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Green Bay Packers players help build playground at Nicolet Elementary School in Green Bay

As a wide receiver for the Green Bay Packers, James Jones has enjoyed some memorable moments on the playing field.

On Tuesday, he was excited to join teammates in a different kind of endeavor: building a playground addition for students at Nicolet Elementary School on Green Bay’s northeast side.

“It’s big to be able to come out here and put some smiles on kids’ faces,” Jones said.
He was joined by teammates Al Harris, T.J. Lang, Breno Giacomini and Evan Dietrich-Smith in the playground project, a partnership with Brown County United Way.

It was part of the NFL-United Way Hometown Huddle, a community outreach effort marking its 11th year in NFL communities throughout the country.

Click here to read the full article – By Scott Williams of greenbaypressgazette.com

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The Green Bay Packers have signed running back Ahman Green, bringing back another veteran.

Faced with a need at the position after third-down back DeShawn Wynn hurt his knee, the Packers turned to Green, who has been out of football since being cut by Houston in February. He left the Packers to sign with the Texans as a free agent for the 2007 season but struggled, gaining 554 yards in 14 games over two seasons.

Green needs 46 more yards to surpass Jim Taylor’s franchise rushing record of 8,207.

Click here to read the full article – By Associated Press of espn.com

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Short-passing game aiding the run

In the early 1990s, Mike Holmgren’s Green Bay Packers couldn’t run the ball. Not with any kind of consistency anyway.

So early in his first season, 1992, the former Packers coach used a substitute, the short-passing game, with mostly check downs and screens.

From 1992 to 1995, Holmgren’s Packers never averaged more than 3.7 yards a carry for a season, hardly the kind of running game that gave opponents pause and certainly a liability against the league’s best defenses. But in those same four seasons, Holmgren compensated, to a degree at least, by throwing to his backs:

Vince Workman and Harry Sydney (98 catches combined) in ’92, and Edgar Bennett from ’93 to ’95 (an average of 66.3 receptions a season).

Click here to read the full article – By pete dougherty of wisinfo.com

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Packers have easy time with Lions

The Green Bay Packers moved back toward their roots in the West Coast offense with good, but not great, results.

They surely accomplished their most important goal on Sunday at Lambeau Field, beating the under-talented and short-handed Detroit Lions 26-0 in a game that was about as easy as wins come in the NFL.

But the Packers also are searching for the rhythm to an offense that figured to be one of the NFL’s best but instead has been underwhelming early in the 2009 season.

To that end, they turned to more of a short, ball-control passing game that moved the ball with far more ease (435 yards) than in the previous four games.

But it was far from an unmitigated success because of familiar problems that have short-circuited them since the start of the regular season, namely penalties (seven on offense) and leaky pass protection that though improved from their last game at Minnesota, still allowed five sacks.

Click here to read the full article – By Pete Dougherty of Wisinfo.com

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