Packers trade scenario

[woodbuck27]

I'm going to tell you one guy I think we will trade, not for anything spectacular, but I think he won't make the team, and Thompson is smart enough to know to trade him rather than release him.

Samkon Gado...

I know i'll take some heat, but both practices i've seen, he's easily the 3rd best running back, not counting Ahman Green. If I had a depth Chart, i'd have Green, Davenport, Herron, Gado right now. But that's me.

From what I'm reading I have to say your sense of things at RB certainly has credibility.

I also hold for what MJZiggy just posted, as well. Samkon was the BEST Story - the Packers had in 2005. If your T2 you don't offer Gado. You certainly might consider trading him if overall you see a step forward for the team.

Having expressed that. Samkon Gado is yet being field tested, and we don't know for sure, what he will bring to OUR future? All teams have RB's in that same situation.

Unproven assets - seems a contradiction, but the intrigue outweighs an early exit, when that move could haunt your future.

I believe T2 will keep Samkon Gado unless another team comes knockin'. T2 is a very careful man.

[the_idle_threat]

Maybe we just trade quantity for quality. Say ... the bottom 40 guys on the roster in exchange for Cadillac Williams?

[woodbuck27]

Maybe we just trade quantity for quality. Say ... the bottom 40 guys on the roster in exchange for Cadillac Williams?

The Buc's would likely lose that one. To simply, emphasize his potential to them.

[CaptainKickass]

Maybe we just trade quantity for quality. Say ... the bottom 40 guys on the roster in exchange for Cadillac Williams?

That's kind of the idea. We're never gonna get that kind of trade - but maybe we trade 2 or 3 guys for a young talented unknown offensive lineman? Maybe TT and the scouts have someone on their "radar"

[woodbuck27]

Maybe we just trade quantity for quality. Say ... the bottom 40 guys on the roster in exchange for Cadillac Williams?

That's kind of the idea. We're never gonna get that kind of trade - but maybe we trade 2 or 3 guys for a young talented unknown offensive lineman? Maybe TT and the scouts have someone on their "radar"

I am sure that OUR scouting Dept. is nose to the grindstone every day now to make any move to upgrade us where we are weakest.

OL/RB/WR

[HarveyWallbangers]

Captain,

I don't get your point about the roster size. Every team has a bunch of players on their roster. We got a couple more than most teams because we had more NFLE players on our roster, and for every NFLE player you have you get to carry an extra roster spot (it's an incentive to get more teams to send players to NFLE). It's not like these bottom 50 are even tradeable. NOBODY would trade for the bottom 50 guys on our roster.

Sure, we could work a trade, but it wouldn't be because we have 90 players while other teams have 85-89 players.

[Bretsky]

We ran over this idea a while back; I really don't think we are loaded with depth of quality players at any position on our roster. We have a bunch of role players on the DL we could sacrifice. Our OL depth is slim. WR's slim. RB's slim. LB's behind the top 4 slim. Safetie depth slim. Depth behind top 3 CB's slim. I see nothing.

I'm not saying we are going to be that bad; but we have little that would interest another team w/o hurting ourselves.

MAYBE a team would take a flyer on a DL that wouldn't hurt us, but in reality teams won't give up much for the likes of Kenny Pederson or Corey Williams.

We need more meat and potato's Bretsky.

Did you see my post in Romper room ole chap ? Took a little shot of satire your way. Hope you enjoy it.

YES, Woody, that had me LMAO. Thanks for the Bar Time Tribute.

Cheers,
B

[Bretsky]

IF Abdul Hodge looks like a monster and GB is comfortorable with him, Nick Barnett could be traded and bring back some real value. But I don't see it happening for a while and probably never.

Bottom line is the guys GB cut are marginal NFL players; heck we'll have enough marginal guys that make our roster. I'd be surprised to get anything more than another guys future cut (like Robert Thomas) for anybody we don't want.

[woodbuck27]

We ran over this idea a while back; I really don't think we are loaded with depth of quality players at any position on our roster. We have a bunch of role players on the DL we could sacrifice. Our OL depth is slim. WR's slim. RB's slim. LB's behind the top 4 slim. Safetie depth slim. Depth behind top 3 CB's slim. I see nothing.

I'm not saying we are going to be that bad; but we have little that would interest another team w/o hurting ourselves.

MAYBE a team would take a flyer on a DL that wouldn't hurt us, but in reality teams won't give up much for the likes of Kenny Pederson or Corey Williams.

We need more meat and potato's Bretsky.

Did you see my post in Romper room ole chap ? Took a little shot of satire your way. Hope you enjoy it.

YES, Woody, that had me LMAO. Thanks for the Bar Time Tribute.

Cheers,
B

Isn't that the way it could be though. . .yaaa gotta be sensable.

NOT all the time.

[CaptainKickass]

I guess my point Harvey is that with so many guys we are likely to "let one slip through the cracks" at the time of roster reduction. (Like how we acquired Gado)

I wanted to see if any of you had someone (or anyone) you really liked in college that is on the team now - but isn't likely to make the roster because of the projected starters.

Additionally - with that many guys being on the roster being so rare - how would you (or any GM) take full advantage of it?

[CaptainKickass]

Also - I haven't had time to look but I was under the impression that we had like a good 20-25 more than most other teams.

[HarveyWallbangers]

Well, I tried. The best I could come up with is one of our DTs for one of Denver's OL. They need DL help. They have good OL that play the zone blocking scheme.

The biggest disappointment of the offseason for me was Thompson passing on Greg Eslinger three times to draft Tony Friggin' Moll, Johnny Jolly, and Tyrone Culver. He also passed on Chris Kuper to draft Ingle Martin. Right now, both of those guys would look great on our OL. Denver (a zone blocking team) ended up drafting both of those guys.

[CaptainKickass]

That's the kind of speculation I'm looking for Harv.

Anyone else?

[Lare]

I always wondered what the benefit was of keeping 30 guys on your roster through training camp that really have no chance of making the team.

Every coach and player I've ever heard has mentioned about the importance of getting as many "reps" as possible. Well that seems pretty hard when you give some of those precious reps in each practice to players who'll be gone in a few weeks.

Sure guys need a breather, we have to plan for injuries and practice squad players may eventually make the official roster at some point. But you can't tell me the coaches can't already identify 10-15 players who have no real chance of making the club. I say ship them out already and let the real players get additional practice time.

[HarveyWallbangers]

Well, not many players would make it through camp if they didn't have the extra bodies. It's good to get a look at guys to see if there are some nobodies (e.g. Samkon Gado) out there that could help your team or replace any injured guys.