Barwin signs with Rams per PFT: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com...connor-barwin/
The Rams announced on Thursday that they have signed Barwin. They did not announce the terms of the deal, but Adam Caplan of ESPN reports it is a one-year deal with a maximum value of $6.5 million.
Bud Adams told me the franchise he admired the most was the Kansas City Chiefs. Then he asked for more hookers and blow.
Thanks Ted!
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LIFE IS ABOUT CHAMPIONSHIPS; I JUST REALIZED THIS. The MILWAUKEE BUCKS have won the same number of championships over the past 50 years as the Green Bay Packers. Ten years from now, who will have more championships, and who will be the fart in the wind ?
There is a rumor out there that the Packers are signing LaGarrett Blount. Haven't seen it anywhere but heard it reported as a rumor on the radio
Put me in the who cares category here
LIFE IS ABOUT CHAMPIONSHIPS; I JUST REALIZED THIS. The MILWAUKEE BUCKS have won the same number of championships over the past 50 years as the Green Bay Packers. Ten years from now, who will have more championships, and who will be the fart in the wind ?
Blount had 18 rushing tds last year.
That's 3 x more than Lacy, Starks, Montgomery, Michael, ripkowski had combined.
You're right who cares
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Maybe from here. http://lombardiave.com/2017/03/14/le...n-bay-packers/ Not so much a rumor as a suggestion that it would be a good idea.
He would be an excellent addition to the team. he is a very physical punishing runner. But I doubt this is something TT will do.
At this point I would like to see the Packers look to free agents just as fillers, or one year deals. There is no reason why the Packers can't sign a player like Blount.
Packer Report @PackerReport 32m32 minutes ago
#Packers have lost seven free agents this offseason. Subject to change but might be moving on from Goode, too.
Goode and Chris Michael are the odd men out still.
Anyone else get the sense that Ted didn't like his roster much last year? Or was it that they were so middling they weren't worth paying.
Bud Adams told me the franchise he admired the most was the Kansas City Chiefs. Then he asked for more hookers and blow.
I think Lacy and Jones were meh guys who got paid more than they are worth.
I bet he would have loved to have Tretter and/or Lang back though at a lower cost than what they got from Cleveland and the Loins. When you assume Rodgers is getting a new contract next offseason, you have to plan accordingly. He is probably going to get $25M per.
i'll bet it's more. he's on 22m a year now.
that's if he's not so disgusted by the failing of his "all-in" decree and retires/becomes a free-agent/or is traded.Aaron Rodgers signed a 5 year, $110,000,000 contract with the Green Bay Packers, including a $33,250,000 signing bonus, $54,000,000 guaranteed, and an average annual salary of $22,000,000.
"Anyone else get the sense that Ted didn't like his roster much last year?" pbmax
I think that is obvious.
So he got outbid for guy's like Lang and Tretter (and maybe even Lacy) but what was his plan to replace these fellas?
1.) Did Ted Thompson even have a contingency plan?
2.) Then there is the question of Cap Space. Is TT going to waste more of that?
3.) Does Ted Thompson realise that with all the former (beginning of the 2016 season) Roster players lost to FA this winter; and due to injury or trade last season. That any Draft and Development plan is 'a hooey and a hope' for a Super Bowl next season?
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Even the TT nut huggers should be able to see that Ted doesn't do contingency plans. His ego is too big, if he had contingency plans it would be like admitting his base plans can fail.
I know you suspect I'm a big Ted fan but I am very ambivalent about him. I wish he was a little more active in FA but I can understand he doesn't want to overpay guys. However, he is the last person I would say has a big ego.
100% Pugger! What GM of a team would not be present when they retired a player's number? If TT had an ego he would have been on the stage with Favre and Murphy. Instead he stayed up in the Packer's Box and let the ceremony go on without being seen.I know you suspect I'm a big Ted fan but I am very ambivalent about him. I wish he was a little more active in FA but I can understand he doesn't want to overpay guys. However, he is the last person I would say has a big ego.
But Rodgers leads the league in frumpy expressions and negative body language on the sideline, which makes him, like Josh Allen, a unique double threat.
-Tim Harmston
At one point, Josh Sitton and TJ Lang were the contingency plans that no one knew anything about (Sitton came through much faster).
The reason you know about them is that they got a chance to play, rather than an expensive and over the hill vet.
Bud Adams told me the franchise he admired the most was the Kansas City Chiefs. Then he asked for more hookers and blow.
Do you deny that Ted's unwillingness to put a team together through all avenues possible makes it much tougher? TT and stubby would not even still be employed in GB if it weren't for Rodgers continually saving their ass.
How much of a contingency plan do you need or want to commit to for a backup center? The contingency plan for Tretter is called starting Center Corey Linsley and backup Don Barclay. And before everyone busts open an important artery, while Barclay is limited, you cannot keep a backup on the roster for starter money in a 2nd contract. The numbers won't work. Tretter is also not Mr. Reliable.
Lang simply got more guaranteed money than the other two teams chasing him were comfortable with. Its a near record for guaranteed money. For a guy with an injury history and coming off ankle/foot surgery. He might make it to the end of his contract, but previous history is not on his side.
The contingency plan is for younger guys to step in and get better, just as Lang did when he was a youngster.
Bud Adams told me the franchise he admired the most was the Kansas City Chiefs. Then he asked for more hookers and blow.
I read somewhere that the Packers would have made Lang the 5th highest paid guard if they had retained him. I like him, but not at that cost with his injury history and age.
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