Posted by Sabrina B. @gametimegirl

Dropping a pass in Green Bay is proving to be costly for Packers wide receivers.

Jason Wilde, a reporter for ESPN Wisconsin, learned this week that there’s a penalty system in place for Packers wideouts who drop passes during games.

“If you drop a ball in our group, you have to buy the whole group a $100 Best Buy gift card,” Jones told Wilde with a chuckle. “I’ve got Best Buy cards in my locker right now … “I’m still waiting on Donald’s,” Jones said of veteran Donald Driver.

Offensive coordinator Joe Philbin says the team has dropped 10 passes in the past two games which, in theory, would mean an exchange of $4,000 in gift cards. Over a 16-game season, that’s $32,000. And seeing as how Jones hasn’t hit peak dropping form yet (that tends to occur in the playoffs), that number could skyrocket. Excuse me while I call my broker to get some Best Buy stock.

“That’s a trend that we honestly as coaches — we’re not real smart — but it’s safe to say when you have 10 drops in two weeks, that’s a concern,” Philbin told Wilde. “We have to get back to catching the football better.

“I think a couple of them, it was clear that their intentions were good — they wanted to maybe advance the football and make a guy miss and move the chains forward, and I think they maybe just didn’t take care of first things first. That’s what it looked like on tape to us.”

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