Posted by Will BrinsonOkay, "life without" is strong, since Aaron Rodgers should be back sooner than later from his concussion, but there's at least a decent chance that he misses the Miami game this weekend, and the Packers are preparing for that by giving Matt Flynn more than his normal number of reps with the first team.
Although Flynn doesn't think there's anything really THAT wrong with Rodgers.
"He seemed normal," Flynn said. "We were talking, having a normal conversation, playing cards this morning. He doesn’t seem foggy or cloudy or anything."
(Quick aside: I did a lot of chuckling over the obvious notion that a) Flynn really, really, really wants Rodgers to be healthy and the probably-not-true-theory that b) while Rodgers is in a concussed state, Flynn's convincing him to play cards and robbing him blind.)
QB coach Tom Clements also referred to Rodgers as "very lucid" throughout the whole process of getting his bell rung, so that's good news, but no one should expect to see him back at practice before Thursday or Friday at the earliest, and still worry a little bit about Rodgers playing on Sunday.
"It’s definitely possible," Packers coach Mike McCarthy said of Rodgers missing a game. "I know at a minimum he’ll miss some practice time."
On the bright side, Rodgers being sidelined might finally beat the "YOU REALLY SHOULD CONSIDER HAVING A DECENT RUNNING GAME" message everyone's been sending McCarthy's way into his head.
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