GREEN BAY, Wis. -- As reporters encircled Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers at his locker, linebacker Clay Matthews hurried past and shouted out in jest perhaps the most important question of the week.A-Rod, are you playing? Matthews yelled.Oh yes, Rodgers plans to play Sunday against the Chicago Bears . He just didnt practice Wednesday to focus on rehabbing his leg injuries, a plan coach Mike McCarthy said will likely stay in place for the quarterback through Thursday.McCarthy said Rodgers told him not to hold anything back for the game plan against the Bears as Green Bay seeks a fourth consecutive victory as they chase a spot in the playoffs.Im very optimistic by nature. So we can always take things out. Its harder to add things back in, Rodgers said. So get everything in, and if theres anything weve got to take out on Sunday, well do that.The Packers (7-6) have won three straight heading into a three-game stretch to end the regular season against NFC North foes. Tied with Minnesota for second at two games behind Detroit, Green Bay needs help to return to the playoffs an eighth straight season.Rodgers hurt his left hamstring a few weeks ago against the Eagles. He hurt his right calf while throwing a 66-yard touchdown pass to Davante Adams on the third play of the 38-10 victory last weekend over the Seattle Seahawks.Im feeling better. I appreciate the time to rehab. With an injury like this, its really about maximizing rehab time, Rodgers said Wednesday. So I got to get a couple extra hours there with the training staff. It was good.The leg injuries have limited Rodgers mobility. The two-time NFL MVP was still able to dissect the Seattle defense for 246 yards and three touchdowns on 18-of-23 passing before leaving early in the fourth quarter with his team up by four scores.Oh yeah, I mean, Aaron Rodgers is as tough as anybody Ive ever known, McCarthy said.He recalled one instance in Rodgers first season as the starter in 2008 when he sprained his right shoulder against Tampa. McCarthy wasnt sure how limited Rodgers arm might be the next week against Atlanta.Then late in the first quarter of the Falcons game, McCarthy called a deep shot to Donald Driver on third-and-1, briefly forgetting about Rodgers injury. Rodgers hit the pass, then finished 25 of 37 for 313 yards and three touchdowns.That was a big moment for him and hes done that so many times now, probably things that may not seem as big, McCarthy said. His focus, its extraordinary.TIE IT UPThe NFLs oldest rivalry will have its 194th meeting, but Sundays game could mark a milestone in the series.The Bears lead the series 94-93-6, including a split of two postseason games. A Packers win on Sunday would tie the series for the first time since 1933.While that would be nice, Packers right tackle Bryan Bulaga dont need any extra motivation.I think the motivation is to win the game and keep ourselves in a good place with what we got going on here, Bulaga said. The overall record is what it is ... but its just about winning and playing good football and improving as a team.INJURY REPORTJared Cook was a full participant in practice after the tight end left the Seahawks game late in the second quarter with a chest injury. ... Matthews was a full participant for the first time in a couple weeks, a sign his shoulder injury might be improving. Matthews played mainly in pass-rush situations against Seattle. ... LB Nick Perry (hand) may not practice until Saturday, McCarthy said. The team leader with eight sacks, Perry missed the Seahawks game.TRANSACTIONThe team signed linebacker Jordan Tripp on Wednesday. A fifth-round draft pick of the Dolphins in 2014, Tripp last played with Seattle, appearing in seven games with one start before being placed on injured reserve on Dec. 3. He reached an injury settlement on Dec. 9. Tripp has 11 career tackles.---For more NFL coverage: http://www.pro32.ap.org and http://www.twitter.com/AP-NFL---Follow Genaro Armas at: https://twitter.com/GArmasAP Portugal Cristiano Ronaldo World Cup Jersey . -- The proud fathers huddled near the Dallas Stars dressing room, smiling, laughing and telling stories while wearing replica green sweaters of their sons team. Portugal Jose Fonte World Cup Jersey . Just not the game. 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They also moved within 3 1/2 games of San Antonio (22-7) for the lead the Southwest Division. We may be seven months away from WrestleMania 33 in Orlando, Florida, but with SummerSlam in the rearview mirror, we begin the slow march toward the biggest show of 2017 for the WWE.A lot can happen from now until April, as we witnessed with Finn Bálors devastating shoulder injury at SummerSlam, but finding out which direction fans believe things are heading helps us understand how the current storylines are working. It also allows an opportunity to break down each potential match by considering historical precedence and what evidence can currently be gleaned from watching.We asked our @WWEonESPN Twitter followers to predict what WrestleMania might look like next April, and we reacted to the most interesting responses.?@WWEonESPN Rollins vs Balor- Brian (@BHam1720) August 26, 2016This is one of the most logical choices at this early stage, complete with all of the backstory you could ever want. Bálor defeated?Seth Rollins?to become the first WWE Universal?champion, and did so with a damaged shoulder for a large chunk of the match. Bálors road to recovery and eventual redemption should lead to both Rollins and that championship, and what better stage for the coronation of the next big star than the biggest one WWE has to offer? It seemed that big things were ahead for Bálor before the injury, and while you never hope for such a talented start to be derailed, a WrestleMania payoff would take some of the sting out of it.Rollins has every reason to want to prove hes the better man, and if Balor is able to return in six months, as the WWE originally estimated, the timing would be perfect ahead of WrestleMania. Everything seems to be working in this matchups favor as an early favorite to headline the event, save for one; as the WWE showed at SummerSlam, competing for the companys biggest title doesnt always guarantee the top slot on the marquee. With the lingering possibility that any WrestleMania could prove to be the last for aging superstars like?The Undertaker?and?Brock Lesnar, theres no telling what Bálor-Rollins could end up competing with for the main event slot.@WWEonESPN Undertaker vs. John Cena. Career vs Career Match.- loveheartcore (@loveheartcore) August 26, 2016Speaking of matches that could bump championship bouts from the main event spot, this intriguing one (and popular fan theory) would be an almost automatic selection, considering how long each man has been in the WWE and how long each was on the SmackDown roster at the same time.?John Cena?and The Undertaker havent been in the ring together since an August 2010 dark match main event --?a triple-threat steel cage match for the WWE championship that also included then-champion Sheamus. Every other time they were in the ring in the same match, dating as far back as 2008, they were in tag team matches and on the same side.Other sporadic crossovers between the paths of Cena and The Undertaker include:They were both in the 2008 Royal Rumble, but Undertaker was long gone by the time Cena entered the ring at No. 30.They were on the opposite sides of two tag matches in 2007; both featured Cena and Shawn Michaels taking on The Undertaker and Batista.The last time they faced off in a one-on-one match was 2006, in the main event of the Oct. 9 episode of Monday Night Raw. They wrestled for just over four minutes before King Booker and the?Big Show?interfered, causing a no contest.The last full-length match between the pair aired on the June 24, 2004 episode of SmackDown. Cena was the United States champion, but after more than 22 minutes in the ring, The Undertaker picked up the victory in a nontitle bout.The pair had only one stretch where they faced off in a true rivalry, and that dates all the way back to the earliest stages of Cenas career, in 2003. To let you know just how far back that is, Cena was still the Doctor of Thuganomics and Undertaker was in his American Badass phase. They squared off three times that year, with Cena picking up a win on SmackDown in April, The Undertaker getting the victory in their lone one-on-one pay-per-view match at Vengeance in July, and Cena winning the rubber match the following week on SmackDown.All of this is to say that it has been over a decade since they squared off in any kind of meaningful match, and they are both at far different points in their careers. Its safe to assume The Undertaker has only a handful of matches (at most) left to wrestle, and theres not much left for Cena in terms of career accomplishments (save for equaling Ric Flairs record of 16 world championship reigns). Unless The Undertaker wants to go out against a young up-and-comer, this has all the makings of the right way to end the run of The Dead Man for good.@WWEonESPN Rollins vs. Reigns vs. Brock- Joshua Gagnon (@HeelDoors) August 26, 2016This triple-threat match would be a reprise of the WrestleMania 31 main event, only this time all three would be in the match from the start. Theres certainly something interesting to play with there -- Rollins and?Roman Reigns?will likely feud for as long as both are in the WWE, and theres unfinished business between Brock Lesnar and both of them. The biggest issue here is the amount of star power tied up in one match. If you add in the Universal championship, which either Reigns or Rollins has a good chance of holding next March, youre taking a lot of elements that could have drawing power on their own and throwing them all into one match.dddddddddddd Its not unprecedented, but it seems unlikely this will happen at WrestleMania 33. Yet as long as Lesnar sticks around, dont count out the possibility of this match happening at a future WrestleMania.@WWEonESPN sasha vs bayley- Joey Nazzari (@CaptDS9E) August 26, 2016One can appreciate the ambitious desire of seeing two women headline WrestleMania, especially considering the kind of matches?Charlotte,?Sasha Banks,?Becky Lynch?and?Bayley?have?had?over?the?last few years. It makes that kind of vision far less crazy than it might have been before they entered the picture. Yet it still seems were a ways off from seeing it become a reality.There are certainly some arguments to be made in their favor. Banks and Bayley had arguably the best match of SummerSlam weekend in 2015 at NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn, and both the four-way match the aforementioned Four Horsewomen had in NXT and the three-way match between Banks, Lynch and Charlotte at WrestleMania last year were top-class performances.But another part of the problem here is the exclusion of Charlotte, who is on Raw alongside Banks and Bayley and recently regained the WWE womens championship. Since it seems unlikely Charlotte will be very far from that championship for the foreseeable future, in order for there to be enough star power, experience and balance in the match, Charlotte will have to be involved.@WWEonESPN Styles vs. Balor- Jason Shubnell (@JasonShubnell) August 26, 2016A showdown between Bálor and?A.J. Styles?is truly compelling, for reasons that reach far beyond the boundaries of their employment in WWE. Once upon a time, Bálor was one of the co-founders of?the ever-popular Bullet Club faction in New Japan Pro Wrestling. As they surged in popularity, grabbing hold of nearly every title in the venerated wresting promotion, Bálor took his shot and signed with WWE. His departure from the company happened on the same night Styles debuted as the new leader of Bullet Club, with Styles eventually becoming a two-time IWGP heavyweight champion -- drawing WWEs interest in the process.Now that Bálor and Styles, along with fellow former Bullet Club members?Luke Gallows?and?Karl Anderson, are all under the same WWE banner, there has been a lot of speculation about how theyll?interact.?Styles, Gallows and Anderson joined up briefly as?The Club?before being split up by the brand extension draft, and there was even a brief backstage video segment at SummerSlam where?they teased an interaction between the four; Styles himself mentioned that it was only a matter of time before you see two of those guys in the same ring against each other.?There would have to be some maneuvering of the rosters, or some cross-brand story to tie them together, but with the way each has performed since their WWE debuts, theres little doubt Bálor and Styles could put on one hell of a show in front of a WrestleMania crowd.Even if it doesnt quite come to fruition in Orlando, it would be quite the surprise if we dont see these two square off in the near-future, provided Bálor gets healthy and Styles stays that way.@WWEonESPN Reigns vs Cena, unfortunately (?)- Mark Barroso (@Mark_Barroso) August 26, 2016While Mark is down on this match -- and Im sure hes not alone -- this would be a good idea and a very compelling test case in front of the kind of crowd that WrestleMania tends to draw.Theres no denying that WWE has done everything in its power to make Reigns the next Cena. Reigns has succeeded in certain aspects, putting on big matches in the ring with the likes of Styles, Rollins and?Triple H, along with his appeal to younger WWE fans. But its a tremendous burden for Reigns to have to live up to the level of expectations that Cena has established over the last 15 years?of his career.Both Cena and Reigns have a clear delineation among fans who boo and cheer them, but the prevailing theory is that fans boo Cena because theyre used to it and because its fun; singing John Cena sucks along with the beat of his entrance theme is the same kind of thing people used to do to Kurt Angle, even when he was at the peak of his popularity. Cena has stepped up the level of his in-ring performances the past several years, with the United States championship open challenge allowing him to go shot-for-shot with some of the best in-ring performers in the world, to say nothing of his highly praised rivalry with Styles.Reigns has steadily improved in the ring since The Shield broke up, but the way he has been pushed has left a lot of fans bitter. Few could benefit more than Reigns from a match opposite Cena, who has been vigilant in proclaiming his desire for someone to step up and take his mantle.This match would be truly compelling at WrestleMania 33, if only to find out how the crowd would react to each superstar. Would Cena finally get a full crowd of cheers for the first time in years? Would both men be booed?At the very least, it would make for a strong social experiment. 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