New additions can provide more options

Do practice-squad players share the same locker room, meeting rooms, training and rehab facilities, etc., as the roster guys, or do they use different areas? Is it consistent across the league or do teams handle that differently?

Practice-squad players use all the same facilities. In Green Bay, they have a small auxiliary locker room connected to the main locker room.

Mike, you were recently asked who would get introduced at the extra odd game this year between the offense and defense. I respectfully submit the we-fense earned the right for that game the way they played last year! Especially when you consider at different times during the year the offense and defense were far from stellar. Some of these players may never get the opportunity to experience being introduced and run onto Lambeau Field. Thoughts?

Several readers have brought this up over the past week. It’s not my purview, but assuming they’re re-signed, the franchise’s all-time leading scorer and a first-team All-Pro returner getting introduced and running out of the tunnel wouldn’t be a bad thing.

Can a bad team have great uniforms? Or does the association with losing ruin any positive judgment?

I think an overall lack of success can limit the degree of appreciation. Until about a dozen years ago when they went to newfangled fonts that make their uniform numbers borderline unreadable (at least from the press box), I always thought the Lions had really sharp duds.

With all due respect to Mr. Kuhn, his block of Julius Peppers (you know which one) remains the best block in franchise history, and I love that it was a fullback that made it.

Uh, Jerry Kramer would like a word, Scott.

Chris from New Canaan, CT

IMO, inefficiency in the red zone is the reason GB missed the playoffs. The data regarding RZ inefficiency is undeniable. The problem needs to be fixed. In your opinion, is that a specific situational skill set that can, to some extent, be addressed in the draft? Is it even a consideration or is this getting too granular? I can imagine, for example, scouts evaluating how WRs perform when the end zone boundary comes into play and the field gets short. “Or am I being obtuse? …”

You don’t draft for a specific situational skill set, as you put it, but new additions to the perimeter group on offense can provide more schematic options in red-zone and goal-to-go situations. That said, it’s a lot to ask rookies to make that level of impact right away, so it still mostly falls on the coaches’ plans and the…