I'm good with the Jones-Jacobs move if only because we can't be sure we have a quality backup. Jones has needed to split carries so we need a solid #2. Jacobs is used to taking all the carries.
I'm good with the Jones-Jacobs move if only because we can't be sure we have a quality backup. Jones has needed to split carries so we need a solid #2. Jacobs is used to taking all the carries.
Kinda interesting as Jacobs is a few years younger but basically got the same deal Jones signed 3 years ago.
For Jacob’s it’s 1 year and then 3 packers option years. So more optionality than signing AJ to a big extension or just keeping him for year.
Interesting - Jones saved our ass at the end of the year and was a good packer.
Jones is a dynamic, natural runner. Hope he finds a team to give him one more big payday, but I would guess a shorter deal averaging 4 million with some incentives is the best he will do. Really hard to ignore his age and how history treats rb's at that age.Originally Posted by Fosco33
If that's the best he can do, he might be back with the Packers.
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Ouch
I like the Packers strategy in free agency. A veteran RB and safety could pair very well with some new blood in the draft.
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Josh Jacobs:
Reported deal:
Four years, $48 million.
Real deal:
One year, $14.8 million, and three Packer option years.
Strong deal for one year, and then "we'll see."
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Andy Herman
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Top remaining free agents the Packers should target:
1. Aaron Jones
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So we make an massive upgrade at safety and likely sideways move at rb while getting a much younger player.
I hate feeling like we are kinda winning the off season, but dam, Mckinney is quality! And 17 million per for one of the best safeties in the league?
Does Hafley have ties to him?
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He does now. But no, I don't think so. McKinney attended Alabama.
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Yes, he does. Ansley was McKinney's DB coach at Alabama.
The original question was whether Hafley has any ties to McKinney.
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Preston Smith now the only Packer over 30. Crazy that Kenny Clark about the same age as Yosh Nijman.
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Read this part in an article:
"McKinney will reunite with a familiar face in Green Bay in the Packers passing game coordinator Derrick Ansley. He most recently served as the Los Angeles Chargers defensive coordinator in 2023, but he coached McKinney during his freshman season at Alabama (2017) as his defensive backs coach."
Packers organization is drinking tiger blood today. Can’t wait for the season and we still have the draft!
There's still a lloott of free agency left, too. And quite a lot of serviceable safeties still paddling around in the pool. I wouldn't be at all surprised if we come back and reel in another, somewhat smaller one, after the feeding frenzy abates somewhat and the market becomes more stable.
I remember seeing an article that had a draft guy say a perfect Safety tandem would be McKinney in FA and Cooper DeJean in the draft.
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Getting McKinney is big. A rookie being the top Safety, even a first rounder, would have been risky. That's a position where proven talent is needed.
Jacobs I'm hopeful about but not so sure. He had a slow 40 time, but then so did Jones. Hopefully he plays faster than his clocked speed - similar to Jones. I'm not so sure, as I said in the other thread, that Jones won't be back. If not, I hope we get a high draft pick rotational RB - Braelon Allen would be my choice. RB is generally a position where a rookie can come in and thrive.
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Did you know that Jacobs is Filipino?
What’s next, the Packers are gonna sign Taylor Rapp and Pressley Harvin, trade for Younghoe Koo and draft Cooper DeJean (to play corner)?
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