Tom Silverstein

Packers seeking a Super defense again through NFL draft

There's a reason the Green Bay Packers have been pursuing defensive linemen as if they are a desperate team.

Because they are desperate.

Except it's not the ordinary desperation you see when a team devoid of talent seeks to fill major holes in its lineup with whatever material it can find.

The Packers are looking for competition among their ranks.

Packers' Murphy predicts chaos if NFL lockout is lifted

The National Football League is at a crossroads.

It is at the intersection of chaos-and-confusion and delay-and-deliberation and only the court of law can determine its path.

Players without structure in their lives will be hurt most by lockout

Only a few are willing to predict there won't be an NFL season in 2011, not with $9 billion at stake for the owners and players.

As the current lockout threatens to go from weeks to months and the off-season from delayed to non-existent, the bigger question facing the country's most popular sport is this: Will the games that are played be NFL quality?

(Charles Rex Arbogast/The Associated Press)
A worker at Soldier Field clears snow from the field during the first half an NFL divisional playoff football game between the Chicago Bears and the Seattle Seahawks, Sunday, Jan. 16, 2011, in Chicago.

Soldier Field official stands up for its sod

MILWAUKEE -- The general manager of Soldier Field, the site of the NFC Championship Game between the Green Bay Packers and the Chicago Bears, said Monday that the Chicago Park District and the Bears have no plans to replace the sod in advance of Sunday's game.

Woodson looks like a natural in Packers' new 3-4 scheme

GREEN BAY, Wis. -- In many ways, things are different for Green Bay Packers cornerback Charles Woodson. In other ways, they're the same.
Different: He's playing in a 3-4 defense.
The same: He's playing left cornerback and jumping routes.
Different: His early morning wake-up call no longer requires an alarm clock; his 7-month-old son takes care of it.

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