"Favre and Gado" OR "Rodgers and Shawn Alexan

[RashanGary]

The reason I ask is because next year we could afford the most expensive player on the market with Favres salary. I didn't look at the FA list, but I'm guessing a top tier RB will be available.

If we want to get over the hump, I'm starting to think the best thing we can do is move forward like Tenn did with McNair.

[GBRulz]

i'd rather invest the money into our O-Line ....

[Bretsky]

First off I roll my eyes at this because TT's not going to break the bank for any RB.

Secondly it's not a fair question because Alexander, LT, and L Johnson, if not mistaken, are all under contract next year so you are asking a jaded question when a RB close to Alexander will not be available.

Third, Gado is not looking like a NFL starter.

So you are asking if we'd want to have one of the best 3 RB's in the NFL and Rodgers or Favre and what looks to be a backup RB.

[BananaMan]

Alexander is locked up with a gigantic contract in Seattle. He'll almost certainly retire there.

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what about favre and green? a healthy green is much better then gado. how soon packer fans forget

[RashanGary]

What I'm saying is, we could afford Alexander or a comprable player in FA. I don't know who's available but the lists will come out soon enough.

The real point I was trying to make is that Favre isn't worth his salary at this point in is career and with the emergence of Aaron Rodgers, it looks like he has even less value to our team that what I originally thought.

I love Favre, and I'll defend his career all day long but as a Packer fan, I think the time to move on is near. As you said, Thompson probably won't sign the highest paid RB and I think that is a good thing. I was more or less trying to display what a big waste of cap space Favre is when you have a good young QB in the wings. Now, Thompson would probably take the slow and steady approach and not buy the biggest priced FA but that money saved would be money that is rolled ahead like he did this year and eventually when all these young players we have are producing, we'll beable to afford to keep them on their second contracts when they are reliable, consistant, playmaking NFL palyers. Our window isn't right now. It's 3 -5 years from now as I see it and 12 million rolled ahead is 12 million that might mean the difference of keeping Jennings or losing him some day as an example.

[RashanGary]

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the thing about favre not being worth his salary. sure its high for what he's done lately, but you're paying him for what he's done in the pass.

and that doesn't mean we are paying him because he use to be good

favre got some big contracts in his time, but he really never saw any of that huge money. he kept restructuring his contract to help the team and pushing the big cap hit further and further away. well its finally that time where the team has cap room so favre doesn't have to take one for the team and he can get some of that money he was due a decade ago when he was in his prime

[RashanGary]

I think GB would benefit from seeing Favre come off teh books next year much the way TEnn did this year with McNair. I just hope he bows out gracefully instead of being pushed out the door.

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I think GB would benefit from seeing Favre come off teh books next year much the way TEnn did this year with McNair. I just hope he bows out gracefully instead of being pushed out the door.

i think we're already going to have a ton of cap space again next year weather favre plays or not. we struggled this year to use up all we had, same could be true next year. TT has proven he's not going to spend money just to spend it

[Bretsky]

If you can guarantee me TT will bust the Bank for the Top Rated RB on the market and if there is one I'll give in to your scenario.

But you'll have to bust TT's balls to get him to bust the bank on anybody. He had plenty of chances this year.

After seeing how he used the cap space, we could have easily signed Edgerrin James and let Green Walk.

There won't be a better RB out there next year than E James. So we could have had them both this year...Favre...James...and Rodgers.

[RashanGary]

I love Favre. I just want the Packers to win and I think that money can be better spent. Even if it's not spent right away, it's rolled forward like TT did this year.

If Thompson keeps drafting well, we'll have to pay for these players when the 2nd contract comes around. Collins, Rodgers, Jennings, Hawk, Spitz, Colledge, Hodge, next years class, ect....Assuming we get more than one player out of each draft like Sherman did we should find ourselves in the number crunch that most good teams are in some day. Rolling that space forward will insure we have a little something extra to make that push when it matters.

My main point is that in 2009 that 12 million dollars will be more helpfull twards our superbowl success than Favre is right now. Anyone who thinks we have superbowl hopes is dillsuional. We might as well prepare for a day when we do have that shot. Sorry, but it's not as soon as you all would like to think.

[Packnut]

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the thing about favre not being worth his salary. sure its high for what he's done lately, but you're paying him for what he's done in the pass.

and that doesn't mean we are paying him because he use to be good

favre got some big contracts in his time, but he really never saw any of that huge money. he kept restructuring his contract to help the team and pushing the big cap hit further and further away. well its finally that time where the team has cap room so favre doesn't have to take one for the team and he can get some of that money he was due a decade ago when he was in his prime

Excellent point about all the times Favre restructered his contract for the good of the team. He NEVER held the Packers hostage or became upset when lesser achieving QB's got more money than he did.

[Bretsky]

Many of us were very optomistic that GB could possibly get back to the Super Bowl Contention in 2007. Carolina showed it could be down in that time frame if it's the GM's goal and you don't tear down the ship to rebuild for the future.

But you are right in that if your GM chooses to go route B, then it will take longer. Based on this year's free agency and the way TT went about things to me it's obvious he is choosing to make this a slow process.

And I'm not saying one way or the other is better, but if you know me you know I want instant gratification so I'd prefer the Carolina way.

To me, this Favre talk is old though. Our cap is in wonderful wonderful shape whether Favre comes back or not next year, and we don't have any stars we need to resign anyways. And all these draft picks are locked into 4-5 year deals and we really dont' know how they'll perform yet anyways.

Shit, we didn't nearly spend the money this year, and if we wouldn't have put most of Woodson's deal on this year's cap we'd be looking at eating a HUGE amount. TT has given me nothing to believe he'd break the bank for a RB. It's more probably he'd just go with a RB in next years draft after trading down and building up multiple picks again.

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[MadtownPacker]

I think GB would benefit from seeing Favre come off teh books next year much the way TEnn did this year with McNair. I just hope he bows out gracefully instead of being pushed out the door.

So you want the Packers to be become a classless organization? You actually think what titans did to McNair was right?

Then again you are the poster that picks to bears to win everything.