There are 96 underclassmen in this draft. The most ever, making this a deep draft. This would be the kind of draft where you would want to trade down if you can find a buyer.
Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in - Leonard Cohen
OR:
Legitimately or fairly questioning a GM and his Scout-Draft Team's "competence" in actually spoting and securing legitimate Round 1 talent.
ie Ted Thompson and his team is having some difficulty or is that simply relegated to bad luck?
First order of the day for TT and Company in this draft. Draft tough MEN.
Try on the "Nice Guy's Finish Last" motto for a couple of years.
I don't mean bring in border line psycho's and morally corrupt "no brain" dirt bag's. That extreme is fraught with obvious impending disaster.
I mean:
Select with a PRIMARY FOCUS ONLY PROSPECTS that have demonstrated "Farvesque Toughness"; and the focus of what it takes to dress for football games week in and week out.
We need more Eddie Lacy's.
We need more David Bakhtiari's.
GO PACK GO !
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Is that really significant? To be a HOF'er, a guy has to pretty much play at least 10 years, most play longer, then wait five years after retirement before being elected to the Hall. Not too many guys make it in until 15 years or more after they were drafted. Are there even very many who started after 1996 that are in the Hall already, regardless of their draft status? (I don't know and am too lazy to look this morning.)
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 ?
Packers 1st and 2nd round picks since 2010:
1st round:
Brian Bulaga
Derek Sherrod
Nick Perry
Datone Jones
2nd Round:
Mike Neal
Randall Cobb
Jerel Worthy
Casey Hayward
Eddie Lacy
2 things stand out. One is that they've gotten more from their 2nd round picks than 1st round picks. The other is the incredible number of games missed by these players. Bulaga, Sherrod, Perry, Neal, Cobb, Worthy and Hayward haveall either missed entire seasons, or majority of a season.
Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in - Leonard Cohen
well its gonna be 27 years, thes the time in between when we drafted lofton and then a-rod, who is the first real candidate we've had since 78
the more shocking thing to be is the lacl of pro bowlers out of those picks. we've had 28 first round picks between 1978 ans 2005 (not counting those years)
5 pro bowlers
bruce clark (and he never played for us cause we sucked so bad, nice waste of the #4 pick)
brent fullwood
sterling sharpe
bubba franks
javon walker
thats not all that impressive of a list either
only one of them (sharpe) is even in the packer HOF
Yea...so continuing to fail there can be passed off as ...so ... and ... so what's your point...what's new!?
Does such ever suck.
We Green Bay Packer fans (certainly us here); offer so much to psyche up for the DRAFT.
Many Rats really give errrr and really ........... what're we hoping for ?
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Those sensational Packer leaders don't count as their obvious.
Bart Starr is like Zeus ( King of the Gods and Ruler of Mount Olympus)
Favre is like Ares (The GOD of War)
Rodgers is like Apollo (The GOD of Light, Knowledge, and Healing...and do we ever need him to deliver on that right now.)
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Sharpe is a borderline HoFer, but I sort of doubt he'll ever sneak in. He most likely would have been in if not for the neck issue.
I think TT is in a sweet spot in the draft, I'd be pissed if he traded down. There should be 4 QB's and 4 OT's taken ahead of the Pack, this should cause some stud players to slip, like Mosley, Nix, HaHa, Pryor, Ebron, Lee, Hageman, Evans, and others. I hope he stays put.
Thanks Ted!
But wouldn't this be the argument for trading down? If he can trade down and still get one of those guys, why wouldn't he? I'm not talking about trading down 20 spots. But if he could trade down 8-10 spots to pick up a 3rd and still get one of those guys, I think that would be a good move.
Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in - Leonard Cohen
Depends on the evaluations and the teams between, of course. If you say you've got 8 guys you're seriously considering and two of them are gone by the time you pick, if you trade back 8 spots, they could all conceivably be off the board by the time you pick again. If they're really the 6 best players, they probably would be.
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Somewhere around 35 of the 98 underclassmen entered in this draft won't get drafted, scout says.
Bud Adams told me the franchise he admired the most was the Kansas City Chiefs. Then he asked for more hookers and blow.
Sterling Sharpe is now filed in "the Forgotten Drawer".
That man was very possibly headed for the very top of all NFL receivers.
The memory of losing him. That exact moment of realizing the seriousness of that down as a Green Bay Packer; the impending result that loss would mean for the Packers:
A sickening memory for me and as well I expect for many members here that experienced that.
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