Jermichael Finley's recent tweet and TT drafting of 2 TE's

[get louder at lambeau]

I have said time and time again that Finley's attitude change from season 1 to season 2 was marvelous. It really was dramatic. At this point, I'm not at all concerned with the few genuinely dumb things he said as a rookie, unless the "change" we saw from him was not genuine.

Do you mean his attitude change from year 2 to year 3? Year two was the year when he ditched the dorms at TC, was chronically late to meetings, missed curfew before the playoff game, and fired his agent to go with Major Adams after the season. Year 3 is the one where he magically became mature as far as we know, except for the Super Bowl pic twitting.

[mraynrand]

"Twitting" - LOL

[Patler]

Do you mean his attitude change from year 2 to year 3? Year two was the year when he ditched the dorms at TC, was chronically late to meetings, missed curfew before the playoff game, and fired his agent to go with Major Adams after the season. Year 3 is the one where he magically became mature as far as we know, except for the Super Bowl pic twitting.

Nope. I mean from year 1 to year 2. Did he have relapses? Sure. But, as a rookie he made the statements about not being used enough, or correctly, not doing back shoulder catches, etc. He came back for year 2 with a better attitude, which showed in his performance in year 2.

[Fritz]

Fritz likes that Finley has begun not only to refer to himself in the third person, but that he has two personas.

Those personas need their own names, Fritz thinks. The "new" one - the improved one - can be Jermichael, but the old one should be "Bad Ronald" or something like that.

And if one speaks of himself in the third person, can he sign his own/that guy he refers to's name?

If Good Finley can play well the first half of the season and not get hurt, Fritz thinks TT will try to sign the guy to an extension. It'll be up to Good Finley's agent and Finley to decide if the offer is worth taking.

[get louder at lambeau]

Fritz likes that Finley has begun not only to refer to himself in the third person, but that he has two personas.

Those personas need their own names, Fritz thinks. The "new" one - the improved one - can be Jermichael, but the old one should be "Bad Ronald" or something like that.

And if one speaks of himself in the third person, can he sign his own/that guy he refers to's name?

If Good Finley can play well the first half of the season and not get hurt, Fritz thinks TT will try to sign the guy to an extension. It'll be up to Good Finley's agent and Finley to decide if the offer is worth taking.

You're missing one of his multiple personalities. There's Bad Finley, who is the scapegoat that he can blame for his past issues to act like it wasn't really him, Good Finley, who is the guy who we all hope he can be, and T.G.I.Finley, who is his T.O./Ochocinco-like narcissist superstar personality who tweets stuff like "My my my I look good" and sells T.G.I.Finley t-shirts on his website.

[Lurker64]

Finley recently tweeted:

Everyone asking me what do I think abt TT drafting 2 TEs. U know I will make them better & hopefully they can make me better also..

Seems like as much the right attitude as you can ask from somebody in 140 characters.

[Brandon494]

God what a bad guy, we need to get rid of him ASAP with that attitude. This dude left Texas as a RS sophomore and you guys are bitching about the smallest shit. Is he alittle immature? Yes but the way Farve acted when he first came into the league makes Finley look like an angel.

[mraynrand]

Finley recently tweeted:



Seems like as much the right attitude as you can ask from somebody in 140 characters.

I thought there were only two Finleys. 140 surpasses Sybil proportions...

[HarveyWallbangers]

Finley gives our offense a little attitude--which isn't always a bad thing. To this point, he hasn't been a malcontent--like TO and some others. I just don't get why so many are ripping him. He calls himself TGIF. Big deal! It seems to me that he does this mostly in jest. He was on the radio here in Minneapolis, and he came across well. Even a bit shy. Plus, Aaron Rodgers loves the dude, and that's good enough for me.

[mraynrand]

I think the single biggest risk with Finley is that he will play out his contract, become a FA and get a ridiculous offer from someone desperate for any receiving options.

Absolutely. There are 31 other teams - at least one fool of a GM or Owner will want to throw everything at him thinking it will solve all their woes and/or put them over the top. They might even be right, even though they are typically wrong. But it doesn't matter, if the guy stays dominant, he's pretty much gone, because TT isn't going to be able to get him to sign one of those one-year-early, FA-pre-empting contracts.

[get louder at lambeau]

Absolutely. There are 31 other teams - at least one fool of a GM or Owner will want to throw everything at him thinking it will solve all their woes and/or put them over the top. They might even be right, even though they are typically wrong. But it doesn't matter, if the guy stays dominant, he's pretty much gone, because TT isn't going to be able to get him to sign one of those one-year-early, FA-pre-empting contracts.

I don't see why he'd be gone if he plays well. If Finley has a big year, the Packers can franchise him for pretty reasonable money. Then they can negotiate a long term contract with him. If it doesn't work, they can franchise him again. Then they can try to negotiate a long term contract with him again. They can keep him off the market until 2014 if they want, assuming the rules of the CBA go back to the way they were before. They could also try to sign him during the season this year if they want.

[Tarlam!]

Aaron Rodgers loves the dude

Agreed, but Rodgers goes out of way publicly to love the dude. He seems to me to be stoking an ego. Good for Rodgers if he can contain it that way.

[Brandon494]

Agreed, but Rodgers goes out of way publicly to love the dude. He seems to me to be stoking an ego. Good for Rodgers if he can contain it that way.

How is he going out of his way? Examples please

[Tarlam!]

How is he going out of his way? Examples please

You don't think calling him the best TE in football after the SB win is going out of his way? Shucks, I must be stupid. Oh, and racist.

[Smidgeon]

You can like it, but it's indicative of a problem we have here, which is concerning to me, where fucking two-bit half-wit pieces of monkey shit like Mendenhall get their information from rap artists and conspiracy theory "reverends" in Cadillacs with vanity plates that read "GODS WIL." We have a problem of massive idiocy in this nation, and unfortunately, this is just one tiny, small fraction of it. I would, at this juncture celebrate Mendenhall's death, because it would make this world a better, smarter place.

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