Thursday Sports 12/6/18
6 December 2018 Sports
Sports from Wayne Mausser
The Packers’ playoff hopes are not quite extinct, but there is still focus within the Packers locker room. No, not urgency to make the post-season, it’s all about self-preservation after the changes in recent days.
“I think everybody is kind of realizing that we are all under a microscope even more,” quarterback Aaron Rodgers said. “Who knows what the changes are going to be after the season. There is the feeling that more eyes are on all of us, whether it is Mark, or Brian, or scouts. I feel like the energy was good today. Unfortunately the urgency that you need earlier in the season, we kind of had out there at practice today.”
When the schedule came out in April, everyone thought t he Falcons-Packers game Sunday would be a marquee December matchup. But the only team more disappointing than the Packers this year has to be the 4-8 Falcons. Both of these teams had high hopes coming into the 2018 campaign. Sunday’s game starts at noon.
Meanlwhile, Packers interim head coach Joe Philbin said that it wasn’t easy to let associate head coach Winston Moss go from the coaching staff, but that he came to the decision because he “just didn’t feel like the fit right now was where it needs to be.”
Philbin spoke on Wednesday before his first practice as the interim coach to replace the fired Mike McCarthy . Moss posted a message on Twitter on Tuesday that appeared to question that Packers leadership and quarterback Aaron Rodgers. Philbin also said he will be calling the offensive plays.
The Packers on Wednesday claimed DL Fadol Brown off waivers from the Oakland Raiders, claimed CB Natrell Jamerson off waivers from the Houston Texans and placed RB Tra Carson and CB Kevin King on injured reserve.
Boys Basketball
Waupun @ Ripon…Tipoff is at 7:15 on AM1600 and 93.1FM.
Berlin @ Kettle Moraine Lutheran
Plymouth @ Campbellsport
Winneconne @ Kewaskum
Girls Basketball
Laconia @ St. Mary’s Springs
Omro @ North Fond du Lac
Lomira @ Winnebago Lutheran
Central Wisconsin Christian @ Wayland Academy
Dodgeland @ Lourdes Academy
Montello @ Markesan
Princeton/Green Lake @ Fall River
NBA-Milwaukee 115, Detroit 92-Eric Bledsoe led the Bucks with 27 points.
Share |