Giants in New York.
Besides divisional opponents, the Packers will play home games against Arizona, San Francisco, New Orleans, Jacksonville and Tennessee. [Read more...]
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell lowered the boom on the New Orleans
Roger Goodell (left)
Saints today, penalizing team management for violations of the NFL’s long-standing “bounty” rule that endangered player safety over a three-year period.
The NFL’s investigation established the existence of an active bounty program on the Saints during the 2009, 2010 and 2011 seasons in violation of league rules, a deliberate effort to conceal the program’s existence from league investigators, and a clear determination to maintain the program despite express direction from Saints ownership that it stop as well as ongoing inquiries from the league office. [Read more...]
NFL owners have been opening their purse strings for wide receivers over the
Greg Jennings
last two days.
The latest deal is by far the biggest after Detroit gave receiver Calvin Johnson a reported 8-year deal worth $132-million with $60-million in guarantees.
So what does that deal and a number of others mean for Green Bay Packers wide receiver Greg Jennings?
Well, it’ll likely mean that Jennings asking price will go way up. His contract expires at the end of the upcoming season. He’s certain to be looking at a huge bump in pay. The question is, will the Packers be able to afford that bump?
Just how well Randall Cobb and Jordy Nelson continue to develop could depend just how much the Packers might be willing to pay.
For two seasons, Green Bay Packers defensive end Mike Neal has had a
Mike Neal
hard time staying on the field and when he was healthy enough to play, the results were minimal at best.
Neal was recently handed a 4-game suspension by the NFL for violating the league’s policy on performance-enhancing substances.
The 2010 second round draft pick out of Purdue can participate in the off-season program and training camp. If Neal makes the regular season 53-man roster, he’ll have to serve a 4-game suspension without pay.
In his two seasons in Green Bay, Neal has played in 10 out 37 games. Last season, he played in the final eight games and made no impact. [Read more...]
The Green Bay Packers have until 3pm today to reach a deal with any of their seven soon-to-be free agents. Without a deal by that deadline, the players will become unrestricted free agents and can negotiate with any other team in the league.
The top two in the Packers free agent class is center Scott Wells and defensive back/special teamer Jarrett Bush.
Packers general manager Ted Thompson has just shy of $7-million in salary cap space and he could be working on a deal to get Wells signed before the deadline.
Besides Wells and Bush, the Packers have five other players set to become free agents later today. They are: QB Matt Flynn, RB Ryan Grant, DE Howard Green, CB Pat Lee and LB Erik Walden.
Ryan Grant’s agent last week said his client will test the market, but the Packers have told him they would like to have him back.
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