Packers CB Sam Shields ruled out for game at Oakland

Despite a mid-season swoon in which they dropped four of five games, the Packers stand 9-4 and a victory in just their third ever trip to play the Raiders in Oakland, would clinch a playoff berth for the seventh consecutive season.

Unfortunately it was a staple of the team that selected him in the fifth round of the 2014 draft, the Green Bay Packers.

Free safety Charles Woodson, released by the Packers following the 2012 season when due $9 million in salary, is looking forward to showing Green Bay as well as the rest of the league he still has something left three seasons later.

“The moment you get into passing downs, a guy like (Khalil) Mack is going to take advantage of that, or try to”. “But most of all, I just want to win”.

“I’m honored that he would say something like that”, Carr said on Wednesday.

“I think sometimes when things come easy to you, you kind of ease off a little bit and you get lax”, Lacy said Thursday when asked about his slow start to the season and recent turnaround, per ESPN.com’s Rob Demovsky.

Can Raiders quarterback Derek Carr produce enough points Sunday to beat the Packers at O.co Coliseum? That isn’t a good sign for the rookie, who has missed the last seven games because of his nagging injury. If he can figure that out, there is no question that the Packers offense can get back to dominance.

LONG SNAPPER: For the first time since 2005, the Raiders will go into a game without Jon Condo as their long snapper after he went down with a season-ending shoulder injury. Unless they think he has a great chance of re-injuring his foot, I wouldn’t think about shutting him down. “So we’ll be ready to go”.

-Head coach Mike McCarthy’s return to offensive play caller for presumably the first time this season – he had been noticeably involved with the subsequently demoted Tom Clements in previous games – had promising results. The Raiders defense ranks in the top half of the league, allowing an average of 101 rushing yards per game. “[Carr] plays with great confidence and he can make any throw to any quadrant of the field”. Raiders scored more than 20 in just one of last five…. Aaron Rodgers completed 22 of 35 passes for 218 yards and two touchdowns.

-Packers DBs vs. Raiders WRs Amari Cooper, Michael Crabtree and Seth Roberts.

Linsley (ankle) and Perry (shoulder) both sat out of Sunday’s 28-7 win over Dallas.

CB Sam Shields (concussion): DNP, DNP, DNP. Out. Cooper had zero catches last week.

Currently, Daniels is providing the Packers with 41 tackles and 4.0 sacks this season. Ryan comment: Love the stat that the Giants would be 11-2 if games ended after 58 minutes.

“It’s going to be fun to go against James”, said Raiders defensive back Charles Woodson, who played with Jones in Green Bay from 2007-12 and then again in 2014 with Oakland.