Some random thoughts about the team moving forward

[pbmax]

From the NFLPA:




Notice how cheap that bastard Thompson is.

[beveaux1]

Notice how cheap that bastard Thompson is.

Looks like the Packers have spent the fifth most dollars during that time period. The question for me has always been "If you need a medium priced free agent to fill a position, or to make a position decidedly better, which of our players at the end of their contract do we decide to let go?"

We always seem to have 7-10 million to spend at the end of a year, but that money rolls over to the next year when our next years crop of players are up for renewal. It's pretty easy today to say we should have signed Josh Norman when he was available, but it's a lot harder when it means you can't sign your LT or your C or your 8 sack OLB. How do we then fill those positions.

Would we really have been better off signing Travathan to a free agent contract and not drafting Martinez? This might have kept us from signing Perry and/or Cook to a show me contract and also might keep us from signing Tretter or Bak for next year. It also would have given us a 4th round draft pick we can use on a Perry replacement or a Cook replacement. How many good pass rushers have been picked up in the 4th round? What about TEs? That's right, we got R Rodgers in the 3rd. Lot more of those than Wittens or Gonzalez'.

Anyway, I'll say it again, be careful what you wish for.

[beveaux1]

The NFL, with the salary cap and the draft ( where successful teams draft later) sets teams up to have good runs followed by bad runs. We've been able to beat the system for a long time now. Enjoy the ride, our time of reckoning will eventually come. We've been able to job the system so far.

[Bretsky]

From the NFLPA:




Notice how cheap that bastard Thompson is.

I'd trade him for a 7th round draft pick and Wolf )

[woodbuck27]

From the NFLPA:




Notice how cheap that bastard Thompson is.

The NE Patriots @ $500 M$ and the Dallas Cowboys @ $523 M$.

The Green Bay Packers @ $583 M$.

http://www.spotrac.com/nfl/green-bay-packers/cap/

CAP Hits:

Aaron Rodgers @ 19.25 M

Clay Matthews @ 13.75 M

Julius Peppers @ 10.5 M

Randall Cobb @ 9.15 M

Jordy Nelson @ 8.3 M

Mike Daniels @ 7.4 M

T. J. Lang @ 6.18 M

Morgan Burnett @ 5.96 M

Bryan Bulaga @ 5.46 M

Nick Perry @ 4.875 M.

CAP Money spent on Top Ten = 90.825 M or 58.79 % of the Total CAP Money Spent.

CAP Money spent 154.5 M.

CAP Space 8.959 M.