DEFENSE...UNABLE TO PULL STOPS

[cpk1994]

Thompson has to get off his own thumb this offseason and spend some cash. There were impact FAs to be had...and we had the cash...but Thompson chose to sit back. You can't expect rookies to come in and improve this defense significantly next year.

Like who?? We could have traded 3 drafts for Allen and then paid him keys to the city, but other than that I saw no real quality DL...which is why williams got so fucking much money.

Exactly. There weasn't one DL out there worth having.

[Pugger]

Unfortunately, I think TT is married to Sanders and this scheme. Don't expect any change next year... just 834 new draft picks. Quantity over quality

TT has nothing to say about Sanders or any of our coaches besides MM the HC. Maybe TT could try to talk to MM about Sanders but it is MM's decision on who is on his coaching staff.

[wist43]

I am bitter about our inability to win more championships during the Favre era... yes, Wolfe brought him in, and we garnered one title out of it, but I see those subsequent years as failures;

That is why I have a hard time with the reverence paid to Wolf, and why I consider Sherman such a failure as a GM and as a coach. Favre was a young QB when they went to the Super Bowl for two years, I expected return trips. Realistically, the Packers were never really close after that. Neither Wolf nor Sherman assembled good enough rosters to take advantage of having Favre. I also think Sherman as a coach exercised too little control over Favre. Given free rein, Favre's risk taking approach squandered several playoff opportunities they had.

Wolf was good, but having one of the best QBs to play the game he managed only two Super Bowl appearances. I suspect a lot of GMs could have accomplished that with Favre.

I agree...

[Bretsky]

Thompson has to get off his own thumb this offseason and spend some cash. There were impact FAs to be had...and we had the cash...but Thompson chose to sit back. You can't expect rookies to come in and improve this defense significantly next year.

Like who?? We could have traded 3 drafts for Allen and then paid him keys to the city, but other than that I saw no real quality DL...which is why williams got so fucking much money.

Exactly. There weasn't one DL out there worth having.

That's just bunk; every year there are free agents at every position that can help. The crutch most anti FA supporters normally use is "he wasn't worth the money" or "overpaid". I can accept that. There were people available better than Montgomery, Cole, Hunter....etc...........and there are every year.