Packers/Bears Pregame Show!!!

Chris Brooks placed on injured reserve.

He's gonna miss at least four weeks.

It's a loss for Green Bay, there's no question about that.

Uh, but I think they're gonna be able to manage it.

It's not like Chris Brooks has been phenomenal as a runner so far, and in fact, he's taken a step back as a pass protector as well.

He's been fine.

In fact, you could argue he's been the best of the three running backs so far.

At least hasn't had major fumble issues, which is a plus, and I still think he's better at pass pro than either MarShawn Lloyd or Caleb Johnson are, so there's that as well.

So I do think this is a bit of a loss, but you do have Pierre Strong now coming up, and he can do some of the Chris Brooks stuff, uh, and, and I think probably will be, or at least have a really good chance to be a third down back.

Um, I think, you know, we might see Strong as a kick returner, which we saw in preseason, and I just think in general, we're, we're probably gonna see more of him.

You know, Caleb and MarShawn have not done anything to just own that spot.

It's probably gonna be by committee, and we'll see what Pierre Strong has.

But it's a loss in some capacity for Green Bay and just another injury to the injury list, but that was the only move that took place, and they already covered for it.

They knew Chris Brooks was not gonna be playing in this game.

He was just gonna be inactive, and this opens or at l- at least ticks off the four-week absence, right? If he would've waited till Monday, now this game would not have counted towards that four-game absence, and now he would've had to have missed an additional four games.

So by getting it in on Saturday, this is game one that counts towards that four-game absence.

So smart of Green Bay to do it that way if he did in fact need an IR stint.

No practice squad call-ups on Saturday.

That was not a surprise.

I was asked about that, I think, in happy hour on Friday of, you know, who would the Packers call up this week? There's really no need.

There was no other position that really needed it.

There's offensive line injuries, which we'll go over in just a moment, but they have pl- they have 11 guys on the 53, uh, uh, for the offensive line right now, so they didn't need to call anybody up.

The only way they would've needed to call somebody up is if their two defensive tackles who have been injured were both gonna miss this game.

In that case, they could've called up their practice squad defensive tackle, but outside of that, there was really no need to call anybody up, and in fact, again, they did not call anybody up.

Caleb Williams, we talked about it the other day.