Regarding playoff counts, Sean is dead on in that it’s a “pick one” situation. I guess I’d personally have the end quarter of the season for some teams be meaningless, compared to the ENTIRE regular season not matter for most teams. Why tune in (or care) about regular season games if half the league will be playing afterwards, and that’s when results have consequences? (Anecdotally, I’ve started to feel that way about the first half of NFL games; it almost always comes down to Q4 anyway).

That’s what’s happened in MLB, right? Play 162 games and then have your entire season come down to a best-of-three quarterfinal? The NFL playoffs are a crapshoot. Just ask the Detroit Lions. Anyone can beat anybody at any time. That’s why it means more to make an NFL postseason.

Before they ban the tush push, can the Pack do a Love Shove just once?

It’s always possible, but the Packers’ reluctance to “Shove Love” is player-safety related. LaFleur has touched on this before, including at the NFL Annual Meeting in March. They don’t want to put their franchise QB in a compromising situation.

Good morning II first responders, regarding Matty from Durango, CO, North Dakota State is a DI FCS program. They have won numerous national championships BEFORE the FBS teams adopted a playoff format. They play at least one FBS school, and win, yearly. The MVFC is the SEC of the FCS. Ken Anderson QB for Cincinnati came from DIII Augustana. So what? Talent is what it is no matter where it came from.

True, though North Dakota State and South Dakota State could almost be considered FBS schools at this point. Brian Gutekunst said earlier this year they view those high-end FCS programs no differently than their Division I counterparts.

Joshua from Milwaukee wrote “10-inch hands for a QB are fine, but 13-inch hands are dysfunctional and look weird.” Which reminded me of every time I’ve ever seen former Cowboy QB Troy Aikman in his current job as a TV guy and I think his hands take up half the screen. Any idea how big THEY are?

I couldn’t tell you, but this topic led me down an interesting rabbit hole ending with David Fleming’s 2020 NFL Draft preview. In that ESPN.com piece, Fleming stated that Jordan Love possesses “once-in-a-generation” 10-5/8-inch hands…So, QB1 has that going for him…which is nice.

Will Micah Robinson be given an actual opportunity to showcase his skills in camp rather than be relegated to the practice squad right away?

Yes. How do you think Carrington Valentine made the roster in 2023? Everything we’ve seen from Valentine on Sundays started on the grass at Ray Nitschke Field.

Ben Solak from ESPN states Green Bay will not make the playoffs as they lack a strong pass rush and a dominant receiver, thoughts?

Isn’t that, um, how the Packers, uh, made the playoffs last year?

Scott from Noblesville, IN

Luke Getsy’s drill brings to mind an NFL film/doc on Jerry Rice in which his father tossed Jerry bricks while working construction, when Rice was a youngster. One can’t help but wonder if that film sparked the drill.

I actually wrote a story on it back in 2016. I can tell I’m getting old; I’d completely forgotten about it. Dropping bricks and having receivers catch them out of thin air was an “eye-hand coordination” drill, according to Getsy, intended to train the less-dominant eye. When asked where he got the idea, Getsy said: “Everywhere. The road that I’ve taken, you get different ideas from different people.” So, there you go.

Clipton from Pasadena, CA

One more point about “The Moveable Scrum,” it’s always puzzled me why one the defenders surrounding the runner wouldn’t just disengage from the shoving and wrap him up around the ankles. The pile can’t move if the runner can’t move his feet with it.

It’s not the safest thing in the world for a defensive player to end up on the ground in the middle of those scrums, either.