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Interesting article about Cook's association with three consecutive breakups between franchise QBs (McNair, Favre, Cutler) and the franchises they played for:
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Bus Cook, making his clients look like dillweeds since 2006. -
time for him to retire too.
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I doubt it...Bus Cook makes millions on the retirement angle:Originally posted by gbgary
Guy walks into a bar, he's had a rough day so he calls over the bartender and orders a shot of whiskey, after taking that down he proceeds to drink 16 beers. By this time he can barely walk or see, so he pays his tab, says goodnight to everyone in the bar and the bartender then calls a cab to go home.
Before getting in the cab, he walks back into the bar, but to his astonishment someone is sitting in his seat and he's 3 drinks in. He sits down in the stool next to him and says, "Mike, I'd like one more beer." The bartender, seeing that he's drunk says "sorry, Brett you've had enough." Furiously, he looks at the guy sitting next to him and says "I'm here at McCarthy's all the time, who the fuck are you?" the guy replies "Aaron Rodgers, here's 10 bucks for your cab."
Snake's Twitter comments would be LEGENDARY.........if I was ugly or gave a shit about Twitter.Comment
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Don't think Favre or McNair did anything wrong. Not necessarily right.. but wrong, not sure on that. Certainly not McNair. At some point you need to get the money you're owed. They can't expect you to keep restructuring and not collect your pay day.
Cutler is being a weiner. He's not good enough to be respected like Favre or McNair.Comment
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My only big gripe with favre is that once he decided he wanted to play again he should have worked with the club to arrange a trade as quickly and efficiently as possible. Other than that it was more annoying than anything. Ok, going on Greta wasn't cool either.Originally posted by PartialThe only time success comes before work is in the dictionary -- Vince LombardiComment
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Originally posted by bobblehead
I have no clue what went on in BF's mind but you'd think after quarterbacking a team to the conf title game he'd assume he'd be welcomed back. I'm not saying going with Rodgers is wrong at all, just saying....Comment
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Well, you know what happens when you assume.Originally posted by Rastak
I think that any club, having made the conference title game, would assume that their players would be chomping at the bit to get back into it...training, training camp, studying, otcs, etc.Comment
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The most common types of restructuring actually result in the player getting money a little bit sooner, not later. The payment is guaranteed just before it is due so it becomes a signing bonus, thus clearing cap room. Another commonly used procedure is to extend by a couple years, renegotiate a lower salary, but pay a signing bonus larger than the salary "forfeited". Again the player gets more money sooner, but the team gets cap space. Favre never negotiated actual lower payments as far as I can remember, nor can I recall McNair having done it, but obviously I never followed McNair as closely.Originally posted by Partial
As I recall, McNair's problem was similar to Wahle's with the Packers, but on an even grander scale. McNair had a huge roster bonus (something like $30M) due so near to the end of his contract that even guaranteeing it to treat it as a signing bonus was not good enough. Generally it is thought a renegotiated contract would happen first when huge roster bonuses are provided at the ends of contracts. It didn't happen for Wahle or McNair.Comment
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He WAS welcomed back, just not as a starter. He retired. The Packers decided to move on. Then he wanted top play again, but the Packers wanted to stay on the courese chosen when Brett retired. Why is that so hard for him to grasp?Originally posted by RastakComment
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Favre's bigget blunder last spring was retiring in the first place!! If he never retired in the first place MM wouldn't have named Rodgers the starter. Then BF kept changing his mind. This uncertainty and waffling probably exasperated the situation and was the main reason why MM and TT didn't just welcome him back with open arms in June. There was very poor communication on both sides that aided in that fiasco too.
The Cutler mess is different tho. From what I'm gathering Cutler's beef is with management lying to him. If this is true (let me know if I'm wrong guys) and I were Cutler I'd be pissed too.Comment
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We don't know what transpired between the end of the 2007 season and when Favre retired. It sure sounded like there was at the very least a lot of miscommunication between Favre and Thompson. What's done is done. Favre may have given us a slightly better record in 2008 but there was no way this team was going to be much of anything with or without Favre given how shitty the defense was. Rodgers played fine but the "it" factor that wins a couple of games wasn't there. Hopefully this year he will have "it". The offense wasn't horrible but obviously wasn't good enough to win more then 6 games and Rodgers was part of that offense."Once the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the Republic.”
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The 2008 Green Bay Packers offense racked up 351 yards per game on the season, good for 8th in the NFL. For comparison's sake, the Super Bowl Champion Pittsburgh Steelers only averaged 312 yards per game, good enough for 22nd in the NFL.Originally posted by Merlin
The Packers averaged just over 26 points per game, good for 5th in the NFL. The Steelers came in 20th with just under 22 per game.
The Packers were 44% on third down conversions, also good enough for 5th in the NFL. Also better than the Steelers, whose 41% was only good enough to tie for 14th best in the league.
I make these comparisons because I believe that this definitively proves that the Packers offense was good enough BY FAR to win more than 6 games. If you are just evaluating offenses on their own, the Packers offense from 2008 was good enough to win a Super Bowl.
It's not Aaron Rodgers that I need to see the "it" factor from. AJ Hawk, Mason Crosby, Ryan Pickett maybe. Justin Harrell to be sure. But Rodgers? No, he's proven quite capable of running this high powered offense very effectively. I mean, it's not like that group had trouble scoring points last year.Chuck Norris doesn't cut his grass, he just stares at it and dares it to growComment
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I disagree. In many of the games they lost the offense was horrible. What is your excuse for the abysmal performances in Jax, Tenn and Minne?Comment
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Totally agree, Favre couldn't make up is mind man. TT gave him a chance.Originally posted by PuggerComment
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