Bunch of Odds and Sods

• We may be about to see the theoretical end of the Green Bay Packers.

Seriously.  The team they're trotting out barely beat the Cleveland Browns, and the egg they laid last week indicates they're in big trouble without an organizational house-cleaning.

There are NFL teams that want that to include Aaron Rodgers, and they have some case.

After the Packers were eliminated from the playoffs, the Packers put Aaron Rodgers back on IR after bringing him back for one week.  Now, there's no real question Rodgers was hurt against Carolina.

But the NFL injury rules state that, to put a player back on IR, there needs to be a new injury.  And a number of teams believe (I'm not clear on the penalty.) that the penalty for that is release of the player.

• How bad are the Green Bay Packers right now?  For their franchise, historically bad.

If there's a more obvious one-person team out there right now, I'd like to see it.  (OBJ has at least Eli...  Maybe Watt in Houston?)

But the Packers got shut out by the Vikings in Lambeau last night.  It's the second time since the Rodgers injury that the Packers have been shut out at home.  The last time a team was shut out twice at home in the NFL was 2006 -- both the Packers and Raiders have done it.

The Packers had never, at least since 1940, been shut out twice at home, and only five times have been shut out twice at home in that span.

Brett Hundley has the NFL record for home pass attempts without a touchdown.

• An ex-worker for the Green Bay Packer concessions department had an incident where the bomb squad had to be called to Lambeau Field on Friday.

Not a good week for the Packers.

• The Pittsburgh Steelers released James Harrison.

He played in about three snaps a game this year, and they needed the spot.  Word is, the parting was amicable -- but it does leave a lot of people thinking he may play in New England for the playoffs.  And CBS Sports says they are interested!

• How bad are the Cleveland Browns?

First off, as of writing this at 12:04 PM Pacific, they are playing the 4-10 Chicago Bears -- and losing 20-3.

Second, a little research from Pro Football Reference into the last three seasons, entering today...

0-14 this season, 1-29 the last two, 4-42 the last three seasons.

12 losses the last two seasons in which they never got within 8 points in the fourth quarter, only 10 in which it ended within 8 points.

• The owners of the Ravens believes the #NFLBoycott is working -- in that people are not attending games because of it.

Well, is it costing anybody money yet?  (I could see major cuts in ad revenue forthcoming, but will that be enough to force the issue??)  Otherwise, it may be up to Vince McMahon to determine if the #NFLBoycott (which we all know is REAL) is actually WORKING....