Packers working out safeties

[mission]

i might never have seen martin play but i sure did see smith play... and for as many gaffes as i saw him have, he made just as many plays. way beyond the play of bush... all this talk about locker room cancer, ya i get it.. he's the asshole that predicted the patriots win and he probably he said some shit up in GB at some point to piss someone off... but come on... is martin really going to be better than smith was? you know, the guy we traded tony moll for ?

[Tyrone Bigguns]

i might never have seen martin play but i sure did see smith play... and for as many gaffes as i saw him have, he made just as many plays. way beyond the play of bush... all this talk about locker room cancer, ya i get it.. he's the asshole that predicted the patriots win and he probably he said some shit up in GB at some point to piss someone off... but come on... is martin really going to be better than smith was? you know, the guy we traded tony moll for ?

GB only has room for one uppity negro..and that is Barnett. Ya dig.

GB/Wisco can't handle a "90s n*gger" as defined by Barkley

[mission]

i might never have seen martin play but i sure did see smith play... and for as many gaffes as i saw him have, he made just as many plays. way beyond the play of bush... all this talk about locker room cancer, ya i get it.. he's the asshole that predicted the patriots win and he probably he said some shit up in GB at some point to piss someone off... but come on... is martin really going to be better than smith was? you know, the guy we traded tony moll for ?

GB only has room for one uppity negro..and that is Barnett. Ya dig.

GB/Wisco can't handle a "90s n*gger" as defined by Barkley

It's too bad... we could use a few.

[Tyrone Bigguns]

i might never have seen martin play but i sure did see smith play... and for as many gaffes as i saw him have, he made just as many plays. way beyond the play of bush... all this talk about locker room cancer, ya i get it.. he's the asshole that predicted the patriots win and he probably he said some shit up in GB at some point to piss someone off... but come on... is martin really going to be better than smith was? you know, the guy we traded tony moll for ?

GB only has room for one uppity negro..and that is Barnett. Ya dig.

GB/Wisco can't handle a "90s n*gger" as defined by Barkley

It's too bad... we could use a few.

No disagreement here.

[SnakeLH2006]

Re: Packers working out safeties

So what, a starting duo of Martin/Bush doesn't instill fear in QBs?

[Patler]

or we could have cut a FB and kept both

They kept 5 safeties as it was. Did you really want them to keep 6 safeties?

[Gunakor]

or we could have cut a FB and kept both

Who keeps 6 safeties on their roster? Having 3 FB's is useless, I agree, but 6 safeties?

Edit: Hadn't gotten to the last page of the thread and seen Patler already had answered this.

[Fritz]

If memory serves me right we'll see the guy we should've kept playing safety for the Rams this week

IF the Packers had kept Smith they wouldn't have gotten Martin, and they'd still be down to three safeties this week.

[Bretsky]

or we could have cut a FB and kept both

They kept 5 safeties as it was. Did you really want them to keep 6 safeties?

Do you count Bush as a safety ? In my book he's a special teamer. Bye Bye Bush.

[pbmax]

Triple fullbacks and cutting a good safety with Bigby coming off ankle surgery seems like another move I remember.

Oh yeah.

Keeping 2 punters, made by an ex-Packer GM.

I see where you are with this, but I think its closer to keeping 4 TEs in M3's first or second year.

[Patler]

or we could have cut a FB and kept both

They kept 5 safeties as it was. Did you really want them to keep 6 safeties?

Do you count Bush as a safety ? In my book he's a special teamer. Bye Bye Bush.

Bush, Smith, Martin - I'm not sure that there is a lot of difference between them in value given for the roster spot they hold, but Smith probably had the lowest value since he was a poor special teamer, apparently. Typically the last backups spots for DBs, LBs and WRs are weighted more heavily toward special teams performers.

[pbmax]

i might never have seen martin play but i sure did see smith play... and for as many gaffes as i saw him have, he made just as many plays. way beyond the play of bush... all this talk about locker room cancer, ya i get it.. he's the asshole that predicted the patriots win and he probably he said some shit up in GB at some point to piss someone off... but come on... is martin really going to be better than smith was? you know, the guy we traded tony moll for ?

Bush is not lights out, but he stopped Ochocinco's catch on the flea-flicker. It was acceptable, but not much else. Would you like to bet that Smith comes up harder, tries to make a play on the ball and receiver and lets Chad get past him? With Smith, which roll of the die do you get?

It didn't work in the Bengals game, but at some point you cannot have just marginal starters as depth, they need to be good at special teams or your field position suffers all season long.

The one unfortunate thing about the 3 fullbacks is that Johnson doesn't play Special Teams. He is there for FB upside alone. Henderson, as he was gearing up for the pro game, became very good on special teams.

[Patler]

The one unfortunate thing about the 3 fullbacks is that Johnson doesn't play Special Teams. He is there for FB upside alone. Henderson, as he was gearing up for the pro game, became very good on special teams.

Slocum said in camp that they have no reason to think Johnson can't be good on STs, it's just that he has little experience in it. Coupled with his learning curve as a fullback, it makes him the odd man out among the FBs right now.

[SkinBasket]

The one unfortunate thing about the 3 fullbacks is that Johnson doesn't play Special Teams. He is there for FB upside alone. Henderson, as he was gearing up for the pro game, became very good on special teams.

Slocum said in camp that they have no reason to think Johnson can't be good on STs, it's just that he has little experience in it. Coupled with his learning curve as a fullback, it makes him the odd man out among the FBs right now.

Apparently the other two full backs haven't learned how to play offense or special teams yet either. They looked like shit out there.

[Patler]

The one unfortunate thing about the 3 fullbacks is that Johnson doesn't play Special Teams. He is there for FB upside alone. Henderson, as he was gearing up for the pro game, became very good on special teams.

Slocum said in camp that they have no reason to think Johnson can't be good on STs, it's just that he has little experience in it. Coupled with his learning curve as a fullback, it makes him the odd man out among the FBs right now.

Apparently the other two full backs haven't learned how to play offense or special teams yet either. They looked like shit out there.

I agree, which makes it likely we will see Johnson sooner rather than later. One FB will likely be gone as soon as TT needs a roster spot, perhaps even this week if Collins and Rouse are both limited and he needs to sign a safety.