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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bagadeez04" data-source="post: 491110" data-attributes="member: 2104">Just a thought that I'm sure has been talked about here, but just seems incredible that last season the Packers lost their last three 1st round picks to IR and still managed to make it to second round of the playoffs. For a "draft and develop" team that is pretty incredible. The larger problem for me is that high draft picks like Bulaga, Sherrod, Perry, Worthy (just off the top of my head) etc... etc... are missing significant amounts of time and thus will not develop as well as the Packers would have hoped. Injuries may very well wreck Sherrod and Worthy, and Perry is attempting to transition from DE to OLB and is surely way behind where he should be. Of course the implications "in-season" are obvious to losing this many players, but the long term hurt this will put on the franchise is more difficult to predict. May be a reason to jump into free agency a bit more to offset those losses from year to year, and also take a look at changing out the strength and conditioning staff. I realize MM isn't a fan of getting rid of his coaches/staff, but this may be a necessary evil. Anyone out there know of a statistical analysis that's been done in the NFL regarding injuries? It would be interesting to see if the Packers are in fact suffering significantly more injuries than other NFL teams over the last few years, or if it's just perceived that way.</blockquote>

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