Kampman on the Trading Block?

[Patler]

But I think Cole asks a legitimate question, and it comes from talking to legitimate sources: coaches. Kampman's role is up in the air and I think its far from certain how he will do.

The coaches that Cole talked to do not know how much of the tailoring wist mentioned that Capers plans to do, nor do we know how much of his linebacker skills Kampman will remember from 1998 and 1999. But its a fair question before we have seen him play a single snap.

The problem I have with the article is that Cole is not asking a question, he has reached a conclusion. The conclusion is that Kampman will not be successful and therefore should be traded.

[DonHutson]

The problem I have with the article is that Cole is not asking a question, he has reached a conclusion. The conclusion is that Kampman will not be successful and therefore should be traded.

I agree, although he really started with a (fairly lame) concept, then shoehorned a bunch of conclusions into that framework.

[texaspackerbacker]

Lame attempt to fill a "journalism" deadline + one dude's opinion that Kampman doesn't fit a 3-4 DOES NOT EQUAL Kampman on the trading block.

One idiot thinking he should be on the block does not put him there... unless that idiot is Ted Thompson, I suppose. The Packers have expressed nothing but optimism that Kampman will work out fine, and personally I share that optimism.

Exactly! That article was a typically pitiful display of media idiocy.

No way in hell the Packers trade Kampman. He should do just fine as a 3-4 OLB. No way in hell the Packers even need another 3-4 OLB.

Most of the other points in the article, however, are just as worthless--either so obvious that they aren't worth discussing or so off-the-wall that they don't merit discussing.