This is why it chaps my a$$ with all of the Packer trade

[hoosier]

We don't have a lot of depth on our team.

Please name 10 teams with better depth top to bottom in the league...if ours is so damned horrid.

Our depth to other teams shouldn't be the comparison The Leaper et all. What we need to see developed after the Pre-Season schedule and final roster cuts is positional depth where we are weaker.

What should be the basis for comparison then? The 1967 Packers? 1976 Steelers? Your criticisms of TT aren't based in reality. But I guess you knew that, didn't you....

[Fritz]

I think Patler made a good post earlier about the way TT sees his job - as forming what (we hope and he hopes) is an expert opnion.

To me, the quote below demonstrates the way TT goes about his job. It's his azz on the line, so he's going to trust his own views and the views of his scouts. Tough noogies if Mel Kiper or the unnamed pro personnel guy from another team or Matt Millen don't agree. TT's going with what he and his scouts see on film, in interviews, and in workouts. He's not going to get caught up in what other people outside his team have to say.

"As scouts, we think we were right on (Nelson)," Thompson said. "I can't explain what other people might say prior to the draft. I'm not saying it's not interesting reading, but if you're trying to do your job and you get caught up in that and Mel Kiper's mock drafts, then all of a sudden you start drafting based on that. So we decided to stick with the football guy."

To me, TT has decided that it's his ship so if he's going down with it, it's gonna be on his own terms. Screw what the herd thinks of Josh Sitton or Jordy Nelson. If TT and his scouts like a guy and think he's a fourth round talent and the guy's available in the fourth, they'll take him even if everyone else thinks the guy is a fifth round talent. Check out this quote from Ted:

"Sometimes on the second day you're really scrambling, but we felt today we had guys rated (higher) that weren't going and we were surprised."

I'm cool with Ted.

[Tyrone Bigguns]

We don't have a lot of depth on our team.

Please name 10 teams with better depth top to bottom in the league...if ours is so damned horrid.

Our depth to other teams shouldn't be the comparison The Leaper et all. What we need to see developed after the Pre-Season schedule and final roster cuts is positional depth where we are weaker.

What should be the basis for comparison then? The 1967 Packers? 1976 Steelers? Your criticisms of TT aren't based in reality. But I guess you knew that, didn't you....

Merlin and Woodbuck won't be happy till the entire starting lineups are all-pro, backed up at each position by pro bowlers.

They both live in a fantasy world where a team is strong at each position. They seem to forget that many teams won the superbowl with less than stirling players at each position.