...couple of weeks without getting his hand hit and didn't get it jammed. That way it automatically improves,'' Packers coach Ray Rhodes said. The Packers also started using the short passing game more effectively, with Favre dropping the...

...score with nine minutes left. ''Randy Moss ... made a big difference in what happened to our football team,'' Packers coach Ray Rhodes said. The Vikings (8-6) snapped a two-game skid and moved within a game of NFC Central leader Tampa...

...winter after an auto accident. New York Jets (8-8) at Green Bay (8-8) Mike Sherman makes his debut as the Packers' coach and Vinny Testaverde's has his first real game back as the Jets' QB after missing all but two quarters of last...

GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Antonio Freeman's flight trouble has put the Green Bay Packers' coach in quite a predicament. Mike Sherman is balancing justice and judiciousness after the Packers' star receiver missed Monday's...

...lost their second straight after starting 7-0. "I wouldn't call it a miracle. I'd call it a happy moment," Packers coach Mike Sherman said. Happy moment? Favre was sky-high. "This rates right up there toward the top," he said...

...Rhodes ran from the offer faster than Deion Sanders from an onrushing fullback. Fired as Eagle coach in '98, fired as Packer coach in '99, Rhodes, understandably, wanted no part of a sure-fire plan to make it three for three. The Browns are...

...diligence," Bucs GM Rich McKay said. -- Hasselbeck will be reunited with Seahawks coach Mike Holmgren, who was the Packers coach when Green Bay picked the quarterback in the sixth round of the '98 draft. Hasselbeck, who has thrown only 29 passes...

...rest of that season and in 1998. He was a really fun guy to be around," said John Schneider, personnel analyst to Packers coach and general manager Mike Sherman. "He had an engaging personality, and he was one of those throwback (Oakland...

...performance by Favre. "He was into this game, and his leadership and his performance were a big part of our victory," Packer Coach Mike Sherman said. "He was pretty close to playing about as good a game as you can play. He was extraordinary."

...64 in their last five, and only one touchdown in two games. "I thought the defense played an outstanding game," Packer Coach Mike Sherman said. "They applied pressure on the quarterback, and I thought we did a great job of stifling their...