Jones, Poppinga Confident They'll Rise To Challenge

[News Bot]

General Manager Ted Thompson and Head Coach Mike McCarthy have long espoused the philosophy that the most improvement a football team makes from one year to the next comes from within.

For the 2010 Packers, that applies to multiple areas: the offensive line, which with largely the same personnel will be expected to dramatically reduce the 51 sacks allowed a year ago, and the secondary, where young cornerbacks like Brandon Underwood and Pat Lee will be charged with providing the depth that was lacking due to injuries and inexperience last season.

Perhaps most noticeably, it also applies to the outside linebacker position, where to this point the Packers have not used the free-agent market or the draft to try to replace the departed Aaron Kampman, who led the team in quarterback hits prior to his season-ending knee injury in Week 11 last season.

Instead, the onus will fall on second-year pro Brad Jones and sixth-year man Brady Poppinga to make the "improvemen..

Source: Packers.com