{"id":100,"date":"2017-10-25T17:37:46","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T17:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/thegreenandgolden\/?p=100"},"modified":"2017-11-17T17:40:26","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T17:40:26","slug":"the-quarterback-situation-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/thegreenandgolden\/2017\/10\/25\/the-quarterback-situation-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"The Quarterback Situation- Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good afternoon my fellow Packers fans!<\/p>\n<p>As you all probably know, the Packers have a BYE this week.\u00a0 That comes with some good news and some bad news.\u00a0 The bad news is that this Sunday will be Packerless.\u00a0 The good news though, is that there are plenty of other games we can watch to pass the time AND it will give our injury-ridden team a little break to help them heal up and come back good as new!\u00a0 Well, maybe not good as\u00a0<em>new,\u00a0<\/em>but possibly good as gently used?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/thegreenandgolden\/files\/2017\/10\/awkwardsmilegif.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-101\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/thegreenandgolden\/files\/2017\/10\/awkwardsmilegif-300x219.gif\" alt=\"awkwardsmilegif\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, Aaron Rodgers will not be one of the players who is ready to go after the BYE week.\u00a0 So for this post, we&#8217;re going to take a look at the guys we&#8217;ve got at the QB positions.<\/p>\n<p>Our current QB situation includes Brett Hundley as our starter, Joe Callahan as the backup QB, and newly signed Jerod Evans on the practice squad.<\/p>\n<p>Brett Hundley has improved a lot since being thrown into the game unexpectedly after Rodgers got hurt in Minnesota.\u00a0 We have seen some rookie mistakes, but that is to be expected.\u00a0 Hundley may not be Aaron Rodgers, but he hasn&#8217;t had the time to gain the experiences that Rodgers has.\u00a0 As I&#8217;ve said before, give the guy some time.<\/p>\n<p>Hundley has done some very positive things though since his first start.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve seen him be quick, risky and confident.\u00a0 All things we expect out of a Green Bay Packers QB right?\u00a0 Last week against the Saints, Hundley showed that he could move the ball down the field quickly, and get the ball off quickly too.\u00a0 Hundley also showed that he is willing to take risks and is confident in himself.\u00a0 When he could have played it safe and thrown the ball out of bounds, he instead threw into a few tight spots with defenders close.\u00a0 When Hundley could have slid or ran out of bounds just short of the goal line to avoid a hit, he instead dived into the endzone to score a TD.\u00a0 \u00a0Promising stuff to see from a new guy!<\/p>\n<p>So for now at least, it seems that Ted Thompson and Mike McCarthy are pretty pleased with what they&#8217;ve seen so far out of Hundley, and won&#8217;t be making any changes to the lineup which is something we should all be able to live with.\u00a0 Good luck Hundley! You&#8217;ve got big shoes to fill!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/thegreenandgolden\/files\/2017\/10\/NoPressuregif.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-102\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/thegreenandgolden\/files\/2017\/10\/NoPressuregif-300x167.gif\" alt=\"NoPressuregif\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Go Pack Go!<\/p>\n<p>-KQ<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good afternoon my fellow Packers fans! As you all probably know, the Packers have a BYE this week.\u00a0 That comes with some good news and some bad news.\u00a0 The bad news is that this Sunday will be Packerless.\u00a0 The good news though, is that there are plenty of other games we can watch to pass [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7469,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[584195],"tags":[653764,654151,646678,655844,655448,653639,471977,655987,656372,656743],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-things-green-and-gold","tag-aaron-rodgers","tag-brett-hundley","tag-bye","tag-jerod-evans","tag-joe-callahan","tag-mike-mccarthy","tag-minnesota","tag-rookie","tag-saints","tag-ted-thompson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/thegreenandgolden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/thegreenandgolden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/thegreenandgolden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/thegreenandgolden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7469"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/thegreenandgolden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/thegreenandgolden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/thegreenandgolden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/thegreenandgolden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/thegreenandgolden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/thegreenandgolden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}