Durant Brooks News

There is a difference between excuses and explanations. We know Mason Crosby is capable of a nailing a 42-yard game winner in his 2007 NFL debut, booting 17 touchbacks and connecting on nearly 80% of his kicks in 2008.

Aaron Rodgers, quarterback: Another game, another brilliant performance by Rodgers.

Five years into his run as the Green Bay Packers general manager, Ted Thompson has yet to fully solve the kicking game.

It is heard from all corners of the NFL as the final roster cuts approach: This is the worst time of the year to be a coach or a general manager.

The Green Bay Packers have released P Durant Brooks, WR JaRon Harris and LB Stryker Sulak.

As long as Jeremy Kapinos doesn't develop a case of the shanks this week, he'll be the Green Bay Packers' opening-day punter.

Receiver Greg Jennings sustained a concussion in Friday night's preseason game at Arizona, and though the injury doesn't appear to be severe, there's a chance the Packers won't play him Thursday at Tennessee to make sure he's healthy for the regular-season opener Sept.

Veteran Brandon Chillar might fit into the 3-4 scheme the Packers are playing better than any other linebacker on the team.

The Green Bay Packers might not have been sure what they had at the safety position entering practice this week, but they knew they had good options, and numbers.

Some quickies before I start my chat over on Insider: QB Matt Flynn has a shoulder sprain that the doctors believe is only relegated to the muscles.

He won't play much because he only began practicing this week and the Packers want to break him in gradually, but he should get at least a handful of snaps.

Every time that the Packers have practiced in pads during training camp, the five rows of bleachers stretching for about 150 yards at new Ray Nitschke Field have been packed.

Coaches, players, even Brian Brohm constantly link the Green Bay Packers' backup quarterbacks, apparently because they were drafted together in 2008.

Saturday's preseason game could be the final opportunity for Durant Brooks and Jeremy Kapinos to show they deserve to stay in the Green Bay Packers' punting competition.

A total of 50,787 fans showed up Saturday night ready for some football at Lambeau Field.

Sometimes when a player returns from an injury, he's sluggish and slow to make his presence felt right away.

The essence of punting seems simple: hold a football in front of you, take proper aim and, for the most part, kick it as high and far as possible.

With Justin Harrell held out of team drills again and B.J. Raji still unsigned, defensive end Michael Montgomery is getting all kinds of work.

"When you watched those games last year, you could call what we were running a lot of times, you know?" Woodson said Sunday.

The Green Bay Packers went into training camp unconvinced that either Durant Brooks or Jeremy Kapinos would be their opening-day punter, and the two hopefuls have done little to change that.