Packers' secondary depth story hasn't changed, and that's the problem

Already wrote this one three times this week, so I'll keep it short. The situation in Green Bay's secondary remains what it was Monday: Javon Bullard is nursing a foot injury, Micah Parsons is out at least through Week 5, and the team was thin enough at safety that they worked out three outside players to address it. Nothing has materially shifted since then.

Bullard said after the foot injury was revealed that he'd play tomorrow if the Packers had a game. That's the kind of thing you say when you want to project toughness, and maybe he means it. But the team still had only five healthy safeties and slot defenders available as of Monday, and working out three more suggests the front office isn't taking his word for it alone.

The Parsons absence is the longer shadow here. He's targeting a Week 6 return against Dallas, which means the defense opens the season without its top pass rusher for at least a month. Combine that with a secondary that is already scrambling for bodies, and the first quarter of the schedule becomes a genuine stress test for a group that was already thin before camp injuries arrived.

My read: this is the same note I've been filing, and I expect to keep filing it until either the roster moves resolve the depth or someone gets hurt badly enough that it becomes a different, worse story. For now, it's just a slow burn.