Eric Walden: turd on wheels

[Harlan Huckleby]

Jenkins couldn't stay healthy for more than 4 games at a time. Although, he's really tearing it up in Philly. 4 of his 5.5 sacks came in the first three games, and he has 37 tackles on the year. Yehaw! Even if he were playing more than half the games, it's not like he would have been Jesus to this defense. He wouldn't have even been Job.

You should be an NFL GM, your talents are wasted here. I was unable to see that Jenkins is worse than Wynn, Wilson, Green, Neal.

[HarveyWallbangers]

Nobody said he was worse than those guys, but he's been injury prone, on the wrong side of 30, and received $5M/year. Money that could be spent on others. Is Jenkins worth it at his age if it meant losing Jordy Nelson, Josh Sitton, or somebody else? Maybe on some others. Maybe not. Jenkins missed the last four games last year, and the Packers held Detroit to 7 points, did a good job holding New England to 24 offensive points, held the Giants to 17 points, and held the Bears to 3 points. I'm not sure he's the savior we've been missing. I think he was a solid player, but I think there are other issues besides losing Jenkins. I don't think Raji is playing as well as some others do. Losing Pickett has been big the last two games. Losing Collins was a big loss. Peprah hasn't played nearly as well this year as last year when he replaced Burnett. Losing Bishop and Hawk for a few games hurt. Woodson has shown a little age this year. Williams and Shields haven't played as well. Burnett has been a disappointment. There are a lot of things that have gone wrong, and many likely won't be fixed. Let's hope Rodgers and the offense can continue to outscore the other teams. Also, we have to hope the special teams continues to play well.

[HarveyWallbangers]

Jenkins hasn't been a difference maker for Philly, and at his age he likely won't be in the future. The Eagles are talking about blowing up the defense this offseason because many of their best players are on the wrong side of 30.

[Harlan Huckleby]

Nobody said he was worse than those guys, but he's been injury prone, on the wrong side of 30, and received $5M/year. Money that could be spent on others. Is Jenkins worth it at his age if it meant losing Jordy Nelson, Josh Sitton, or somebody else?

No, it would not be worth losing one of those players to sign Jenkins. Maybe you want to throw Clay Mathews & Aaron Rodgers on that list too.

Jenkins signed for (effectively) a cap-friendly one year deal. The opportunity cost argument is bogus.

[Joemailman]

Walden has a trial date set for February 16. Am I the only person here thinking that his level of play has dropped off since his arrest? Maybe having a tough time giving football his undivided attention?

[Deputy Nutz]

On some of the plays Walden was blown up by the fullback with the tight end down blocking on the inside linebacker with the two pulling offensive linemen pulling around the block of the fullback. Other times the tight end would kick Walden out and create space that way.

Part of the problem is that Walden might be black, but he isn't very athletic, and his lateral speed is horrible. He crashing down and then when the running back cuts outside he doesn't have the speed to chase him down. This scenerio was more on backside run support.

[George Cumby]

Walden has a trial date set for February 16. Am I the only person here thinking that his level of play has dropped off since his arrest? Maybe having a tough time giving football his undivided attention?

Concur. He was playing his best ball, had a pretty good game against the Lions and "poof", he's playing like crap.

[red]

i've been starting to think that maybe we should tag and trade finley for a proven OLB or 3-4 DE

we should be able to get a real good young one for fin

fins got a case of the drops lately, but i'm starting to think we might not need him. for WR we have jennings, nelson, jones, cobb and probably either driver or gurley

thats 5 good WR's. then we have a whole shitload of te's that are capable of catching a ball and holding on when they need to

we could trade finley and not miss a beat i think

[Tarlam!]

Come on, Red. Does that sound like a TT move?

[mission]

Part of the problem is that Walden might be black, but he isn't very athletic, and his lateral speed is horrible. He crashing down and then when the running back cuts outside he doesn't have the speed to chase him down. This scenerio was more on backside run support.

but true!! Might as well put a #50 on him, you wouldn't know the difference!

[King Friday]

Burnett has been a disappointment.

I don't think so...kid played with a club for half the year. The kid is basically almost a rookie still...he played for a couple games last year, got hurt then couldn't practice all offseason during the holdout. If you will remember, Collins didn't exactly light it up his first 2-3 years either.

[HarveyWallbangers]

Saying he has been a disappointment doesn't mean I don't think he'll be a good safety, but he and Peprah have not provided good safety play. There may be a reason for it, but it hasn't been good.

[HarveyWallbangers]

No, it would not be worth losing one of those players to sign Jenkins. Maybe you want to throw Clay Mathews & Aaron Rodgers on that list too.

Jenkins signed for (effectively) a cap-friendly one year deal. The opportunity cost argument is bogus.

Depends on if the Packers can get any more deals done this year. They have $6M in cap space because they didn't use that money on Jenkins. Perhaps they'll find a way to get Wells or another player signed to a contract extension that's front loaded to use the cap space that Jenkins deal would have eaten up.

[pbmax]

I didn't see the FB blocks but I buy it. Something was killing the Packers contain and pursuit on that wide run.

[gbgary]

i've been starting to think that maybe we should tag and trade finley for a proven OLB or 3-4 DE

we should be able to get a real good young one for fin

fins got a case of the drops lately, but i'm starting to think we might not need him. for WR we have jennings, nelson, jones, cobb and probably either driver or gurley

thats 5 good WR's. then we have a whole shitload of te's that are capable of catching a ball and holding on when they need to

we could trade finley and not miss a beat i think

wouldn't want to take a giant step backward on o for the sake of a few tackles/sacks on d. just fix the d.