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If you"re having trouble imagining just what the heck the Green Bay Packers" offense might look like, you"re not alone. Right now, it frankly looks like a bit of a mess. While we know the Pack will be running a West Coast Offensive scheme in 2006, the depth chart at receiver is hardly set beyond Donald Driver. Brett Favre is optimistic about learning the new gameplan, but is reportedly extremely shaky in terms of performance thus far. And the word on injured Ahman Green is ... well, it"s non-existent.After messing around with Green Bay media, fans and front office for a few winter months, Favre announced he"d be returning to the field for the "06 season. Since appearing at camp, Favre has been nothing but smiles and is nfl jerseys optimistic about his team"s chances after their disastrous 4-12 campaign of last season. Sound bites like "this is ... the most talented team I"ve been on" and "I really believe that we"re going to be better than people think we will" and the inevitable "happy to be here" may play well to the faithful, but make for little more than a smokescreen behind which lurk darker concerns.Despite the fact that his arm "feels great," Favre has had enough problems in recent practice sessions that Coach Mike McCarthy noted a few "bad decisions" to the media after his QB threw five interceptions in a Monday practice session. McCarthy questioned the old guy"s discipline that evening, but was outwardly more optimistic yesterday.Of course, yesterday saw Favre run the two-minute to no avail. A pair of completions by Brett, including a 57-yarder to Greg Jennings, had the QB looking good, but an interception halted his would-be TD. McCarthy defended this decision, however, saying that Favre had made the right read. Favre left practice Tuesday with an injury, but the hit to the leg was not all serious.Jennings" play should probably be viewed as a positive, since the second-round pick is showing nice maturity and could very well win himself the No. 2 receiver spot in the free-for-all going for that position. Should Jennings work out to the ideal some reports have him at, the Packer front office can take great pride in a shrewd deal that Vikings jersey had them moving Javon "Favre"s Favorite Target" Walker for the youngster on draft day.Meanwhile, mum"s the word from Wisconsin on Green. At the press conference kicking off Packer camp, McCarthy stated that more details on his wounded RB"s (Green and Najeh Davenport) would be apparent after the first physical. That was last Friday. Since then, Davenport, Samkon Gado and Noah Herron have all seen plays running the ball. Word out of camp is that McCarthy and co. are toying with a "tailback-by-committee" game plan, which would seem to indicate that Green won"t be seen for a while.Davenport reportedly impressed McCarthy during the Friday practice which marked "the first time [McCarthy] has been around him live." Davenport is approaching the press modestly, not willing to say definitively that he"s "back in the groove" after an ankle injury that kept him out of serious training from October to February. The injury-prone Davenport has missed 25 games over four seasons.Gado, by most accounts, is still having some difficulty adapting to McCarthy"s zone-blocking scheme, difficulties first reported during mini-camps. Gado would be Steelers jerseyssential in a platoon system, as his game contrasts nicely with Davenport"s straightforward power running game. On the other hand, having few problems with the zone blocking is young Herron, the 244th selection of the 2005 NFL draft who was used in a pinch last season to great success. Since McCarthy"s system is similar to that which Herron played under at Northwestern, this tailback has a head start on Davenport and Gado, and is doing the best he can to hold on to the position he first won by default. Once taken for granted as a possible third-stringer, Herron would today certainly be worked into a "committee," with the sky quite possibly the limit. Herron could be Green Bay"s future, but whether he"s Green Bay"s tomorrow remains a question.In fact, the Herron question is one among a multitude. The Pack looks to start a season with an aging nearly-retired QB forced to learn a new system under a new head coach with an unknown starting set of receivers and an undefined committee at tailback. The one overriding question to face before September therefore becomes: Will the Packers in fact be ready for some football?Watch how it all shakes out for the Green Bay Packers