Report: Wells Has Picked New Team

[woodbuck27]

What a cruel person you are, mentioning to Woody that the Packers have won a Super Bowl with Thompson at the helm.

Yes so what's your point. This is now the 2011-12 off season and we have to watch TT prepare our team for the 2012 season and beyond. It's alot like watching paint dry. No less.....

Can we move the discussion into today for tomorrow.

[sharpe1027]

Yes so what's your point. This is now the 2011-12 off season and we have to watch TT prepare our team for the 2012 season and beyond. It's alot like watching paint dry. No less.....

Can we move the discussion into today for tomorrow.

The Redskins are exciting to watch in how they prepare their team. Maybe you could become a skins fan in the off season and return to the Packers once the season starts?

[woodbuck27]

The Redskins are exciting to watch in how they prepare their team. Maybe you could become a skins fan in the off season and return to the Packers once the season starts?

how they prepare their team ... sharpe1027

prepare team

prepare

[MadScientist]

In fact, a separate source said Wells already has picked his new team. We’re not allowed to say who that team is, only that a deal will be struck quickly after free agency begins.

Did the Packers give Wells permission to shop around or is this tampering?

[woodbuck27]

Did the Packers give Wells permission to shop around or is this tampering?

TT dolly dogged along with the Scott Wells resigning to the point that Scott Wells felt unappreciated and simply decided he was going elsewhere for more money because he knew he could get it. At the first hour of FA he made his decision known to a team that covets him.
The contract is being drawn up by that team. Scott Wells through his agent will announce that team ASAP. Scott Wells is no longer a Green Bay Packer.

No harm no damage. He's gone. End of story.

[Rutnstrut]

Yes, he is trying to keep the team positioned for another Super Bowl run and a dynasty.

Yeah, not so much if he lets Wells walk.

[woodbuck27]

Yeah, not so much if he lets Wells walk.

Be careful of using 'about right' logic around here. LOL

[HarveyWallbangers]

Who knows what Wells is asking? If the choice is Wells at anything over $5M, guys like Garcon at $8M or Jackson at $11M, I'd much prefer he saves the money for guys like Jennings, Rodgers, Matthews, Raji, Finley (if he lives up to his potential). It's not like these high priced FAs will come to town on a one year contract, so these deals (including Wells) would eat into the pot that the money for our stars would be coming from. I'm not sure how hard this is to understand. On top of that, we are easily on the bottom half of available salary cap room. Think of Rodgers and Matthews alone and how much their new contracts are going to eat up. You want to use that to overpay for the FAs out there (Wells included)? It's all about hitting draft home runs for TT. Here's hoping he hits one this year.

[woodbuck27]

Who knows what Wells is asking? If the choice is Wells at anything over $5M, guys like Garcon at $8M or Jackson at $11M, I'd much prefer he saves the money for guys like Jennings, Rodgers, Matthews, Raji, Finley (if he lives up to his potential). It's not like these high priced FAs will come to town on a one year contract, so these deals (including Wells) would eat into the pot that the money for our stars would be coming from. I'm not sure how hard this is to understand. On top of that, we are easily on the bottom half of available salary cap room. Think of Rodgers and Matthews alone and how much their new contracts are going to eat up. You want to use that to overpay for the FAs out there (Wells included)? It's all about hitting draft home runs for TT. Here's hoping he hits one this year.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/13/the-free-agent-hot-100/

93. Packers center Scott Wells ??

So is he really gone? At 7 AM Eastern time Wed. 14 March, 2012 we have no news on our FA center.

There's nothing that Ted Thompson cannot correct if he can negotiate a reasonable contract with Scott Wells. Both sides have to agree on what reasonable is. This isn't all Ted Thompsons doing or undoing.

In negotiations we are seeing that both sides are playing their cards close to their chests. Maybe Scott Wells has left the table? Maybe he will return? This may be simply a case where Scott Wells is going to make the absolute best deal for himself and part of that amounts to relocating away from Green Bay, Wisconsin.

It's a simple wait and see. The situation is 'only' in the control of our GM to a certain degree and we are unaware of all the facts. As a fan it sucks that we may lose Scott Wells as we have watched his development to a top level Center. This is simply a part of the hard business side of the NFL.

[wist43]

Seriously, who gives a shit about Wells, why?? He's certainly not irreplacable... and while the OL as a whole is average, positionally, in terms of need... average is pretty good compared to putrid - which is an apt description of our front seven.

$5 million for Wells?? really?? when we can't even field an NFL calibur front seven??

And now with Neal being suspended, Greene at the end of the line, no production whatsoever out of Wilson and Wynn, and even Pickett another year older - is TT planning on playing a "Raji-10 defense"??

Seriously, I can begin to fathom why we're even having these discussions. Driver should be restructured or cut, same with Clifton, Wells should be allowed to walk, Bush?? see ya...

Preemptively reup the other guys with that money; or spend some of it on 1 front seven FA, focus on the front seven early in the draft, and go from there.

[woodbuck27]

Seriously, who gives a shit about Wells, why?? He's certainly not irreplacable... and while the OL as a whole is average, positionally, in terms of need... average is pretty good compared to putrid - which is an apt description of our front seven.

$5 million for Wells?? really?? when we can't even field an NFL calibur front seven??

And now with Neal being suspended, Greene at the end of the line, no production whatsoever out of Wilson and Wynn, and even Pickett another year older - is TT planning on playing a "Raji-10 defense"??

Seriously, I can begin to fathom why we're even having these discussions. Driver should be restructured or cut, same with Clifton, Wells should be allowed to walk, Bush?? see ya...

Preemptively reup the other guys with that money; or spend some of it on 1 front seven FA, focus on the front seven early in the draft, and go from there.

I'm thinking along the same lines. It's difficult as a fan to really know the hard stuff. Our team is is dire need on defense. Ted Thompson has to make hard decisions on that side of the ball and by now evidence of those hard decisions (as they are or not) is still inside of his head. As fans we could better understand it all if we could see into the future but for now we need to be simply patient.

The first rule of being 'a fair to yourself NFL fan' is to realize that in pro Sports today there is 'NO LOYALTY'. Every man makes his own best deal and if he's smart that Pro plays it unemotionally by hiring an agent to get him the best money for his best welfare and future.

[woodbuck27]

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/search/Chris+Myers

Chris Myers not a Packer, yet

Posted by Mike Florio on March 13, 2012, 7:56 PM EDT

During the Scouting Combine, a report emerged that the Packers were talking to Texans center Chris Myers.

Four hours into free agency, the Packers aren’t talking to Myers, yet.

Per a league source, Myer is talking to the Texans and Titans. The intra-division squabble raises the stakes for the Texans, who would surely rather lose…

[Smeefers]

A few years ago Wells was replaced by Jason Spitz until he got hurt. I do not think Wells is irreplaceable. Sure, he's done an okay job the last couple years, but I refuse to think of him as some unstoppable force in the center who deserves top cash. He's undersized and old and on the decent of his career. If someone is willing to shill out the cash for him, then more power to him, but there's no way I want to see us break the bank for him.

[ThunderDan]

Yeah, not so much if he lets Wells walk.

Why?

There is only so much cap space a team has. If you are paying 7M per year to your 30+ y.o. C you may be in deep trouble.

If the cap is ~ $126M and you are using $40M on 4 players that leaves $86 M for the other 49 or $1.76M per player.

If you use $65M on 7 players that leaves $61M or $1.33M per player.

If you keep all you aging vets at their contract level you use $90M on 11 players and leave $36M for 40 players or a little more than $900,000 per player.

Obviously there are middling contracts all over the roster like a J Bush making $2M, etc. But the idea is the same, you can only keep a handful of superstars at the most or you are in salary cap trouble.

[SkinBasket]

Does anyone ever know what TT is thinking?

The same can be asked of you everyday. The difference being, he runs one of the most successful sports franchises in the world and you post gibberish on an internet forum. So.....