Raji re-signed...Now show me what you got!
Per TomSilverstein
Packers NT B.J. Raji has accepted a deal to return to Green Bay, according to a source. Expected to be a one-year deal, could be incentives.
Part of the selling point to Raji was that he would be able to play a true NT position. Was at his best when he did that.
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Last edited by Brandon494; 03-14-2014 at 03:06 PM.
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part of the selling point was that no one else in the entire nfl wanted him
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so, to sum up
we have now spent almost half of our available cap in order to keep together the defense that ranked dead last over the last half of the season, while not spending a single cent trying to fix or improve the defense
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Yea because its not like we had any injuries or anything.Originally Posted by red
When TT was about to sign the contract, I wonder if he asked Raji to "reach in the bag and pull out his wallet"
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omg here we go
injuries, injuries, injuries, injuries, injuries
we didn't win the super bowl-injuries
we were barely .500- injuries
the defense sucks- injuries
the defense looks confused-injuries
hawk sucks-injuries
raji sucks-injuries
shaper raped a bunch of chicks-injuries
we have no starting safety on the roster-injuries
burnett can't figure out who to cover allowing game winning TD-injuries
M3 can't adapt during games- injuries
team rarely comes out fired up or prepared to play-injuries
we've been plagued by injuries for about 5 years now. at some point people really need to accept that injuries happen in football and good teams find a way to adapt
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someone posted somewhere on here today a joke about TT and M3 trying to sign or draft injury prone guys so they always have in a built in excuse.
that joke might not be far from reality, because most fans are willing to swallow the injury excuse, hook-line ans sinker
We didn't have our best two players for half the season but yea lets just ignore the injuries.
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so the defense sucked because a-rod was injured
and mathews is the only guy that matters on defense
our defense was bad in 2012-injuries
defense is historically bad in 2011-injuries
quick giving the D and M3 and TT a free pass because some guys get injured every year. every team has injured players
Last edited by red; 03-14-2014 at 03:23 PM.
Since he's still one of ours I hope he gets his act together and has a good upcoming year but in my opinion I would have let him walk. The guy has about 1 1/2 or 2 decent years out of 5 and the last two have been complete crap. I don't have much hope that he's all of a sudden going to find some heart and turn into an impactful player this year. (Again, I hope I'm wrong.) I just think that 4M could have been used to sign someone on D who could have made more of an impact. I guess we'll see. I'm not going to have a fit about it or lose any sleep but it's not what I would have done.
I like the signing. If he plays nose tackle, it will play to his strengths. Hopefully, he's been humbled and will work harder to get that fat contract next time.
Packers can now draft a NT to groom and get into the rotation.
I like it.
Don't worry Red. The defense will be better this year. TT's gonna surprise you and sign Chris Clemons and draft a safety in the first three rounds.
Well, okay, maybe he won't.
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Nope, Hayward, Worthy, D. Jones, Perry, and Jolly also mattered but Clay just happens to be our best defensive player. I'm not saying the defense is perfect but FA is far from over and we still have the NFL draft. BTW which NT would you have signed over Raji in FA?
Pretty sure he was a stud his first 3 years in the league until we moved him to DE his last two seasons. BTW who would you have signed at NT instead of Raji?
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hayward is our #3 cb
worthy his shit
d.jones a rookie who chances are wasn't going to give you much this year any ways
perry is shit
jolly played almost the whole year, and the defense still sucked with him in there
which NT? someone that gives a shit when he's on the field and actually busts his ass. someone that tries
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I like giving Raji a one year, show me contract and moving him back to NT.
"There's a lot of interest in the draft. It's great. But quite frankly, most of the people that are commenting on it don't know anything about what they are talking about."--Ted Thompson
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so if raji is our NT, does that mean no more pickett?
I don't think he had much impact his rookie year because he held out, only started one game and played somewhat sparingly, (2009). I thought his best year was 2010, he played okay in 2011, and he didn't do much at all in 2012 or 2013. (Everything I read on here says he plays 3 tech which is not a true DE. Personally I don't really care what you call it because most of the time football boils down to lining up, beating the man in front of you, and making a play.) I haven't seen Raji beating single team blocking for the past couple of years so I'm not sure how putting him at NT and expecting him to take on double teams and hold the point of attack is supposed to work.
I probably would have looked to either draft a true NT or sign a cheaper free agent. It's water under the bridge now so I'm not going to go back and research everyone who was or still is available but my opinion is that you could have either drafted or signed someone who can play just as well as Raji has, (or better) for less money. Like I said, we'll see and I hope he has a good year.
Last edited by SMBASS; 03-14-2014 at 03:52 PM.
Ideally I think they would rotate the 2 but money will probably dictate.
Well it can be said that when AR is in and the Pack run the score high other teams have to throw and our defense is put in the enviable position of not having to worry about the run and play in a formation that gets Wist hot and bothered to the point of autoeroticaphixation
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