What Will Ted Thompson do With $5.713 M in Cap Room?

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Originally Posted by BlueBrewer

TT will roll the unused space into next year by giving players unatainable incentive bonuses. Or he will reward performance in the 2006 season with contract extensions for DD , Barnett or Gado. The TT bashing is really getting old Tank. Weed is supposed to mello you out , not fire you up.

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Old or not, my rhetorics will continue until the day thompson is fired as GM. Hopefully, it will happen sooner than later.

He's going to buy a new snakeskin watch so he doesn't have to bruise his own when he smacks you up along side the head.

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Originally Posted by Anti-Polar Bear

I can name you 3 stars thompson could've and should've signed but failed to sign them because he either lacks the charisma to lure the (straight) players to Green Bay, or he inefficiently managed the cap.

Chad Hutchinson

Terrell Owens

LeCharles Bentley

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Why are you still talking about Chad Hutchinson? The guy you wanted is Steve Hutchinson.

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Originally Posted by Anti-Polar Bear

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Originally Posted by shamrockfan

APB, the depth (or more accurately the lack of depth) of your knowledge and understanding is summed up in this poll option:


One of the basic concepts of fiscal repsonsibility for individuals and business is to invest money wisely. Too many businesses and individuals spend money just because they have it. Successful ones wait, and spend money when good opportunities are available. That is what TT is trying to do, make wise choices in how he spends money so that if a truly great opportunity comes up he has the money (cap space) to act.

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I don't think leaving money lying around instead of using it on Mike Wahle is "wise" investment. The $2 M you are talking about, actually Thompson couldve had $4.5 M but he fucked up with the Hunt situation, shouldve been used on Wahle.Signing Freeman, Thompson, ODwyer, Klemm and Little arent wise investment.

I don't think leaving money lying around instead of using it on Chad Hutchinson or/and LeCharles Bently is good investment. Thompson had the money, $35 M might I remind you, and the only real upgrade he can give the Pack is at CB with Woodson. That is not wise investment.

Bypassing players of Wahle and Hutchinson's caliber is "missed opportunity." Signing players like Freeman and ODwyer is called fuck up. 4-12 is your result.

The salary cap isnt about saving money, otherwise teams should just forget about free agency and depends wholly on the draft since rookies contracts are always below that of the FA rate. It is about finding the best players available with whatever money you have to upgrade your roster. If you let money lie around when you couldve gotten Wahle or Hutchinson, then you are, I will repeat, inefficiently managing your cap or you lack the charisma to lure such players to your team. You stink, your team stink.

What Ive written above is what I meant when I wrote: "Do nothing and throw the money away (again)."

Am I clear? :D

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TANK,

First off, he needs to save some money for the possibility of injuries.

Second, for guys that should get a contract bump, if he keeps some money, he can use it this year, too minimize the cap hit on future years. i.e. Donald Driver ...

Thirdly, Gotta tell ya Tank, living in the past is not good for your emotional well being. the could have's would haves' what if's will drive you crazy......

Your poll should include...

• Go on an all-expenses paid trip to Iceland to see the Miss Iceland competition.
  
  Start up his own line of cookware.
  
  Invest in R&D to create a new kind of cheese.
  
  Sit on his pot of gold until Leprechauns start to squirm out of his arse.
  
  Start a year-long campaign to sign Donovan Darius, but only succeeding in signing Darius Rucker from Hootie & the Blowfish.
  
  Blow it all on Courvossier and Chamonique at the Bamboo Room.

Alas, he'll probably do absolutely nothing and let all of that cap money drift away into the ether, cementing the fact that he has no clue what he's doing and that he should be a Steve Martin body-double, not an NFL GM.

tyler

""my rhetorics will continue until the day thompson is fired as GM.""

Hopefully a very long time from now. Which would mean the Packers are enjoying success. And success is what "most" of us want.

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Originally Posted by Packgator

""my rhetorics will continue until the day thompson is fired as GM.""

Hopefully a very long time from now. Which would mean the Packers are enjoying success. And success is what "most" of us want.

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I don't think Tank even dislikes Thompson. He's just playing this for kicks.

One thing I like very much is that TT IS using the cap space this year in a way that will not weigh this team down in a year or two or three. He's frontloading contracts, which the players like, and since he has the space to do so it does not hurt the team. Years from now, when Darren Sharper is wearing Depends and still costing the Minnesota Vikings a cap hit because of the way they structure contracts, TT will be signing good players and keeping the Packers rolling.

How about another thread about homosexuality? Make sure you create a new account before you do it though.

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Originally Posted by Anti-Polar Bear

Old or not, my rhetorics will continue until the day thompson is fired as GM. Hopefully, it will happen sooner than later.

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rhetoric

3: loud and confused and empty talk; "mere rhetoric"

So I believe Tank's "rhetorics" will continue long after Ted is gone.

He will find something else to babble on about.

People, just shut up and vote! :razz:

I vote for: steel toed boots to kick Tank in the nads so hard that they will have to decend for a second time (unless the theory is true and his balls never decended in the first place)

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Originally Posted by theeaterofshades

I vote for: steel toed boots to kick Tank in the nads so hard that they will have to decend for a second time (unless the theory is true and his balls never decended in the first place)

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Ooh, oh, can I change my vote??? :D

Lets see TT is a former NFL linebacker and Tank is a former nothing. TT has made a career in the NFL after his playing days and Tank is a loser that acts tough sittting behind his computer. Yet he still thinks TT is gay.
My vote is that a former NFL linebacker would be a hell of a lot more of a man than a poorly dressed econ major who probably never played football.

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Originally Posted by dr.tedGM

Lets see TT is a former NFL linebacker and Tank is a former nothing. TT has made a career in the NFL after his playing days and Tank is a loser that acts tough sittting behind his computer. Yet he still thinks TT is gay.
My vote is that a former NFL linebacker would be a hell of a lot more of a man than a poorly dressed econ major who probably never played football.

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Whatever you say, Ted.

Another reader of mine, you've just become. I starve for audiences. That's why i registered at Packerschatters.com after my Ted is Trapped in the Closet epic starts losing audiences.

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Seems to me that Tank most closely resembles a 3 year old throwing a fit. If everyone would just look the other way for a little while he'd get tired of posting this shit and we'd never have to read another thread about things we could have or should have done. I mean, it must get old bitching about everything all the time doesn't it Tank?

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Originally Posted by TennesseePackerBacker

Seems to me that Tank most closely resembles a 3 year old throwing a fit. If everyone would just look the other way for a little while he'd get tired of posting this shit and we'd never have to read another thread about things we could have or should have done. I mean, it must get old bitching about everything all the time doesn't it Tank?

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who the hell are you and how the hell do you know me by that name? I swear I've never encountered a "tennessePackerBacker" in all my years as a Packer poster?

Just someone who picks up on the obvious