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LB A.J. Hawk (2x All-American, Lombardi Trophy, National Champion, Super Bowl Champion)

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For all you dedicated Hawk & Packer fans ...

The official AJ Hawk jersey in Green Bay colors is now available from the Packer shop he gets #50 -- LINK

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Only $179.95 - and already back-ordered.
 
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Hey everyone, new AJ Hawk fan here.

Couple of questions for some people who've seen all his games.

1. I kept hearing analysts call him 'stiff' when looking for a weakness. However, he ran the best short shuttle time at the combine. Have you ever seen plays where he was too stiff to react?

2. Is Hawk better as a pass rusher on the weak side or out in coverage on a tight end? Any notable weaknesses?

3. Did he ever take an active leadership role on the field? I know there was a lot of talent on that team, just curious if he was always top dog.

Thanks
 
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Packerfan said:
Hey everyone, new AJ Hawk fan here.

Couple of questions for some people who've seen all his games.

1. I kept hearing analysts call him 'stiff' when looking for a weakness. However, he ran the best short shuttle time at the combine. Have you ever seen plays where he was too stiff to react?

2. Is Hawk better as a pass rusher on the weak side or out in coverage on a tight end? Any notable weaknesses?

3. Did he ever take an active leadership role on the field? I know there was a lot of talent on that team, just curious if he was always top dog.

Thanks
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I'm no anaylst, but I can answer a few of your questions...

#1. You're right about one thing, it is just anaylsts looking for a weakness. I'm not saying that AJ is perfect, but he is probably the most complete player in the draft, and a solid bet to be a great player.

#2. Both. Hawk has the speed and explosiveness to rush the passer, and then he can drop back and keep up with any TE out there.

#3. I don't think I really need to explain myself here. Hawk has been the unquestioned leader of our Buckeye defense, and I see him doing the same in the future for the Packers. Hawk has the intensity, passion, and heart and soul to lead any defense out there and to make everyone around him play to their absolute best.
 
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I can rememebr hearing stories in HS about how he never said a word in the locker room...and then one halftime he spoke...everyone listened to what their leader had to say and lets just say our elks didn't give up another yard the whole night...:wink:...great leader both on and off the field
 
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Packerfan said:
Hey everyone, new AJ Hawk fan here.

Couple of questions for some people who've seen all his games.

2. Is Hawk better as a pass rusher on the weak side or out in coverage on a tight end? Any notable weaknesses?
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When opposing teams would go 4 or 5 wide, it was not uncommon to see him (and Bobby) lining up on the slot receivers in man coverage. They both did it better than Greenway :biggrin:
 
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it seems dey really do enjoys Hawks name up dere in Wisconsin, eh?

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Hawk, Hawk bo Bawk . . .
Posted: May 3, 2006
SportsDay

Bob Wolfley

The future will decide how many of the 12 players in the Green Bay Packers draft class will be able to play in the National Football League.

But the present has determined that the Packers' draft list is a solid to spectacular addition of names to the roster - not names in terms of widely known or famous but just interesting names.

The Packers improved themselves in pure name value, if you will.

Take A.J. Hawk.

He's the linebacker from, as they all say on "Monday Night Football," the Ohio State University.

Let's give witness to the fact that A.J. Hawk is an A-list football name.

Actually that name would work well for an athlete in any sport, or a fictional detective in a crime novel serial. You can imagine A.J. Hawk working homicide for the Los Angeles Police Department, breaking in with the bunko squad out of Stockton.

"Book 'em, A.J.," has a good, cheap detective fiction sound to it.

The A.J. part of the name is decent, but derivative. An A.J. plays for the Chicago White Sox, and is a Soprano kid who's trying to kill his great uncle. "A.J." has an action quality, and you want your linebackers and advertising executives to be people of action.

By the way, the Buckeyes' sports information office said the A.J. stands for Aaron James. A.J. is better, if only because Aaron Rodgers has dibs on that name on the Packers' roster.

But Hawk is an unbelievable closer of a name.

Whoa, Hawk.

Scouts have said Hawk's reading skills are at the highest levels and that doesn't mean he was able to understand JamesJoyce's "Ulysses" in the seventh grade. (Go ahead, if you must now, and insert your cheap shot about Ohio State football players' academic shortcomings, working in the name of Buckeyes linebacker Andy Katzenmoyer, who unlike Hawk wasn't much of a student during his playing days in Columbus).

A guy named Hawk having superior ability to read an offense is more than name appropriate. It's a match made in lexicon heaven.

Hawk not only is sport appropriate, it's position appropriate. It would work well as a quarterback's name and as a safety's name, I suppose, but not as a running back's or punter's.

And how great is it that a guy named A.J. Hawk is not only a linebacker, but as he says, a Republican who supports the war in Iraq?

Well, it can't better than that.

After all, nobody wants their linebackers, or their Republicans, named "Dove" do they?

Now, there was another linebacker in the 1960s, out of Detroit Mercy, who had the name Steve Stonebreaker.

That's a blindingly spectacular football name. Better than A.J. Hawk. Stonebreaker had a good seven-season, 84-game NFL career for someone taken in the 12th round of the draft. Notre Dame's Mike Stonebreaker in the early '90s didn't break enough stones, so to speak, in the NFL to have his name soar.

If this Hawk guy can play up to expectations, his name instantly goes to that magical place where tough linebackers' names sound like what they do to ball carriers - stalk, squash, crush, blow up, obliterate, destroy and vanquish.

Ray Nitschke. Dick Butkus. Sam Huff. Jack Ham. And yeah, A.J. Hawk.

It's too easy to get carried away with A.J. Hawk and ignore some other great new names on the Packers.

Guard Daryn Colledge was a second-round choice. One alert NFL draft commentator said he couldn't understand how the parents of Colledge didn't see fit to name their son "Joe."

There's tackle Tony Moll.

He might consider switching a few letters in his last name, making it "Maul" and creating another sport- and position-specific wonder. Moll has the right kind of nasty gangster implications, but unfortunately is feminine-gender specific, which is no good in the macho pro football world.

There's defensive tackle Johnny Jolly.

It's terrifically alliterative, but it sounds like the name of some terrible Vaudeville comic. Or a bad Ramada Inn lounge act. At least it's not Johnny Jowly, which would create easy opportunities for enemies of a 317-pound man.

There's quarterback Ingle Martin, the fifth-round pick out of Furman.

Ingle.

A reporter called Martin on Wednesday to ask him how be came by his unusual first name.

The 6-2, 220-pound signal-caller who has a good chance to become a Packers reserve, told the reporter that Ingle is really his middle name.

His full name is Harry Ingle Martin IV, he said.

When asked how he got the Ingle part, he was slightly fuzzy about the details, so he put his dad on the phone.

"His great grandfather was the ninth son," said Harry Martin III, about IV. "And he was from a little town near Nashville (Tenn.) called Goodlettsville. We feel pretty sure there was a Presbyterian minister whose last name was Ingle. We have some Scottish heritage and that's a word in Scotland for 'little fire' or 'little flame.' "

Now this is the kind of thing Packers fans work with - a "Braveheart" leader.

And what better way to ignite an offense than with an Ingle?

Raging fires often start from just a single Ingle.
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