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Surviving Sunday: Packers News, Notes and Links for the Football Deprived

Found March 25, 2012 on AllGreenBayPackers.com: Yardbarker Blogger Network
PLAYERS: Jeff Saturday,  Scott Wells,  Ted Thompson,  Daniel Muir,  Tim Tebow,  Pat Lee,  Jarrett Bush,  Anthony Hargrove,  Aaron Rodgers,  Nick Collins,  Charlie Peprah,  Roger Goodell,  Donald Driver
TEAMS: Green Bay Packers,  St. Louis Rams,  New York Jets,  Oakland Raiders,  New Orleans Saints
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Surviving Sundays With No Packers Football The Packers signed free agent center Jeff Saturday this week to replace the departed Scott Wells. Yes, I said the Packers signed a free agent. A free agent that I actually heard of, nonetheless. I wasn’t sure how I was supposed to react to this occasion.  It’s been a while since Ted Thompson blew the dust off the checkbook he uses to sign free agents from other teams and actually brought someone in. Fans from other teams often celebrate like they just won the Super Bowl after inking a free agent so….congrats fellow Packers fans? Thompson obviously didn’t know how to react to the occasion, either. He was so confused and out of sorts about what he just did that he turned around and did it again, signing free agent defensive lineman Daniel Muir. Now, Muir fits the mold of a Packers free-agent signing much more than Saturday. Muir is a journeyman that Thompson signed and released once before. He’ll have to fight hard just to make the team and a...
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