Packers Morning Buzz: Plenty on the line in final exhibition game

Stu Courtney

Green Bay Press-Gazette

Running backs Devante Mays (32) and Joel Bouagnon (34) battle during a blocking drill at Green Bay Packers minicamp at Ray Nitschke Field Tuesday, June 12, 2018 in Ashwaubenon, Wis.

Welcome to your Morning Buzz, rounding up news and views regarding the Green Bay Packers from around the web and here at PackersNews.com.

The Packers have completed their open training-camp practices and will spend the next two days preparing for their exhibition finale Thursday night at Kansas City.

We’ll start with Pete Dougherty's Packers Camp Insider, which notes how few injuries the team sustained in training camp compared to years past and looks at possible reaons why:

Writes Pete:

It’s difficult to know how much of it is simply luck, and how much training and practice regimens are responsible. This is the first time in coach Mike McCarthy’s 13 seasons as coach that the Packers didn’t have at least some of their early camp practices in the early morning. Instead, their starting times from Day 1 of camp ranged from 11:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. McCarthy has said he did it mainly to get his young players immediately acclimated to the regular-season schedule. But it wouldn’t be a surprise if injuries were also part of his thinking. Perhaps the GPS data the Packers have accumulated the last six years suggested there were more injuries in those early-morning practices, and that players are a little less susceptible to injury if they’ve been awake and moving around longer before they hit the practice field.