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Current mood:  annoyed Category: Sports
Hay everybody. Apparently I get 20 minutes of computer time while I'm waiting for the assembled mass that is my parents, my sister, my brother-in-law, their two kids and my aunt to figure out just how many funny-looking pictures they want to order from our impromptu photo studio session tonight, which I had to rush out of work and put off some errands for to get to at 5:40, then found to be delayed by 45 minutes. I love having the kids here. Really. I love it. This is what typed sarcasm looks like.
Anyhow, I wanted to point to something that I've been reading and hearing a lot about with regards to the Packers coaching staff. I was triggered by hearing it again tonight on Bill Michaels' show and I think it's worth mentioning:
The official word from Green Bay is that the Packers are 'evaluating' the situation with their coaching staff and that the evaluations are continuing.
Really.
 No one has said this yet, but I think that means they're thinking about replacing a couple pieces with a face or two that can't think about working for the Packers just yet.
This involves a little bit of reading between the lines. When something gets drawn out like this but keeps getting mention in the media, that usually means that somebody knows something but doesn't want to say anything yet. It may be for a lot of different reasons and it may be that there truly is evaluation going on at 1265. Mike McCarthy is notorious for not wanting to take action until he "sees the tape" (which is why the Monday press conferences I went to in 2006 on the days after road games were largely meaningless, since that was the answer we got most often). But I think something else is afoot, here ...
 ... something tells me that there's a word leaking out of Packers camp that they can't talk about anyone just yet, but that they have people in mind they'd like to see fill different positions. Why can't they talk about anyone just yet? Simple -- out of respect to the fact those folks are still doing work for their teams in the playoffs.
I'm not here to start naming names, in part because I don't know any and in part because I think guessing games without reports or talking to the people on the inside is futile. But I'm free to try and read between the lines of what those who do get to talk to the insiders are saying, and the reading I'm sensing is one of "we're going to do something, but not yet."
No one is talking, which both isn't all that unusual for the Packers and is somewhat telling. An emphatic "we stand behind our staff" usually ends these sorts of discussions. We haven't heard anything like that just yet.
Then again, it's also easy for sports journalists to take statements, or lack thereof, and overblow them when not asking complete and specific questions.
But I'm hearing a few too many people not saying anything, which you can sometimes interpret better than when people actually are saying things.
By the way, Brett Favre had a torn bicep. It can supposedly be fixed without major surgery, but since there was a bit of a hardening of the area around the tear, and since Favre complained of pain in other areas of his shoulder, my guess is they're going to have to go in. Any surgery done on your arm when you're a thrower will require time to heal and will weaken that area, particularly when you're pushing 40 and you just don't recover the same way you did when you were 24. I wouldn't be surprised ...
... OK, the kids are here. More soon.
Photo: Mike McCarthy (left) and Ted Thompson (Mike Roemer/AP/NBC Sports)
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