March 2016 - Green Bay Packers Wiretap

Jordy Nelson On PUP List With New Left Knee Injury

Jul 26, 2016 8:32 PM

Jordy Nelson has been placed on the physically unable to perform list due to a new left knee injury.

Nelson tore the ACL in his right knee that forced him to miss the entire 2015 season.

Nelson called it a "hiccup" with the left knee and insisted it was minor, but he couldn't put a timetable on his return. 

"Our end goal is still the same," Nelson said Tuesday. "We'll be ready for the regular season. Like I said, there's just a little hiccup with the other leg.

"We're not worried about it. We're going to work through it inside and continue to progress, and we'll be ready to go at some point during camp and definitely for the season."

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Greg Jennings Retires From NFL After 10 Seasons

Jul 25, 2016 11:18 AM

Greg Jennings has announced his retirement from the NFL after 10 seasons.

Jennings said he was "done" with football and is "excited to be done."

"The past 20 years of my life has been football, but today that all changes," he says in the video.

"This smile is not going to be removed -- it's going to be enhanced. The same dedication, the same work ethic that I put into pursuing that sport, this game, I'll be pursuing everything else with the same mindset," he said.

Jennings, 32, said, "physically I know I can do it, I can still play ... but I feel like as though I would be going back to football instead of moving forward."

Jennings signed with the Dolphins last season following his release by the Vikings. Jennings played his first seven seasons with the Pacers.

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Packers Apply To Host NFL Draft

Jul 22, 2016 8:19 AM

The Green Bay Packers have applied to host the NFL draft.

Mark Murphy said that the club has applied to host the event in 2019, 2020 or 2021.

"We think it'd be great for the league to have the draft here and celebrate the smallest market in the NFL," Murphy said.

The draft was held in Chicago for the second consecutive year this spring. The NFL has yet to announce any sites for future drafts. Other cities that have expressed interest in hosting the draft include Atlanta, Chicago, Canton, Dallas, Denver, Jacksonville, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.

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NFL To Interview Clay Matthews, Julius Peppers Over PED Allegations

Jul 22, 2016 10:49 AM

The Green Bay Packers have confirmed that the NFL will interview Clay Matthews and Julius Peppers, who were named in an Al-Jazeera America report linking them to performance-enhancing drugs.

The interviews are expected to take place in Green Bay when training camp opens next week.

"The league is pursuing that," president Mark Murphy said. "I know there's been some resistance from the NFLPA about the credibility of some of the sources there, but I don't think we know much more than that."

Matthews and Peppers have denied the assertions of the Al-Jazeera report.

The initial report came out last December and linked several NFL players, including Peyton Manning, to HGH and other drugs.

"I think it's bulls---, to be completely honest with you," Matthews said back in December. "It's 100 percent falsified, fabricated information. I don't who this guy is. I couldn't tell you what he looks like. I've never talked with him. I've never communicated with him. So for him to bring my name up like that, which appears to be out of thin air, it's bulls---, for a lack of a better term.

"I work hard on my reputation, and really that's all I have," Matthews added. "For seven years, I've worked my ass off. For this guy to say those type of things, it's just not true, and especially for him to recant everything that he said, too, I think it really just goes to show the [type of] source he is, as well. The truth will come out, and I'm not worried about it, because I carry myself a certain way, and that is the right way."

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Jordy Nelson Ahead Of Curve In Knee Rehabilitation

Jul 21, 2016 1:45 PM

Jordy Nelson appears to be ahead of the curve in his rehabilitation from a torn ACL suffered 11 months ago.

Luke Getsy, the receiver's coach for the Green Bay Packers, expressed no doubt in late May when asked if Nelson could be a great player again.

"I'd be a fool to say that the way that guy attacks everything," Getsy said. "He's a guy that sees a barrier and knocks it down. Anybody would be a fool to say they wouldn't expect this guy to come back and be who everyone expects him to be."

Bob McGinn/Milwuakee Journal-Sentinel

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Aaron Rodgers Hopes To Play Entire Career With Packers

Jul 15, 2016 8:19 AM

Aaron Rodgers said on HBO's "Any Given Wednesday" with Bill Simmons that he values loyalty and hopes to play his entire career with the Green Bay Packers.

In a discussion about Kevin Durant joining the NBA's Golden State Warriors and superteams in sports, Rodgers said he respects "guys who go one way, stay with the same team" and said he hopes to be one of them.

"Two of my favorite players from my sports watching growing up, they recently retired," Rodgers told Simmons. "One was Derek Jeter with the Yankees and the other was Kobe Bryant. And then Tim Duncan just retired [this week] and that's a great example too.

"Their legacy, I think it's made in those later years. Derek is one of the best shortstops ever and one of the best Yankees ever. Kobe is one of the greatest Lakers ever. Tim is one of the best power forwards ever and he won all those championships [in one place].

"They stayed with the same team. They stuck it out. I think there's a lot to be said about kind of finishing your legacy with one team. I hope I'm lucky enough to be able to do that."

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