The hallmark of the 2016-17 Green Bay Packers has been next man
up all season. On defense the cornerback and inside linebacker positions has
been hit very hard with injuries and on offense it has been running back and
wide receiver. And once again injuries have raised its ugly head with the loss
of Jordy Nelson for the Cowboys game for sure and the season possibly.
The loss of Nelson could hurt more than the loss of Randall
Cobb for the last 2 games of the regular season did. When Cobb went down with
an ankle injury undrafted rookie free agent Geronimo Allison stepped in and did
a great job with 4 catches out of 7 thrown for 66 yards against the Vikings and
4 catches out of 6 thrown for 91 yards and a TD against the Lions.
Last week against the Giants despite Nelson going down early
Allison was only thrown the ball twice catching 1 for 8 yards. It didn't seem to
matter that Nelson was on the sidelines last week with Davante Adams and
Randall Cobb not missing a beat catching 13 of 19 passes for 241 yards and 4
TDs.
In addition tight end Jared Cook continued to be productive
catching 5 of 9 passes for 48 yards and running back Ty Montgomery doing good
work out of the backfield catching 3 of 4 for 41 yards.
The key to last week was the inability of the defense to
plan for Nelson being out and that won't be the case this week for the Cowboys.
Last year with Nelson out the entire season Adams
wasn't up to the task of being the No. 1 receiver after he had begun to show
signs at the end of the 2014 season as being a legitimate go-to man.
