NFL's Best Talent Evaluators

[GrnBay007]

Clearly you're wrong.

Thou Shalt Not Question The Great TT!!!!!

don't ya know :P

[The Leaper]

Clearly you're wrong.

You say you don't have time to read my post...but then declare that clearly I'm wrong?

Figures.

[Merlin]

I won't go 15 rounds again talking about the mistakes that Thompson has made or the great things he has done.

Simply put he inherited a bad cap situation, not a "mess". He has only cleaned up the cap mess at the expense of the good team he took over. So it's six of one half a dozen of another. He has not addressed the offensive line effectively, we do not really have developmental players as they get drafted and start, every year we lose veteran leadership, and in 2007 the injury bug did hurt us much. To say that he has built a great team after one year is going a bit far. We have a ton of potential and we know we have the base for potentially a good team. Our defense is extremely suspect despite all of the hype in 2007. I think that is mainly due to the coaching myself as we seemingly have good enough players to compete.

We have several big questions for 2008, the first being QB and the second being the OL. Those two will go hand in hand. With Favre, we can go with the round robin at guard because face it, he is one of the best at feeling pressure and avoiding the sack. With Rodgers, forget it. He has no pocket presence and we will have to endure that until he gets it, if ever. So the whole with or without Favre takes on real meaning. In my opinion, if no one is allowed to compete with Rodgers for either the backup or starting role, he will never be the answer.

[Scott Campbell]

Does he use UFA alot? No. It's not because he can't evaluate the talent as well in UFA and his strength is the draft. It's because the talent isn't there IMO.

It's because the talent isn't there - at appropriate price points.

[Noodle]

Wolf never built much of an offense. Levens? Bennett? Brooks? Chmura? The Super Bowl era was probably the weakest offensive unit of the Favre era. Favre CARRIED that unit. He put up Peyton Manning type numbers with a pre 2007 Tom Brady type cast.

Gotta disagree. The SB era teams had solid O-line play despite a rash of injuries at LT (Wolf did well getting replacements), Levens was an elite back, Edgar was first rate at spelling Levens and running in mud, Jackson was one of the best pass catching TEs of any era, Chewy was a beast blocker and solid in the redzone, Brooks was a fearless receiver in the DD mold, Rison added a deep threat dimension, and the offensive coaching staff was rock solid, with Holmgren, Reid, Lovat, and Mornhingweg.

The D was huge, but the O unit personnel were also superb.

[b bulldog]

Does he use UFA alot? No. It's not because he can't evaluate the talent as well in UFA and his strength is the draft. It's because the talent isn't there IMO.

It's because the talent isn't there - at appropriate price points.

I think this quote hits it on the head. Talent to dollars is what it is in my opinion.