Despite perhaps having more players injured than at any time since 2010, a beat-up Green Bay Packers team has a few things going in its favor today: they are playing at home for the first time in nearly a month, and the 1-5 Jacksonville Jaguars are the opponent.Now, in any given game...blah blah blah. If this is that kind of game, Packer fans, we should all fill our pockets with rocks and walk into the nearest body of water available. The Packers are favored by 15 points at the time of this writing. Yowza! Oddsmakers don't just lay out that kind of spread for no reason.Jags' offensive woesSo what might at least one of those reasons be? How about second-year quarterback Blaine Gabbert? Since trading a second round pick in the 2011 draft to Washington for the right to move up from the No. 16 to No. 10 slot to pick the Missouri QB, and giving him the starting role in game 3 last season, Gabbert and the Jags have gone 5-15. He isn't very likely to run although can when flush...
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PLAYERS:
Blaine Gabbert,
Eugene Monroe,
Clay Matthews,
Justin Blackmon,
Maurice Jones-Drew,
Rashad Jennings,
Greg Jennings,
John Kuhn,
Nick Perry,
Sam Shields,
Charles Woodson,
Jordy Nelson,
B.J. Raji,
Aaron Rodgers
TEAMS: Jacksonville Jaguars, Green Bay Packers
TEAMS: Jacksonville Jaguars, Green Bay Packers
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