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Captains picked for Week 3’s match-up with Lions

As per team tradition, the Packers select game captains each week. Today’s captains will be G T.J. Lang (offense), LB Nick Perry (defense) and LB Joe Thomas (special teams).

Packers name captains for San Francisco game

As per team tradition, the Packers select game captains each week. Tonight’s captains will be G T.J. Lang (offense), DB Micah Hyde (defense) and S Chris Banjo (special teams).

Lang, Hyde and Janis selected as captains vs. Lions

As per team tradition, the Packers select game captains each week. Today’s captains will be G T.J. Lang (offense), DB Micah Hyde (defense) and WR Jeff Janis (special teams).

Pitch Perfect Packers appear on TODAY show

It began with a tweet.

Green Bay Packers left tackle David Bakhtiari shared his love for the 2012 hit movie Pitch Perfect on his Twitter account, which ultimately landed him and Packers teammates Clay Matthews, Josh Sitton, T.J. Lang and Don Barclay roles in the sequel, Pitch Perfect 2, which was released earlier this year.

As part of the NFL’s “Together We Make Football” series, the Packers movie stars were featured on NBC’s TODAY show Friday morning, where they provided a behind-the-scenes look at their journey to the silver screen.

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Lang, Peppers and Banjo selected as captains vs. Bears

As per team tradition, the Packers select game captains each week. Tonight’s captains will be G T.J. Lang (offense), LB Julius Peppers (defense) and S Chris Banjo (special teams).

Packers head to Pitch Perfect 2 premiere

Packers name captains for game in Buffalo

As per team tradition, the Packers select game captains each week.  Today’s captains will be G T.J. Lang (offense), LB Clay Matthews (defense) and DB Micah Hyde (special teams).

Three Packers awarded game balls from Miami

GREEN BAY — The Packers coaching staff awarded three game balls from the 27-24 victory over Miami on Sunday.

On offense, the game ball went to right guard T.J. Lang, who recovered a third-down fumble by QB Aaron Rodgers on the game-winning drive, which kept the Packers alive for what turned out to be a fourth-down conversion from Rodgers to Jordy Nelson en route to the game-winning TD.

On defense, rookie safety Ha Ha Clinton-Dix was the recipient. The press box statistics credited Clinton-Dix with a team-high seven tackles, all solo, including one for loss and one pass broken up. Mike McCarthy said on Monday he felt Clinton-Dix played his best game to date.

On special teams, the game ball went to Micah Hyde, who had two punt returns totaling 41 yards. His 24-yard return in the second quarter came when he escaped a mass of humanity in the middle of the field, and his 17-yarder in the fourth quarter put the offense on the 40-yard line to start the final drive.

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Sunday’s Packers captains vs. Dolphins: Lang, Shields and Goode

As per team tradition, the Packers select game captains each week.  Today’s captains will be G T.J. Lang (offense), CB Sam Shields (defense) and LS Brett Goode (special teams).

T.J. Lang returns to practice, has chance to play

The Packers might be fully healthy on the offensive line this week after all.

RG T.J. Lang

RG T.J. Lang, who missed the second half of Monday night’s game with a concussion, said he was medically cleared for non-contact work and returned to practice on Friday on a limited basis. He said he still had another test to take to get 100 percent clearance, so a final decision on his status would be coming over the weekend.

He’s officially listed as questionable on the injury report.

“I feel pretty good,” Lang said. “Each day this week I’ve slowly gotten a little better. I don’t know about my chances Sunday.

“We have to make sure I’m 100 percent before I step on the field. The decision might come tomorrow or it might come Sunday, but I always have to prepare like I’m going to play. I don’t like missing time. There’s still a chance I can be out there.”

If Lang can play on Sunday, the starting offensive line would remain intact. In his absence on Monday night, RT Don Barclay slid over to take Lang’s guard spot, and Marshall Newhouse came off the bench to play right tackle.

“We’ll visit with him tomorrow,” Mike McCarthy said. “I don’t take any chances when it comes to those types of things. He felt all along that he was going to be ready to play, but we’ll check him again in the morning.”

Having the starting offensive line together should help backup QB Seneca Wallace, who will be making his first start in place of QB Aaron Rodgers. McCarthy officially ruled Rodgers out on the injury report Friday.

McCarthy emphasized, however, that the game shouldn’t hinge on the change at QB, and that’s the message he has delivered to his team.

“No disrespect to Aaron, and he knows this too … but you get to the point where it’s about your football team,” McCarthy said. “We’re trying to accomplish something special as a team. Now, special is winning on Sunday, because that’s all that really matters, and that’s what it’s all about.

“This is a long journey. We’re only halfway through the season. But this is a great opportunity for everybody on our football team to step up and be successful. We missed that opportunity Monday night.”

To McCarthy, the week hasn’t been about making drastic changes but rather proper adjustments.

“We’re not going to try to do things we’re not capable of doing,” he said. “We’re not going to throw things against the wall. You’re going to recognize our offense, you’re going to recognize our defense and you’re going to recognize how we play on special teams. Everything we’ve done this week, like we do every week, is to go win the game. We really have moved past playing without Aaron.”