GREEN BAY — Given the excruciating pain Zach Tom was in following Sunday’s win over the Cincinnati Bengals — he said his oblique injury was hurting him so much that he couldn’t remember what happened during the second half of the game — it seemed like an obvious question to ask the Green Bay Packers right tackle on Wednesday:
If you were in so much pain after one game, how on earth are you going to play 12 more games over the next 12 weeks?
“Uh … Got to figure out a way,” Tom said after a long pause. “I think we’ve got a good plan this week, though, and for the following weeks — practice-wise and all that — just so I can get through it.”
Then, Tom laughed uncomfortably.
“But … That’s a lot of weeks,” he confessed. “But we’re going to get through it, take it week-by-week. Hopefully it